bee smart city is proud to continue its partnership with Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona: the world’s leading smart city conference and exhibition. With expected more than 21 000 professional visitors, over 800 exhibitors, along with high level representatives from more than 700 cities and over 420 international speakers, as well as 60+ side events, Smart City Expo World Congress is the place to be this November 19-21.

Leading experts will share their vision of how to build more sustainable and livable urban environments while putting people at the centre of every decision. This event provides a unique meeting point for the whole smart city ecosystem where corporate leaders, public representatives, entrepreneurs, experts and academics from all around the globe come together and open new paths for international collaboration.

The three partners announce the Global Guide for Development of Smart and Sustainable Communities at this week’s Green Standards Week in Valencia. As a global partner platform, the German company bee smart city contributes by connecting and enabling networking of stakeholders and interested parties in the United Nations' Smart City Program worldwide.

• The UNITED FOR SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES (U4SSC) implementation program and bee smart city have announced an English-language guide to transform urban communities to smart sustainable cities.

• UNITED FOR SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES (U4SSC) selects bee smart city as its global Smart City network ecosystem.

• Cities around the world find proven smart city solutions and the world's largest expert community at bee smart city.

• The partnership accelerates the transformation process of communities to Smart Sustainable Cities: from the networking of all stakeholders through KPI analysis to financing and strategy development.

bee smart city has partnered with Asia’s largest smart city conference and exhibition - World Smart City Expo. Continuing the partnership from last year, World Smart City Expo incorporates a variety of city-relevant events under a unified theme of smart city including ‘Smart City Summit Asia’ . The event is prominent and has been growing in 2019, as it is expected to receive delegations from more than 200 cities and 65 countries, altogether more than 20,000 individuals. That's 142% increase of visitors compared to the previous year.

The exhibition categories include: Smart Energy, Infrastructure, Sensor, Service, Home, Building, Mobility and Government related technologies. Top-level executives of world smart cities will talk about their city’s stories bonded with new technologies at the conference and there will be an international arena to meet leaders from global cities, companies, academia, and other associated parties.

The City of Lublin and bee smart city have signed a partnership agreement at Smart Ecosystems conference in Gliwice, Poland, on May 29. The goal of the partnership is to advance and to promote Lublin’s smart city strategy and to share expertise, lessons learned and solutions.

Cities and communities have to deal with an increasing amount of urban challenges every day that impact livability and prosperity, as well as their priorities and perspectives for future development. Decision-makers, concepts and sustainable solutions are sought after worldwide. Also, an important factor is geodata, as without precise information, many smart city solutions are simply unimaginable. 

bee smart city and SMART CITY SOLUTIONS part of INTERGEO continue their partnership in 2019. The topics covered in the conference include mobility and transport, energy and environment, security and resilience as well as open data and data management. With the help of use cases and technologies that enable the participants to think ahead and engage in meaningful discussions, the attendees will have great opportunities to network, explore the newest market innovations and get inspired.

To tackle the current challenges and be prepared for future development opportunities, the sharing of best practices among cities and communities is crucial, as it helps to be informed about new solutions that can be adopted and further advanced.

If you look for solution providers that are capable of providing tailored approaches and solutions, or if you are willing to build partnerships with cities for a joint journey towards a smarter city, you should not miss participating in the event.

bee smart city and Smart Cities New York are continuing their strategic partnership to help cities and municipalities develop and become more prosperous and livable. Smart Cities New York is a global event based on the core principle that cities are Powered by People.

In 2019, it's time to address urban challenges and opportunities with the central theme “The Future Is Now.” 

bee smart city is proud to partner with IMPACT>MOBILITY - the only conference in Europe to unite more than 200 private and public stakeholders and foster smart mobility development and confront the data monetisation, customer experience and many other challenges. With more than 15 hours of networking, over 30 speakers, and over 20 sessions the event will help building and strenghtening partnerships, developing platforms and integrated services that are suitable for the needs of modern and dynamic smart cities.

