Deep dive #6: From Parking Data to Inclusive Mobility: Spot4Dis in Practice | Room: M2
By Carlo Castellano, AsoPMR
How can cities turn fragmented accessibility information into a practical digital service for citizens and public authorities?
This Deep Dive will use Spot4Dis as a real-world case to explore how cities can digitally transform the management of accessible parking while keeping people with reduced mobility at the centre of the process.
We will walk participants through the Spot4Dis ecosystem from both sides: the citizen experience, including finding accessible parking, understanding local regulations, reporting issues and accessing connected parking infrastructure; and the city perspective, including managing accessible parking data, monitoring usage and integrating different sources of information and technologies.
Rather than a traditional presentation, the session will be interactive. Participants will work through a practical city scenario and discuss what would be needed to implement and scale such a service in their own context. Together, we will explore questions around open data, interoperability, user adoption, governance and the differences between cities and countries.
The session will also be an opportunity to gather direct feedback from the OASC community on how Spot4Dis can become easier to replicate and integrate across European cities.
The goal is to leave participants with a concrete example of open and agile digital transformation in practice, together with ideas they can apply to their own urban accessibility challenges.
Deep dive #7: From open data to harmonized city data: the Dataizen approach to interoperability without lock-in | Room: U1
By Louis Montagne, Askem
Cities and regions want to open their data without giving up sovereignty, and without locking themselves into a single vendor or a single data format. Dataizen is an open-source platform built to meet exactly that need: a CKAN based catalogue, a modern territorial portal, an editorial CMS, and a sovereign AI assistant, all running on European, self-hostable infrastructure.
This session presents how Dataizen turns raw territorial data into interoperable, reusable assets. We will show the multi-format ingestion pipeline (CSV, Excel, Parquet, GeoJSON, GeoParquet, Shapefile, GeoPackage) that converges every dataset into a single canonical representation, automatically geometrized and served through OGC standards (WMS, WFS, OGC API). We will cover interoperability by design: DCAT-AP metadata harvestable by national and European aggregators, and semantic harmonization toward NGSI-LD and Smart Data Models, which connects directly to the OASC MIMs.
We will also demonstrate the parts that make a portal actually used: multi-country and multi-language support, territorial dashboards with choropleth maps and map based selection, and a sovereign, retrieval augmented AI assistant that answers in the language of each instance. We will close with the open-source model, the deployment approach, and lessons learned building for real territories.
Attendees will leave with a concrete picture of how to publish, harmonize, and activate territorial data in an interoperable, sovereign way, and how this aligns with OASC minimal interoperability mechanisms.
Deep dive #8: One marketplace for every public service: from smart city sensors to citizen bookings | Room: U2
By Joel Bergqvist, Thingwalla
Every municipality in Europe procures, verifies and integrates the same kinds of digital services on its own, from accessible transport booking to permits and benefits checks. Each one is specified, tendered and built separately, so the neighbouring city starts over, and so does the supplier. Interoperability has made systems able to talk to each other, but it has not made a service built in one city buyable in the next.
The GovTech4All Public Services Marketplace pilot is led by Bron Innovation with Digdir (Norway) and GRNET (Greece) and co-funded under the Digital Europe Programme. It is testing whether this gap can be closed. Building on Thingwalla, an open concept for an operating layer for public digital services, the pilot is developing a Blueprint, due in June 2027, for a federated European marketplace for digital public services. The marketplace would be national in operation, European in compatibility and open source, and it would build on eIDAS, Peppol and the Once-Only Technical System rather than replacing them. The pilot tests the idea that a single operating layer, marketplace and developer portal can serve all kinds of services, from citizen-facing apps and sensor-driven smart city applications to case-handling tools for municipal staff.
The session presents the results of the pilot’s first test cycle, which covers accessible transport across Norway, Sweden and Greece. It includes a walk-through of a clickable marketplace prototype, showing how a qualified service can be found, compared and procured through existing legal routes, with a candid account of what has and has not yet been validated. Participants will then work in small groups on one question: what would have to be true for their city to switch on a service built by another municipality instead of commissioning its own? Their input will feed directly into the Blueprint’s chapter on the municipal and supplier journey.
The session is aimed at municipal digital leads, procurement officers, GovTech suppliers and anyone working on MIMs who is interested in what lies beyond technical interoperability.
Deep dive #9: Local Digital Twins for Smart and Sustainable Communities (LDT4SSC) | Room: Lille Sal
This session explores LDT4SSC, the Digital Europe Programme project supporting cities, regions and public authorities across Europe in developing and connecting interoperable Local Digital Twins for AI-supported decision making.
Deep dive #10: Access provided: open source tech stack for generative AI applications | Room: Store Sal
In close collaborations across both local, regional and national administrations in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, Aarhus is putting together an open source infrastructure for a range of very different applications in the public sector. The purpose is to introduce better interoperability, more sustainable gen AI (and business) transformations plans for the public sector, and support local administrations in keeping up levels of digital sovereignty over the coming decades. Join this deep dive to get an introduction, see demos of applications running on the infrastructure and learn how you can get it for your own administration.
