global city teams challenge 2018 Washington DC

Most of the participants showed genuine interest in FIWARE and as a result there were some very interesting interactions, opening up potential opportunities for FIWARE and for the start-ups in the USA and for the City of Valencia for future cooperation with US cities.Ī dedicated FIWARE session allowed the FIWARE team to provide the audience with more details about the platform and the ecosystem, and the smart city applications being demonstrated at the booth. There was a good and continuous turnout, with different profiles, from small companies to universities and cities. The FIWARE booth was very well attended by many visitors all throughout the day. The City of Valencia (Spain) presented several applications deployed in their city, including the “App Valencia” City mobile application, the Valencia eGovernment Integrated Platform, the Valencia Smart City Platform, and the Valencia Transparency & Open Data Portal. At the FIWARE booth, Binee UG from the “Binee” team demonstrated their smart bin and app for rewarding and improving recycling in the cities Teamdev showed the “TripStories” smart tourism and mobility application destined at supporting a better environment and Open Data City from “WeBuildCity” showcased their Open and 3D City Development Platform for Urban Planning. The exhibition on 1 st June gathered more than 1,000 visitors and 65 teams demonstrating smart city applications. The visitors asked us if we are interested in sharing our applications with other cities, and at this point, of course we are ready to share best practices and cooperate further.” Gema Roig from City of Valencia.

Other visitors were really interested also in our applications for administration (eGovernment and integrated paperless administration). This kind of app is apparently not common in American cities. “The visitors seemed to be very interested in our mobile application, ‘APP Valencia’, which informs to the citizens, in real time, about everything happening in the city and shows lot of information to everyone. A FIWARE delegation composed of representatives from three start-ups from the SpeedUpEurope accelerator, representatives from the City of Valencia (Spain), a representative of the energy utility company from the City of Oldenburg in Germany, as well as the project coordinator of SpeedUpEurope and a representative of FIWARE Mundus, attended the Global City Teams Challenge exhibition and workshop, which were held on 1 st and 2 nd June in Washington D.C., USA.

Global city teams challenge 2018 Washington DC