Smart Cities MIAMI 2025 Conference, April 3+4

Name: Smart Cities MIAMI 2025 Conference, April 3+4
Start: 2025-04-03T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-03T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Lakeside Village

April 3 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

$50.00

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Message from the Conference Chair

The University of Miami School of Architecture and Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing present the 9th annual Smart Cities MIAMI Conference on Thursday and Friday, April 3+4. This year’s conference theme “Equitable Urban Futures” explores data and design innovations for shaping more equitable, human-centric, and agile smart cities.

Day One is being held at the University of Miami Coral Gables campus Lakeside Village Expo Center. A smaller, Day Two Workshop will gather a by-invitation group of external partners for a brainstorming session to create a disciplinary proposal with measurable outcomes.

CONFERENCE Day 1 April 3, 2025 Lakeside Village Expo Center, 1280 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | Exhibits are Day 1 ONLY

WORKSHOP Day 2 April 4, 2025 Newman Alumni Center Tower Room (4th Floor), 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

Sponsorship Opportunities and limited free Exhibitor Spaces are available. For more information, please call 305/ 243.4962 or email idsc@miami.edu.

Register Now for Day 1 ($50 per person)

Attendance for University of Miami Faculty, Staff, and Students is complimentary. Please email idsc@miami.edu for the PROMO CODE.

Agenda:
[8:30 am-9:00 am]	Registration
[9:00 am-9:10 am]	Introduction and Welcome Opening Remarks: Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury, PhD Conference Chair Remarks: Sarbeswar Praharaj, PhD
Session 1: Keynote Presentation
[9:10 am-9:40 am]	Keynote 1: Jennifer Clark PhD Professor and Head, City and Regional Planning The Ohio State University
[9:40 am-10:10 am]	KEYNOTE 2 : Nathalie Crutzen, PhD Founder/Director, HEC Smart City Institute University of Liège, Belgium
[10:10 am-10:30 am]	Break / Expo Hall
Session 2: Data & Urban Tech for Designing Equitable Smart Cities
[10:30 am-11:30 am]	Session 2 Presentations: Speaker 1: Fábio Duarte, PhD Associate Director of Research & Design, MIT Senseable City Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Speaker 2: Anthony Townsend, PhD Senior Research Associate at Jacbos Urban Tech Hub Cornell Tech
[11:30 am-12:00 pm]	Panel Discussion: Raimundo Rodulfo, Director/CIO of Innnovation & Technology, City of Coral Gables Dr. Florence M. Chee, Associate Professor & Director, Center for Digital Ethics & Policy, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago Dr. Fábio Duarte, Associate Director, MIT Senseable City Lab Dr. Anthony Townsend, Senior Research Associate at Jacobs Urban Tech Hub, Cornell Tech Moderator: Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury, University of Miami School of Architecture
[12:00 pm-1:30 pm]	Networking Lunch with Exhibits
Session 3: Innovating Agile and Humane Smart Cities
[1:30 pm-2:30 pm]	Speaker 1: Yan Wang, PhD Assistant Professor and Director of Urban Agility and Resilience Lab College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of FloridaSpeaker 2: Eduardo Costa, PhD Professor of Knowledge Management Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
[2:30pm -3:00 pm]	Panel Discussion: Christina Viala, Sustainability Coordinator, City of Pompano Beach Dr. Masahiko Haraguchi, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dr. Yan Wang, Assistant Professor and Director of Urban Agility and Resilience Lab, University of Florida Dr. Eduardo Costa, Professor of Knowledge Management, Federal University of Santa Catarina Moderator: Nicholas Tsinoremas, Director, University of Miami Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing
[3:00 pm-3:15 pm]	Coffee and Networking at Exhibits
[3:15 pm-4:00 pm]	Industry Panel Jayson Dunn, Sr. Business Manager – State and Local Government, NVIDIA Ian Arthur, Chief Operation Officer, 1Print Victor Dover, Founding Principal, Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning Tony Garcia, Co-Founder and Principal, Street Plans Moderator: Anna Queiroz, Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Communication
[4:00 pm-5:00 pm]	Closing Keynote Martin de Jong, PhD Professor and Director of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Rotterdam School of Management. Erasmus University, Netherlands Nora Noori, PhD Digital Transformation Advisor Erasmus University, Netherlands
[5:00 pm]	Closing Remarks Conference Chair, Sarbeswar Praharaj, PhD

Featured Speakers
	Jennifer Clark, PhD Professor and Head, City and Regional Planning Section The Ohio State University
	Nathalie Crutzen, PhD Founder/Director HEC Smart City Institute University of Liège, Belgium
	Martin de Jong, PhD Professor and Director of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Rotterdam School of Management. Erasmus University, Netherlands
	Fábio Duarte, PhD Associate Director of Research & Design, MIT Senseable City Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Dr. Anthony Townsend Senior Research Associate at the Jacobs Urban Tech Hub Cornell Tech
	Dr. Yan Wang Assistant Professor and Director of Urban Agility and Resilience Lab College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida
	Dr. Eduardo M. Costa Professor of Knowledge Management Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
	Dr. Masahiko Haraguchi Harvard University T. H. Chan School of Public Health
	Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury University of Miami School of Architecture
	Sarbeswar Praharaj, PhD Conference Chair Assistant Professor and Director, Urban Sustainability & Resilience Program, University of Miami
	Nick Tsinoremas Director, University of Miami Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing
	Ian Arthur, MPA Chief Operation Officer, 1Print
	Dr. Florence M. Chee Associate Professor & Director, Center for Digital Ethics and Policy, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago
	Victor Dover Founding Principal, Dover, Kohl, & Partners Town Planning
	Jayson Dunn Sr. Business Manager – State and Local Government, NVIDIA
	Tony Garcia Co-Founder and Principal, Street Plans
	Nora Noori, PhD Digital Transformation Advisor Erasmus University, Netherlands
	Anna Carolina Queiroz, PhD Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Communication
	Raimundo Rodulfo, PE PMP MSEM CSSBB Director/CIO of Innovation & Technology, City of Coral Gables
	Christina Viala Sustainability Coordinator, City of Pompano Beach

Details

Date:: April 3
Time:: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Cost:: $50.00
Event Categories:: Conference, Smart Cities
Event Tags:: Anna Queiroz, Anthony Townsend, Eduardo Costa, Fábio Duarte, Florence Chee, Ian Arthur, Inclusivity, Jayson Dunn, Jennifer Clark, Martin de Jong, Masahiko Haraguchi, Nathalie Crutzen, Nicholas Tsinoremas, Nora Noori, Paula Christina Viala, Raimundo Rodulfo, Richard Hanley, Rodolphe el-Khoury, Sarbeswar Praharaj, Social Equity, Spatial Equity, StreetPlans, Tony Garcia, Urban Housing, Yan Wang
Website:: https://events.miami.edu/event/smart-cities-miami-2025

Organizers

: Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing
: School of Architecture

Venue

: Lakeside Village
: 1280 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, 33146 United States + Google Map
Phone: 305-284-6067
: View Venue Website

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