Data holds immense potential for our cities yet converting it into actionable intelligence remains a primary challenge.

Organized by the Comune di Milano and the Open Geospatial Consortium, this session deconstructs this issue by first showcasing successful data-driven approaches from Milan, Medina and Ferrara and then by exploring foundational policies and tools, including international standards and the Digital Building Permit. A look into the FOCAL project will demonstrate how climate data can be made actionable for planners. The session culminates in a high-level panel where officials from Italy and Saudi Arabia articulate their pressing needs and vision for sustainable urban management.

The two-hour session will be organized into three parts:

Part 1: Global Smart Cities showcase: Milan, Medina and Ferrara

• Presentation by the Comune di Milano (Mr. Marco Mazziaotti) showcasing an overview of city-level initiatives, digital, smart city and sustainability related EU projects, select key achievements, lessons learned and needs for the future.
• Presentation by the City of Medina (Eng. Fahad Alfattani) showcasing Smart city dashboards, key achievements, lessons learned and needs for the future.
• Presentation on behalf of the City of Ferrara (Mr. Piergiorgio Cipriano, Deda Next) showcasing the lessons learned in European projects (USAGE and AIR-BREAK).

Part 2: The Essential Frameworks: Standardisation and Digitalisation in Practice

• Presentation by the Building Digital Twin Association (Dr. Eduard Loscos): Current European and International Standardisation perspectives and regulations of the (near) future.
• Presentation by the Open Geospatial Consortium (Dr. Francesca Noardo) (OGC + EUnet4DBPs): An unblocking step towards digitalisation: Digital Building Permit and
  digitalisation experiences.

Part 3: Overcoming Barriers to Impact

• The FOCAL project – A call to Action (Dr. Eric Samakinwa – Climate Service Center Germany).
• Panel Discussion (Moderated by Mr. Muthu Kumar – OGC) inviting representatives from the Cities of Milan, Medina, Ferrara and Voghera i.e. Mr. Marco Mazziaotti, Eng. Fahad Alfattani, Mr. Piergiorgio Cipriano and Ms. Gloria Chindamo:
  
  • (A) Key barriers to using advanced city data effectively
  • (B) Trust, governance, and ownership of city data
  • (C) Short-term steps cities can take to improve data use