Leeds City Council, in partnership with EUROCITIES, is organising an event as part of the wider Leeds Digital Festival, that will discuss how living labs can create opportunities for cities to become smart places.

The focus of the event will be on living labs and their role and importance in developing smart cities. This is a prominent and current topic in how towns and cities develop, and how public services are delivered in the future.

As well as looking at the situation in Leeds, the event will aim to share examples of best practice from other European cities, examining some of the challenges they have faced in creating and setting-up living labs, and the opportunities labs provide to support recovery and re-shape cities in a post-Covid world.

It's also a great opportunity for organisations working in the digital and tech sector to find out how they could work in partnership with city living labs.

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Draft Agenda

Please join the session 10 minutes in advance to ensure any technical issues can be resolved before the event starts. N.B. All times stated below are UK times.

09:30 -09:35 Welcome (Eve Roodhouse, Chief Officer for Economic Development Leeds & event moderator.)

09:35 -09:45 Opening Remarks (Anna-Lisa Boni, Secretary General of EUROCITIES)

09:45- 09:55 Setting the Scene (Zsuzsanna Bódi, Director of the European Network of Living Labs, ENOLL)

• What is a living lab? How common are they across Europe? Director of ENOLL, Zsuzsanna Bódi will help answer these questions and provide some context to living labs in Europe.

09:55 -10:15 Living Labs: A View Point from Leeds (Panel Discussion)

• Partners from Leeds, including Leeds City Council and the University of Leeds will discuss Leeds’ plans and aspirations for a living lab in the city.

10:15 -10:45 Examples of Living Labs from Europe (Panel Discussion)

• Several European cities will present the living labs in their cities, looking at some of the key questions around funding, partnerships and scalability.

10:45- 11:05 Q&A Discussion

11:05-11:10 Closing Remarks

Once you have registered, you will receive more details about how to connect to the event. For any questions or for further information please contact titus.carey@leeds.gov.uk