GENOA SMART WEEK 2024 CLOSES WITH OVER 8 ATTENDANCES AMONG THE EVENTS AT PALAZZO TURSI, TALENT GARDEN AND PIAZZA DE FERRARI
The tenth edition is archived certifying the growth of the event and consolidating the image of Genoa among the most advanced smart cities at an international level
I am at least eight thousand people who physically participated in the tenth edition of the Genoa Smart Week among those who crowded the events at Palazzo Tursi and at Talent Garden of the Baltimore Gardens, took part in the expo and test drive of electric vehicles in Piazza De Ferrari and visited the new MobilityLab di Smart Genoa inaugurated in the Porto Antico area. A week of conferences, presentations and workshops concluded today with the second day of the smart city experience in Piazza De Ferrari dedicated to sustainable mobility.
Overall the event involved 150 speakers e 80 partner, presenting to an audience of professionals and ordinary citizens more than fiftybetween projects and new synergies born from the collaboration between public bodies and the business world, attracting interest demonstrated by a press review that already includes over 300 shots between local and national media.
Numbers to which will be added the users who will be able to enjoy the services online Full recordings of panels, talks and round tables, soon available in the replay area of the official website www.genovasmartweek.it.
«A week full of conferences, workshops and events has come to an end, involving a large audience of professionals, businesses, institutions and ordinary citizens, who were made aware of the many innovative projects developed by the Municipality of Genoa and the new frontiers of digitalisation andartificial intelligence at the service of the community, for a better quality of life – comments Barbara Grasso, president of the Genova Smart City association –. This edition of the Genova Smart Week has confirmed the growth of the city not only in terms of innovation, but also in terms of its openness to the world: a path of internationalization recognized by a prestigious organization such as Urban Innovators Global, which has invited Genoa to participate in the “Imagine the Citiverse” event on May 27 and 28, 2025 in Tampere, Finland. It will be a very important opportunity to compare with some of the most advanced smart cities in the world, a family to which we are proud to belong.».
«The Genova Smart Week was, perhaps even more than in previous years, and it was not easy, a showcase of the numerous projects that the Municipality of Genoa, together with all the stakeholders of the territory, is implementing to improve the quality of life of the Genoese through the application of innovation, digitalization andartificial intelligence to all areas of the economic and productive life of the city - declares Pietro Piciocchi, deputy mayor of Genoa - New technologies are, for cities like Genoa and for the daily life of citizens and businesses, an extraordinary opportunity for development that it is essential to know how to decline and use in the best way to not miss the train of competitiveness at a national and global level. We are aware of this, which is why we will continue in the coming years, together with our friends of the Genova Smart City association and all the other partners in our territory, to guide Genoa towards the future, opening it up more and more to the world and making it a model to follow in the field of mobility, transport, business culture and Smart Cities, making use of the support, ideas and participation of the youngest, who are the present and the future of our city».
Among the most interesting initiatives presented in this tenth edition, there is certainly the platform Intelligent Urban Mobility for real-time monitoring of traffic flows via theartificial intelligence, developed by the Municipality of Genoa and Movyon-Autostrade per l'Italia as part of the larger project Smart Genoa dedicated to the smart mobility of the city and the port. Also significant are the investments made by the Municipality of Genoa for the digitalization of public administration, among which the collaborations with Microsoft on Genoa OneLake and on the urban intelligence platform Genoa Super Night, which translate into more efficient services and faster responses to citizens' needs.
An attention to innovation which, right in the days of Smart Week, brought the City of Genoa to obtain a double, important recognition from theICity Rank, the annual report that analyses the state of digitalisation of regional capital administrations: the inclusion in the first group of “full digital city" and the first place overall in the “digital administrations” dimension.
The first edition of the was also a great success. “Talk and Speed Date Event” realized in collaboration with Talent Garden GenoVa which has allowed dozens of start-ups and university spin-offs to make themselves known and build relationships with a pool of leading companies and institutions in the area and interested in investing in business culture.
