good evening ladies and gentlemen this
is New York City in the year 1905
it’s the Lower East Side and it stands
as a representation of urban life before
the car was actually introduced into our
cities this is the way we used to live
in our cities this is where life
happened it happened on the streets we
were not able to live outside of the
city we had to live where we work and
that’s how most of the cities actually
looked at the beginning of the last
century now we fast forward eight years
and the same city very close by Street
Fifth Avenue looks like this
what has happened in between Ford
invented its Model T the first
mass-produced car and people were
actually able to afford it in masses and
so within eight years the way how we
moved around in our cities changed
drastically
of course Ford didn’t invent that car in
order to change the face of our cities
it invented the car to well bring more a
more comfortable life to people but what
it did to our cities is that all of a
sudden we were not we didn’t need to
live where we work we were able to move
out of the city we were able to create
urban sprawl and so a technological
innovation actually decided how our
cities look today this is a part of Long
Island how it looks today it’s a very
you use you find these type of images on
Google Maps in nearly every city in the
world and living like this is nearly
impossible without having a car so the
technological innovation at the
beginning of the last century actually
decided on how much
fuel how much time how much any with
energy we spent today on commuting but
even how much of the energy we need to
spend for heating our homes and for well
supplying our cities and moving goods
and stuff around so other technological
innovations have happened in the past
with tremendous impacts on our cities
one of the most recent ones being the
smart phone right most of you have one
and I today I cannot imagine how I you
know higher power was able to move
around in cities without Google Maps or
the other way finding apps the full
impact of the smart phone on the cities
is yet still to be seen but the point
I’m making is that technologies invented
in the conventional way are targeted at
individual consumers they’re not
targeted at our cities and the way how
cities have developed in the past is
just a side effect of the technological
innovation why is that important well
cities today represent a one of the
largest parts of our global economy and
represent one of the biggest impacts
that we assert on our planet although
it’s only 2% of global surface that
cover cities already more than 50% of
all people live in cities more than
two-thirds of the global emissions come
out of cities more than 70% of global
energy consumption happens in cities and
of course the largest part of production
of wealth and prosperity happens in
cities so this gives you an impression
of the importance of the role of cities
when it comes to defining the transition
that lies ahead of us and we all know
that transition has to happen we’ve
given ourselves very ambitious goals and
we need to keep them we want to reduce
carbon emissions by more
90% until the year 2050 we want to have
zero fossil fueled cars in our cities by
2050 and at least in Germany we want to
have that in one single integrated
market for energy and for digital
services we cannot afford to develop and
innovate technologies the way we did in
in the past and have cities evolve as a
byproduct of technological innovation we
have to actually develop technologies
for our cities and that requires a
tremendous shift in paradigm of our
innovation system let me show you in a
couple of examples what I mean we
started with the example of mobility
this is a very current example of
mobility I think most of us would agree
to say this is quite a fancy car Tesla
is is a fancy electric vehicle however
it’s not a smart urban solution it’s not
a smart urban system it’s just a car
that runs on electricity to make it a
smart urban solution we would need to
connect hundreds or thousands of Tesla’s
make them available to be shared in the
city so that people would be able to
book them to share them to share rides
so that actually less cars would be
needed for more people in that case a
Tesla would be a smart urban technology
the same accounts for example for
autonomous vehicles every large
automotive car company car producer is
at the moment developing and
experimenting autonomous vehicles but an
autonomous vehicle the way maybe you
know let’s say BMW imagines it is maybe
not the way it would make sense for a
city it’s just a way that saves us time
or we spent time in an autonomous
vehicle with doing other stuff while
riding to work autonomous vehicles have
the potential if we connect them if we
share them if we integrate them into
public transportation
save parking spaces to save time and to
save lots of fossil fuel in our cities
to bring a seamless efficient and
integrated urban mobility connecting
them makes it a smart solution let’s
shift to a different example cities are
not only about transportation they’re
also about living and in a city
everything is connected how we live how
we work how we commute this is an
example of a plus a so called plus
energy house already with the
technologies that we put possessed today
we can build houses that produce more
energy that they consume by putting
solar panels on the roof by putting
battery storage into the basement by
charging our own electric vehicle we can
actually produce more energy with
individual houses than we consume
although this is this is great
it’s sustainable it’s nice it’s not a
smart urban solution it may become a
smart urban solution if we think about
what not one building but in a connected
system of buildings within the city
having very different and distinct
energetic profiles think about for
example of a stadium if your favorite
football team plays the stadium has high
energy costs because of the floodlights
right so this massive amount of energy
makes it affordable usually for a
football club to invest into a battery
storage system that does peak load
shaving so the the high peak of the
energy gets shaved through a lithium ion
battery but what what what does that
battery do when the football club isn’t
playing it’s there and it can be used
for example for district so imagine all
the houses around the stadium opening up
their rooftops so everyone can invest
into photovoltaic and the battery
storage of the district being opened up
so everyone can store his or her
