22-24/10/2018: Ideal-Cities @ WCEF2018

On 22-24 October 2018, a team from ENPC and a team from Cablenet participated at the World Circular Economy Forum 2018, held in Tokyo, Japan. Giorgos Demetriou, ENPC CERC Director, was a speaker at the session  Circular Economy’s Frontier of Knowledge on the topic “The Future of Information Technology for Circular Economy”. In this regard, he presented to a worldwide public the objectives and initial achievements of IDEAL-CITIES, in addition to making reference and giving visibility to all partners involved in the project and the related innovation strains.

The presentation, which also includes an animation, was uploaded by the organisers to the site: https://youtu.be/3eUmJm19LJI and may be also downloaded  at the following link: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D935890_08308765_908816

Immediate feedback was received after the presentation at the WCEF. A Chinese and a Taiwanese company expressed their interest in the project. In addition, both Politecnico di Milano and University of Tampere reached for potential collaboration.