1. 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 – 9:10 Opening remarks
Welcome by Mr. Aadu Must, Chairman of the Tartu City Council
Discussion moderated by Hannes Astok, Development Manager, Tartu Smart City Lab
9:10 – 9:40 Keynote
Rein Ahas, Professor, Tartu University
Smart cities and ICT based analysis: utilizing opportunities of big data
09:40 – 10:40 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 – 11:40 Smart City specialisation experience in the Öresund region
Peter Bjørn Larsen, Business Development Manager Smart Cities, Copenhagen Cleantech
Cluster and Karolina Huss, Project Manager Öresund Smart City Hub,
Öresundskommittén
11:40 – 13:00 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)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 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.)
14:30- 16:00 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
16:00-16:30 Conclusions and remarks about the next steps
Part-financed by
the European Union