Agenda

Welcome to our 2026 edition – the global stage where urban innovation comes to life. This opening session sets the tone for an exciting journey ahead, with a warm welcome from Smart City Expo director Ugo Valenti and Tomorrow.Mobility president Marc Rozendal. Joining them are high-level representatives who will share how territories around the world are becoming better places to live and thrive. Get ready for three action-packed days of bold ideas and groundbreaking strategies from around the globe.

This session showcases Barcelona as a living lab for urban mobility innovation through the Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility (BILM). It presents the programme's methodology, highlights key outcomes from completed pilots, and shares progress from ongoing projects shaping a more sustainable, efficient and citizen-centred mobility model.   

This roundtable will bring together CEE and Baltic cities to exchange experiences and best practice in addressing the climate, energy and environmental challenges that cities currently face in relation to transport and mobility, with a particular emphasis on decarbonising transport systems, deploying innovation, and strengthening governance and stakeholder engagement.

An exploration of how cities can use integrated platforms combining satellite, sensor and mobility data to support urban air quality management and evidence-based interventions.

How can cities create conditions to safely test and validate innovative mobility solutions? This roundtable promoted by Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility brings together city leaders and mobility experts to explore the role of urban sandboxes as tools for experimentation, regulation and public innovation. Participants will share experiences, challenges and insights on enabling innovation while addressing urban needs and policy objectives.   

Europe’s most innovative cities are redefining mobility in increasingly complex urban environments. In this session, promoted by Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility, representatives from leading European cities will share strategies, success stories and lessons learned on fostering innovation, deploying new mobility solutions and building more sustainable, resilient and accessible mobility systems across Europe.

An examination of how cities can align their public transport with shared mobility modes through innovative governance models that enable effective coordination across public and private operators.

Limited charging infrastructure slows the adoption of electric vehicles, while weak demand discourages investment in new charging points. This chicken-and-egg dilemma is also for logistics vehicles, which depend on accessible public charging infrastructure alongside dedicated depot charging. This session explores public-private approaches, incentives, and business models to accelerate charging deployment and support zero-emission freight.

Joint Developments For Urban ResiLIence Connecting Users To Public Transport Through SpAce Technology - is an Horizon project aiming to bring the European Space stack closer to the downstream public transport market. In this open final event, we'll present the 10 innovative applications and the results of the pilots across Europe.

As cities transition toward sustainable urban mobility, the interaction between heavy vehicles, passenger cars, and vulnerable road users—particularly cyclists and pedestrians—presents a critical challenge. The FIA and Euro NCAP will co-host an exclusive, closed-door session focusing on vehicle and truck safety in dense urban environments.

The decarbonisation of public bus fleets is essential to tackling climate change and improving urban quality of life. But how economically sustainable is the transition to zero-emission mobility? This presentation explores the economic viability of full fleet electrification through an independent study commissioned by TMB and conducted by CENIT-UPC, analysing investment, operating and maintenance costs from a life-cycle perspective.

Following the 2024 Eurocities-UITP declaration on sustainable and attractive public transport, cities continue to move from commitment to action. This session explores how public transport can respond to the energy crisis, tackle poverty, and ensure equitable access, drawing lessons from the UPPER project

TMWC Side Event: roundtable hosted by EIT Urban Mobility during TMWC, gathering cities, industry, and academia to discuss research priorities and innovation needs in urban mobility together with the members of the Academic Research Board.

How can young people help shape safer urban mobility? This session explores how engaging young people can contribute to safer, more responsible and sustainable mobility. Drawing on 20 years of the Joves i Mobilitat ("Youth & Mobility") initiative, it will showcase how more than 27,000 young people have shared their views on mobility and road safety, and discuss how their perspectives can help shape the mobility of tomorrow.

As autonomous mobility moves from pilots to large-scale deployment, this session explores how cities, operators, OEMs, technology providers and mobility platforms can work together to create sustainable pathways for scaling autonomous services across European cities. The discussion will focus on the enablers needed to accelerate deployment in ways that support EU industry, mobility, accessibility and sustainability goals.

An examination of how cities can strengthen integration between transport modes to enable seamless mobility for people and goods while improving the resilience of increasingly connected mobility systems.

How can cities effectively reduce transport-related air and noise pollution? This session explores complementary, data-driven solutions already being deployed across Europe. Discover how collaboration across the urban mobility ecosystem is helping cities turn environmental data into smarter policies, cleaner air and healthier urban environments.

