2017 Smart City Summit & Expo: Industrial Innovation Energy Hits New Highs

The 2017 Smart City Summit & Expo concluded successfully at the end of February. 54 city leader representatives from 29 countries gathered in Taipei City to exchange views on smart city issues, highlighting that smart cities are an issue of common concern worldwide and setting a new record in the history of Taiwan city exchanges. Taipei City Deputy Mayor Lin Chin-rong attended the post-show press conference for the "2017 Smart City Summit & Expo" on March 15 and pointed out that smart cities not only improve the efficiency of public governance but are also an industrial issue. Taipei City is willing to become the largest testing ground for smart cities. This year, 1,750 smart public housing units will officially begin operation, and Taipei Station will complete the construction of smart station services. In addition, smart parking lots and the 3U transportation living circle will successively launch driving programs, making the public more aware of smart innovative application services and also driving the energy of the smart industry.

The Taipei City Government and the Taipei Computer Association co-hosted the 2017 Smart City Summit & Expo and the Smart City Mayors' Summit. Deputy Mayor Lin Chin-rong stated that the Taipei City Government is willing to help domestic manufacturers face international markets and export successfully tested solutions with profitable operating models to the global market. Through the smart city industry driving plan of "Taipei first, spread across Taiwan, international export, southbound priority," Taiwan will be upgraded into a major global supplier of the smart city industry.

The 2017 Smart City Summit & Expo - Taipei Vision Pavilion took "Taipei, a Great Place to Live - Future City" as its theme and planned 5 major exhibition areas: smart ecological community, smart government, smart startups, smart public housing, and smart security. It brought smart municipal applications together in one place, attracting nearly 20,000 visitors to experience and learn about the results of Taipei City's smart construction. The Taipei Computer Association pointed out that, in line with the government's southbound policy, it aims to expand business opportunities for smart cities in Southeast Asia; at the press conference, it was also announced that next year's (2018) Smart City Summit & Expo is scheduled for March 27 to 30, 2018.