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

Welcome & morning coffee

Resilience related initiatives and solutions in Tallinn

– Tallinn’s strategic view on urban resilience

An overview of Tallinn’s strategic approach to resilience, innovation, and data-driven city development.

Kalle Killar
Economic Development Director
City of Tallinn

– Digital Twin for Building Urban Resilience

How Tallinn uses digital twin solutions to support planning, risk management, and resilient decision-making.

Andres Maremäe
Digital Twin Project Manager
City of Tallinn

– Test in Tallinn: Experimentation and Sustainable Governance

How Test in Tallinn enables real-life pilots through a sustainable and structured governance model.

Mark-Emil Talivere
Head of Innovation
City of Tallinn

– SofAcademy: Tallinn’s first neighbourhood-based renovation project

Introduction to the SoftAcademy project.

Kadri Auväärt
Project Manager
City of Tallinn

– Valencia–Tallinn Hackathon: Resilience in Action

Insights from the Hack the Future hackathon with Valencia, addressing challenges revealed by the DANA disaster.

Kalle Killar & Mark-Emil Talivere

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

Lunch and networking

Introduction to the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities 

Külle Tärnov
Head of Innovation at the FinEst Centre

Practical smart city solutions for cities

– DigiAudit – building energy performance audit.
Jürgo Preden, CEO, Thinnect OÜ

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

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

– Citizen well-being diagnostics. Silver Sternfeldt, environmental psychologist

– Herbarium.ai & TreeCity – planning urban greenery. Kristiina Kupper, researcher, TalTech

Coffee break and networking

New international smart city pilot projects at the FinEst Centre

–UrbanDip. Peeter Laas, research lead of the project, TalTech

–TayuTech. Uljana Reinsalu, research lead of the project, TalTech

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

–LightLine. Andrei Blinov, project lead, TalTech

End of the day