Tallinn City

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

The event's date is: 13.03.2026

Location: Vabaduse väljak 7, Tallinn (demo room of the City of Tallinn) & Online

A day after the forum, participants are invited to an inspiring visit at the local government of the City of Tallinn.

Representatives from Estonian capital Tallinn and 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.

The meeting will be hosted in English.

How to attend?

Onsite: Demo room of the City of Tallinn (Vabaduse väljak 7, Tallinn)

Online: We will send a link to registered online participants.

FREE for participants but registration is required. Register your participation when registering for the Forum day on March 12th.

For your stay in Tallinn, see our accommodation offer.

Schedule

9:00–09:30

Welcome & morning coffee

9:30–11:00

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

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 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

 

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 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

16:00

End of the day

Speakers and moderators

Dr. Kalle Kuusk

Senior Research Fellow
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Tallinn University of Technology

Dr. Tarmo Korõtko

Senior Researcher, Microgrids on Metrology Research Group
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Tallinn University of Technology

Prof. Raivo Sell

Tallinn University of Technology

Smart Mobility

Dr. Peeter Laas

Research Fellow
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Tallinn University of Technology

Uljana Reinsalu

Researcher, Project Manager
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Tallinn University of Technology

Dr. Simo Ilomets

Researcher, Project Manager
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Tallinn University of Technology

Tiiu Treier
Tiiu Treier

Head of Corporate Development
Tehnopol Science and Technology Park

Mariann Uudmäe
Mariann Uudmäe

Project manager
Tehnopol Science and Technology Park

Silver Sternfeldt

Expert
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Tallinn University of Technology

Mark-Emil Talivere

innovatsiooniekspert
Tallinna Strateegiakeskus

Dr. Kristiina Kupper

Research Fellow
FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Tallinn University of Technology

Andres Maremäe

Digital Twin Project Manager
City of Tallinn

Kalle Killar

Economic Development Director
City of Tallinn

Kadri Auväärt

Project Manager
City of Tallinn