Collective Action in a Fragmenting World

OASC is returning to its roots with the Connected Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities Conference we are organizing in Brussels on 17-18 January. Connected Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities (CSSCC) is an annual event (previously known as CxC Festival) to bring the community of OASC members and partners together – an event that is open for all to join.

The CSSCC Conference is a unique global opportunity for cities, regions, towns as well as national and international policy makers and businesses to connect to the forefront of human-centric societal development shaped by real-time connected technologies, markets and policy in the 21st century.

The CSSCC Conference 2023 is organized by the Open & Agile Smart Cities network (OASC), which is a focused effort – driven by cities, backed by industry – to establish a global smart city market based on simple standard mechanisms for interoperability and exchange of data, especially real-time data from connected devices, since this is where the main challenges are.

The upcoming conference will consist of the Community Day on the 17th and the Conference Day on the 18th. The Community Day is aimed at OASC’s members and partners (current and prospective) to get practical together, forming the basis for OASC’s strategy – what should the future OASC look like? After the Community Day sessions and working groups, we will head out for the traditional (self-paid) Community Dinner. The Conference Day on the 18th consists of many more focused sessions and workshops on cities and communities’ digital transformation, and it’s open for all to join.

The Community Day on the 17th will be held at the SPARKS (60 Rue Ravenstein - 1000 Brussels), and the Confererence Day on the 18th will be held at the EGG (Rue Bara 175, 1070 Bruxelles).

The agenda for the Community Day and the Conference Day is centered around the title: "Collective Action in a Fragmenting World".

Agenda for the Community Day, January 17

Agenda for the Conference Day, January 18

As a part of the Conference we are organizing a matchmaking session where you can pitch your ideas or listen to others, or just do some casual networking in the peer-learning room!

You can register for the matchmaking session here: CSSCC Matchmaking

The Conference will have the following four thematic tracks:

• Tech
• Governance
• Impact
• Decision making

If you have any questions about the conference or registration, please contact us at csscc@oascities.org