The first Hannover session is themed Stable Energy Supplies en Route to a New Energy Mix. The presentations will explore ideas and options for creating cities that are able to manage energy and resources sustainably while at the same time remaining economically viable and competitive.

The second session is dedicated to Critical Infrastructure and Smart Cities. Intelligent technical infrastructure is the control room of any properly functioning city and is critical to big city life. Intelligent technologies are indispensable if we want our urban infrastructure to be state-of-the-art, efficient, networked, reliable and secure. No city can grow, compete and prosper over the long term without an intelligent technology "backbone."

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The second stage of the Conference will be held in San José in the heart of Silicon Valley and will get under way with a close look at Reliable Telecommunication Networks for Municipal Administration and State-of-the-art Crisis Communication. Maintaining data security, data access control and effective emergency response capabilities in megacities requires high-performance, complex IT systems and specialized, high-speed data networks. These systems must be totally failsafe in order to guarantee vital interdisciplinary data flows at all times.

Session 2 of the San José program is themed Mobile Systems and Wireless Networks in Urban Environments: A Source of Added Risk? Flexible, perpetually available IT and communication technology has become part and parcel of everyday life. But the convenience of mobile IT and permanent data interchange via 3G networks often comes at a price: security. Among much else, this late afternoon/early evening session of the Metropolitan Solutions Conference examines solutions for minimizing these risks while improving and guaranteeing the reliability of mobile data flows.

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The third leg of the Conference will be held at the SNIEC exhibition center in Shanghai, China. The presentations and discussions in the first session come under the banner of Reliable Water Supply, Waste Water Disposal and Sewage Treatment for Smart Cities. Innovative supply and distribution systems are vital to the continued viability of China’s rapidly growing megacities. State-of-the-art sensors, integrated systems and mobile communications are the key to actively monitoring, evaluating and optimizing China's largely static water and wastewater infrastructure.

The second Shanghai session is all about Efficient Traffic Management and Reliable Mobility Concepts for Smart Cities. Traffic volumes in China's bustling megacities are now absolutely enormous. Proactive traffic management systems based on flexible transport systems, intelligent IT networks and communication technology have the potential to prevent traffic jams at peak times.

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