After a short welcome and introduction by Gustaf Landahl (Project Coordinator GrowSmarter) and Georg Houben (DG ENER), the session will start with a political panel, focusing on new governance approaches. Political representatives will be Katarina Luhr, Vice Mayor of the City of Stockholm (GrowSmarter), Dr. Ralf Heinen, Vice Mayor of the City of Cologne (GrowSmarter), Stijn Steenbakkers, Alderman for Digital Transformation of the City of Eindhoven (Triangulum) and Deborah Geradon, Councilor for Territorial and Commercial Development City of Seraing (Remourban).

In the second part, the Project Coordinators of all three projects will discuss results from their projects, main impacts achieved and their replication potential. Speakers will be Lisa Enarsson (City of Stockholm/GrowSmarter), Miguel Á. García-Fuentes (CARTIF Technology Center/Remourban) and Trinidad Fernandez (Fraunhofer IAO/Triangulum).

The third part gives stage to the site managers of the project’s Lighthouse Cities to talk about their key success stories as well as unavoidable failures. Speakers will be Gonzalo Cabezas (City of Barcelona/GrowSmarter), Julia Egenolf (City of Cologne/GrowSmarter), Rosa Huertas (City of Valladolid/Remourban), Dave Tetlow (City of Nottingham/Remourban), Gerd Seehuus (City of Stavanger/Triangulum) and Mark Duncan (City of Manchester/Triangulum).

To wrap up, we invite all participants to engage in an interactive Question and Answer session. Don’t miss this opportunity to interact with the policy makers, project coordinators and site managers, to exchange ideas and learn from their experiences.

We invite all participants to continue inspiring discussions during our networking event with finger food and drinks, taking place right after the joint session from 17:00-18:00 just outside the session room.