TEHRAN – The sixth Iran Smart City Exhibition and Conference will kick off tomorrow in Tehran and will wrap up on Friday.
With the theme of Iran’s good cities and synthetic intelligence, the occasion can be held on the event of the World Cities Day, aiming to promote innovation, develop good metropolis infrastructures, and share experiences between scientific, industrial, and administration sectors, IRNA reported.
The exhibition part encompasses a sequence of firms, organizations, municipalities, and know-how establishments showcasing their newest merchandise, designs, and achievements in fields associated to good cities and synthetic intelligence.
It will deal with good city administration techniques and public providers, information infrastructure, Internet of Things and massive information analytics, good transportation and clear vitality, in addition to new applied sciences in schooling, well being, and city setting.
The convention is organized by the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology, often known as Irandoc.
The convention includes a sequence of skilled panels, scientific conferences, and coverage discussions that examine the newest achievements and challenges in good cities, city information, synthetic intelligence, and digital governance fields. Professors, managers, and consultants in know-how will share their views.
The fundamental themes of the convention embody good governance and the function of information in city decision-making, ethics and justice in utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI) in city administration, the function of AI within the sustainability of cities, and nationwide capability growth for future good cities.
It will deliver collectively home and international students, practitioners, city managers, industrialists, students, and consultants, in addition to knowledge-based firms, to share experiences and data and speed up the change to good cities.
The convention can even present a possibility to show the newest achievements, scientific findings, applied sciences, strategies, and instruments for implementing good cities tasks.
A spotlight of this yr’s convention is ‘Iran smart city national award’, which goals to determine, consider, and honor the very best designs and tasks in city smartness. It can be launched instantly after the tip of the exhibition.
World Cities Day
The World Cities Day was marked in Tehran with the theme of Smart Cities, Sustainable Innovation, Green Buildings, Bright Future.
The occasion was held each in-person and on-line, bringing collectively related authorities organizations, educational establishments, skilled our bodies, the personal sector, younger innovators, metropolis managers, college students, and stakeholders.
Sharing experience, showcasing progressive city tasks, and discussing the challenges and alternatives of sustainable city growth within the nation and everywhere in the world have been among the many fundamental components of the occasion, the UN Iran Habitat web site reported.
The occasion was centered round good cities, technological innovation, sustainable development, city resilience, and alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
World Cities Day is noticed yearly on 31 October, marking the conclusion of Urban October. First celebrated in 2014, the day encompasses a international observance hosted by a unique metropolis annually and focuses on a particular theme.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) declared the Day to promote curiosity in international urbanization and encourage cooperation amongst international locations in addressing the challenges of urbanization and contributing to sustainable city growth all over the world.
The Global Observance of World Cities Day 2025 befell in Bogotá, Colombia, underneath the subject of people-centred good cities.
It showcases how data-driven decision-making, know-how, and AI can be utilized to enhance city life and get better from present shocks and crises. It additionally focuses on selling good metropolis initiatives centered on individuals.
This yr’s theme displays the rising recognition that the transformative energy of digital applied sciences is reshaping city life globally, providing profound alternatives to improve how cities and human settlements are designed, deliberate, managed, and ruled.
The theme goals to promote people-centred good cities and exhibit how essential it’s for good cities to prioritize human wants, inclusivity, and accessibility.
Second, the observance will present a platform for cities to trade greatest practices, experiences, and methods in implementing people-centred good metropolis initiatives globally, particularly in addressing key challenges corresponding to the worldwide housing disaster.
Lastly, by growing international consciousness in regards to the function of know-how and innovation in advancing improved entry to satisfactory housing and attaining city growth, the aim is to foster and encourage worldwide cooperation and collaboration amongst all societal sectors on People-Centred Smart Cities.
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