Listen in as smart cities experts from around the world offer insights on challenges facing cities in this video from the 2015 Innovative City conference in Nice, France. You'll hear Council Executive Director Philip Bane as well as Michael Dixon, GM Smarter Cities for Council Lead Partner IBM. The panel also included: Bill Kistler, co-founder, The Urban Innovation Network in the UK;  Alexey Kosmin, founder of the Siberian Urban Lab  and Director of Center for Urban Research at Tomsk State University, Russia;  Peter Van den Heede, Marketing & Business Development Manager Smart Grids for Council Associate Partner ABB and Président Smart Cities, Agoria, Belgium, and  Dr. Koji Sasaki, researcher at the Institute for Urban Strategies, Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo.