Replicating smart city technologies across multiple districts or across Europe is a major challenge. We need faster deployment of existing and proven pilot initiatives to stand a chance of hitting environmental targets. Deployment and adoption of solutions from a blended social and economic aspect is key to accelerating this roll out. Mauritz Knuts of Vaasa Region Development Company and Co-Chair of a European working group on replicating smart city solutions about scaling up and transferring smart city technologies spoke at a Smart Tampere event in early 2020 to discuss how to make things happen.