Smart Cities MIAMI 2025 Conference, April 3+4

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” strives to make smart cities more equitable and inclusive through organizational and financial models, considering:

• Frameworks for Collaborative Innovation, intending to introspect and innovate with new organizational and financial models and frameworks to attain digitally inclusive smart cities, and;
• Shaping Socially Equitable Smart Cities, deliberating on social and spatial equity and justice in the design and delivery of smart city development policies and programs.

Day One of the Conference 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 Lakeside Village Expo Center, 1280 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

WORKSHOP Day 2 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.

Keynote Speakers
	Richard Hanley, PhD Professor and Director of City Tech’s Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center Board Chair of the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems Founding Editor, Journal of Urban Technology City University of New York
Panelists
	Fábio Duarte, PhD Associate Director of Research & Design, MIT Senseable City Lab Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Anthony Townsend, PhD Senior Research Associate at the Jacobs Urban Tech Hub — Technion-Cornell Institute Book: Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for A New Utopia (2013) Cornell Tech
	Martin de Jong, PhD Professor and Director of the Erasmus Initiative on ‘Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity’ Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University Rotterdam
	Masahiko Haraguchi, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University
	Tian Tang, PhD  Associate Professor and Lead Faculty – Smart Cities and Digital Governance, Director, Sustainability and Governance Lab Askew School of Public Administration and Policy Florida State University