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Amsterdam Smart City
Amsterdam Smart City
03:00 p.m. (BST) / 10:00 a.m. (EDT)
2nd Sept. 2010
Smarter Cities working group
Joost Brinkman, Project Manager, Amsterdam Smart City and Charlotte Meuwissen, Program Manager - Geuzenveld project , Amsterdam Smart City
Amsterdam Smart City is a unique collaboration between the inhabitants of Amsterdam, its businesses, research institutions and government authorities aimed at showing how it is possible to save energy now and in the future. The ultimate goal of Amsterdam Smart City is to reduce CO2 emissions. The different projects focus on issues such as sustainable living, sustainable working, sustainable mobility and sustainable public spaces.
Learning from the experience of testing several sustainable technologies and sharing the knowledge gained from these different projects is at the heart of Amsterdam Smart City. This webinar will cover the different experiences and approaches used in Amsterdam Smart City. Different themes will be discussed such as: the concept of Amsterdam Smart City, current projects and experiences so far, managing public-private partnerships and how to create awareness amongst the citizens.
During the webinar a few projects will be addressed in detail: the Climatestreet, where entrepreneurs, the City of Amsterdam and several enterprises are cooperating in order to learn which technologies, concepts, approach and forms of cooperation are most successful to make the public space, more sustainable on a large scale. Similarly several Sustainable Living projects will be discussed, such as project Geuzenveld and Energy management in Haarlem. Both of these projects focus on testing different energy management systems in homes.