Smart City SuMMit 2025

Description

Let's Co-Create Circular Cities!

This year's event will focus on co-creating circular cities. This requires cross-sector collaboration and innovative solutions. We invite business leaders, experts, decision-makers, innovators and entrepreneurs to get to know solutions and lighthouse projects, exchange ideas and initiate new projects and partnerships.

Our objectives for this event 

1. Create momentum for the topic of Circular Cities in Vienna.
2. Showcase Vienna's best practices in circular economy.
3. Facilitate exchange between international and regional startups with Vienna's decision-makers.
4. Inform participants about funding opportunities for their circular economy activities in Vienna.

This event is targeted at

• Companies with existing circular economy projects
• Companies interested in circular economy
• Circular economy startups
• Startups interested in circular economy
• Circular city experts 
• Representatives of City administrations / public institutions
• Research institutions / universities
• NGOs 

Agenda

8:30 Registration & Coffee

9:00  Welcome 

• Dominic Weiss, Vienna Business Agency
• Monika Unterholzner, Wiener Stadtwerke 

9:20 Keynotes & Impulses
10:40 Coffee Break & Networking

11:00 Interactive Small Group Sessions

• Let's co-create solutions for circular city challenges using design thinking—focusing on

• • Fashion & Textiles 
  • Food & Agriculture
  • Electronics & E-Waste 
  • Construction & Building Materials
  • Plastics & Packaging
  • Manufacturing & Industrial Processes 
  • Energy & Heat Management, waste-to-value

12:10 Panel Discussion: Eva Czernohorszky,Vienna Business Agency, Laura Fariello, Wien Energie, Christoph Gollner, Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Nadine Schratzberger (montreet) 

12:30 Wrap Up

12:45 Funding opportunities for circular economy projects, hosted by FFG and VBA

13:00 Networking with lunch

Accessibility

Wheel-chair accessible venue