SmartCitiesWorld Podcast

About SmartCitiesWorld Podcast

The SmartCitiesWorld podcast interviews city leaders and innovators from around the world about their challenges, achievements and plans for the future.

Publisher

SmartCitiesWorld

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

21 Feb 2019

Latest episode

28 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 30 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Tracking the journey from smart cities to AI cities (part two)

   SmartCitiesWorld's Luke Antoniou interviews Professor Jung Hoon Lee about AI's real-world impact on urban services, mobility, and governance, offering city leaders priorities for the AI city transition.

2. 

   21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Tracking the journey from smart cities to AI cities (part one)

   SmartCitiesWorld's Luke Antoniou interviews Professor Jung Hoon Lee of Yonsei University about the evolution of smart cities into AI cities and the growing "AI super gap" between urban centers.

3. 

   22 May 2026

   Cities Thriving on Lighting, Episode 3 – What global cities are learning from smart lighting

   In this final episode of Cities Thriving on Lighting mini-series, host Luke Antoniou is joined by Valentina Taddeo, Marketing & Communication Leader and Strategic Relationship Coordinator, and Fabio Mauri, Head of Technology Operations and Cyber Security at Paradox Engineering. Building on the first two episodes, this conversation moves from theory to real-world deployments. Valentina shares insights from recent projects in Europe and Southeast Asia, including how cities in Spain and Cambodia are approaching modernisation in different ways, while aiming for similar outcomes in terms of energy efficiency, citizen engagement, and urban innovation. The episode also tackles a critical question: what happens when you connect something as widespread as public lighting to an IoT network? Fabio outlines the cybersecurity risks and explains how cities can reduce their exposure through the right combination of technology, processes, and people. Finally, the guests offer practical guidance for city leaders and their partners, condensing their experience into three essential principles for future-ready smart lighting: security, reliability, and simplicity. If you’re interested in how smart lighting can become a foundation for smarter, more resilient cities, and what it really takes to get there, this episode offers grounded, practitioner-led perspectives you won’t want to miss.

Inside a recent episode

Tracking the journey from smart cities to AI cities (part two)

Published 28 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So I would say it's a kind of a layers of the systems that intelligent layer have to be covered under each systems to how this can be actually improved through the areas. But so one example I want to give you is environmental management in Singapore. So national kind of water agency, they combine the acoustic kind of sensor with the digital twins and AI in the water supply network to detect the leaks in the real time. This was done actually in San Francisco before as well, and they're using it in the real world. But I think this is a little bit more advanced as well. It reduced the non-revenue water rate and then water that is produced but not lost before it registered for the customers to 5%. […]

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