presents
Smart Communities Tour
e-Estonia
Tallinn, April 25-26
Experience the world's most advanced digital society
Welcome to the world's most advanced
digital society: Estonia
On April 25-26, 2024, you are invited to an exciting two-day study trip to Tallinn, Estonia, to explore how to develop a fully digital public sector that contributes to smarter and more citizen driven societies.
Gathering top managers from Nordic municipalities we set out to provide inspiration, knowledge and to build a community that will make your road to digital urban development thriving.
Together we learn about success factors for some of the most exciting and innovative digitalization projects and initiatives relevant to the public sector, including the world-famous e-Estonia project, and start exploring how this might look in the Scandinavian context.
The event is free of charge for registered and confirmed participants representing the public sector. Confirmed participants arrange their own travel and accommodation at their own expense.
This is the third destination (the first one being Ålesund and the second Hammarby Sjöstad) on the Smart Communities Tour arranged by BJØRK Innovation in collaboration with AugmentCity, ElectriCITY, Enterprise Estonia and Äventyret.
Images below from previous events.
It happened again! I had the privilege to go to Ålesund last spring, and now to Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm. Smart cities and innovation in the public sector. Highly impactful and inspiring!
- Martin Andersson, Future Accelerator, Österåker municipality
Who's invited?
This event is designed for leaders within the public sector,
who are in the driving seat for smart and sustainable city development.
Municipal directors
Mayors
Heads of publicly owned companies
Public IT/digitalization directors
Main takeaways
You will have a better foundation to choose direction and strategy.
You will be able to set strategic goals and sub-goals for forward-looking society development.
You will aquire tools to work strategically with sustainable society development.
Program
April 24th
Participants arriving in the evening.
Optional dinner (restaurant TBD)
April 25th
09.30 - 09.45
Pickup from Mövenpick Hotel Tallinn, Lembitu 12, Tallinn 10114
transfer to e-Estonia briefing centre, Öpiku building, Valukoja 8, Tallinn 11415
09:45 - 10.00
Welcome to the e-Estonia Briefing Centre & Coffee
Part 1: 10.00 - 12.00
BJØRK Innovation (15 min)
e-Estonia Briefing Centre (60 min)
The Association of Estonian Cities and Municipalities (30 min)
12.00 - 13.30 LUNCH
Part 2: 13.30 - 16.00
Service design & digital transformation
Trinidad Wiseman (30 min)
Digital Twin of Estonia
Datel (30 min)
Demand-Responsive Transport & Payment Solution
Ridango (30 min)
X-Road - Standards, data sharing, private public partnership and how to get systems integrated to support citizens and organisations and secure interoperability between organisations and information systems
Niis (45 min)
Q/A
16.15 - 16.30
Pickup from Öpiku building, Valukoja 8, Tallinn 11415 and transfer to:
Toompea castle, Lossi plats 1a, Tallinn 10137
16.30 - 17.30
Historical guided tour of Tallinn Old Town.
Katrin Meschin will meet you at Toompea Castle and show you around old town finishing at Mövenpick hotel. Just in case her contact number +372 5264840.
19.00 - 21.00
Dinner at Restaurant Pegasus, Harju 1, Tallinn 10146
(Dinner cost is covered by the Estonian Business and Innovation Agency)
April 26th
08.30 - 08.45
Pickup from Mövenpick Hotel Tallinn, Lembitu 12, Tallinn 10114
transfer to e-Estonia briefing centre, Öpiku building, Valukoja 8, Tallinn 11415
Coffee
09.00 - 11.30
BJØRK Innovation (20 min)
Green coding with a big impact:
how sustainability is engineered into Helmes’ software development + demo
Helmes (30 min)
Äventyret (30 min)
Workshop with and for municipalities;
Acting today to prepare for tomorrow, what to bring home and how do we start. (60 min)
11.30 - 13.00
LUNCH
at Freya Foodbar, Sepise 7, Tallinn 11415
Location
We will have our tour base at the e-Estonia Briefing Centre, which is conveniently located just 2 minutes drive from the airport and 7 minutes drive from the city centre. The address is Valukoja 8, 11415 Tallinn, Estonia.
Accommodation
We have reserved rooms at the Mövenpick Hotel for the first 35 registrants from April 24-26.
You can book your room by contacting the hotel directly:
e-mail: reservations.duco@accor.com
phone: +372 6996 400
Please state the booking code "Smart Communities Tour".
Payment on arrival.
If you register after March 23rd, you can also book your room using this booking site and without the booking code.
Networking dinner
On the night of the 25th (19.00-21.00) all participants are invited to join an informal networking dinner in Tallinn Old Town at their own expense.
The role model for governments should be Estonia, a country where almost every bureaucratic task can be done online.
- New York Times
Useful info
The event is free of charge for registered and confirmed participants representing the public sector.
Included:
Lunch, coffee/fika both days.
Bus transfers
Confirmed participants arrange their own travel and accommodation at their own expense.
Registration deadline is April. 18, 2024
The latest updated program will be shared through this website.
Sign up today and feel free to spread the invitation to others who may be interested.
We look forward to meeting you and wish you a warm welcome to Tallinn!
If you have any questions, please contact Thor Moen: +47 90773339
Organized by
Hosting Partners
(Ålesund - Stockholm - Tallinn)
Networking Partners
Smart Communities Tour
by BJØRK Innovation
Contact:
+47 90773339
thor.moen@bjorkinnovation.org