<p>BW Smart Cities organised its third ‘Enabling Smart Cities’ conference in Bengaluru on 28 August 2015. Adding a new dimension to the discussion on infrastructure and services crucial for realising the government’s vision of 100 Smart Cities by 2022, it added ‘Startups for Smart Cities’ and a panel discussion on the ‘Internet of Things’ to the agenda.<br><br>Interesting thoughts included a speaker wondering whether by making metropolitan cities like Bengaluru better we were actually making them worse as we increase their magnetic appeal. Another spoke about the difficulty of limiting the genius of people to only four or five interventions that can make a city smarter. Re-emphasis on the optimisation of resources, sustained citizen engagement and an optimal management formula for cities resonated with the audience, along with the need to reduce the pressure of cars on roads — especially for a city like Bengaluru.<br><br>The next in the series is scheduled for 30 September in New Delhi.<br><br>(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 05-10-2015)</p>
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