Forum Day 2 | Tallinn City Visit: Urban Innovation in Practice

Kuupäev: 13.03.2026

Toimumiskoht: Tallinn City rooms (tbc)

A day after the forum, participants are invited to an inspiring visit at the local government of the City of Tallinn. Join us on March 13, 2026, for the visit!

Representatives from Tallinn, as well as other Estonian cities, will introduce the smart city programmes and experiments done or currently underway in Estonia.

We will also present our smart solutions for cities to discuss possible ways to collaborate.

How to attend?

Onsite, details of the venue will be specified.

FREE for participants but registration is required.

The meeting will be hosted in English.

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Ajakava

9:00–09:30

Welcome & morning coffee

9:30–11:00

Resilience related projects:

– Tallinn City examples of using digital twins for building resilience

– Test in Tallinn & sustainable governance model

– Resilience examples from Valencia-Tallinn Hackathon

tbc

11:00–11:30

Innovating Estonian cities & collaboration with startups:

– Winners of Tallinnovation competition

– Pärnu City Innovation Fund

Tiiu Treier
Head of Corporate Development

Mariann Uudmäe
Project manager

Tehnopol Science and Technology Park

11:30–12:30

Lunch and networking

12:30–12:45

Introduction to the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Külle Tärnov
Head of Innovation at the FinEst Centre

12:45–14:05

Practical smart city solutions for cities:

– DigiAudit – building energy performance audit. Kalle Kuusk, researcher, TalTech

– DSxOS – energy management platform. Tarmo Korõtko, research lead, TalTech

– Autonomous Vehicle Safety Toolkit. Raivo Sell, research lead, TalTech

– Citizen well-being diagnostics

– Herbarium.ai & TreeCity – planning urban greenery

14:05–14:20

Coffee break and networking

14:20–15:30

New international smart city pilot projects at the FinEst Centre:

–UrbanDip – Peeter Laas, research lead, TalTech

–TayuTech – Uljana Reinsalu, research lead, TalTech

–Reusing Old Buildings – Simo Ilomets, research lead, TalTech; Mari-Liis Kell, Head of Greentech at Hundipea

–LightLine – Andrei Blinov, project lead, TalTech

16:00

End of the day