renewable produced
energy in the district and
storage system and then decide whether
or not to use it personally or to feed
it into the grid when prices are high
then it becomes a smart urban system
another important part of our cities is
lighting cities spend over fifty percent
of their energy budget on streetlights
cities spend accessable over over ten
percent of their actual municipal budget
goes into street lighting so it’s quite
a massive thing now changing the
existing street lights into LED street
streetlights is of course something that
makes a lot of sense but it’s not a
smart urban solution street lights can
do so much more they can help money tour
traffic and optimize traffic they can
help find parking spaces they can help
monitoring and improving air quality
they can help providing free Wi-Fi they
can help providing charging
infrastructure for electric vehicles
they can even provide a connectivity
backbone for the future internet which
is going to be run on 5g so if we
consider street lights and an investment
into street lights a smart thing then we
should also think about all the other
functions that street lights can perform
so these are just some examples some
techno technology driven examples of how
we might be able to create smarter more
livable more sustainable cities but what
is different here what is what is the
different thing what is new here
well the conventional way of innovation
the the way that most startups get
trained today still is very direct right
it’s b2c it’s business to customer you
think about a product an MVP and this
you try to sell to an end customer and
solve some problem for your end customer
if we think about a city a city is not
about individual end customers a city is
about a collective why is that
in a city thousands of individual
purchase decisions add up to a
collective behavior and that collective
behavior has a tremendous impact on the
city so if we want to innovate for a
city it’s not enough to just think about
one individual end customer we have to
think about the collective and the city
as a system that makes it so hard to
innovate for the Smart City and we
furthered it’s it’s a highly complex
issue as you were saying in the
beginning so I call it the business to
city to citizen market so the b2c square
the interesting thing here and this is
really this is really important is that
if we innovate for four cities in that
market it’s not enough to think about
the value that your product produces for
individual customers you have to think
about the that the value that your
system provides to the city to a
collective therefore the business in the
smart city is just the other side of the
coin of the value that you create for
society and I think this is something
very important to take away so therefore
I would suggest it let’s not call it B
to C let’s call it V to C square value
quite an important figure because it’s
not enough just to innovate we had we
also have to reach scale in the past we
have created lots of living laps in
Europe living laps are the ways to
create new innovations for cities to
test and try innovation at the interface
of the public sector the private sector
citizens and research you have to bring
them together into a living laboratory
into a real world situation in your city
and make them try out new things this is
how you this is how you cope with the
complexity right you have to put install
something in your city and then see what
happens
measure that if it’s good then scale it
up if it’s not good
dump it try something else that’s the
way how we work when we innovate for
cities for companies this means quite a
shift but also for cities this means
quite a shift and we have to bring them
together to innovate together so in the
past we’ve created with support of the
European Commission and many many other
public funds hundreds of living labs in
Europe across Europe there’s hundreds of
good innovations and interventions in
our cities and some of the stuff i just
showed you is part of that now it takes
40 years for them to be scaled to only
1% of all cities and this is just not
fast enough we need to scale so we need
to think beyond innovation we need to
also think about scalability and
replicability of our urban solutions now
how do we do that
right how do we do that we need to come
to a situation where we conceive and
describe what is happening in all of
those cities the living labs not as
individual interventions but as part of
something bigger as use cases of a more
bigger picture of aggregated solution so
what we are doing at the moment is we
are trying to think Lego when it
about creating smart cities right you
have to choose the platform you need to
build your smart City on but then you
can innovate and try out with thousands
of pieces that are interoperable that
match that can communicate and then you
need ready defined predetermined kits to
roll this innovation out in your city
like construction manuals so we’ve
created a global community because this
is a task for a global community that
runs this approach and collects on a
global level use cases and living labs
and interventions good stories from
cities from all over the world and
brings them into a neutral solution
architecture so that companies can
attach their products to it and we can
also define requirements for products
and cities can take a construction
manual and take a couple of easy steps
to implement what worked somewhere else
also in the old city as an example think
think for example of the city of Bonn
right we know in bond we have high
emissions from transportation was all
over the news
so by looking at predefined solution
architectures we would find something
like a solution which could be called
sustainable district logistics and we
would see that Manchester has tried out
a inner city electric cargo bike system
as and has taken out all the cars from
its city centre from Oxford Road one of
the most polluted roads in all over
Europe and we might find a local
provider of cargo bikes we bring this
together with a city over three simple
steps into an individual application in
bond which could be called the co2
neutral distribution system for the city
center of Bonn so this is a global
effort that we need to make to reach
scale and mass and I invite you to grow
this community with all of us so that in
the future we can come from 40 years to
reach only one percent of all cities to
ten years to reach at least more than 10
percent of
all cities thank you very much [Applause]
