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All who are interested in driving Open Data, Open Source, and Open Interfaces, together with the global FIWARE community and its more than 600 members worldwide, will meet in Vienna (Austria) to further share sustainable solutions showcasing initiatives and global projects of digital transformation in various strategic economic sectors such as Smart Cities & Mobility, Smart Industry, Smart AgriFood, Smart Energy, Smart Water and Smart Tourism, and present the opportunities FIWARE brings from tech and business.

Muelheim/Ruhr, April 18, 2023. We are pleased to announce that bee smart city is once again partnering with polisMOBILITY. Last year's polisMOBILITY was a great success. With an exciting conference programme on the topic of future urban mobility, the event attracted and convinced many visitors. This year, polisMOBILITY will take place from 24-26 May 2023 in Cologne (Kölnmesse), Germany.

Mülheim/Ruhr, February 6th, 2023. bee smart city, a company based in Mülheim, Germany, is offering a basic online seminar on "Finding public tenders in the smart city sector". The free webinar is intended for all companies that want to place their products specifically in the smart city sector as solution providers with public tenders.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 12, 2022 – 12 significant partners[1] were recently awarded to set-up and operate the Data Spaces Support Centre. The Data Spaces Support Centre will facilitate common data spaces in different sectors that collectively create an interoperable data sharing environment.

bee smart city is proud again to announce its continued partnership with Smart City Expo World Congress in 2022. Smart City Expo World Congress is the international leading event for cities. The world’s most significant smart city conference and exhibition is held annually in Barcelona since 2011. Smart City Expo World Congress (#SCEWC22), the leading international event on cities and smart urban solutions organized by Fira de Barcelona, will host over 1.000 exhibitors in its 11^th edition, held from November 15 to 17, 2022. The programme for 2022 is full of highlights and will break again records:

Madinah City has become the first city to join FIWARE Foundation’s Platinum Membership and earn a place on the FIWARE Board of Directors, alongside the city of Vienna (Austria), and Herne (Germany). Together, Madinah City and FIWARE will implement Saudi Arabia’s first smart city platform.

Leading policymakers, business leaders, investors, technocrats convening together to accelerate action towards sustainable future.

Berlin, July 12, 2022 - FIWARE Foundation, the non-profit organization that encourages the adoption of open standards — implemented using Open Source technologies for the development of smart solutions on a global basis - proudly announces today that Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, has joined FIWARE Foundation as a Platinum Member. This meaningful strategic step represents a successful collaboration focused on the designing and implementation of additional and new market solutions for creating a highly replicable and scalable open source of a smart city platform, using and connecting data in a city that come from all three basic sources: citizens, systems, and sensors.

The FIWARE community, with its more than 520 members worldwide, will meet physically in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), hosted by the SPEGC and Cabildo de Gran Canaria to further drive sustainable initiatives of digital transformation in various sectors;

Global Mobility Call is an exciting mobility event that covers every aspect of the smart mobility topic, from electric vehicles to smart urban infrastructure, taking place in Madrid from 14 - 16 June 2022. This landmark event will attract the most important mobility institutions, solution providers, urban leaders, and industry experts to discuss the future of mobility and the way we move around.

For 2021, bee smart city is proud to announce its continued partnership with Smart City Expo World Congress. This premier Smart City event is the world’s most significant smart city conference and exhibition, held annually in Barcelona since 2011. To mark the event’s 10^th anniversary, the programme for 2021 is expected to be better than ever before, with a predicted attendance of over 10,000 visitors, 400 exhibitors, and 350 guest speakers.

bee smart city and Taiwan Computer Association (TCA) renew their partnership for the 2021 Smart City Summit & Expo (SCSE). SCSE is Asia's largest annual smart city trade show. From March 23-26, the 2021 edition of SCSE will take place as a HYBRID event in physical & virtual form, creating brand new possibilities for international audiences.

The three partners announce the Global Guide for Development of Smart and Sustainable Communities at this week’s Green Standards Week in Valencia. As a global partner platform, the German company bee smart city contributes by connecting and enabling networking of stakeholders and interested parties in the United Nations' Smart City Program worldwide.

• The UNITED FOR SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES (U4SSC) implementation program and bee smart city have announced an English-language guide to transform urban communities to smart sustainable cities.

• UNITED FOR SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES (U4SSC) selects bee smart city as its global Smart City network ecosystem.

