Smart Dublin Innovation Week is an annual series of events, workshops, demonstrations, and public engagements organised by the Smart Dublin programme to showcase the latest smart city projects and innovations across the Dublin region. The week-long programme brings together the four Dublin Local Authorities, technology partners, academic institutions, and citizens for a celebration of urban innovation and an exploration of Dublin's smart city future.
Events are distributed across multiple smart district locations including Smart Docklands, Smart D8, Smart Balbriggan, and Smart Sandyford, highlighting the diverse and place-specific nature of Dublin's smart city activities. Activities range from technical demonstrations of IoT sensor deployments and data analytics platforms to citizen workshops on digital skills, privacy, and the ethical use of technology in public services.
The week includes a flagship conference day featuring keynote speeches from international smart city leaders, panel discussions with Dublin's municipal innovation teams, and presentations of results from the year's pilot projects. A hackathon challenges participants to develop new applications using Dublin's open data, with prizes for solutions that address pressing urban challenges identified by the four local authorities.
Smart Dublin Innovation Week serves multiple purposes: it provides accountability by publicly demonstrating the outcomes of smart city investments; it engages citizens in dialogue about the technologies shaping their city; it creates networking opportunities between the public sector, industry, and academia; and it generates media coverage that reinforces Dublin's reputation as a leading European smart city. The event has become an important annual milestone for the Dublin smart city community.