is New York City in the year 1905
it’s the Lower East Side and it stands
as a representation of urban life before
the car was actually introduced into our
cities this is the way we used to live
in our cities this is where life
happened it happened on the streets we
were not able to live outside of the
city we had to live where we work and
that’s how most of the cities actually
looked at the beginning of the last
century now we fast forward eight years
and the same city very close by Street
Fifth Avenue looks like this
what has happened in between Ford
invented its Model T the first
mass-produced car and people were
actually able to afford it in masses and
so within eight years the way how we
moved around in our cities changed
drastically
of course Ford didn’t invent that car in
order to change the face of our cities
it invented the car to well bring more a
more comfortable life to people but what
it did to our cities is that all of a
sudden we were not we didn’t need to
live where we work we were able to move
out of the city we were able to create
urban sprawl and so a technological
innovation actually decided how our
cities look today this is a part of Long
Island how it looks today it’s a very
you use you find these type of images on
Google Maps in nearly every city in the
world and living like this is nearly
impossible without having a car so the
technological innovation at the
beginning of the last century actually
decided on how much
fuel how much time how much any with
energy we spent today on commuting but
even how much of the energy we need to
spend for heating our homes and for well
supplying our cities and moving goods
and stuff around so other technological
innovations have happened in the past
with tremendous impacts on our cities
one of the most recent ones being the
smart phone right most of you have one
and I today I cannot imagine how I you
know higher power was able to move
around in cities without Google Maps or
the other way finding apps the full
impact of the smart phone on the cities
is yet still to be seen but the point
I’m making is that technologies invented
in the conventional way are targeted at
individual consumers they’re not
targeted at our cities and the way how
cities have developed in the past is
just a side effect of the technological
innovation why is that important well
cities today represent a one of the
largest parts of our global economy and
represent one of the biggest impacts
that we assert on our planet although
it’s only 2% of global surface that
cover cities already more than 50% of
all people live in cities more than
two-thirds of the global emissions come
out of cities more than 70% of global
energy consumption happens in cities and
of course the largest part of production
of wealth and prosperity happens in
cities so this gives you an impression
of the importance of the role of cities
when it comes to defining the transition
that lies ahead of us and we all know
that transition has to happen we’ve
given ourselves very ambitious goals and
we need to keep them we want to reduce
carbon emissions by more
90% until the year 2050 we want to have
zero fossil fueled cars in our cities by
2050 and at least in Germany we want to
have that in one single integrated
market for energy and for digital
services we cannot afford to develop and
innovate technologies the way we did in
in the past and have cities evolve as a
byproduct of technological innovation we
have to actually develop technologies
for our cities and that requires a
tremendous shift in paradigm of our
innovation system let me show you in a
couple of examples what I mean we
started with the example of mobility
this is a very current example of
mobility I think most of us would agree
to say this is quite a fancy car Tesla
is is a fancy electric vehicle however
it’s not a smart urban solution it’s not
a smart urban system it’s just a car
that runs on electricity to make it a
smart urban solution we would need to
connect hundreds or thousands of Tesla’s
make them available to be shared in the
city so that people would be able to
book them to share them to share rides
so that actually less cars would be
needed for more people in that case a
Tesla would be a smart urban technology
the same accounts for example for
autonomous vehicles every large
automotive car company car producer is
at the moment developing and
experimenting autonomous vehicles but an
autonomous vehicle the way maybe you
know let’s say BMW imagines it is maybe
not the way it would make sense for a
city it’s just a way that saves us time
or we spent time in an autonomous
vehicle with doing other stuff while
riding to work autonomous vehicles have
the potential if we connect them if we
share them if we integrate them into
public transportation
save parking spaces to save time and to
save lots of fossil fuel in our cities
to bring a seamless efficient and
integrated urban mobility connecting
them makes it a smart solution let’s
shift to a different example cities are
not only about transportation they’re
also about living and in a city
everything is connected how we live how
we work how we commute this is an
example of a plus a so called plus
energy house already with the
technologies that we put possessed today
we can build houses that produce more
energy that they consume by putting
solar panels on the roof by putting
battery storage into the basement by
charging our own electric vehicle we can
actually produce more energy with
individual houses than we consume
although this is this is great
it’s sustainable it’s nice it’s not a
smart urban solution it may become a
smart urban solution if we think about
what not one building but in a connected
system of buildings within the city
having very different and distinct
energetic profiles think about for
example of a stadium if your favorite
football team plays the stadium has high
energy costs because of the floodlights
right so this massive amount of energy
makes it affordable usually for a
football club to invest into a battery
storage system that does peak load
shaving so the the high peak of the
energy gets shaved through a lithium ion
battery but what what what does that
battery do when the football club isn’t
playing it’s there and it can be used
for example for district so imagine all
the houses around the stadium opening up
their rooftops so everyone can invest
into photovoltaic and the battery
storage of the district being opened up
so everyone can store his or her
renewable produced
energy in the district and
