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EVENT OVERVIEW
Following last year's success, DURA in partnership with CityOS is
proud to present the 2016 Smart City Startups Conference,
where the world’s foremost innovators on smart cities join the
local community to develop smart city startups that use
technology to solve the real problems of their city.
The 5-day event consists of a conference, workshops, and a
hackathon, with the goal of imparting knowledge, motivating
developers and other citizens, and finally, developing real-world
solutions using the latest smart city technology.
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This free event sparks interest around smart
cities and generates local community support,
but more importantly, finds the best people
capable of building smart city startups that
will solve the city’s specific problems. By
the end of the final event, the city will
already have its first functional
applications built by its very own.
PRELIMINARY AGENDA
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09SMART CITY CONFERENCE Keynote
Smart City Speaker Presentations
CityOS Smart City People’s Choice Awards
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10SMART CITY WORKSHOPS iOS Development for IOT
UX crash course for Developers
Drone Automation using node
Build your own Hydroponics
Build Your Own IoT Device
LEGO Robotics (for juniors)
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SMART CITY HACKATHON Keynote
Introduction (hackathon rules)
48-hour Hackathon
Project presentations and winners announcement
09.04 SMART CITY CONFERENCE
The CityOS Smart City Startups Conference kicks off with a smart
city conference where the most knowledgable speakers share
their expertise and discuss the latest technologies, best practices,
and success stories of smart city implementations around the
world.
CityOS will bring together the world's best speakers with
practical knowledge to participate as presenters at the event.
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Speakers are mostly practitioners, young people, startup
founders, and executives in the modern world of IoT and smart
city technology and will discuss topics related to city-level
solutions with three goals in mind:
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Making his first appearance in the region, we are excited to welcome Nathan Seidle, founder and CEO of SparkFun Electronics, as a featured speaker at this year’s conference. One of the biggest heavyweights behind the maker movement, Nathan bootstrapped SparkFun while still an engineering student, then grew his passion into one of the biggest open-source hardware providers for the global maker community. Nathan’s experience, vision, and drive is exactly the kind of spirit this conference is all about. His words will truly be an inspiration to young aspiring makers, engineers, and developers.
1. Demonstrating that certain problems can not only be solved, but have already been solved elsewhere
2. Showcasing real-world case studies and implementations that solve these problems
3. Getting the wider city community involved. Besides involving developers, engineers, and makers, the key to success is also involving architects, urbanists, ecologists, government officials, students, etc.
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Real-world city implementations showcase
10.04 SMART CITY TECH WORKSHOPS
After the conference, the following day will be dedicated to a
series of workshops that provide in-depth training on the latest
technology necessary for building smart city applications.
The workshops are conducted as intensive “Zero to Hero”
bootcamps - where in 1 day attendees can learn everything
from the basics all the way to building a fully functional smart
city application.
Workshops will feature the latest and coolest future tech from
autonomous drones and hydroponics, to robotics and building
your own IoT devices.
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15.04-17.04 SMART CITY HACKATHON
The event culminates in a 48-hour hackathon weekend, where
developers, engineers, makers, architects, UI/UX designers and
others apply everything they learned and join forces to build the
best smart city solutions for their city using IoT technology.
The hackathon results in multiple functional usable apps and
devices. Team projects are presented on Sunday and the
winners have often been rewarded with funding for their project
or seed money to implement apps on the city level.
During the hackathon, we
provide mentors, a hardware
lab, computers for development
of mobile apps, as well as food,
drinks and everything else
needed by participants.
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RESULTS
This event is the third installment of its kind, and consistently
delivers successful results and a lasting, tangible impact. To date,
over 32 applications were developed during these events and
more than ten different startups – still operating today - were
created.
The 2015 Dubrovnik hackathon winners went on to create two
startups and have already successfully launched 4 projects for
the city, including an iBeacon-driven tourism app, a real-time
app for finding and purchasing parking spaces, an sensor-
driven automated irrigation system for city parks, and a solar
bench with mobile charging stations.
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