Smart Cities

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 that improve quality of life for residents, our resilience to the effects of climate change and support economic growth.

This plenary delves into the potential of AI-centric solutions and data-rich environments in transforming urban environments.

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Smart solutions can make cities more efficient and responsive, improving residents’ quality of life. However, these solutions require consideration of complex challenges such as resource demands, cybersecurity concerns and ensuring inclusivity.

This plenary explores how cities can harness technology whilst ensuring human-centricity, to achieve enabling and equitable outcomes for all.

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Led by JTC Corporation

This session will bring together city leaders and urban experts to explore how the future industrial estate will evolve beyond land provision into integrated, future-ready ecosystems. Developments will prioritise Industry 4.0 infrastructure, sustainability, and space optimization - through vertical, underground, and mixed-use planning. Estates will embed smart technologies, AI, and automation while fostering collaboration across industries, academia, and communities. Green design, renewable energy, and adaptive reuse will anchor resilience and decarbonisation. Ultimately, new estates will be vibrant work-live-play-learn environments that attract talent, enable innovation, and position cities as a competitive, sustainable global manufacturing and digital economy hubs.

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Led by Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore (URA)

As cities around the world grapple with increasingly congested subterranean spaces within the road reserves, this session explores the practical challenges of coordinating underground major infrastructure projects within these confined environments. Drawing on Singapore’s experience, we will examine the complexities that arise when various utilities compete for limited space in urban areas.

The session will highlight the Singapore’s experience of managing diverse stakeholder expectations, balancing conflicting priorities, and navigating technical challenges when coordinating infrastructure in a congested space. The discussion will focus on how to optimize the use of underground space and address common issues faced across different contexts, including adoption of current technology to address some of the key underground mapping challenges for legacy utilities.

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Led by SJ

This master class explores what it takes for cities to move from smart to cognitive. Enabled by AI, digital twins and continuous sensing across energy, mobility, nature and infrastructure, cognitive cities are designed to anticipate change, restore ecosystems and support communities to thrive, giving people more time, ease and space in their daily lives.

Drawing on SJ’s real-world city experience and integrated delivery expertise, the session examines how cognitive cities learn, adapt and regenerate over time. It also explores how cognitive cities use AI and data intelligence to better anticipate risk, coordinate urban systems and support stronger policy and investment decisions — helping city leaders reduce uncertainty and align capital and climate finance with long term outcomes for their cities and communities.

This session offers city leaders a structured way to move beyond smart projects towards truly intelligent, regenerative and future-ready cities — delivering tangible benefits for people, nature and the economy.

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