lp companies improve citizens'​ lives and create new business opportunities, enabling our members to connect, collaborate with other experts to grow the smart city knowledge and gain global visibility in a broad solution marketplace across 5 smart city domains of interest:

• Government and Society: public administration, smart democracy, open data, civic tech, citizen participation, privacy, etc. • Urban Mobility: public transport, traffic management, ride sharing, autonomous vehicles and smart parking, etc. • Internet of Things: connected home, wearables, smart buildings, monitoring and surveillance, etc. • Sustainability and Environment: smart energy and water, clean tech, waste disposal and recycling, etc. • Smart Economy: sharing economy, fiinance, retail, travel, art and entertainment, etc.

The LABCITIES business network provides:

• A directory of smart city experts and organizations worldwide. • A knowledge hub to exchange professional expertise across the 5 smart city domains. • An overview of smart city activities from both service providers and public governments around the world. • An updated source of smart city events, news and information.

We help companies and cities to evaluate and showcase new and proven innovative solutions within a collaborative environment, providing networking services to find potential partners or customers for their smart city solutions and to promote their smart city events, connecting vertical projects and communities around the world and allowing tens-of-thousands of smart city experts, innovators and entrepreneurs to collaborate and crowdsource new urban solutions, digital trends and business models, exchanging learnings to empower the smart city ecosystems worldwide.

A global living lab enabling economic, cultural, environmental and social evolution.