The sixth Iran Smart City Exhibition and Conference will kick off tomorrow in Tehran and will wrap up on Friday.

With the theme of Iran’s smart cities and artificial intelligence, the event will be held on the occasion of the World Cities Day, aiming to promote innovation, develop smart city infrastructures, and share experiences between scientific, industrial, and management sectors, IRNA reported.

The exhibition section features a series of companies, organizations, municipalities, and technology institutions showcasing their latest products, designs, and achievements in fields related to smart cities and artificial intelligence.

It will focus on smart urban management systems and public services, data infrastructure, Internet of Things and big data analytics, smart transportation and clean energy, as well as new technologies in education, health, and urban environment.

The conference is organized by the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology, known as Irandoc.

The conference involves a series of expert panels, scientific meetings, and policy discussions that study the latest achievements and challenges in smart cities, urban data, artificial intelligence, and digital governance fields. Professors, managers, and experts in technology will share their views.

The main themes of the conference include smart governance and the role of data in urban decision-making, ethics and justice in using artificial intelligence (AI) in urban management, the role of AI in the sustainability of cities, and national capacity development for future smart cities.

It will bring together domestic and foreign scholars, practitioners, urban managers, industrialists, scholars, and experts, as well as knowledge-based companies, to share experiences and knowledge and accelerate the change to smart cities.

The conference will also provide an opportunity to display the latest achievements, scientific findings, technologies, techniques, and tools for implementing smart cities projects.

A highlight of this year’s conference is  ‘Iran smart city national award’, which aims to identify, evaluate, and honor the best designs and projects in urban smartness. It will be launched immediately after the end of the exhibition.