More than 100 companies and organizations will participate in the event
Chile hosts a new edition of Smart City Expo focused on citizen well-being
Santiago de Chile will become the Latin American capital of smart cities from July 24 to 26 on the occasion of Smart City Expo Santiago de Chile (SCES). The event, which this year reaches its third edition, will bring together more than 6,000 visitors and nearly a hundred companies at the Estación Mapocho Cultural Center to discuss and address the design and construction of smarter and more sustainable cities.
Under the motto “Recovering the city for people: a shared challenge”, the event organized by Fira de Barcelona and Interexpo, with the support of the Government of Santiago, the Regional Council, and the Regional Development Corporation, will connect the public sector with private companies, universities, start-ups, and civil society.
SCES structures its congress section around four focus areas: Safe and Resilient Cities; Adaptation to Climate Change; Mobility and City Planning, and Living Better: Opportunities for Social Integration and Cohesion.
To address these issues, the meeting will feature the participation of a hundred prestigious speakers, including Marta Rofin Serrà, architect and CEO of Healthy Cities; Washington Fajardo, specialist in housing and urban development at the Inter-American Development Bank; Camila Mileke, Secretary of Cities in the Government of the State of Paraná (Brazil); Daniela Chacón, Executive Director of the Tàndem Foundation; and Jorge Andrés Moisés Gonzales, Undersecretary of Tourism of the Mayor’s Office of Cartagena de Indias.
In parallel to the conference programme, SCES will have an exhibition space in which innovative and disruptive solutions focused on urban transformation and sustainable mobility will be presented. In total, more than 100 companies and institutions such as Claro Empresas, Copec, Enel, Indra, NEC, Sercotec, Sonda, and Yunex, among others, will participate.
Fira, a global platform
Smart City Expo Santiago de Chile is part of the programme of events that Fira de Barcelona International organises outside Spain in 2025. With a dozen confirmed events, the trade fair institution is reinforcing its expansion strategy abroad. Among the scheduled events are editions of Smart City Expo in New York (USA), Curitiba (Brazil), Puebla (Mexico), Santiago del Estero (Argentina), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Doha (Qatar) and Tomorrow City in Shanghai (China).
In addition to these, IOT Brazil in Sao Paulo, Mexico Hospitality Expo in Guadalajara (Mexico), Alimentaria Chengdu in China and Tomorrow Blue Economy in Niteroi (Brazil) are added.
Barcelona, July 21, 2025