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Smart City Summit22 Sept 2025· 16 days left

Smart City Summit 2025: Data, AI & Urban Innovation

A focused half‑day gathering for municipalities and public utilities to exchange concrete smart city use cases, architectures and AI practices – practical, vendor-transparent and implementation driven.

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Joint event by: Kommunalwirtschaft · Diplomatic Council Real‑world AI Forum · dataMatters

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Participation is free for public sector entities – limited seats to keep exchanges focused.

  • Independent expert impulses
  • Concrete reference architectures
  • Peers facing the same challenges
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Who should attend?

Decision makers and practitioners from municipalities, districts, public utilities, economic development agencies and innovation units (CDO / Smart City / Digitalisation / Environment / Mobility / IT).

You will learn

  • Architectures for scalable urban data & AI layers
  • Procurement & rollout shortcuts (pilot → operation)
  • How to combine open standards & sovereign hosting
  • Real impact metrics: cost, CO₂, service quality

Format

Compact 2‑hour session with focused impulses & experience reports.

Neutral, practical – decision value over product pitches.

Language: German. Interactive Q&A at the end.

Agenda

Approx. 2 hours (preferred 10:00–12:00)
  • 10:00

    Welcome & Moderation

    Hang NguyenSecretary General Diplomatic Council, Moderator
  • 10:05

    UN Perspective: Why Smart Cities Are Inevitable

    Andreas DripkeExecutive Chairman Diplomatic Council, UN Consultative Status

    Global framing & urgency.

  • 10:20

    dM Smart City Concept & Implementation (Deep Dive)

    Dr. Daniel TrauthCEO dataMatters GmbH

    Architecture, data layer, AI components, operations.

  • 10:40

    Urban Data Platform in Real Operation

    André HeryschekHead of Structural Change & Smart City Dormagen
  • 10:48

    Smart Waste Hürth

    Marco DederichsAlderman & CFO City of Hürth
  • 10:56

    LEADER Project Vision Presentation

    Dr. Jürgen GrünerCEO Economic Development District Coesfeld
  • 11:04

    IoT-Shop: Germany’s Largest Sensor Portfolio

    Robert BogsConsultant IoT-Shop.de
  • 11:12

    Smart City Living Lab Vision (Focus BLE-PAX)

    Christian HenickeSmart City Manager Grevenbroich
  • 11:20

    Next Steps if Interested

    Dr. Daniel Trauth

    Onboarding, cooperation, milestones.

  • 11:30

    Q&A Session

    Moderator: Hang Nguyen
  • 11:50

    Closing & Thanks

    Hang Nguyen
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