Creating Smarter Cities 2011 brings governments, municipalities, academics and businesses together to study how cities and research centres can create ‘smart cities’, and how cities can deliver better electronic services to citizens.

Speakers from the cities of Amsterdam, Manchester and Edinburgh; IBM, Microsoft and CapGemini; Edinburgh Napier, Amsterdam and Manchester Universities; the EU and the Scottish Government will identify the key issues shaping the way ahead for cities in Europe.

The conference is hosted by Edinburgh Napier University as part of the Smart Cities Project.

The conference will examine:

• experiences of municipalities that have signed up to the smart city agenda,
• visions and storylines which are emerging to meet this agenda,
• scenarios and strategies that underpin the emergence of smart cities,
• agendas, visions, storylines and emerging scenarios which support Edinburgh, Manchester and Amsterdam as smart cities, and
• the open innovation systems, living lab experiments and electronic services associated with their development.

Building off this, the conference will split into two sessions: the first examines the emergence of smart cities as regional innovation systems; the second studies their electronic service developments across the North Sea region.

Examining the triple helix of smart cities and studying the customisation, business process mapping, co-design and user-profiling of their e-service developments across the North Sea Region, the Conference shall point towards the emerging e-government agenda, with a particular focus on the top level issues emerging from the open government-led, social media-driven and transformational orientated debate on the way ahead for Smart Cities.

The conference presentations can now be downloaded from http://www.slideshare.net/event/creating-smarter-cities-2011/slideshows

Day 1 - Visions of Smart Cities - afternoon of June 30th

• Session 1: Storylines
• Session 2: emerging scenarios
• Session 3: emerging strategies

Day 2 - Regional innovation systems, e-service developments, and the emerging e-government agenda

• Regional innovation system (morning of day 2 – parallel session)
• e-service developments (morning of day 2 – parallel session)
• the emerging e-government agenda (afternoon of day 2)
• the way ahead (open session)