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GLOBAL CITY TEAMS CHALLENGE
November 13, 2015

2.
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SMART CITY OBSTACLES
Smart City technologies promise to transform urban government and
infrastructure using 21st century digital tools. Despite their promise, Cities have
been slow to adopt Smart City solutions.
Cities:
• Have not articulated their technology needs
• Have a difficulty evaluating and adopting new
technologies
• Lack the funds to invest in large projects
• Lack of knowledge and skills/decision models to
tender and judge Smart City solutions
• Are afraid of “vendor lock-in”
Innovators:
• Don’t understand cities’ needs
• Have not demonstrated success or created open standards
• Cannot demonstrate a business model for their solution
• Are often too small or new to get large government
contracts
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3.
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ACCELERATING SMART CITY INNOVATION
BLUE
Demand side:
Cities
Supply side:
Innovators
Needs
• Independent validation for Smart
City technology
• Platform to articulate urban
technology challenges
• Opportunities to meet with
colleagues globally
• Implementation support
• United in C40, RC100, Metrolab,
Eurocities, GSC3
Needs
• Deeper understanding of urban
technology challenges
• Testbeds to validate technology
• Assistance building business cases
for implementation
BLUE aims to enable large-scale
environmentally, economically and socially
sustainable solutions for cities through:
• Living Labs
• Marketplaces
• Global Events
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4.
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SOLUTION AND IMPLEMENTATION MODEL
A marketplace will give visibility to the best Smart City solutions
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Set agenda, demand
and focus areas
Determine Focus area
specific assignment
Test-, pilot- and
validation designs
Tested, Validated &
Scalable Smart City
Solutions
City Roundtables
City official-led roundtables that will drive focus
areas and articulate areas of greatest demand
Working Groups
Cities, Public Service Providers, and businesses will
turn City Roundtable outputs into specific
requirements, leading to Solution Design Teams
that will design and configure solutions for Living
Lab piloting.
Testing and Scaling Teams
Test solutions in Living Labs and provide validation
for inclusion in the Digital Marketplace, leading to
implementation of interoperable, scalable
solutions.
City
Round
Tables
Testing
Teams
Scaling
Teams
Working
groups
Digital
Marketplace

5.
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THE BLUE ECOSYSTEM
• Connects GSC3 members
with Living Labs, utilities,
innovators, and citizens to
create a global marketplace
• Focused on coordinating
local Living Labs and events,
and managing information in
the digital marketplace
• Global partnership with local
partners, including The
Accelerate Group, Energy
Foundry, and the Austin
Technology Incubator
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6.
BLUE
BLUE & GLOBAL CITY TEAMS CHALLENGE
BLUE WILL SCALE THE BEST GCTC SOLUTIONS GLOBALLY
GCTC:
• BLUE will promote the GCTC globally
• Plan is to have more than 100 teams enter, 50
international teams
• BLUE will help the best teams to present their
solutions globally and help cities with
implementation
SMART CITY EVENT AUSTIN:
• BLUE will assist organizers of the event in June 2016
• BLUE will help identify the best solutions to present
2016
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