The presentation will outline how EY has initiated a project to analyze a market potential in the area of Smart Cities and Regions in Slovakia and create an investment platform to support those activities through a deployment of financial instruments. The main aim is to identify projects that classify under the Smart City umbrella and identify available sources of funding. The project emhasised a need to provide assistance to municipalities in the development and implementation of Smart City projects in order to design ‚smart‘ investments with feasible financial architecture.