Deep Dive #6: Becoming an Experimentation Facility for AI and robotics in cities

13:30-15:30

Deep Dive #6

Becoming an Experimentation Facility for AI and robotics in cities

CitCom.ai is Europe’s Testing & Experimentation Facility (TEF) for AI and robotics in cities and communities. We help cities and innovators validate solutions in close-to-real conditions across three themes: POWER (energy & climate), MOVE (urban mobility & logistics) and CONNECT (local infrastructures & cross-sector services).
Our facilities combine real urban testbeds, shared data spaces, local digital twins, cybersecurity and trustworthy-AI methods, so cities can safely trial new services, while SMEs get faster from TRL6-8 to market. We’ll share what cities in Citcom are already testing, what worked, what didn’t, and why.
We also want to sound out interest from other cities to become future TEF locations or hosts of TEF experiments, and to capture motivations, prerequisites, and benefits (governance, funding, standards/interoperability, regulatory sandboxes, and other opportunities).

What we’d focus on during the session:

  • How CitCom.ai works + city use cases
  • Interactive poll & discussion: interest to host/partner a TEF; barriers & incentives
  • Call-to-action: how to stay engaged, and main contacts from the project

Event Info

  • January 29, 2026
  • 13:30-15:30