We are just days away from the start of the IV Smart Cities, Happy Citizens World Summit 2025, and the program reflects the collective strength of an event that brings together experts, researchers, professionals, and leaders from multiple fields, united by a shared purpose: reimagining cities through people, well-being, and collective consciousness.
Throughout the Summit, participants will engage in inspiring talks, interdisciplinary roundtables, interactive thematic hubs, and scientific and professional paper presentations, offering a broad, deep, and truly multidisciplinary perspective.
Talks and lectures: visions that inspire transformation
Among the lectures and keynote-style talks featured in the program are topics essential to the present and future of cities:
- The Future We Want: Six Pillars for Building Smart and Happy Environments, with Patrícia Fraga
- A Data-Driven Look at Workplace Happiness, with Matt Phelan
- Transforming Smiles, with Amélia Mamede
- SDGs in Public Management, with Fábio Tatsubô
- When Emotion Meets Code: The Future of Smart Cities Is Emotional, with Marcelo Jordão
- Sharing Public Safety Strategies as a Tool for Citizenship, with Fábio Atanásio
Additional in-person and virtual talks address themes such as architecture and well-being, accessibility, the right to the city and the right to happiness, energy, water, disaster risk management, conscious leadership, integral health, innovation, robotics, artificial intelligence, food, housing, and human awareness in the act of inhabiting.
Roundtables: dialogue, listening, and collective construction
The Summit’s roundtables foster meaningful exchanges among diverse perspectives, addressing topics such as:
- Happiness at work and in education
- Urban self-sufficiency: clean energy, community agriculture, and the circular economy
- How much technology is enough? Balancing innovation and human activities
- Environments that promote health and happiness
- Citizen cybersecurity and digital trust
- Integral health in urban spaces
- Digital communication and artificial intelligence: opportunities and risks for smart cities
- Empathy, civic culture, and healthy use of digital spaces
- Education for autonomy and active citizenship
These discussions feature speakers such as Patrícia Fraga, Gabriela Moreira, Eugênio Badaró, Cati de Castro, Areza Barros, Nathan Santos, Amélia Mamede, Priscila Pinto, Cláudio Vidal, Rafael Trindade, Joacir Ferreira, Juliana Costa, Dulcila Torres, Maribel Barreto, among others.
Interactive Thematic Hubs: from reflection to action
One of the Summit’s defining features is its Interactive Thematic Hubs—spaces for active listening, exchange, and co-creation that will result in the drafting of Thematic Charters, offering practical recommendations for public policies, institutions, companies, and civil society organizations.
The hubs include:
- Consciousness and Proactive Citizenship, with Maribel Barreto
→ Outcome: Charter of Proactive Citizenship - Conscious Technology and Cybersecurity, with Joacir Ferreira
→ Outcome: Charter of Conscious Technology - Integral Well-Being and Urban Happiness, with Taina Volcov, Cati de Castro, and Marcelo Jordão
→ Outcome: Charter of Urban Happiness - Human Relations, Communication, and Constructive Coexistence
→ Outcome: Charter of Constructive Coexistence and Civic Communication - Accessible, Living, and Self-Sustaining Spaces, with Alessandro Lopes, Anna Bezerra, and Patrícia Fraga
→ Outcome: Charter of Urban Self-Sufficiency - Innovative and Collaborative Governance, with Fábio Tatsubô and Eugênio Badaró
→ Outcome: Charter of Collaborative Governance
Paper and project presentations: research, practice, and innovation
The program also includes scientific papers, professional presentations, and virtual posters, addressing topics such as:
- Smart cities and the ESG agenda
- Bioenergy and energy transition
- Human-centered architecture and aging
- Mind consciousness in the built environment
- Educational inclusion and mobility
- Urban drainage, sustainable construction, and waste management
- Urban poetics, communication, art, and the act of inhabiting
Presenters include Eugênio Badaró, Colin Spenley, Rosiane Alves, Vanessa Pedroso, Regina Cohen, Maisa Tobias, Juliano Calil, Lucas Rocha Xerfan, João Aires, Thaísa Silva, Wagner Azevedo, among others.
A final invitation
The IV Smart Cities, Happy Citizens World Summit 2025 brings together a plurality of voices, knowledge, and experiences that reflect the complexity—and the potential—of urban transformation when it is driven by consciousness, purpose, and collaboration.
If you are seeking deep content, meaningful dialogue, and practical inspiration to contribute to smarter, more human, and happier cities, this Summit is for you.
👉 We are about to begin. It is still possible to participate, either in person or online.
🔗 Learn more and register:
https://www.smartcitieshappycitizens.com/
