Knowledge & Smart Cities Building a Market for Smart Cities and Communities Integrated Planning & Policy Regulations

Organised by Cluster Knowledge City in partnership with EIP SCC - Sofia Development Association - Sofia Municipality - Sofia Investment Agency - Sofia Tech Park

The event is organised with the financial support of the Operational Program "Innovation and Competitiveness" 2014-2020, co-financed by the through the European Regional Development Fund under the project № BG16RFOP002-2.009-0018-C01 "Establishment of organisational capacity and development strategy for Cluster Sofia knowledge city".

AGENDA MORNING SESSION Knowledge & Smart Cities

Opening

9:00 – 9:30  Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Sofia  Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies & Communications  Ministry of Education and Science

Panel A - Strategies for knowledge & smart cities development  Knowledge for development and experience of - Dr Andreas Brandner, Managing Director, K4D, Austria  Building a Market for Smart Cities & Smart Cities Guidance Package for Integrated Planning and Implementation- Judith Borsboom-van Beurden, Senior Researcher Smart Sustainable Cities, NTNU Sustainability, Initiative leader EIP SCC 9:30 – 11:00  The paradox of the smart cities and the way forward to the cities of the future - Francesco Grillo, Advisor to Italy's Minister for Universities, Research and Education; President of the think tank Vision and Value  Peterborough DNA: Future Cities Programme - Trevor Gibson, Smart City Leadership & Development manager, Opportunity Peterborough  Digital Mapping of the Smart Cities Creative Ecosystem - Alain Heureux, Creative & Creative Ring, Brussels  Digital Transformation Strategy of Sofia - Nadia Soultanova, Head of Investment and Business Development, Sofia Investment Agency

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break

Panel B - Business models & good practices of transforming the cities into smart cities:

 Development and implementation of Cluj-Napoca’s Smart City Strategy - Bianca Muntean, PhD, CEO, iTech Transylvania Cluster Romania  How to finance the smart city development plans - the PPP challenges - Doncho Barbalov, Sofia Deputy Mayor on Finance and Economic Activity 11:20 – 13:00  Smart City and Living Labs of Istanbul - Dr Fatih Gündoğan, Deputy General Manager, ISBAK, Architect of the Smart City  Sofia smart city market, results of the market research - Eugeniy Ivanov, General Manager, Euroconsultants  Success factors for smart cities initiatives - Ljupcho Trajkovski, General manager, TP Consulting, Skopje, Macedonia  Sofia City Innovation Plan - Svetlana Lomeva / Dessislava Nikolova – Institute of Market Economy

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities Building a Market for Smart Cities and Communities Integrated Planning & Policy Regulations

AFTERNOON SESSION The Smart City Guidance Package Judith Borsboom-van Beurden Initiative leader EIP SCC, Action cluster Integrated Planning, Policy and Regulation

Welcome and Introduction – City Representative and Project Coordinator Presentation of Project Replication plan – What has so far been done in 14:00 – 14:15 Lighthouse and Follower cities Brief introduction of the SCGP and its roadmap for integrated planning and management (delegates Action Cluster Integrated Planning and Policy and Regulation)

Interactive brainstorming session A (in 2-3 parallel groups)

14.15 – 16.00 Proposed content for the urban plan: which elements should be included? What are the prospective smart city solutions the follower city wants to implement in future Gap analysis current urban plans

16.00 – 16.15 Coffee break

Interactive brainstorming session B (in 2-3 parallel groups) How to engage stakeholders and keep them engaged during different phases of implementation - mapping urban stakeholders and their roles/tasks: who should 16.15 – 17.15 be involved? Which coordination tasks can be expected and how to deal with them - using the SCGP for filling the gaps: preventing barriers, adopting solutions, finding sources for technical, spatial and temporal coordination

Interactive brainstorming session C (in 2-3 parallel groups) 17.15 – 18.15 Where can you find information on financial instruments How can KPI’s and tools help to evaluate alternatives and track progress

Wrap up Debate on follower cities’ needs and collaboration with both IPPR Action Cluster 18.15 – 19.00 and SCGP Evaluation of SCGP testing results so far Next steps and definition of to-do’s until next meeting

The event is organised with the financial support of the Operational Program "Innovation and Competitiveness" 2014-2020, co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund under the project № BG16RFOP002-2.009-0018-C01 "Establishment of organisational capacity and development strategy for Cluster Sofia knowledge city".