TechTown Dubrovnik

Join the 6th transnational TechTown meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 26th and 27th September 2017. 

Meeting theme: Growing jobs through the smart city agenda

• How can cities ensure that they maximise the local jobs creation potential linked to delivering smart city agendas? 

• How can they avoid larger multinationals reaping all the rewards and ensure that cities  grow indigenous digital businesses and local jobs? 

• What role could local city challenges, hackathons play? 

• What role could public procurement play?

• What does good governance look like? Political leadership? Public private partnership?

• How can cities ensure that the LOCAL job creation potential from smart cities are maximised?

• How can cities create 'living labs' or 'test beds' for new intelligent city solutions?

General aims of the meeting:

• To better understand Dubrovnik's digital ecosystem
• To review issues coming from initial draft IAP's and discuss solutions to shared challenges identified through skype calls 
• To remind partners of the final thematic focus for TechTown and work plan through to Spring 2018 
• To discuss TechTown Communications work and Final Dissemination Events (local and network-level)
• To discuss URBACT programme level capitalisation work

Day 1 – Tuesday 25th September - please arrive Monday 24th September

Just TechTown Partners 

DRAFT AGENDA SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Day 1

08:30  Meet at hotel reception and travel to venue

09:00  Arrivals 

09:15  Welcome & introductions

09:30  Setting the scene 

09:45  Getting back in the room - ULG / IAP updates - speed dating / mini pitches / front page?

11:00  Break

11:20  Where next with the IAPs - workshop on how to maximise impact

12:30  Onsite Buffet Lunch

13:30  Communications - local and project level events and outputs

14:45  Project pitching

• Each city has 5 minutes to present future project / partnership ideas
• Discussion of future activity

15:45  Break

16:00 Partnership meeting for ULG Coordinators only

• Programme level update
• Update on discussions with other networks
• Discussion of November meeting - Loop City (23 & 24 November 2017)
• Any other business

17:00  Close 

18.30/19.00  Meet  for tour of the old town followed by dinner

Day 2

TechTown Partners + Dubrovnik ULG and other stakeholders

08:30  Meet at hotel to travel to venue

09:00  Introductions

Key Questions

• How can cities ensure that they maximise the local jobs creation potential linked to delivering smart city agendas? 
• How can they avoid larger multinationals reaping all the rewards and ensure that cities grow indigenous digital businesses and local jobs? 
• What role could local city challenges, hackathons play? 
• What role could public procurement play?
• What does good governance look like? Political leadership? Public private partnership?
• How can cities ensure that the LOCAL job creation potential from smart cities are maximised?
• How can cities create 'living labs' or 'test beds' for new intelligent city solutions?

09:20 Dubrovnik introduction (Alisa, Niksa and Team)

• Context, Challenges and Specific Objective for TechTown Action Plan

10:00  Walkshop 

11:30  Break

12:00  Walkshop continued

13:00  Networking lunch 

14:00  Interactive exercise - What is the role of the city when it comes to growing jobs through the smart city agenda? What does this mean for TechTown cities?

15:30  Back to the question: What can medium sized cities do to grow jobs through the smart city agenda - Learning & Action Grids

16:30  Debrief and wrap up

17:00  Close