This is a talk I gave at Sustainable Gmbh in Munich talking about the future of our cities. How the future of our cities is related to sustainability, technology and the empowerment of the citizens.

1. THE FUTURE OF CITIES:
SUSTAINABILITY AND
TECHNOLOGY !
FOUNDER & IoT ADVOCATE
MARC POUS
MARC@THETHINGS.IO

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4. Smart City
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5. Big Data
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6. Urban
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12. 2012, Brazil
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22. New Songdo,
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24. Masdar, 2025
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26. and the citizens?
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Mobility

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Copenhagen Wheel, Denmark

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TransMilenio, Bogotá, Colombia

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Parking sensors, Moscow Russia

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Energy

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SMARTBLOCKS, Melbourne (Australia)

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100% Green Power (2025), Munich, Germany

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Recycling

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Trash project, Seattle

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Education

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Morar Carioca, favelas Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Air quality

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Air Quality Egg

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Smart Citizen Kit, Fab Lab Barcelona

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Agriculture

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Open Source Beehives, Fab Lab Barcelona

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Sustainability?
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56. Smart City?
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57. Empower
citizens!
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58. CHALLENGE
TIME
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59. CHALLENGE 1
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60. How would you
make Munich
more sustainable?
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61. Ideas?
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Take a post-it and write down your techno-optimist ideas to improve the life of
+10M people in Germany using technologies!

62. CHALLENGE 2
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63. 10M people in
Germany
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improve their life
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65. Ideas?
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Take a post-it and write down your techno-optimist ideas to improve the life of
+10M people in Germany using technologies!

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MARC POUS
MARC@THETHINGS.IO

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CREDITS
● http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/02/on-the-smart-city-a-call-for-smart-citizens-instead.html
● http://brooklyngrangefarm.com/
● http://www.opensourcebeehives.net/
● http://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represent_democracy_in_action.html
● http://dupress.com/articles/a-movement-in-the-making/
● http://www.fastcoexist.com/3016816/the-10-cities-that-are-leading-the-way-in-urban-sustainability
● http://cityclimateleadershipawards.com/munich-100-green-power/