The IMPACT>MOBILITY event in 2019 covers four important themes: 

• Data Platforms & Business Models,
• The Road to Mobility as a Service,
• Investment & Financing Mobility,
• Last Mile & Connected Infrastructure,

each with useful content for all the stakeholder groups of mobility development - includng but not limited to city representatives, mobility service providers, telecoms and IoT platform providers, analytics platforms, as well as automakers and public transit authorities.

bee smart city partners with Smart City Summit & Expo (SCSE), Asia's largest annual smart city trade show. With more than 30,000 professional visitors and more than 1,200 booths, SCSE 2019 is the biggest smart city platform and IoT application exhibition in Asia. SCSE takes place from March 26-29 at Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1 in Taipei, Taiwan. bee smart city acts as media partner, will join SCSE with a delegation of partner cities and companies, and will hold an insightful speech on smart city development at CTalk, the platform for practitioners and city representatives to share their experiences and visions.

bee smart city and Labcities merge to form the world’s largest solution- and product-based smart city business network and community, representing a new kind of platform for all smart city market actors, with already more than 10,000 members from 150 countries. Through joining forces under the brand of bee smart city, the smart city platform and community grows to more than 1,500 registered companies, 600+ cities and communities, more than 500 smart city solutions and a total reach of 300,000+ smart city actors, globally.

bee smart city partners with Asia’s largest smart city conference and exhibition. With more than 15,000 attendees in 2017, Smart Cities Summit Asia is the leading smart city conference and exhibition in Asia, where delegations from more than 200 cities and 50+ countries gather to build people-centric smart cities together.

SCSA 2018, to be held alongside WSCW (World Smart City Week 2018), brings together smart cities leaders from around the world to share high-tech IoT and ICT solutions to develop cities for better life. The exhibition categories include; Smart Energy, Infrastructure, Sensor, Service, Home, Building, Mobility and Government related technologies and top-level executives of world smart cities will talk about their city’s stories bonded with new technologies at the conference.

bee smart city joins forces with RuhrSummit, the biggest startup conference in the Ruhr Valley and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). One key topic of this years’ RuhrSummit and its sub-event International Summit is ‘Smart Urban Services / Smart City’. bee smart city will host the corresponding Deep Dive for smart city startups.

“The partnership with RuhrSummit in our home region and state is a great honor for us at bee smart city. The smart city market is a global growth market that offers a lot of business opportunities for startups that help to increase efficiency, livability and prosperity in cities and municipalities. Future-proofing the places we live and work in is a necessity that we all benefit from – as citizens, employees, entrepreneurs or government representatives. Therefore, we help smart city startups and solution providers to connect with potential corporate and government clients, to identify new partners, and to increase their global visibility through our global smart city network and community.”, state Dr. Alexander Gelsin, Bart Gorynski, and Thomas Müller, Founders and Managing Partners at bee smart city.

bee smart city partners with Germany’s largest startup conference and innovation summit to specifically support smart city startups. Smart City, IoT, and Future Mobility are some of the main topics of StartupCon, taking place at Lanxess Arena in Cologne on September 18, 2018. A special "Smart Cities of the Future" panel, covers topics like city planning, infrastructure, and geo-intelligence.

In recent years, new technologies and business models for the public sector have led to the formation of a huge number of smart city startups – often also termed govtech and civictech startups – that are developing or already offer outstanding solutions for urban challenges and problems, or to seize urban development opportunities. The smart cities market is one of the fastest growing markets worldwide, offering ample business opportunities for new startups.

bee smart city and Leading Cities join forces to support cities in becoming smarter through their combined services and strong international networks. As part of the partnership, bee smart city supports the new smart city startup accelerator AcceliCITY, launched by Leading Cities with a unique media and support package for the finalist startups and the program in its global network.

bee smart city and SMART CITY SOLUTIONS part of INTERGEO have signed a partnership agreement.

Today, cities and communities across the globe face massive challenges that impact their livability and prosperity: traffic, energy, water & waste management, pollution, healthcare, education, the digital economy as well as the efficient provision of government services are only a few examples of challenges that require specific smart city solutions. To tackle these challenges, but also to seize development opportunities, municipalities need to follow holistic and citizen-centric approaches. The sharing of best practices among cities and communities as well as being informed about new solutions is important for the creation, replication and adoption of suitable solutions in individual cities.

bee smart city and Smart Cities New York have entered into a strategic partnership to help cities and municipalities across the globe in seizing the opportunities that the journey towards becoming smarter offers. The development of prosperous and livable smart cities and communities is the common vision of both partnering organizations.

bee smart city, Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), and ICF Canada have signed a partnership agreement to accelerate the global development of smart cities and intelligent communities. With the new partnership, the three organizations join forces to facilitate the creation of prosperous and livable smart cities and intelligent communities around the world.

Recently, bee smart city has signed the ”City as a Platform Manifesto” organized by TM Forum, the industry association driving digital business transformation of the communications industry, to accelerate the development of smart cities globally. The manifesto is in line with the vision of bee smart city to accelerate the development of prosperous and livable smart cities and intelligent communities around the world.

bee smart city has released its global SMART CITY SOLUTION DATABASE to accelerate the development of smart cities around the world. The database, which can be accessed free-of-charge, supports cities and communities across the globe in their smart city efforts and connects them efficiently to solution providers and potential partners.