• Cities around the world find proven smart city solutions and the world's largest expert community at bee smart city.

• The partnership accelerates the transformation process of communities to Smart Sustainable Cities: from the networking of all stakeholders through KPI analysis to financing and strategy development.

The City of Lublin and bee smart city have signed a partnership agreement at Smart Ecosystems conference in Gliwice, Poland, on May 29. The goal of the partnership is to advance and to promote Lublin’s smart city strategy and to share expertise, lessons learned and solutions.

bee smart city and Smart Cities New York are continuing their strategic partnership to help cities and municipalities develop and become more prosperous and livable. Smart Cities New York is a global event based on the core principle that cities are Powered by People.

bee smart city and Labcities merge to form the world’s largest solution- and product-based smart city business network and community, representing a new kind of platform for all smart city market actors, with already more than 10,000 members from 150 countries. Through joining forces under the brand of bee smart city, the smart city platform and community grows to more than 1,500 registered companies, 600+ cities and communities, more than 500 smart city solutions and a total reach of 300,000+ smart city actors, globally.

bee smart city joins forces with RuhrSummit, the biggest startup conference in the Ruhr Valley and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). One key topic of this years’ RuhrSummit and its sub-event International Summit is ‘Smart Urban Services / Smart City’. bee smart city will host the corresponding Deep Dive for smart city startups.

“The partnership with RuhrSummit in our home region and state is a great honor for us at bee smart city. The smart city market is a global growth market that offers a lot of business opportunities for startups that help to increase efficiency, livability and prosperity in cities and municipalities. Future-proofing the places we live and work in is a necessity that we all benefit from – as citizens, employees, entrepreneurs or government representatives. Therefore, we help smart city startups and solution providers to connect with potential corporate and government clients, to identify new partners, and to increase their global visibility through our global smart city network and community.”, state Dr. Alexander Gelsin, Bart Gorynski, and Thomas Müller, Founders and Managing Partners at bee smart city.

bee smart city partners with Germany’s largest startup conference and innovation summit to specifically support smart city startups. Smart City, IoT, and Future Mobility are some of the main topics of StartupCon, taking place at Lanxess Arena in Cologne on September 18, 2018. A special "Smart Cities of the Future" panel, covers topics like city planning, infrastructure, and geo-intelligence.

In recent years, new technologies and business models for the public sector have led to the formation of a huge number of smart city startups – often also termed govtech and civictech startups – that are developing or already offer outstanding solutions for urban challenges and problems, or to seize urban development opportunities. The smart cities market is one of the fastest growing markets worldwide, offering ample business opportunities for new startups.

bee smart city and Leading Cities join forces to support cities in becoming smarter through their combined services and strong international networks. As part of the partnership, bee smart city supports the new smart city startup accelerator AcceliCITY, launched by Leading Cities with a unique media and support package for the finalist startups and the program in its global network.

bee smart city and SMART CITY SOLUTIONS part of INTERGEO have signed a partnership agreement.

Today, cities and communities across the globe face massive challenges that impact their livability and prosperity: traffic, energy, water & waste management, pollution, healthcare, education, the digital economy as well as the efficient provision of government services are only a few examples of challenges that require specific smart city solutions. To tackle these challenges, but also to seize development opportunities, municipalities need to follow holistic and citizen-centric approaches. The sharing of best practices among cities and communities as well as being informed about new solutions is important for the creation, replication and adoption of suitable solutions in individual cities.

bee smart city and Smart Cities New York have entered into a strategic partnership to help cities and municipalities across the globe in seizing the opportunities that the journey towards becoming smarter offers. The development of prosperous and livable smart cities and communities is the common vision of both partnering organizations.

bee smart city, Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), and ICF Canada have signed a partnership agreement to accelerate the global development of smart cities and intelligent communities. With the new partnership, the three organizations join forces to facilitate the creation of prosperous and livable smart cities and intelligent communities around the world.

Recently, bee smart city has signed the ”City as a Platform Manifesto” organized by TM Forum, the industry association driving digital business transformation of the communications industry, to accelerate the development of smart cities globally. The manifesto is in line with the vision of bee smart city to accelerate the development of prosperous and livable smart cities and intelligent communities around the world.

bee smart city has released its global SMART CITY SOLUTION DATABASE to accelerate the development of smart cities around the world. The database, which can be accessed free-of-charge, supports cities and communities across the globe in their smart city efforts and connects them efficiently to solution providers and potential partners.