We kindly invite you to join us to:
Date: November 6, 2024 at 10:30 - 13:00
Location: Side Room, 3.14A+B, Area CC3 - Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), Barcelona, SPAIN
Lead Organisation: Scalable Cities Secretariat
Session Partners: Philippe Fournand, Veronika Cerna, Graham Colclough, Emilio Miguel Mitre, Gretel Schaj, Mikael Edelstam, BoC members, invited experts and guests
Format: Workshop featuring discussions, presentations, and interactive participation.
The Scalable Cities Secretariat invites you to an engaging session focused on how to speed and scale climate innovations to achieve the ambitious goals of 2030. This workshop will explore the development of a large-scale upscaling programme that combines an ambitious public and private financing framework with structural reforms, aiming to position cities and their solutions as primary beneficiaries of this programme.
A key topic will be the challenge of transforming currently unbankable solutions into bankable ones with high-impact potential. The session will delve into the challenges cities face in replicating successful climate initiatives and present strategies for involving the public sector and establishing new financial instruments to support these efforts.
Cities such as Dijon, Turku, and Brussels will participate, alongside contributions from ATELIER, POCITYF, ASCEND, and NEUTRALPATH, offering a broad range of insights. Participants will explore key questions, including:
- What could be a large financial program's size, structure, and targets to speed and scale ready-to-market and less mature solutions?
- How can such a program include cities effectively? What cities must do to become an active player?
- How can we make funding flow more efficiently and foster financial innovation?
Attendees are encouraged to bring their experiences and insights, fostering a collaborative dialogue centred on impactful climate innovations.
Facilitators:
- Graham Colclough – Partner, UrbanDNA
- Emilio Miguel Mitre – GBCE, MAKING-CITY
- Gretel Schaj – Senior Expert in Governance and Urban Innovation, Iberia Lead, BABLE Smart Cities
- Mikael Edelstam – CEO, Miljöstrategi AB
- Philippe Fournand – CEO, Blue-Sight Conseil
- Veronika Cerna – CEO, Twenty Communications, Scalable Cities Secretariat
Experts:
- Eduard Puig MacLean – CEO, GNE Ventures
- Jose Martinez Artiles – Investment Director, PATRIZIA SE
- Belen Ortiz – BwB, NetZeroCities
- Erika Lewis – CEO, Connected Places Catapult , 3Ci Cities (Commission for Climate Investment)
- Peter Kisch – COO & Senior Project Manager, Future by Lund
- Wojciech Deska – Senior Urban Specialist, European Investment Bank (EIB)
- Sylwia Słomiak – NetZeroCities
Filip Coenen – Financial Architect, Leuven2030
