“The tendency is to see more and more smart cities that end up using technology at the service of citizens”, recalls Ana Rosas Oliveira, director-designate of BPI
“The big challenge that cities have at this moment is to be able, given so much information that they can already absorb – together with citizens and companies – to work on this information and understand how the resources we have at hand can be used from the as efficiently as possible”, says João Rodrigues, councilor at Braga City Council
“We, BPI, are working to help local authorities, our clients – companies and individuals – to develop in this sense”, says Bárbara Costa Pinto, executive director of BPI and responsible for the sustainability department
“Foco Criativo contributes to these smart, sustainable, innovative and inclusive urban spaces with the creation of structures, intelligent structures, that communicate with each other and with entities with which we are also creating software, so that all this is possible”, explains Deolinda Teixeira, CEO of Grupo Foco Criativo
“Water, gas and electricity are very important resources and also through technology we are able to automate processes, digitize them and make them more effective”, says Manuel Machado, CEO of Enermeter
“We have to move from smart cities to smart regions, territories and nations because in fact the benefits that can be obtained are far greater from this global perspective than just a local one”, considers Miguel Amado, partner Government and Public Sector Leader at EY
“Seek the best solutions, the best alternatives so that we can – in the service we provide – have this sustainability, have this quality and, in fact, have a superior service”, argues Paulo Reis, director of ECOREDE
“The cities of the future have to be, firstly, more sustainable, this implies that we have cities that are cities in which the level of pollution in people’s transport, in mobility, in the footprint that people leave is lower than which it currently is”, concludes Pedro Monteiro Coelho, executive director of BPI
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