Track: | Mobility |

Innovation happens when ideas, people and opportunities come together. In this opening conversation, discover the vision behind Innovation Playground and how it connects startups, investors, researchers and city leaders to accelerate urban innovation. Get an overview of the Startup Program, featuring innovators from around the world addressing key urban challenges, alongside the Demo Area, Investors Program, dedicated 1:1 matchmaking opportunities between startups and investors, and networking initiatives designed to turn connections into collaboration and impact.

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

This roundtable gathers cities, industry, academia and the EIT Urban Mobility Academic Research Board to discuss research priorities and innovation needs in urban mobility.

Europe is entering a new phase of autonomous mobility. Join EIT Urban Mobility’s closed-door session, where cities, public transport actors and industry explore how to make autonomous services viable and easy to replicate across European cities. Be part of the discussion on the partnerships, business models and enabling conditions needed to move from pilots to large-scale deployment, followed by a networking and matchmaking session.

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.

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.

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 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.

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".

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.

This session explores how Austria has successfully implemented real, scalable urban mobility systems in daily use today. Discover proven approaches and 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.

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.

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.

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.   

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.   

An examination on how emerging data sources, sensor technologies, connected devices and AI-assisted participatory platforms are helping cities better understand lived mobility experience, creating richer evidence for more inclusive and human-centred mobility planning.

A conversation on how innovative data sources, AI-assisted analytics and digital planning tools are transforming Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, enabling cities to move from static documents to evidence-based, continuously updated, inclusive planning.

A focus on how cities can harness mobility data, digital infrastructure and new analytical methods to detect transport poverty, measure accessibility gaps, understand non-classical transport modes and design mobility systems responsive to diverse territorial and demographic needs.

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

A discussion bringing together stakeholders across the mobility ecosystem to explore four priority actions of urban mobility electrification: strengthening grid and charging infrastructure; advancing fleet transition and clean transport corridors; unlocking public and private finance; and ensuring equitable access throughout the energy and mobility transition.

An exploration of how integrated charging infrastructure, smart grid connectivity and shared energy assets are enabling scalable urban electrification. Case studies highlight how cross-sector collaboration between public authorities, utilities and transport operators is unlocking faster, more efficient pathways to clean urban mobility.

A strategic perspective on how policy frameworks are driving investment in electric mobility infrastructure and positioning cities as key actors in the EU's decarbonisation agenda.

Insights on how cities are accelerating the decarbonisation of urban spaces through integrated infrastructure and shared energy 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 roundtable brings together cities and researchers to discuss different approaches to governing and coordinating public and shared mobility systems, including the role of parking integration within broader public space management.

The digitalisation of public transport has opened up the door to a number of new innovations that are improving the passenger experience, and making multimodal travel easier than ever. This session explores innovative mobility schemes and solutions, and how these have transformed the cities in which they have been deployed.

A public-private dialogue bringing together public transport authorities and shared mobility operators to discuss the evolving definition of public transport systems, the role of shared mobility within them, and the resulting implications for cities.

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.

An exploration of the integrated platforms turning satellite, sensor and mobility data into real-time air quality insights to reveal urban exposure patterns and enable targeted city interventions.

A multi-stakeholder discussion on how cities can translate air quality data into mobility policies and investment decisions, while integrating other environmental factors to tackle urban exposure and health challenges.

A strategic perspective on how cities can move beyond air quality monitoring to integrate health outcomes into mobility planning, enabling better prioritisation of interventions and aligning data systems with broader environmental and urban health goals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Discover the key ideas, emerging trends and standout innovations shaping Innovation Playground. Whether you are joining us for the first time or returning for Day 2, this session offers a snapshot of the startups, investors, researchers and city innovators driving the program. We will revisit key takeaways, spotlight new connections and opportunities emerging across the ecosystem, and preview the sessions, activities and innovation challenges still to come, including the research-focused program on Day 3.

This invite-only session brings together public authorities within the EIT Urban Mobility network for an engaging exchange on innovation in urban mobility. Through focused thematic discussions and interactive networking, participants will explore solutions to critical challenges shaping urban mobility and identify areas where collaborative efforts can drive impactful, city-led innovation.

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.

Major events and unexpected disruptions are stress tests for urban mobility systems, but also opportunities to build stronger, more resilient networks. Through practical case studies from Amsterdam, London and Manchester, this interactive session explores how cities, venues, transport operators and technology partners can adapt mobility flows, manage peak demand and respond to disruptions. Together, participants will tackle real-world challenges linked to EURO Cup 2028, Ryder Cup 2027 and beyond..

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

An exploration of how emerging approaches use data and analytics to assess street-level risk, identify priority areas for intervention and support more informed, system-level safety decisions across urban mobility networks.

A discussion on how cities move from Vision Zero strategies to funded safety interventions, exploring governance challenges, cross-sector collaboration and prioritisation of investments that deliver measurable safety and health impacts.

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.

As mobility needs and expectations evolve, public transport must evolve with them. This discussion explores how services and systems can be rethought to remain attractive, accessible and relevant and what this could mean for the roles of cities, authorities, operators and new mobility providers.

