Business View Civil and Municipal | June 2022

6 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 6 FACES ITS before the opening of Smart City Expo 2022 we already have 80% of the exhibition floorspace booked and we expect over 24,000 attendees this November. This will bring us back to pre-pandemic figures, stressing not only how important cities are for the future of humankind and the planet but also that Smart City Expo is the global go-to event for the broad urban transformation ecosystem, now more than ever.” Infrastructure and Mobility Among the key topics involved in the design and construction of smart cities are efficient infrastructures and swift mobility. These two subjects will have events of their own hosted within the SCEWC framework. The second edition of Tomorrow.Mobility will focus on promoting the design and adoption of new sustainable urban mobility models. Co-organized by EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, a body of the European Union, the event also has the support of leading companies and institutions. Along these lines, the 2022 edition of SCEWC will see the debut of Tomorrow.Building, a new area focused on new technological solutions linked to construction, such as 3D printing, robotics, IoT and BIM (Building Information Modelling), as well as new materials. The main aim is to create the perfect forum for new disruptive ideas in the wide building and hard infrastructure industry to flourish. Innovative materials, building blocks of the future SCEWC will also host for a second time PUZZLE X. After a successful debut in 2021, Barcelona will host a new edition of an event that aims to grasp the potential of Frontier Materials to solve some of the challenges that society is facing. Among the key technologies featured are quantum materials, low dimensional materials, 2D materials like graphene, advanced materials, and intelligent composites, which have proven to have a great impact potential in industries such as Energy, Mobility, Healthcare, Transportation, Construction, Electronics, Textile and Connectivity, among others. https://www.smartcityexpo.com/ The event will bring together more than 400 leading international experts to share knowledge and tackle the many challenges involved in urban transformation