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Smart City Expo gathers to more than 1.700 congressmen in Kyoto in his first Japanese edition

28/03/2014

28 March 2014

More than 1700 visitors of 22 countries assisted to the first Japanese edition of Smart City Expo, that clausuró on 27 March after two days of conferences and round tables where municipal and governmental representatives, experts and urban thinkers, as well as the companies that work in intelligent urban solutions explore together the future of the cities. The symposium, that is cream of the successful Smart City Expo World Congress celebrated in Barcelona was organised jointly by the Government of the City of Kioto, Prefecture of Kioto and the Fira of Barcelona and promoted the exchange of technology related with the intelligent city through a network tripolar between Asia, Europe and south America.

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“This first Japanese edition of Smart City Expo has been a tremendo success and therefore we want to appreciate to our partners in the prefecture of Kyoto and to the municipal government of Kyoto, as well as to the assistants, to the cities and to the present companies his support", has said Lluís Gómez, International director of Smart City Expo World Congress. “Further of the number of assistants, companies and cities participants, are very happy to ascertain that the development of the intelligent cities is a key element inside the urban planning all over the world and that all the actors involved in this process are totally committed and had to learn, work and share his knowledges and technology to attain this common aim to world-wide level”.

The celebration in Kyoto of the first Smart City Japanese Expo freamers in the strategy of Fira of Barcelona to celebrate regional editions of Smart City Expo World Congress in countries of all the world. The year happened the Colombian city of Bogota celebrated the first Latin American event and in brief will announce more international editions. Fira Of Barcelona set up Smart City Expo World Congress in 2011, an event that has consolidated like world-wide leader in of the industry of the intelligent cities in only three editions.

The program of conferences of Kyoto Smart City Expo has consisted of two big axles: Intelligent Cities for the Development Urbano and Social, that explores the urban and social changes that the cities are experiencing because of the new political and technologies, and technological Investigation and the Industry of Intelligent Cities, on the environingingmental challenges and of mobility in the urban surroundings, tackling new solutions and strategies.

The conferences and reports carried out in Kyoto and in the Kansai Science City of Keihanna, situated in the hills between Kyoto, Osaka and Nara, , a national project Japanese of innovation devoted to promote the cultural and scientific investigation.