The Smart Kalasatama Programme for Agile Piloting accelerates Smart City innovation by procuring prototypes to real city environments to be co-created with citizens. http://fiksukalasatama.fi/en/agile-piloting

1. Smart Kalasatama Agile Piloting Programme
Accelerating Urban Development

2. SMART
KALASATAMA
Area construction
until 2035
25 000 people
8000 jobsSmart sustainable
district
World-class innovation
platform
“One more hour a day”
citizen centric approach
Picture: City of Helsinki Mediabank

3. To test and
develop 20
service
prototypes
in real
environment
with real users
Procuring
small pilots
up to 8000€/ each
Piloted in
one to six months

4. How to
engage citizens?
REAL
CITY
CONTEXT
AND
CHALLENGES
SME’S, Start
Ups,
AcOvists
MARKET
REFERENCES
CITY
SMART
SERVICES
FOR THE
FUTURE
LARGE
COMPANIES
Future
technologies,
PlaSorms
I
I
I
I I I
CITIZENS
WITH REAL
NEEDS AND
DAILY
PRACTICES
I I I I I I I
I I
I I
AGILE PILOTING
How to accelerate
Smart City development?
How to understand
future possibilities
and the market?

5. Structural issue:
How to accelerate Smart City
developement?
Participation issue:
How to engage people? How to make
Smart City concrete and visible for
residents?
Start-up/SME/Activist issue:
Small companies often have a prototype
but not means to get a reference
WHY AGILE PILOTING?

6. Real life waits innovations!
• Real context and challenges
• Citizens with real needs and daily practices
• Institutional need
City needs real smart services for the future

7. #NEW CITY SPACES
AND COMMUNALITY
#RESOURCE WISE USE OF
ENERGY
*Genuinely new *Opportunity to learn a lot *Potentially scalable *Smart, agile, user-driven
#INNOVATIVE
LOCAL SERVICES
#WELLBEING
20 Pilots 2015–2017
Programme for Agile Piloting
New services and solutions to citizens
The programme purchases small pilots (max 8000€). The pilots can be executed during 1–6 months.
Picture: Jussi Hellsten/Visit Helsinki Picture: Jussi Hellsten/Visit Helsinki

8. • Enables innovative experiments in city space
• Pilots bring service prototypes to citizens to
participate in using, testing and co-creating
Who can offer pilots?
SME’s, start-ups, bigger companies,
associations, university groups…
All registered actors
Pilots may also have funding from other
sources
PROGRAMME FOR AGILE PILOTING

9. Benefits for Stakeholders
Accelerate the
development,
experimentation and
deployment of new
innovative solutions for
citizens
Flexible models for
innovative procurements
New means to improve
engagement of various
stakeholders
FOR THE CITY
FOR
ENTREPRENEURS
START-UPS
FOR USERS FOR OTHER
STAKEHOLDERS
Real user
experiences in real
context
Market references
Accelerating new
business
development
Participation as
co-creators
Understanding
future solutions
and new
technologies
Ecosystem
insights for
future smart city
services
Understanding of
user behaviour
and future
possibilities

10. How are the pilots chosen ?
EVALUATION CRITERIA Evaluated in scale of 1-5
Innovativeness ✓ a genuinely new service idea or product
✓ the experiment generates new practices/solutions/aspects to a specific
challenge
Potential, scalability ✓ usability of the service
✓ the functionality of the business model
✓ potential for long term solution
✓ can be put in practice in Kalasatama area during autumn 2016
Teams, resources ✓ Skills and know-how of the executive team
✓ other resources of the executive team (e.g. funding, collaboration)
✓ potential to continue developing the service after experiment
✓ executed by a consortium of more than one organisation or company
Smart, agile, user-
driven
✓ service/product utilizes ICT-technology or data
✓ use of agile development methods
✓ service responds to the needs of users
STRATEGIC COMPATIBILITY
Consistent with the strategy of the City of Helsinki
Supports the vision of Smart Kalasatama

11. 1
OPEN CALL
FOR OFFERS
2
SELECTION PROCESS
EVALUATION
3
PILOTING PROCESS
CO-CREATION
EXCECUTING PILOTS
4
EVALUATION
PROGRAMME AND
PILOTS
AUTUMN 2016
3 calls
3 themes
106 offers
4th call under
preparation
4 pilots
5 starting
CONCEPT
REPLICATED to
Climate Street,
Helsinki
Sharing experiences
with 6Aika cities in
Finland
Experimental Finland
project
10 city departments
30 companies
300 users

12. CO-CREATION
Co-creation workshops Reaching
the users
Experimentation platforms,
facilitation
COMMS
Visibility in in multiple channels
to all stakeholder groups
Local, national and global
RESEARCH
Research and evaluation
NETWORKS = PPPP
City
Govenment
Innovation ecosystem
Living Lab role

13. Close collaboration with local
actors reaching users through real
life platforms
Reaching the users and residents?
HOAS STUDENT HOUSING
KOTISATAMA SENIOR HOUSE
HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTER
FAMILY CLUB, SCHOOL, ZOO
SETLEMENTTI COMMUNITY HOUSING
Today
2500-3000
residents

14. SMART WASTE
SENSORS
DATA
PLATFORM FOR
SHARING
ECONOMY
&
CROWDSOURCING
LOCAL
INITIATIVES
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
REDUCING FOODWASTE
MOBILITY
AS A
SERVICE
PILOTS SPRING 2016

15. REEB
TYÖPISTEET
TEHOKKASTI
KÄYTTÖÖN
#INNOVATIVE LOCAL
SERVICES
#RESOURCEWISE
SOLUTIONS

16. KEY LEARNINGS
• Engages different stakeholder groups and
enables common discussion of smart future
services.
• Good feedback from start-ups and SMEs.
They learn and work more than they
expected.
• Co-creation workshops with extended
network a crucial tool to learn, share and
create larger ecosystems.
• Programme format adds value: keeps the
piloting focused and easy to communicate.

17. AUTUMN 2016
Pilot round three
Theme:
Resource-wise use of energy
Pilots can be related to
Kalasatama’s smart energy
solutions or utilise energy data.
The services can be resource-
wise related to for example near
logistics. Or smart services that
help residents to save time in
their everyday life.
The call opens
Oct/Nov 2016
The pilots start
Feb 2017
Picture: Jussi Hellsten/Visit Helsinki

18. fiksukalasatama.fi/en
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