This session explores how Austria has successfully implemented real, scalable urban mobility systems in daily use today. Discover solutions by: Skidata: Mobility Hubs; Commend: Digital Voice Assistant; A1 Digital: Secure Data Control; Designa: Digital Parking Transformation; Freeway: eSIM Technology; Gentics: Digital Lost and Found; Zelisko: Traffic Management and Ticketing Platforms.

Insights on how cities are accelerating the decarbonisation of urban spaces through integrated infrastructure and shared energy systems.

Who owns mobility data, who can access it and how can it be shared responsibly? This session explores the challenges of data governance, interoperability, trust and incentives, bringing together perspectives from across the mobility ecosystem. Discover how stronger collaboration can unlock the value of data while supporting innovation, better services and more effective transport planning.

City approaches to using data and digital tools to plan mobility systems that are more accessible, inclusive and responsive to diverse territorial needs.

Cities keep investing in mobility services and infrastructure, yet car dependency barely shifts. In this panel, practitioners and urban experts go beyond the showcase to examine what incentive schemes have genuinely moved behaviour at scale, which ones have created backlash or been quietly abandoned, and what political pressures stop cities from being honest about what does not work.

As AVs deploy on European streets, local governments have a lot to learn. European cities need new tools for policy, data sharing, curb management, and oversight. This panel brings together global perspectives from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Waymo, Veluto, and the Open Mobility Foundation, exploring how cities can move from reactive to proactive stewardship, connecting U.S. experience with European regulatory realities and fast "followship".

Moderated by AECOC, this session will explore how e-commerce growth is reshaping urban freight distribution, addressing rising delivery volumes, changing consumer expectations and the need for more flexible and efficient logistics solutions. The discussion will feature Marcos Urbaneja (AECOC), Nuria Blanco (Las Rozas City Council), Juan Carlos Escudero (Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council) and Julio Suero (InPost Iberia).

Ten mixed groups address one city challenge each: diagnose causes, propose solutions, and produce detailed action plans. Groups share findings, then the session closes with a synthesis and coordination plan.

This keynote makes an optimistic case for building not just liveable cities, but loveable cities through mobility innovation. Drawing on applied research and project work across Europe, Lukas Neckermann shows how mobility becomes the connective tissue of a city people love, not just live in.  We need to keep moving. Moving into our cities for work and study. And moving within our cities: for connection, for play, for friendship, for love.

A look at how mobility innovators are navigating increasing uncertainty driven by policy shifts, trade dynamics and supply chain disruption in a more fragmented global landscape.

To achieve Vision Zero, protecting vulnerable road users from commercial vehicles is a critical priority. This panel explores integrating heavy vehicle safety into urban policies via advanced safety technologies and corporate procurement. We highlight Euro NCAP ratings and FIA safety tools to mandate accountability and transform fleets into a force for safer cities.

How can research drive real-world impact in designing healthier urban environments? This session explores how collaboration between academia, cities and industry is turning research into practice. Featuring examples from the EIT Urban Mobility PhD Programme, the session highlights successful partnerships between research and public and/or private actors that are helping create healthier, more liveable cities for all.

Ridership and expectations keep rising, but not budgets. Most transport authorities are under pressure, with fewer staff and shrinking resources. This session showcases four proven approaches already improving tram and rail operations across Europe. Discover practical solutions that are making services safer, maintenance smarter and operations more efficient, with lessons that cities, operators and industry can put into practice.

A look at how cities are building resilient urban logistics that adapt supply chains, reduce disruptions and ensure sustainable, reliable last-mile delivery in dynamic urban environments.

The Mobility Institute brings together its ecosystem of public and private stakeholders representing Spain’s urban mobility and transport sector. The event will serve as a platform to share perspectives on the sector’s key challenges and to discuss the potential impact of emerging trends.

Urban mobility startups are helping address some of the most pressing challenges facing cities today. In this session, companies from the Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility (BILM) community and local and international mobility ecosystems will showcase innovative solutions to improve the efficiency, sustainability and accessibility of urban transport. Participants will discover emerging technologies and real-world mobility applications.

Exclusive, closed-door incubation workshop focused on safe mobility innovation to ensure that emerging technologies, startups, and mobility operators that are actively reshaping the urban transport landscape, keep safety at the heart of their services.

Urban mobility startups are helping address some of the most pressing challenges facing cities today. In this session, companies from the Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility (BILM) community and local and international mobility ecosystems will showcase innovative solutions to improve the efficiency, sustainability and accessibility of urban transport. Participants will discover emerging technologies and real-world mobility applications.

Perspectives on how cities can govern access, sharing and reuse of mobility data across public and private actors while safeguarding trust, control and public value.

