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Smart City Expo World Congress Barcelona 2025

4 to 6 November 2025 Innovation Playground - Hall 3

Day 1 - Kicking off the Smart City Expo Barcelona 2025

We’re back at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona for a new edition of The Smart Deal! Antoine and Emma share what’s new this year — from the Innovation Playground stage and investor lounge to exclusive interviews with smart city leaders. Tune in for insights on AI, urban innovation, and the future of smart lighting.

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We're back. We're back for another smart city expo, World Congress, here in Barcelona. And we're also back for another edition of the Smart Deal. Antoine, what can we expect from this year's edition? Emma, we are super excited to be here again with a team with the Fira team also. This year we have a bit of a different setup. We are powering the innovation playground, so we have a part that will be the stage of the innovation playground, where the smart deal will happen with amazing startups. Six finalist. Incredible jury. We also have our studio. Where are you going to interview all the leaders, smart city leaders that are present at the expo. And we have also this year an investor lounge where investors and startups can meet up and strike some deals. So very excited about this edition. Very excited. Yeah, it's very exciting. And you know what's also exciting is to see the insights we might get from this event. So for example, that's something we've already seen which is a lot of AI. So will I change the shape of cities. And then also we've seen a lot about street lighting. So we'll be seeing a bit more of that. So just stay tuned to find out how everything goes and the insights we might gain.

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