Expo Overview
Greetings

Taking on the challenge of creating a Smart City is an initiative aiming at building a local community where anyone is able to take part in society and pursuing both individual capacity development and the quality of life improvement.Furthermore, with an ICT foundation, this endeavor does not only target infrastructure relating to environment, energy, and public transport systems, but also involves health, food, culture, education and other wide-ranging and multifaceted industrial fields.

Kyoto is a city offering a lifestyle in which rich history and culture cultivated from days of old are still alive; the city is also home to the Kansai Science City, where state-of-the-art research and technology are brought together. This makes Kyoto a city capable of leading the world in the field of Smart Cities. I believe participation in the cutting edge Smart City projects of cities around the world will serve as an excellent opportunity for Kyoto/Keihanna to co-create and promote Smart Cities while contributing to the realization of a sustainable society. I await your participation in the Smart City Expo.