SOFIA, SOFIA TECH PARK November 26th, 2018 Knowledge & Smart Cities Building a Market for Smart Cities and Communities Integrated Planning & Policy Regulations under the auspices of Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova Organised by Cluster Sofia Knowledge City & Telelink 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 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". AGENDA MORNING SESSION Knowledge & Smart Cities 8:30 - 9:00 Registration Opening Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Sofia 9:00 - 9:30 Ministry of Education and Science Ministry of Economy Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies & Communications Panel A - Strategies for knowledge & smart cities development Knowledge for development and experience of Vienna - Dr Andreas Brandner, Managing Director, K4D, Austria Building a Market for Smart Cities; the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities - 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, Great Britain Digital Mapping of the Smart Cities Creative Ecosystem - Alain Heureux, Brussels Creative & Creative Ring, Brussels UAM & Smart Cities - Georgi Georgiev, Fraunhofer, EIP-SCC UAM Ambassador Bulgaria 11:00 - 11:30 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 In the name of SMART cities - Stefan Malinowski, Head of Intelligent Systems, 11:30 - 13:00 Telelink Smart city and living labs of Istanbul - Dr Fatih Gündoğan, Deputy General Manager, ISBAK, Architect of the Smart City, Turkey Success factors for smart cities initiatives - Ljupcho Trajkovski, General manager, TP Consulting, Skopje, Macedonia How to set up a successful Living Lab and operate it properly - Yilmaz Cakir, Basaksehir Living Lab, Turkey (tbc) 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 Developing a roadmap for integrated planning of smart city projects with the Smart City Guidance Package Welcome and introduction 14:00 - 14:20 Sofia Smart City: what is already going on? An overview of the rich diversity of Sofia’s smart city plans - Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Sofia SETTING THE SCENE The City of Sofia in the SmarterTogether project - Francesco Goncalvez, Energy Cities (tbc) 14:20 - 14:30 Introduction of the SmarterTogether project - What has been done so far Lighthouse and Fellow cities, presentation of the project’s replication plan An energy roadmap for Sofia and the role of standards - Georgi Georgiev, Institute of Building Physics, Fraunhofer 14:30 - 14:40 Presentation of this tool for policy makers and stakeholders The Smart City Guidance Package for Integrated Planning and Implementation - Judith Borsboom-van Beurden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 14:40 - 14:55 Brief introduction of the SCGP and its roadmap for integrated planning and management (delegates Action Cluster Integrated Planning and Policy and Regulation), link to SmarterTogether project Explanation interactive part of the workshop - Judith Borsboom-van Beurden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 14:55 - 15:15 What are we going to do: main purpose, approach, what can we use as resources, expected outcomes (proposed content for the urban plan) How do we use the SCGP and other resources during the interactive part? DISSCUSSION Interactive brainstorming session A (in 2-3 parallel groups) - moderators Judith Borsboom-van Beurden, Georgi Georgiev, Zhivka Nikolova, Dimitar 15:15 - 16:00 Hristov Vision, Decision and Commit: How do we see the city in 10-20 years from now? What are the prospective smart city solutions the follower city wants to implement in future? How to engage stakeholders and keep them engaged during different phases of implementation - mapping urban stakeholders and their roles/tasks: who should be involved? Which coordination tasks can be expected and how to deal with them - using the SCGP for filling the gaps Interactive brainstorming session B (in 2-3 parallel groups) - moderators Judith Borsboom-van Beurden, Georgi Georgiev, Zhivka Nikolova, Dimitar 16:00 - 16:45 Hristov Plan, Do: Proposed content for the urban plan: which elements should be included? What are the prospective smart city solutions the city wants to implement in future and gap analysis current urban plans. While implementing plans, adopt solutions, how can we prevent barriers, and achieve technical, spatial and temporal coordination 16:45 - 17:15 Coffee break Interactive brainstorming session C (in 2-3 parallel groups) - moderators Judith Borsboom-van Beurden, Georgi Georgiev, Zhivka Nikolova, Dimitar 17:15 - 18:00 Hristov Check, Act: How can Key Performance Indicators and tools help to evaluate alternatives and track progress. How to design for that from the beginning and use this information to make amendments to the plan Replication and upscaling Wrap up & next steps - moderators Judith Borsboom-van Beurden, Georgi Georgiev, Zhivka Nikolova, Dimitar Hristov 18:00 - 19:00 Debate on follower cities’ needs and evaluation of SCGP testing results today Future collaboration with both IPPR Action Cluster and SCGP and SmarterTogether project Ideas for concrete projects in future Next steps and definition of to-do’s until next meeting .