agenda baltic urban forum working group meeting
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Part-financed by the European Union
Baltic Urban Forum working group meeting Tartu, Estonia AGENDA
Sunday, 19 January
20:00 Welcome cocktails
Monday, 20 January 2014
8:45 Registration, coffee
9:00 – 9:20 Opening remarks Welcome by the representative of City of Tartu Welcome by Krista Kampus, Senior Adviser & Head Baltic 21 Unit. Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat
Discussion moderated by Hannes Astok, Development Manager, Tartu Smart City Lab
9:20 – 09:40 Keynote Rein Ahas, Professor, Tartu University Smart cities as catalysts for regional development
09:40 -‐ 12:00 Case studies: Models for Cooperation
09:40 – 10:10 City-‐Business Cooperation for New Smart Solutions Learnings from Development Partnership between City of Turku and Siemens Development Director Lars Maura, Siemens and Senior Advisor Risto Veivo, City of Turku
10:10 – 10:40 Estonian Examples Positium: Using mobile phones as sensors for urban mobility measurement Reach-‐U: Co-‐creation of the public transport routes with the citizens
10:40-‐11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 12:00 Discussion on defining the BUF Smart City concept Definition of the concept and focus area of BUF Smart City project
Moderated by Rene Tõnnisson, Director, Baltic Innovation Agency Note: During the discussions participants are invited to make micro-‐presentations about their relevant experience/case studies to define other possible cooperation models (max 5 slides/7 min).
12:00-‐13:00 Lunch
13:00-‐13:30 Outlining the SEED Money Project Presenting the SEED money project, the partners, and the potential for a large scale project proposal. Outlining the upcoming steps (Riga March, Örebro May, Turku June etc.)
13:30-‐ 15:30 Workshop: Defining a draft model for the Baltic Urban Forum Rapporteur Björn Grönholm, Head of Secretariat, UBC Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat
• Key issues, Key stakeholders, Key processes
15:30-‐16:00 Conclusions and remarks about the next steps