European cities face growing challenges around congestion, electrification, urban logistics, and digital mobility. Drawing on the EPA Manifesto 2025–2030, this session brings together city leaders and mobility experts to explore how better integration of transport, energy, logistics, and data can support more sustainable, connected, and resilient cities.

The curbside is one of the city's most valuable assets. How can data, AI and better governance unlock its full potential? This session explores dynamic curbside management, showcasing how real-time data, cross-sector collaboration and innovative design can create safer, more efficient public spaces while balancing the needs of people, logistics and mobility.

An exploration of how public transport can evolve alongside its users as mobility habits and urban coniditions change, and how innovation solutions are responding to these emerging expectations.

This interactive workshop explores how stadium cities can leverage major events to advance both sustainable fan travel and develop vibrant, mixed-use stadium districts. Through case studies in Amsterdam & Manchester, participants will examine challenges around event-day mobility, public transport integration, placemaking, governance and long-term area development, while identifying opportunities for collaboration, pilot projects and knowledge sharing.

From research and development to the streets: discover five market-ready urban mobility innovations developed through the CIVITAS initiative. Through rapid pitches and discussion, innovators will showcase practical, scalable tools that cities and transport authorities can deploy to create more sustainable, efficient and resilient mobility systems.

An examination of how cities translate Vision Zero ambitions into system-level safety, data alignment, design and investment decisions with long-term health and societal outcomes.

Cyclelogistics is emerging as one of the most promising solutions for transforming urban freight and last-mile delivery. By shifting part of deliveries from vans to cargobikes, cities can reduce CO₂ emissions, improve air quality, ease congestion, noise as well release public space. It also offers a highly efficient way to move goods through dense urban areas by accessing to pedestrianised streets and local commercial areas faster than vans.

As automated mobility shifts from pilots to real deployment, cities are confronted with fundamental governance choices. The session will discuss use cases they want to prioritise, considering principles like safety, inclusion, sustainability, and the regulatory frameworks needed for policy-driven automation. The session features POLIS members leading the way, in line with the principles of the POLIS-Eurocities Joint Charter on Automated Mobility.

A relaxed moment to have a drink and mingle with other attendees at the venue’s main entrance after the World Smart City Awards gala.

This workshop will deep-dive into the Open Mobility Foundation, Amsterdam, and NTM’s blueprint to standardize near-incident data exchange between urban authorities, light electric vehicle OEMs and shared mobility providers using the Mobility Data Specification. The workshop will explore potential use cases, build an implementation and use case roadmap for action, and establish the building blocks for European application and partnerships.

The "Open Mobility Ecosystem" is like the Internet of Mobility. The Internet for all and by all. But to make this work, we need to agree and collaborate on the framework of OME.

Understanding the growing role of cities in battery collection, logistics and end-of-life management.

This session explores how cities can use user experience, mobility planning and behaviour change to make walking and cycling the preferred choice for everyday travel. Drawing on examples from NetZeroCities, DUT Partnership, New European Bauhaus and the EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Programme, it showcases complementary approaches on reducing car dependency, supporting modal shift and creating healthier, more liveable and climate-neutral cities.

An exploration of how the electric mobility transition is reshaping urban space allocation and transforming approaches to public and private fleet management in cities.

Insights into how cities and logistics operators can accelerate zero-emission urban freight through microhubs, cargo bikes and digital tools while balancing efficiency, regulation and urban liveability.

Discover six innovative French startups shaping the future of mobility. Fleetiz, NeoShape Mobility, Neovya, Supraways, Motowatt and Revaw will present breakthrough solutions in connected mobility, autonomous systems, sustainable transport and next-generation vehicles.

As autonomous mobility expands across public transport, freight and passenger services, what role should cities play in orchestrating its integration? Drawing on insights from GOLIA, AIGGREGATE and PAVE Europe, this session explores how cities can govern increasingly automated, AI-enabled and connected mobility ecosystems, addressing urban integration, public transport, information sharing and public trust to enable safe and responsible deployment.

What makes people actually choose sustainable mobility? This session brings together European city leaders from Amsterdam, Munich, Madrid and Espoo to show how incentives, curbside governance, Urban Mobility Labs and user-centred innovation can turn climate-friendly transport from a good intention into the easiest and most attractive everyday option.

Cities are investing in drones, 5G and AI for public safety, but moving from pilot to operational reality is harder than it looks. Drawing on the EU-funded 5G4LIVES project, this panel shares field experience from Riga and Turin — from urban search-and-rescue to complex hillside terrain and civil protection — and uses those lessons to ask what any city actually needs before this technology becomes routine.