Each Deep Dive block has two rounds.
Round 2 (14:30–15:30): Every session runs twice, first from 14:30–15:00, then from 15:00–15:30.
Choose your first Deep Dive, then switch rooms for your second one:
Deep Dive #1 | MIMs Deep Dive | Thimo Thoeye
Sala Panorâmica
During this session we look for real-world examples of how MIMs can be implemented in a local context. The goal of the session is to identify challenges and solutions that can feed into the MIM development cycle.
Deep Dive #2 | How to Become an AI Experimenting Facility? | Jorge G. Coelho
Sala Gardunha
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).
Deep Dive #3 | exPEDite LDT-CitiVerse Sandbox: A Virtual Living Lab for Stakeholder Engagement in Positive Energy Districts | Emilia Risu and Vincent Demortier
Sala Estrela
The ExPEDite Living Lab is a real-life innovation environment established within the ExPEDite project to accelerate the transition of a selected district in Riga (Latvia) toward becoming a Positive Energy District (PED). By applying Living Lab quadruple helix approach different stakeholders’ like citizens, researchers, municipal representatives and private-sector partners are engaged to co-design, test and evaluate in a collaborative way. This deep dive focuses on the exPEDite LDT-CitiVerse sandbox as a virtual living lab for increasing awareness and improving behaviour towards energy efficiency through gamification.
Deep Dive #4 | Driving Digital Impact Through Funded Projects: Porto Digital’s Strategy and Vision | Diogo Silva
Sala Cereja
This session will focus on Porto Digital’s strategic approach to funded projects, showing how they amplify impact, strengthen the delivery of the city’s digital agenda and consolidate an international ecosystem of partners. The presentation will also highlight how this model creates sustained value for the city of Porto.