storage system and then decide whether
or not to use it personally or to feed
it into the grid when prices are high
then it becomes a smart urban system
another important part of our cities is
lighting cities spend over fifty percent
of their energy budget on streetlights
cities spend accessable over over ten
percent of their actual municipal budget
goes into street lighting so it’s quite
a massive thing now changing the
existing street lights into LED street
streetlights is of course something that
makes a lot of sense but it’s not a
smart urban solution street lights can
do so much more they can help money tour
traffic and optimize traffic they can
help find parking spaces they can help
monitoring and improving air quality
they can help providing free Wi-Fi they
can help providing charging
infrastructure for electric vehicles
they can even provide a connectivity
backbone for the future internet which
is going to be run on 5g so if we
consider street lights and an investment
into street lights a smart thing then we
should also think about all the other
functions that street lights can perform
so these are just some examples some
techno technology driven examples of how
we might be able to create smarter more
livable more sustainable cities but what
is different here what is what is the
different thing what is new here
well the conventional way of innovation
the the way that most startups get
trained today still is very direct right
it’s b2c it’s business to customer you
think about a product an MVP and this
you try to sell to an end customer and
solve some problem for your end customer
if we think about a city a city is not
about individual end customers a city is
about a collective why is that
in a city thousands of individual
purchase decisions add up to a
collective behavior and that collective
behavior has a tremendous impact on the
city so if we want to innovate for a
city it’s not enough to just think about
one individual end customer we have to
think about the collective and the city
as a system that makes it so hard to
innovate for the Smart City and we
furthered it’s it’s a highly complex
issue as you were saying in the
beginning so I call it the business to
city to citizen market so the b2c square
the interesting thing here and this is
really this is really important is that
if we innovate for four cities in that
market it’s not enough to think about
the value that your product produces for
individual customers you have to think
about the that the value that your
system provides to the city to a
collective therefore the business in the
smart city is just the other side of the
coin of the value that you create for
society and I think this is something
very important to take away so therefore
I would suggest it let’s not call it B
to C let’s call it V to C square value
quite an important figure because it’s
not enough just to innovate we had we
also have to reach scale in the past we
have created lots of living laps in
Europe living laps are the ways to
create new innovations for cities to
test and try innovation at the interface
of the public sector the private sector
citizens and research you have to bring
them together into a living laboratory
into a real world situation in your city
and make them try out new things this is
how you this is how you cope with the
complexity right you have to put install
something in your city and then see what
happens
measure that if it’s good then scale it
up if it’s not good
dump it try something else that’s the
way how we work when we innovate for
cities for companies this means quite a
shift but also for cities this means
quite a shift and we have to bring them
together to innovate together so in the
past we’ve created with support of the
European Commission and many many other
public funds hundreds of living labs in
Europe across Europe there’s hundreds of
good innovations and interventions in
our cities and some of the stuff i just
showed you is part of that now it takes
40 years for them to be scaled to only
1% of all cities and this is just not
fast enough we need to scale so we need
to think beyond innovation we need to
also think about scalability and
replicability of our urban solutions now
how do we do that
right how do we do that we need to come
to a situation where we conceive and
describe what is happening in all of
those cities the living labs not as
individual interventions but as part of
something bigger as use cases of a more
bigger picture of aggregated solution so
what we are doing at the moment is we
are trying to think Lego when it
about creating smart cities right you
have to choose the platform you need to
build your smart City on but then you
can innovate and try out with thousands
of pieces that are interoperable that
match that can communicate and then you
need ready defined predetermined kits to
roll this innovation out in your city
like construction manuals so we’ve
created a global community because this
is a task for a global community that
runs this approach and collects on a
global level use cases and living labs
and interventions good stories from
cities from all over the world and
brings them into a neutral solution
architecture so that companies can
attach their products to it and we can
also define requirements for products
and cities can take a construction
manual and take a couple of easy steps
to implement what worked somewhere else
also in the old city as an example think
think for example of the city of Bonn
right we know in bond we have high
emissions from transportation was all
over the news
so by looking at predefined solution
architectures we would find something
like a solution which could be called
sustainable district logistics and we
would see that Manchester has tried out
a inner city electric cargo bike system
as and has taken out all the cars from
its city centre from Oxford Road one of
the most polluted roads in all over
Europe and we might find a local
provider of cargo bikes we bring this
together with a city over three simple
steps into an individual application in
bond which could be called the co2
neutral distribution system for the city
center of Bonn so this is a global
effort that we need to make to reach
scale and mass and I invite you to grow
this community with all of us so that in
the future we can come from 40 years to
reach only one percent of all cities to
ten years to reach at least more than 10
percent of
all cities thank you very much [Applause]
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