Dear member of the Smart Cities community, With the successful completion of Smart City Connect in Washington, a few weeks ago, we have also concluded a series of major FIWARE Smart City activities in 2023. Now we can take a moment to look back and set up shop for the year ahead. Stay with us, we have some proposals for you at the end of this email! An absolute highlight of autumn 2023 has been Smart City Expo in Barcelona, we have worked hard for it and are happy it turned out to be our best edition yet. We had a bigger than ever booth in the central part of the fairground, providing a matchmaking hub for cities, businesses, developers and others. FIWARE has proudly signed a new membership agreement with the city of Hamamatsu (Japan). We were happy to have FIWARE members and EU-funded projects at the FIWARE booth to pave the way for a digital future and bring new solutions, trends, and use cases to the global market! We are looking forward to next year’s edition, making it even better. Last but definitely not least and a very special new gem in our FIWARE Smart City, was Smart City Connect, in Washington, which offered a very successful debut for FIWARE, entering the North American Smart City stage. The event marked a significant milestone in our journey, showcasing FIWARE as a Bronze Sponsor in a centrally located and expertly organized booth, together with our long-term Gold Member, ms.GIS. Our presence sparked numerous opportunities for collaboration and dialogues around open-source technology with key players in the US market. A base we want to explore further in 2024! Looking ahead, the upcoming year holds immense potential for FIWARE and we are gearing up for the Data Space Symposium and Smart City Connect (spring edition) to name just a few early occasions, already in our pipeline of activities. FIWARE stands for a community driven approach which is why we want to reach out to you presenting a few opportunities coming up, where your expertise would add valuable input: The Data Space Symposium 2024 - March 12th-14th 2024 SAVE THE DATE and pre-register now <https://data-spaces-symposium-2024.eventbrite.com/>! The Data Spaces Symposium <https://data-spaces-symposium.eu/>, is the world’s leading event on data spaces, is back! After the incredible success of the 2023 edition in The Hague, the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) and the Data Spaces Business Alliance (DSBA) are set to deliver a breathtaking event, this time in Frankfurt. Smart Cities Connect 2024 spring version - May 8th - 10th 2024 We will enjoy the upcoming holidays but we will not change speed, building on the momentum we have built this year. We are preparing for the spring version of Smart Cities Connect <https://smartcitiesconnect.org/smart-cities-connect-conference-expo-spring-2024/> in Raleigh, further building ground in the Americas. Are you interested in joining us or know someone we need to talk to about it or at the conference? Let us know! You can also suggest a panel. The deadline is December 15, 2023. Use the link <https://spring.smartcitiesconnect.org/panel/> Smart City Expo USA 2024 - May 22nd & 23rd 2024 May appears to be the Smart City month in the USA, from Raleigh to New York for Smart City Expo USA <https://www.smartcityexpousa.com/> 2024. Shape the Conversation and nominate a speaker <speakers at smartcityexpousa.com> who is deploying smart city solutions, data-driven policies, advancing next-gen infrastructure or else.. There‘s also an open call for testbeds in *IOT Solutions World Congress* in Barcelona, May 21-23, 2024. Submit till January 10 with the link <https://www.iotsworldcongress.com/activities/testbeds/>. We already started working on the next, 6th edition of FIWARE4Cities book. If you have any leads you would like to see highlighted there - please contact us <oleg.korneev at fiware.org>. It has been a while since the last MSC meeting, but we are working on it and will soon recover our regular gatherings providing you, our community, with latest updates, ideas and upcoming activities. Stay tuned! Using our upcoming holiday saison as a possibility to rejuvenite, we also want to take this moment of taking a breath to thank you for your effort and commitment, FIWARE would not exist without you! We are grateful to have you onboard for this journey towards open-source based smart cities over the world and look forward to strengthening what we have built so far and adding another story 2024. Looking forward to meeting you soon, Happy holidays Oleg Korneev <https://www.fiware.org/> Marketing Manager Phone: +49 171 198 21 50 Email: oleg.korneev at fiware.org www.fiware.org <https://nexus.lab.fiware.org/fiware.signature> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/fiware-smart-cities-dc/attachments/20231215/e648271f/attachment-0001.html>
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