Turning promising innovations into everyday public transport services requires more than a good solution. This keynote explores how cities can create the conditions to adopt, implement and scale innovation in practice.

Demographic change, evolving travel patterns, new technologies and changing economic conditions are reshaping the context in which public transport operates. What opportunities do these shifts create to rethink how mobility services are planned, organised and delivered and what could the public transport system of the future look like?

Demographic change, evolving travel patterns, new technologies and changing economic conditions are reshaping the context in which public transport operates. What opportunities do these shifts create to rethink how mobility services are planned, organised and delivered and what could the public transport system of the future look like?

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.

A dive into how digital twins, APIs and emerging data standards are reshaping the governance of urban mobility data, enabling cities to coordinate mobility systems dynamically while addressing new challenges around data sharing, interoperability and control across public and private actors.

A panel discussion on how cities and operators are working together to make mobility data exchange practical and sustainable -- exploring governance models, intermediary structures and legal instruments that build shared confidence and deliver concrete value for both public and private stakeholders.

A strategic view on how European mobility data governance is being reshaped by new regulation, data space initiatives and shifting public-private dynamics, and what cities and operators need to prepare for as baseline obligations and expectations evolve.

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.

An overview of how cities and operators are combining adaptive operational strategies with digital tools and data-driven insights to improve flexibility, reliability and resilience in last-mile delivery -- enabling better anticipation of disruptions and more efficient urban logistics flows.

A multi-stakeholder discussion on how policy, business and technology can align to strengthen resiliency for more future-proof urban logistics systems.

A strategic dialogue on how ports can strengthen the resilience of logistics by maintaining critical freight flows, enabling multimodal alternatives and improving coordination between ports, logistics hubs and cities.

A high-level perspective on how multimodal freight systems and adaptive logistics strategies can strengthen resilience to withstand disruptions and ensure reliable, sustainable supply chains.

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.

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.

The annual World Smart City Awards is a prestigious international competition that seeks to recognize pioneering projects, solutions, and city strategies that drive meaningful change for citizens and push urban transformation forward.

Discover the pioneering projects selected for the finals of this year’s edition.

Europe is the place in the world with some of the great opportunities to build in mobility: dense historic cities, ambitious climate and safety rules, and 27 different markets. In this session, Techstars and EIT Urban Mobility make the case that Europe’s regulation, cities, industrial depth and values give its founders an unfair advantage, and explain how to turn those advantages into companies.

How can cities make mobility more accessible, sustainable and responsive to people’s needs? This session showcases startups improving urban mobility through innovative transport services, active mobility planning, mobility intelligence and real-time communication. From shared mobility and overnight travel to cycling infrastructure, parking insights and data-driven decision-making, discover practical solutions helping cities optimize infrastructure, improve operations and create better travel experiences for everyone.

Hardware-driven innovation takes the stage, from magnetic levitation and railway monitoring to road safety scoring, aviation and sensing technologies. These startups tackle the physical side of mobility, making vehicles, rails and roads safer, more efficient and more reliable, while exploring the next generation of advanced transport systems worldwide.

These startups use data, simulation and analytics to make urban mobility cleaner and healthier. From climate modelling and air-quality insights to mobility trends and carbon impact, they help planners and operators make evidence-based decisions. Expect pitches on how better data can reduce emissions, improve public health and shape liveable cities.

This session showcases digital platforms that change how people move day to day. Startups present navigation technology, bike and vehicle sharing, payments, connected car data and seamless booking. The common thread is intelligent software making travel much simpler, flexible, inclusive and affordable.

How can cities move people more safely, efficiently and sustainably? This session showcases startups advancing urban mobility through public transport innovation, parking optimization, traffic intelligence, road infrastructure and data-driven mobility services. Discover solutions helping cities improve operations, enhance safety and create better travel experiences for citizens.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

An interactive discussion aligning policy, curbside management, business models and urban planning to scale zero-emission logistics while ensuring resilient supply chains and liveable cities.

A strategic overview of how cities and operators can accelerate zero-emission logistics through policy, innovation and cross-sector collaboration.

An exploration on how digital tools work together to optimise last-mile delivery, improving efficiency, coordination and reducing emissions in urban logistics.

A case-based discussion exploring how choices made from online checkout through to the final delivery point shape urban freight movements. Drawing on city experiences, the dialogue will examine how delivery options, collection infrastructure, public-space management and local partnerships can encourage more efficient and zero-emission delivery models while responding to consumer needs.

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.

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.

A panel discussion bringing together industry, policy and innovation stakeholders on the next wave of developments in battery circularity, including battery passports and digital traceability, circular and design-for-reuse approaches, and second-life applications as a competitive alternative to recycling. It will also address safe handling and the integration of circularity principles into urban mobility and infrastructure planning, identifying priority actions realise a fully circular battery ecosystem.

An exploration of the commercial and industrial pathways turning battery circularity from strategic ambition into scalable market deployment, highlighting the economics, investment dynamics and operational models shaping the sector.

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

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.