2025 Issy-Les-Moulineaux – Designing Accessible and Sustainable Services by Leveraging Data and AI
Since its foundation, Major Cities of Europe has recognized the value of data as a central element for urban innovation. Already in 1983, the Paris conference carried the title “Data Processing and Society – Data Processing Management”, underlining how crucial data would be for the future of cities.
Artificial intelligence does not replace this centrality; it amplifies it, opening new perspectives for designing more accessible and sustainable services. The real leap forward lies in the ability to expand the value and knowledge we can extract from data thanks to technologies that are now powerful yet widely available, enabling us to transform data into a shared resource and a generator of collective value.
Our goal is to design solutions that do not see citizens simply as users or targets, but as people with needs and aspirations, entitled to the right to live better. That is why the core of our commitment is to understand how to innovate in order to improve community life, exploring how technology – and which technologies – can help us achieve this goal. This is the meaning of our community: putting innovation at the service of people, every day, in a world of complexity, choices, and opportunities.
The agenda of this conference is the result of listening to our community. Through surveys, interviews, and focus groups we collected data and experiences that have been transformed into the themes we present today, with the aim of generating new value for all participants.
Nothing happens by chance, Seneca said: “Luck does not exist: there is only the moment when talent meets opportunity”. This conference is such an opportunity, and its participants are the talented people who can turn it into value.