Franco-German Exchange on Smart Cities and Regions

Workshop: AI for Urban Practitioners

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN)

Urban Opportunities & Challenges – Through Your Lens

ORGANISER: Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development Cluster of GIZ Bangladesh

OPENING SESSION

How do we root our urban future in nature? - A Keynote by Harini Nagendra

ORGANISER: Sector Programme Cities (GIZ)

The 25th International Walk21 Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities

ORGANISER: Municipality of Tirana, Walk21 Foundation, GIZ Sustainable Urban Transport in Albania

From Data to Added Value: Projects and Learnings from the DFKI SmartCity Living Lab

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN)

Cities‘ Development Financing Options

ORGANISER: Sector Programme Good Financial Governance (GIZ)

Assessing and Managing Food Waste in Urban Markets (Morning session)

ORGANISER: ICLEI CityFood, in collaboration with Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

BerlinTXL – Turning a former airport into Berlin’s future

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN)

Negotiating the City: renewables, contracts and wide open spaces

ORGANISER: CONNEX Support Unit (GIZ)

Assessing and Managing Food Waste in Urban Markets (Afternoon session)

ORGANISER: ICLEI CityFood, in collaboration with Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Gender & Cities Competition: Award Ceremony

ORGANISER: Sector Programme Cities (GIZ)

Open Data, Faster Than Ever: Ingolstadt Goes AI

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN)

Designing Cities for All: Disability Inclusion in Urban Development

ORGANISER: Global Programme Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (Living Inclusion Network Team)

Cities for All: Gender-Transformative Urban Futures in cities of the Global South

ORGANISER: SNGA/TUEWAS turboclic – Transformation – Urban Opportunities – Climate Change

Unequal Cities – Exploring housing justice and informality

ORGANISER: Sector Programme Cities (GIZ) & Sector Programme Agenda 2030 (GIZ)

Medellín: a city ready to lead the paradigm shift to a holistic circular economy

ORGANISER: Circular City Labs (GIZ); Environment Secretariat of the City of Medellin, Colombia; ICLEI

Institutional synergies in Action! How GIZ’s project preparation facilities joined forces to advance waste management in Accra, Ghana

ORGANISER: City Climate Finance Gap Fund, C40 Climate Finance Facility (CFF), Climate-resilient Infrastructure Investment in Cities - Covenant of Mayors in Sub Saharan Africa (CoM SSA)

Joining Forces for Urban Futures: The GIZ–WRI Partnership on Cities and Mobility

ORGANISER: GIZ & World Resources Institute (WRI)

Decidim update: What to learn from nearly a decade of digital citizen participation legacy

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) (GIZ)

From Policy to Practice: Localizing Kenya’s Climate Change Agenda

ORGANISER: Resilience Initiative Africa (RIA); Covenant of Mayors in Sub Saharan Africa (CoM SSA)

Korea’s Citiverse: From Digital Twins to Human-Centered Smart Cities

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN)

Off the Script: Unexpected Lessons in Climate Infrastructure Finance

ORGANISER: City Climate Finance Gap Fund

Negotiating the City: infrastructure as organ, not organism

ORGANISER: CONNEX Support Unit (GIZ)

G430 – your place to turn to for global urban matters

ORGANISER: G430 (GIZ), International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) (GIZ)

Financing Nature: Pleading the business case for urban nature-based solutions – Lessons from Global Practice

ORGANISER: Sector Programme Cities (GIZ), ICLEI, UNEP Generation Restoration, Gap Fund, NATURANCE, CFF

Navigating Urban Adaptation: Cutting-Edge Drone Assessments for Smarter and More Accessible Cities

ORGANISER: GIZ Global Programme “Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities”, GIZ Project on “Expert Fund for Municipal Partnerships Worldwide“, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Urban Labs: A Democratic Approach to Urban Planning

ORGANISER: Sustainable Urban Development - GIZ Georgia

Improved solid waste management through an urban Digital Twin in South Africa

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) (GIZ)

Sustainable Urbanisation: Promoting Transparency in Climate-Relevant Infrastructure

ORGANISER: Sector Programme Anti-Corruption and Integrity (SV AkuI); Partners: Infrastructure Transparency Initiative (CoST)

Smart Location Tracking for Safer Emergency Response in Lemgo, Germany

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) (GIZ)

New Perspectives – Exploring the Potential of Municipal Partnerships and Decentralised Development Cooperation (DDC)

ORGANISER: KommuNE (GIZ)

From Science to Action: The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities - and what's in it for development cooperation

ORGANISER: Sector Programme Cities (GIZ), Leveraging Opportunities for Urban and Infrastructure Systems Transformation (LOUIS) (GIZ)

Strengthening Green and Affordable Housing Solutions in African Cities: Shared Lessons from Rwanda, South Africa, and Zambia

ORGANISER: GIZ Rwanda, GIZ Zambia, Development Action Group (DAG), Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA)

6th Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Congress - Solidarity in Action, Stronger Utilities for Thriving Cities

ORGANISER: UN-Habitat through GWOPA (Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance) supported by BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) & GIZ

Innovating in Fragile Urban Contexts: Sustainable Solutions from the GIZ Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development Cluster in Bangladesh

ORGANISER: “Climate Change and Urban Development Cluster” GIZ Bangladesh in collaboration with Sirajganj Municipality and Charghat Paurashava Municipality

High-level launch of the Urban Water Catalyst Initiative (UWCI): ‘Resilience through financial independence: enabling utilities to succeed’

ORGANISER: GIZ Sector Programme Water and Sanitation Policy – Innovations for Resilience (InnoBlue); Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA)

Open Data for Inclusive and Informed Cities

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) (GIZ)

Advancing Urban Policy and Practice: Dissemination of the Knowledge Series on Urban Resilience in Africa

ORGANISER: Resilience Initiative Africa (RIA)(GIZ); African Union (AU)

Managing Stadium Crowds and Concert Traffic: Smart City Insights from Mönchengladbach’s Nordpark

ORGANISER: International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) (GIZ)

Thematic Forum Urbanisation: Risk-informed Urban Development

ORGANISER: FMB (GIZ), Sector Programme Cities (GIZ), Urban Act, Global Initiative for disaster risk management (GIDRM), Ciudades Resilientes (CiRes)

Women Walk at Midnight

ORGANISER: Good Financial and Municipal Governance in Mozambique (GIZ) with Women Walk at Midnight (WWM)

Urban approaches to human mobility in the context of climate change – examples from the ground

ORGANISER: Global Programme Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change II (GIZ)

Cool Places: Urban Heat Resilience in Changing Climates

ORGANISER: GIZ Egypt (Capacity Building Through Urban Infrastructure Development II), Urban Development Fund (UDF) Egypt and Connective Cities (GIZ)

Discover Dhaka: Walking Through Streets, Stories & Informality

ORGANISER: GIZ Bangladesh Climate Change and Urban Development Cluster