In beautiful afternoon sun we set sail with the schooner S/S Solrik in the idyllic archipelago sorrounding Arendal.

Challenges and opportunities with creating smart cities are global. On Tuesday, the topical portion of the program culminated with the ambassador' pitch

The highlight of the day, just as last year, was the Smart City Debate which attracted a lot of spectators. In fact, so many came that quite a few had to follow the debate from the entrance hall where the debate was streamed.

Our main partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise, EY, Acando and Microsoft gave us a taste. How do we relate to and become active parts of a smarter society based on terms like IoT, Big Data, AI and Edge?

Smart Cities Norway were on point from Monday morning in Thommesengården. We kicked off the debate and challenged politicians and kick bike suppliers to work together to find good solutions for the use of kick bikes, the hottest topic this summer.

Denisa Frelichová, the ambassador to Slovakia in Norway, pitch during Arendalsuka 2019 and the unique standing of the event itself is published at the webpage of Smart Cities Klub Slovakia. In addition to Arendalsuka, the article highlight Smart Cities Norway initiative to promote smart citiy projects in other countries as inspiration.