GlobalTech.City is founded in 2017 and is the global platform connecting AmsterdamTech.City and the other tech cities around the world. VISION & MISSION The vision of AmsterdamTech.City is to combine city events, tech topics, societal challenges, tech solutions, and speakers for the city, communities, and citizens of Amsterdam. The mission of AmsterdamTech.City is to facilitate the city, communities, and citizens in the engagement and transformation. COMMUNITY The target groups are public and private; governmental and non-governmental; educational institutions, teachers and students; corporates, scale ups and start ups; investors and programs, inventors and experts; visitors and citizens. The speakers are presenting challenges and solutions. They are government officials, civil servants, citizens, visitors, students, teachers, experts, inventors, investors, start ups, scale ups, corporates. TECHNOLOGY The latest technology trends are the topics of the events and solutions. In 2016 the tech trends were Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, and Big Data. In 2017 more tech trends will follow. The events are called “Tech & The city” where tech is replaced by the tech topic. The challenges are city or civic problems and issues. Examples are Education, Health, Mobility / Transportation, Connectivity, Sustainability, and many more. The solutions are tech solutions for the city or civic problems and issues. The tech solutions are based on the latest tech trends.