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Presence of 20% of international speakers

The Sabadell Smart Congress closed with an assistance of 500 congressmen

Editorial Interempresas25/04/2013

The 20 presentations that realised along the two days of the Sabadell Smart Congress (8 and 9 April) allowed to know all the fan of technologies that companies of reference like Telefónica, Philips, IBM, Seat or Ros Rock are designing to give answer to the challenges of gestión of the cities of the 21st century, in the fields of the environingingment, the power, the mobility or the communication with the citizenship.

This more business vision completed giving voice to independent thinkers and institutions, like the economist and North American sociologist Jeremy Rifkin, the European Commission and the United Nations, as well as to representatives of European cities that have developed ambitious projects linked to the ‘smart cities', like Vienna, Montpelier and Barcelona. Also they were present speakers of universities and centres of investigation, like the University of Barcelona (José María Gay of Liébana) and the Center for Technology in Government of l'State University of New York (Donna Canestraro). The international presence was one of the most stood out notes of the reports, since they assisted 20% of speakers of out of the Spanish State, a very notable quota for a city of 200.000 inhabitants like Sabadell.

The Sabadell Smart Congress celebrated the days 8 and 9 April.

This picture of reports achieved to attract the attention of the public, with more than 500 congressmen accredited, with a strong presence of entes local, between them a veintena of mayors and mayors. The report that registered a greater number of assistants was the session mark (‘How the smart cities will contribute to the economic recovery'), with more than 500 assistants, and the rest of reports had the presence from among 100 and 200 assistants.

The high level of the reports completed with other events in the frame of the congress, that looked for to put the emphasis in the applicability and the opportunities of dinamización economic that represent the projects of ‘intelligent cities'. By this reason, a dozen of companies were present in the space of more than 1.800 square metres devoted to display units. Between them, they stood out the vehicles that work with alternative energies of Volkswagen, as well as a prototype of electrical vehicle contributed by Seat, beside other stands of FCC, Philips and Cassa. Telefónica contributed a ‘bus' in whose interior could appreciate diverse technological applications that the company is developing in collaboration with Cisco (communications unified, ‘cloud it', etc.). Besides, the company of services of environingingment Smatsa, beside his technological partner Moba, did a demonstration of sensorización of rubbish containerses and monitoring of vehicles of collected and cleaning.

The company of services of environingingment Smatsa, beside his technological partner Moba, did a demonstration of sensorización of rubbish containerses and monitoring of vehicles of collected and cleaning.

Simultaneously to the congress took place a contest of mobile applications (apps), endowed with 1.500 euros for the winning application, that has been ‘Join Up Taxi'. This application allows to the users share travel in taxi and already is in operation in Barcelona, Madrid and Sabadell, with more than 250 taxis associated. There were two applications finalists: ‘SOS Info', of the company Imathings (medical emergencies) and ‘Sabadell click to click', of the company Dau Apps (historical photographies geolocated). They presented 21 proposals of applications, of which after a first filter remained 15, that were valued by a jury composed by representatives of the Parc of Recerca of the UAB, the Cabbage•legi d'Enginyers of Telecomunicacions of Catalonia, the Cabbage•legi d'Enginyers Industrials of Catalonia and the Universitat Politècnica of Catalonia.

David Guirado, commercial director of TNL Environingingmental Equipments.

Also organised visits guided in an urban bus to 14 projects ‘smart city' of Sabadell, like the collected pneumatics of waste, the telegestión of the irrigation or the installations of renewable energies in the municipal equipments, to show that the ‘smart cities' are useful to improve the urban gestión and the quality of life of the cities. These visits ran to charge of the municipal technicians and representatives of the companies that collaborate in the gestión of the services, like Envac, Samcla or Philips.

Finally the event also had a follow-up of the media generalistas and skilled of the national field, standing out very especially the broadcasts in direct of the program ‘Els Matins of Catalonia Ràdio' the day 8, and ‘To bona hour' of Ràdio Sabadell, from Fira Sabadell, with interviews to municipal representatives and to the companies and institutions participants in the congress.

Is fruit of the collaboration of more than 30 companies and institutions, between them companies like Telefónica, Philips, Smatsa, Cassa and Clece, with the institutional support of the Catalan Institute of the Power, Localret or the Deputation of Barcelona.

The congress also had a follow-up of the media generalistas and skilled.

This congress arrives in a moment in that a lot of cities are organising events related with the thematic ‘smart city'. One of the congresses of reference is the ‘Smart City World Congress' of Barcelona, that in his first edition of 2011 had the assistance of 2.000 congressmen and 118 display units.