Access Copenhagen

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Date(s) - 17/05/2021
9:00 am - 4:15 pm

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Copenhagen is a world leader in sustainable urban development, smart city living labs and innovative business hubs – and the city is open for business! Be part of the green transition and expand your business to the Nordics.

Get hands-on knowledge and contacts to expand and prosper your business with real-life and real-people living labs and access to extensive ecosystems that create results and impact. We want your knowledge and business to be part of this transition and come to the forefront of sustainable urban development and secure liveability in cities worldwide.

Two webinars will expose you to the Nordic strongholds of being “smart with a heart” and give precise pictures of the possibility for you as a business to come to Denmark at a ”one-point-entry gateway” and enhance your potentials for co-creation, development, and expansion of your network.

We want to do good, and we want to do it with you! Now!

Why are we inviting you?

• Smart Cities is about creating sustainable and liveable cities through digitalization in which the green transition plays a vital role
• Urbanization is increasing as 55% of the world’s population live in cities, which is expected to reach 70% by 2050
• 70% of the world’s global CO2 emissions are created in cities
• More than 70% of the SDGs can be reached through smart city technology

Why are we inviting you to Copenhagen, Denmark?

• Copenhagen has committed to be the first carbon-neutral city by 2025, i.e., new investments and political support
• Copenhagen is home to unique urbanization and smart city accelerators, living labs and pilot testing for innovative solutions due to our strong private-public partnership (PPP) business model
• Smart Cities will create 35.200 more jobs in Denmark by 2025
• Easy to set up a business: It takes only 48 hours to set up a business in Denmark, and registration is done online
• No. 1 on The Sustainable Development Goals Index – Bertelsmann Stiftung and Sustainable Development Solutions Network, 2018
• No. 8  smartest sustainable city in the world – Cities in Motion Index, 2019

Programme

Find programme here.

Key Dates

First event: 17 May 2021, 09:00-10:15 CET (Copenhagen) (15:00-16:15 SGT/Singapore), Register here.

Second event: 17 May 2021, 15:00-16:15 CET (Copenhagen)/09:00-10:15 EDT (New York), Register here.

Contact

For further inquiries, please feel free to reach out to Jakob Stolt, Senior Project Manager, EIT Climate-KIC, Jakob.Stolt@climate-kic.org

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