TechTown Dubrovnik
Join the 6th transnational TechTown meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 26th and 27th September 2017.
Meeting theme: Growing jobs through the smart city agenda
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How can cities ensure that they maximise the local jobs creation potential linked to delivering smart city agendas?
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How can they avoid larger multinationals reaping all the rewards and ensure that cities grow indigenous digital businesses and local jobs?
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What role could local city challenges, hackathons play?
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What role could public procurement play?
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What does good governance look like? Political leadership? Public private partnership?
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How can cities ensure that the LOCAL job creation potential from smart cities are maximised?
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How can cities create 'living labs' or 'test beds' for new intelligent city solutions?
General aims of the meeting:
• To better understand Dubrovnik's digital ecosystem
• To review issues coming from initial draft IAP's and discuss solutions to shared challenges identified through skype calls
• To remind partners of the final thematic focus for TechTown and work plan through to Spring 2018
• To discuss TechTown Communications work and Final Dissemination Events (local and network-level)
• To discuss URBACT programme level capitalisation work
Day 1 – Tuesday 25th September - please arrive Monday 24th September
Just TechTown Partners
DRAFT AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Day 1
08:30 Meet at hotel reception and travel to venue
09:00 Arrivals
09:15 Welcome & introductions
09:30 Setting the scene
09:45 Getting back in the room - ULG / IAP updates - speed dating / mini pitches / front page?
11:00 Break
11:20 Where next with the IAPs - workshop on how to maximise impact
12:30 Onsite Buffet Lunch
13:30 Communications - local and project level events and outputs
14:45 Project pitching
- Each city has 5 minutes to present future project / partnership ideas
- Discussion of future activity
15:45 Break
16:00 Partnership meeting for ULG Coordinators only
- Programme level update
- Update on discussions with other networks
- Discussion of November meeting - Loop City (23 & 24 November 2017)
- Any other business
17:00 Close
18.30/19.00 Meet for tour of the old town followed by dinner
Day 2
TechTown Partners + Dubrovnik ULG and other stakeholders
08:30 Meet at hotel to travel to venue
09:00 Introductions
Key Questions
- How can cities ensure that they maximise the local jobs creation potential linked to delivering smart city agendas?
- How can they avoid larger multinationals reaping all the rewards and ensure that cities grow indigenous digital businesses and local jobs?
- What role could local city challenges, hackathons play?
- What role could public procurement play?
- What does good governance look like? Political leadership? Public private partnership?
- How can cities ensure that the LOCAL job creation potential from smart cities are maximised?
- How can cities create 'living labs' or 'test beds' for new intelligent city solutions?
09:20 Dubrovnik introduction (Alisa, Niksa and Team)
- Context, Challenges and Specific Objective for TechTown Action Plan
10:00 Walkshop
11:30 Break
12:00 Walkshop continued
13:00 Networking lunch
14:00 Interactive exercise - What is the role of the city when it comes to growing jobs through the smart city agenda? What does this mean for TechTown cities?
15:30 Back to the question: What can medium sized cities do to grow jobs through the smart city agenda - Learning & Action Grids
16:30 Debrief and wrap up
17:00 Close