Antonette Anaban from Baguio's City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office outlined Baguio City's climate-related challenges and current smart city initiatives, including the Baguio Smart Flood Warning, Information and Mitigation System project under the AASCTF. The project aims to improve community disaster preparedness and awareness and ensure ownership to enhance urban resilience, with the development of a smart flood early warning system, real-time water level data capture, and flood mitigation action plan as part of the project's deliverables.​ ​

Yale Wong from the Indonesia Australia Partnership for Infrastructure shared the Indonesian context of sustainable urban mobility planning. He underscored the big question around how cities can harness the greater good of technology, ensuring that digital disruption results in net benefits for people.​

Marianne Weinreich from Rambøll and the Cycling Embassy of Denmark highlighted the main findings of their team's study on gender and mobility in a number of capital cities in Europe. She emphasized that gender is one of the most robust determinants of transport choice and shared some insights from their focus group interviews of women, which revealed common strategies when using public transport due to their fears and experiences of harassment. This underlined the need for safer transport infrastructure, as well as technology's role in making transport and mobility easier and safer.​

Richard Sprosen Team Leader of the Penang Smart Mobility Micro-Simulation Model Development shared highlights of the project currently being undertaken with Digital Penang and MBPP in Malaysia under AASCTF. This micro-simulation model study tests and trials the interventions of different policies and designs to help evaluate and communicate the implications of transport policies and solutions to decision-makers, developers, and the public.​

Andrew Saad and Adrien Frew from the City of Gold Coast Council shared the city's approach to urban and strategic city planning, and the importance of data to support better city planning better decisions. Their presentation also demonstrated the power of an integrated data ecosystem that works hand-in-hand with regulation.​

Adam Beck from the Centre for Urban Innovation shared a presentation on the concept of digital twins, one of many emerging tools that can be a powerful platform that can help city planners and governments in planning and renewing cities. He also emphasized the importance of setting specific goals and targets to help determine whether investing in the development of a digital twin can support a city's urban planning practices and make these goals tangible and truly beneficial for the community.

Professor Ananto Yudono shared the work done by the AASCTF with the City of Makassar, Indonesia in developing the Makassar Livable City Plan (MLCP). The MLCP is a suite of data-driven digital tools that will allow government agencies to collaborate and prioritize investments to pursue smart interventions using an informed, evidence-based approach. The Plan considers a holistic examination of the city’s needs and challenges, as well as the views of citizens, putting forth a strategic framework for smart urban development. ​

Ms. Katherine O'Regan, Executive Director of the Cities Leadership Institute, who shared some highlights from Australia's smart city journey from the perspective of the cities of Adelaide, Prospect, the Sunshine Coast, and Townsville. She highlighted the bold leadership and cultural change needed within organizations and governments to implement smart city solutions, as well as the reality that not all organizations have the skills and capacity to do so.

Ms. Lykke Leonardsen, City of Copenhagen's Head of Program for Resilient and Sustainable Cities, spoke about the city's work on adaptation and resilience and its journey to becoming a smart and resilient city. She shared Copenhagen's vision of working with all city stakeholders to co-create the most livable city in the world and how the city will deliver this to future generations in terms of climate action, carbon emissions reduction, and resiliency. She further underscored the value of understanding what matters to their city stakeholders and how this influences their planning.​