Barcelona – November 06, 2026 -- Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) closed its fifteenth edition at Fira de Barcelona's Gran Via venue with 29,721 attendees from 140 countries, and named Tokyo "Smart City of 2026" at the World Smart City Awards.
Seven-track program draws 668 experts and over 1,000 cities
Held under the theme "Urban Solutions, Real Impact," the congress focused on affordable housing, climate change abatement and mobility. Its seven tracks brought together 668 international experts and representatives of more than 1,000 cities. Speakers included Anne Hidalgo, Andre Dickens, Anaclaudia Rossbach, Nikolas Badminton and Ayumi Moore Aoki.
1,276 exhibitors, including Microsoft, NVIDIA and Google, join co-located events
SCEWC ran alongside Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress, organized with EIT Urban Mobility, plus HOWS Barcelona, Tomorrow.Blue Economy, the Barcelona Deep Tech Summit and the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress. The combined shows gathered 1,276 exhibitors, among them Dell Technologies, Deutsche Telekom IoT, Esri, FCC Enviro, Google, Hanwha Vision, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Ubiwhere, Urbio and Veolia.
SCEWC Director Ugo Valenti said cities are "ready and willing to scale what works."
Barcelona City Council co-organizes municipal Cities Programme
The Cities Programme, organized jointly with the Barcelona City Council, centered on strategy exchange among municipal leaders. It included the Housing Mayors Meeting and the City Peers meetings.
Tokyo wins City Award for resident-focused digital and AI model
The jury granted the City Award to Tokyo, through its Bureau of Digital Services, for "C3 Powering Tokyo." The model places residents at the center of the city's digital and AI transformation.
The sixteenth edition returns to the Gran Via venue on November 2-4, 2027.