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Q-Helix

Smart Cities

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 26-27 October 2026

MULTIDIMENSIONAL RESILIENCE OF SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES - A SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE

The conference aims to initiate an interdisciplinary discussion on building holistic, sustainable, and resilient metropolitan and smart-city ecosystems, drawing on the Quintuple Helix Model, which is based on cross-sectoral collaboration among science, business, public administration, civil society, and environmental-related actors. The conference addresses contemporary challenges faced by cities, metropolitan and other urban areas, primarily related to the following topics:

  1. Climate changes (strengthening environmental resilience, adapting to climate change, and mitigating the effects of climate change in cities, as well as implementing nature-based solutions in modern urban architecture, etc.);

  2. Public safety (ensuring adequate infrastructure protection and cybersecurity, as well as securing critical infrastructure and developing dual-use infrastructure, and additionally developing proactive crisis management, etc.);

  3. Digital technologies and AI in smart governance (balancing transparency with privacy; secure, and uniform data architecture, digital exclusion, designing inclusive technologies, transforming traditional administration into a participatory system incorporating data-driven governance and urban policy, using AI in public decision-making, and civic and collaborative engagement through the implementation of digital, intuitive participatory platforms that actively engage citizens in urban governance processes, etc.);

  4. Smart mobility and sustainable transport (an integration of distributed transport services within a single shared ecosystem, the dynamic development of electromobility and charging infrastructure, the decarbonization of public transport, and ensuring the continuity and resilience of urban supply chains, etc.);

  5. Energy transition and its impact on socio-economic and environmental transformations in cities (efficient resource management, the development of a circular economy, a safe energy transition based on renewable energy sources, the construction of smart grids and microgrids, and the implementation of advanced systems for the optimal management of critical urban resources, etc.);

  6. Smart communities (civic engagement and smart community management, tools for engaging residents in public affairs; transforming residents into prosumers of urban services, co-creating of public services in cross-sectoral cooperation, technologies for social inclusion and counteracting digital exclusion, accessibility of communication spaces, social resilience, residents networking, bottom-up crisis management, privacy policy and open citizen data, civic and collaborative engagement, etc.).

The conference will cover the six above-mentioned fields, which will be addressed through 3 keynote speeches, 6 thematic sessions, a roundtable debate, a case study presentation, and networking within the International Research Group Urban&Resilience.