Marilyn Hamilton
Creator of the Integral City methodology and the four voices of the city; Chair of Trustees, Findhorn Foundation
FindhornScotland
“Amplified Intelligences of the Human Hive”
AI as the City Intelligence Amplifier.Intelligence the city owns, integrating citizens, business, government and civil society, so the whole city thrives.
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Today artificial intelligence comes up at every city meeting: in the mayor’s office, in business, at the university. The tools arrive faster than cities can work out how to govern them. From here on, the cities with a clear approach are the ones that gain. This program is built from the cities that already did the work: every talk is a real case, told by the person who ran it, with what changed and what was rolled back. Government, business, residents and the people who build AI at one table, writing the rules of that road together.
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Each theme has its own place on the map of the whole city, and its own voice there. Partners bring their frame into the shared space, and the program grows around what they bring. At each table sit the ones who did it, the ones who studied it and the ones who built it. A case has a city, a year, what was put in place and what measurably changed. A rollback counts as a result.
Data, goals and the charter: the conditions under which a city’s AI belongs to the city, and what cities and providers sign together.
Mobility, utilities, health, education, permits: what already works in cities, what it cost, and what measurably changed.
From a one-person shop to a corporate team: AI strategies for a city’s businesses, and the seat of business at the city’s table.
Listening at scale, deliberation, the resident who turns up to meetings, and what a city may know about its people.
The city’s labor market in transition: which jobs change, which appear, and how a city retrains its own people.
The line a city draws: surveillance, consent, open data, and public oversight of the systems that steer decisions.
The EU AI Act for municipalities, and the frames outside Europe: what a city has to do this year, and how to do it well.
AI’s footprint on water, energy and land, and AI for climate action and regenerative cities.
Schools and universities as the city’s AI classroom: from eight to twenty-five, a way in and a certificate at the end.
Live cases, failures included, and the network where cities see each other, compare maturity and exchange directly.
The city team, the company or the agency that put the system into a real service and lived with the result.
The university or institute that measured what it did for people, for rights and for the budget.
The lab or the company that built the tool, ready to say plainly what it does today and where its limits are.
The council member, the union, the journalist or the resident whose questions shaped the system, and what the city changed in answer.
The summit opens online over the World Cities Day weekend. Practitioners speak from their own cities and time zones, and the sessions continue through December.
Talks by city teams and practitioners, twenty minutes each with time for questions, across time zones.
New speakers and new cases join the program through the season.
Register once. Your Zoom link arrives right away and works for all three days.
Every session is recorded, so a city team can return to it with colleagues.
Lichtensteig, Toggenburg. The finale gathers here in December, and the town itself is a case: a small administration that does what only metropolises could before.
The program fills through October: city teams with a measured result, the researchers who studied it, and the providers who built it. Take a seat at the table. A person from the team writes back.
Opening Days October 30 - November 1, 2026. Summit sessions continue with regular meetings through December 12.
Online, free, from any city. Convened from Bern and Lichtensteig, Switzerland, with sessions across time zones.
Living Cities Earth Association, Global Mayors Academy and the City of Lichtensteig with former mayors and ministers, leaders of global city networks and the teams that build and deploy AI.
City leaders and their teams, AI builders and providers, business and investors with researchers, young professionals, residents and nonprofits at the same table: everyone who turns AI into working city services.
A strategy for your own next practical step: for your city, your company, your organization or your own career, written along the way with the people who did it before you.
Today artificial intelligence comes up at every city meeting: in the mayor’s office, in business, at the university. The tools arrive faster than cities can work out how to govern them. From here on, the cities with a clear approach are the ones that gain.
The technology that is changing everything can work for the flourishing of residents, companies and the city itself. That takes building it consciously: seeing the city whole, transport and services, safety and care, education, the economy and jobs, and taking into account, from day one, the rules now coming into force for city AI.
Scattered city data comes together in one space and helps the team make more precise decisions. The data and the logic of decisions stay with the city.
Experience from transport, the economy and jobs, education, energy and safety comes together in real cases throughout the summit. Among them are the ones cities later switched off.
Getting AI right in a city is long and delicate work, and it calls for a measured, conscious approach. This summit is a step along that road: government, local business and employers, residents, civic organizations, young people and the people who build these systems at one table, writing the rules of that road together.
All of them at one table, from the Opening Days on October 30 through December 12.
A city is its government, its citizens, its business, its civil society and its young people. Each hears its own part of the whole. The summit joins them around the intelligence the city owns, and gives the people who build and provide AI a sixth seat at the same table, so that every side gains and the city thrives as a whole.
Brings the mandate, the data, and the responsibility to serve everyone.
Takes away ownership of its own AI, and the language for the regulator.
Bring everyday reality: what a bus route means in a family evening.
Take away services that listen, and a city that finally hears them.
Brings capital, speed, and tools already built and ready to use.
Takes away an equal seat with government, and a strategy for its city.
Brings universities, foundations and media, keeping watch over the whole city.
Takes away an open venue, co-authorship, and access to real city practice.
Brings the decades ahead: school, a first job, the city they will inherit and run.
Takes away AI literacy that employers recognize, a first project of their own, and a seat held by right.
Bring the tools, the research, and an honest conversation about what they mean for public services.
Take away the conditions of entry into a city, signed together with the city, and a room of decision-makers.
