SmartCity Challenges Who is the Problem Owner? · Manuela Krull-Mancinelli Managing Director Smart...

Manuela Krull-MancinelliManaging Director Smart City & IoT,

IC Horizon Flevoland the Netherlands,

Startup Advisor, Blockchain Entrepeneur

SmartCity ChallengesWho is the Problem Owner?

❑ DEFINITION SMART CITY

❑ ECOSYSTEM CHALLENGES

❑ STARTUPS, SCALEUPS, CORPORATES, PUBLIC SECTOR SHOULD WORK TOGETHER; WHO IS THE PROBLEM OWNER?

❑ SHARING EXPERIENCES & THOUGHTS

Answering two main questions:

1. How to foster startup ecosystems in cities

2. What private-public partnerships are possible

Definitions

CITY

Definitions

CITY

SMART CITY

THE CONNECTED SOCIETY

SMART CITY

CITY

Definitions

✓ DEFINITION SMART CITY

❑ ECOSYSTEM CHALLENGES

❑ STARTUPS, SCALEUPS, CORPORATES, PUBLIC SECTOR SHOULD WORK TOGETHER; WHO IS THE PROBLEM OWNER?

❑ SHARING EXPERIENCES & THOUGHTS

The Connected Society - IoT ecosystem

The IoT ecosystem (Mobile Middleware Research Group, 2017)

“The IoT ecosystem, represented in the figure on the left, consists of organisations providing one or a combination of IoT building blocks, which range from hardware, software, connectivity and storage to humans using the information created from data analysis in order to make better decisions. “

IoT ecosystem - IoT Platforms

Offerings can be built on top of IoT Platform

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“Who controls the Platform is in the Driver Seat”

Essential elements of an IoT platform (IoT Analytics, 2017)

Ecosystem SmartCity

PUBLIC SECTOR

PRIVATE SECTOR

CITIZENS

Ecosystem SmartCity

PUBLICSECTOR

PRIVATE SECTOR

CITIZENS

Different Technologies

Different Subverticals

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vation

Ecosystem Challenges

#1 Long Value Chain

Ecosystem Challenges

#1 Long Value Chain

#2 Skill gap: Many Solutions looking for a Problem to solve

Ecosystem Challenges

#1 Long Value Chain

#3 Matching Challenges:(a)Startups & Big organisations(b)Private sector & Public sector

#2 Skill gap: Many Solutions looking for a Problem to solve

✓ DEFINITION SMART CITY

✓ ECOSYSTEM CHALLENGES

❑ STARTUPS, SCALEUPS, CORPORATES, PUBLIC SECTOR SHOULD WORK TOGETHER; WHO IS THE PROBLEM OWNER?

❑ SHARING EXPERIENCES & THOUGHTS

Three different groups

PUBLICSECTOR

PRIVATE SECTOR

CITIZENS

Three different groups

PUBLICSECTOR

PRIVATE SECTOR

Differences:- Events- Social media channels- Language- Skills- Maturity of procedures- Agility- Financing

CITIZENS

Sharing Experiences

Sharing Experiences

Positive:- Smooth collaboration during preps- Financing of the event- Many visitors due to mixed audience- Positive feedback afterwards

Challenges:- First time SBC collaborated this way in the set up of a demo day- Financing of the entire program

Sharing Experiences

Sharing ExperiencesPositive:- Collaboration with knowledge partner Deltares- Focus on topic Urban Resilience & Water

Challenges, subverticals: floods&droughts, waste and energy

- Extremely good feedback on announcement- Invited to every company and organisation we

contacted

Challenges:- None of the private or public sector organisations wanted to fund the program- Result: stop SmartCity in Startupbootcamp AMS

Thoughts: Who is the Problem Owner?

PUBLIC SECTOR

PRIVATE SECTOR

CITIZENS

FUNDING

Thoughts: What do Startups need from the ecosystem?

Happy Clients

Proof of Concept

Answering two main questions:

1. How to foster startup ecosystems in cities

2. What private-public partnerships are possible

Manuela Krull-MancinelliManaging Director Smart City & IoT,

IC Horizon Flevoland the Netherlands,

Startup Advisor, Blockchain Entrepeneur

SmartCity ChallengesWho is the Problem Owner?