CGC Research Director, Albena Mihovska, represents the EU funded MetaCities Excellence Hub in South-Eastern Europe in the Panel Session: AI Spatial Avatars for Metacities at the Smart City Expo World Congress Barcelona on 6 November 2025 and discuss why geospatial technologies, AI and metaverse frameworks are no longer separate domains – they are merging to a new level of how we experience, manage, and interact with our cities and define the urban experiences of today and the future.
Geospatial AI provides the intelligence layer that makes sense of our physical world, transforming raw location data into actionable insights that power everyhting from autonomous systems to predictive city management.
Digital twin frameworks and standards are the backbone of this transformation as they unlock interoperability scalability and true smartcity ecosystems.
6G networks provide the ultra-low latency, massive connectivity, and unprecedented bandwidth needed to support millions of simultaneous XR experiences, real-time digital synchronization, and seamless avatar interactions across physical spaces.
Panel session:
Description:
“In good company with Marios Nicolaou Dhananjay Lal and Dan Isaacs today at Smart City Expo World Congress to debate on the fascinating convergence of artificial intelligence, spatial computing, and persistent virtual urban environments. We all agreed that 6G and metaverse standardisation and interoperability play an absolutely critical role to solve the currently open Integration Challenge one6G MetaCities Excellence Hub in South-Eastern Europe SmartAvatar B.V. ICT Cluster” Albena Mihovska said.
Moderator:
Marios Nicolaou, BD Director p-NET
Panelists:
Albena Mihovska, CTO, SmartAvatar
DJ Lal, VP Advanced R&D, Adeia
Vassiliki Danelli-Mylonas, President, R.S. I.
More information on the website Smart City Expo World Congress 2025: