Events & Initiatives.
Co-designing what comes next — across cities, capital, and collaboration.
Flagship Events & Summits
Flagship Events & Summits are where we convene bold thinkers, urban leaders, and innovators to shape the future of cities through high-impact dialogue and curated collaboration.
Ongoing Platforms & Hubs
Ongoing Platforms & Hubs are long-term initiatives where Urban Impact builds and stewards spaces for continuous public-private collaboration, innovation testing, and systems-level change in cities.
Past Events and Initiatives
Highlights from past events and initiatives that sparked ideas, built partnerships, and moved urban innovation forward.
Flagship Events & Summits
Gatherings that bring cities, innovators, and capital together. These summits are not just conferences — they’re curated moments that set new urban agendas, shape collaboration models, and spark action.
09 october 2025 , Warsaw, Poland
Urban Tech Landscape Report
Mapping Ecosystems for City-Transforming Collaboration
Created by Urban Impact and PFR, with the proud support of leading European and CEE investors InnoEnergy, Eurazeo and VCLeaders and based on world-class data from Dealroom and Bable Cities, this new report aims to strengthen the connection between Polish urban innovators and cities - highlighting the startups, solutions and trends shaping the future of urban living.
Ongoing Platforms & Hubs
Some initiatives are built to last. These are not one-off events, but long-term collaborations that connect public sector needs with scalable innovation — across challenges, cities, and years.
Berlin Future Hub
A multi-year collaboration with the City of Berlin to strengthen urban innovation capacity. The hub supports testbeds, founder programs, and public-private partnerships — connecting city departments with emerging solutions.
City.Solutions — Challenge Platform
An open challenge platform that helps cities surface innovation needs and partner with solution providers — co-designed with municipalities to bridge cities and startups across Europe.
Cities ABC Workshop
Urban Impact + With Company
A workshop that broadens your understanding of business opportunities in cities and gives you tools to address stakeholders.
Past Events and Initiatives
Past Events & Initiatives showcase the collaborations, pilots, and gatherings we've led or supported—capturing the momentum and learnings that continue to shape our work today.
UK - Future Cities Guide
Understand the UK’s tech ecosystem, better navigate public procurement and get insights into the most relevant climate and impact-focused VCs and startups. This guide series is for startups looking to expand into the UK market.
Smart City Walks — Berlin.
A walk through some of Berlin's most innovative urban tech and smart city initiatives including EUREF Campus, RadBahn, CityLab, Drivery, and Berlin’s Senate.
10-11 July, Berlin
URBAN UTOPIA Conference
The interdisciplinary industry platform for the plant industry. Not a traditional conference, but a participatory, transdisciplinary event. URBAN UTOPIA is the central meeting place for everyone who wants to shape the future with plants.
08-09 September, Sønderborg, Denmark
Rethink Cities Summit
Flagship annual gathering for bold city thinkers. This year’s edition brought together mayors, founders, public sector leaders, and investors in Sønderborg to explore climate, digital infrastructure, and the future of liveable cities.
19 September, UK
THE HEAT
A hands-on, practical, mind-expanding, friendship-building, exploratory, curiosity-led, science-based, creative, artistic, participatory, experimental, live, urgent and unpredictable gathering of 600+ talented people working on climate technologies.
