Featuring speakers from all over Greece and Europe, the Conference on Smart Islands and Smart Small Cities, organized by the Aegean Energy & Environment Agency, the Network of Sustainable Greek Islands DAFNI and the energy portal Energypress, took place on 22 & 23 February at the Ionic Center in Athens. The main target of the conference was to highlight the conditions for intelligent development at local level, define the respective roles and duties (government, municipalities, enterprises, citizens’ unions, academia), as well as to present the roadmap for the supporting structures (technical and financial) available to small cities and islands by National and European funding mechanisms and programmes.