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Smart Cities
Smart Cities
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies offer to revolutionise urban life. Access to quality data can drive impactful decision making and human-centric solutions. However, a balance between technological advancement and creating value for communities must be struck to ensure desirable and equitable outcomes for residents.
How can AI enable our cities to be even smarter?
Can smart cities love humans?
Plenary 1
Artificial Intelligence is emerging as the invisible architect of our urban future. This offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance city planning, resource management, and public municipal services through data-driven insights.
This plenary delves into the potential of AI and data-rich environments in transforming urban environments.
Plenary 2
Smart solutions can make cities more efficient and responsive. This can improve quality of life of residents. It also comes with a complex web of challenges such as resource demands, cybersecurity concerns and inclusivity.
This plenary explores how cities harness technology whilst ensuring human-centricity.
UNDP Session - Digital by Design: Enabling Circular Pathways for Cities
Led by United Nations Development Programme
Cities are central to delivering sustainable development, as they concentrate resource use, emissions, and economic activity. This session will examine how cities can use digital solutions to design and deliver more effective circular economy interventions that support environmental sustainability, climate action, and inclusive growth.
Tapping on UNDP’s Digital by Design for Circularity approach, the discussion will focus on how data, digital tools, and urban innovation can strengthen sustainable resource management, enable nature-positive and low-carbon urban systems, and support behaviour change and financing for circular initiatives.
Tapping on UNDP’s Digital by Design for Circularity approach, the discussion will focus on how data, digital tools, and urban innovation can strengthen sustainable resource management, enable nature-positive and low-carbon urban systems, and support behaviour change and financing for circular initiatives.
Drawing on UNDP’s experience and the latest practical examples from developing and emerging economies, the session will highlight how digitally enabled approaches can help cities move from isolated pilots to integrated, scalable solutions that embed sustainability into urban planning, infrastructure, and service delivery.