Smart City Expo World Congress
Shaping a leading event since 2011
We curate the world’s leading event on innovation and cities and its international spin-offs, shaping the global conversation and bringing together diverse and relevant expert voices.
© Smart City Expo World Congress
© Smart City Expo World Congress
10 billion reasons, one global event
With the global population approaching 10 billion by 2050, and around two thirds of it expected to live in cities, urbanisation raises pressing questions about how cities are planned, governed and lived in. Created by Fira Barcelona in 2011, the Smart City Expo World Congress has become the world’s leading event on innovation and cities, a meeting point to share urban solutions and build more sustainable, inclusive and liveable cities. From its home in Barcelona, it has grown into a global platform with spin-off editions in cities such as New York, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Kyoto, Doha, Kuala Lumpur, Puebla and Niterói.
We curate the world's leading event on innovation and cities and its international spin-offs, shaping the global conversation and bringing together diverse and relevant expert voices.
© Smart City Expo World Congress
Bringing all the relevant voices into the conversation
Throughout the year, our curatorial team analyses the global trends shaping the present and future of cities, taking into account everyone involved in urban development and management. Together with Fira Barcelona, we build the narrative and thematic paths of each edition and shape a programme that brings voices from different regions, sectors and backgrounds onto the same stage.
In line with Fira Barcelona’s commitment to gender parity, we work towards a balanced representation of speakers and sessions. Women accounted for 26% of speakers before 2018; the programme reached 51% in 2022 and 52.3% in 2026.
The success of the Barcelona event has taken it around the world over the past decade, with editions we have also curated in Buenos Aires, New York, Shanghai, Montreal, Bogotá, Istanbul, Santiago de Chile, Kyoto, Doha, Miami, Puebla, Casablanca, Mallorca, Curitiba, Mérida, Jaipur and Santiago del Estero.
Thoughtful curation, steady growth
The fifteenth edition brought together 29,721 attendees from 140 countries, 668 speakers across seven programme tracks, 1,276 exhibitors and representatives of more than 1,000 cities. The World Smart City Awards received a record 533 entries from 68 countries, introduced a new housing category.
Over the years, figures such as Anne Hidalgo, Anacláudia Rossbach, Richard Florida, Janette Sadik-Khan, Carlo Ratti, Carlos Moreno, Ricky Burdett, Jeremy Rifkin, Parag Khanna, Amory Lovins, Hannah Fry, Beth Simone Noveck, Juliana Rotich and Ayumi Moore Aoki have taken the congress stage. Each edition brings together political leaders from every continent alongside the companies most involved in urban development.
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