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Host City: Miami, FL

Bernardo Scheinkman, Architect & Urban Planner Founder, CEO & Curator

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Contents Welcome............................. 7 About................................. 10 Global Reach......................... 14 Smart Disruptors..................... 18 The C-Movement.................... 20 Cities Experiences Insights Stage. . . . 22 CIO Music Hall....................... 34 Media Hub........................... 36 Startup Hub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Testimonials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Participants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Bookstore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Why Miami?.......................... 59

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WELCOME

Welcome, I would like to thank everyone who participated in the online version of Smart City Expo Miami 2020.

Smart City Expo Miami is an international innovation platform to promote educational, business and media initiatives to create a better future for citizens, communities and cities.

It is produced by Smart Cities Americas LLC, a Florida Corporation. The event brings to Miami, and the world, the forefront of innovation in urban solutions with sustainability.

The City of Miami is in the midst of transitioning into a global city. Smart City Expo Miami 2020 was a hub for high-impact entrepreneurs, innovation and economic growth. It also contributed to growing and providing additional resources for residents and businesses to succeed.

From the comfort of their own places, participants enjoyed presentations by disruptive professionals in cities’ experiences. They were delighted by remarkable keynotes and speakers sharing their experiences about sustainability, resilience and circular economy.

Smart City Expo Miami launched the C-Movement, which aimed to engage and empower citizens and communities to participate in the planning and implementation of actions to meet the core functions of their cities: livability, workability and sustainability. Participants chose their role in this movement, either Citizen, Community or City.

The event took participants on an immersive tour, an experience to stay with them long after it ended, and, ultimately, changed the way they see and live in the world around them.

Among participants were representatives from cities; countries; local, national and international technical bodies; nongovernmental organizations; corporations; startups; and entrepreneurs.

Thank you all. I hope you enjoy and benefit from all the presentations and discussions during this two-day event.

Bernardo Scheinkman Architect & Urban Planner Founder & CEO, Smart Cities Americas LLC Founder, CEO & Curator, Smart City Expo Miami

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Smart City Expo Miami Smart City Expo Miami is a platform designed to foster social innovation, develop partnerships and identify educational and business opportunities to create a better future for citizens, communities and cities.

Smart City Expo Miami is an international conference produced by Smart Cities Americas LLC, a Florida corporation. It is the largest global event of the year hosted from Miami, featuring speakers who are international experts that are leading the charge.

The event brings to Miami the forefront of innovation in sustainable urban solutions with representatives from cities; countries; local, national and international technical bodies; nongovernmental organizations; corporations; startups; and entrepreneurs.

The inaugural Smart City Expo Miami was held virtually December 2-3, 2020, and gathered participants from all over the world to congregate with utmost smart disruptors and innovative businesses and products.

With the topic of “Smart Cities” as its fundamental axis, the online event presented discussion and analyses focused on issues related to sustainability, resilience and circular economy. Participants from all over the world joined the two-day event from the comfort of their homes or offices, listening to disruptive speakers of great relevance in their

areas of expertise related to smart cities.

They were also engaged in panels with two to three speakers discussing together.

The event was highlighted by daily TED Talks-style presentations, moderated dialogues, ongoing conversations, group discussions and other interactions surrounding communities’ and cities’ experiences and how we can engage and empower citizens, communities and cities to implement them in practical and effective ways.

Participants were also able to join exclusive rooms and have direct dialogues with CIOs and media and startup professionals, and purchase relevant books in the official virtual bookstore.

There is a critical need to improve experiences across the smart cities market, moreso now in the new reality the world is facing. Smart City Expo Miami 2020 brought about these opportunities to rethink our approach to designing, building and maintaining living spaces that will unlock significant benefits for citizens, communities and cities.

UPCOMING EVENT:

Cities as Innovation Platforms

Dec. 8-10, 2021

JAMES L. KNIGHT CENTER, MIAMI, FL

ABOUT

Open for Business, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Largest Miami marketing in digital advertising, display marketing and social platforms.

The meeting for the best minds of urbanism and technology.

Interaction with the local community, raising awareness of the importance of urban planning.

Empower people: citizens and communities.

Stimulate business and business missions through the mobilization of the 85 consulates and 74 binational chambers in Miami-Dade County.

Stimulate publicprivate partnerships in infrastructure with the adoption of stateof-the-art technology: 5G and IoT.

Market Miami as an innovation platform.

Encourage the use of the circular economy.

Direct effect: Generate business tourism, stimulate the arrival of new companies to Miami with incentives for entrepreneurship and innovation, creating new jobs.

20 CITIES EXPERIENCES

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ABOUT

20 Cities Experiences

by Smart Disruptors Smart City Expo Miami 2020 was held virtually December 2-3, 2020, and brought together participants from all over the world to discuss topics related to sustainability, resilience and circular economy.

THE C-MOVEMENT SCEM 2020 launched the C-Movement and invited Citizens, Communities and Circular Cities to join. The C-Movement aimed to engage and empower citizens and communities to participate in the planning and implementation of actions to meet the core functions of their cities: livability, workability and sustainability.

CITIES EXPERIENCES INSIGHTS STAGE The Cities Experiences Insights Stages featured TED Talks-style presentations, moderated dialogues, group discussions and other interactions around communities’ and cities’ experiences and how we can engage and empower citizens, communities and cities to implement these experiences in practical and effective ways.

Exclusive VIP Rooms:

CIO MUSIC HALL Exclusive room where CIOs presented and discussed experiences linked to smart cities and the C-Movement.

MEDIA HUB Exclusive room where knowledge and experiences were shared to enhance citizens’, communities’ and cities’ engagement and empowerment through the media’s journey.

STARTUP HUB Exclusive room that connected startups who have been spotlighted in the smart cities environment.

BOOKSTORE Participants received the best book recommendations related to smart cities experiences.

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Global Reach

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London / Dublin 6 Toronto / Montreal / Calgary 5 Portland New York / Washington, DC 5

Denver

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Barcelona / Madrid

Minneapolis Los Angeles / San Jose / Palo Alto

Austin

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Miami / Fort Lauderdale / Boca Raton / Coral Gables / Orlando / Jacksonville

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São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro / Curitiba / Belo Horizonte / Brasília / Porto Alegre

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Top 10 Participating Countries

1. United States

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2. Brazil

3. Israel

4. Germany

5. Canada

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Berlin / Hamburg / Munich Paris

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Taipei Manila

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New Delhi / Mumbai / Bangalore

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Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane 8

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7. Spain

8. Australia

9. India

10. Italy

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Participant Organizations ACADEMIA ASSOCIATIONS & NGOS GLOBAL COMPANIES GOVERNMENTAL & INTERGOVERNMENTAL STARTUPS SMALL & MEDIUM BUSINESSES 20

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Participant Sectors BUSINESS SERVICES TECHNICIANS & SPECIALISTS TOP PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES HIGH-LEVEL MANAGEMENT NON-PROFIT PROFESSIONALS EDUCATION

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ACADEMIA Sorbonne University University of Lisbon Technical University of Crete Florida International University Stanford University Cyprus University of Technology Fraunhofer IIS Politecnico di Torino University of Miami Miami Dade College University of Toronto University of Philippines University of Colorado GOVERNMENTAL & INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS UN-Habitat Smart City Research Center of Iran The Ministry of Economy of Israel Trade Miami-Dade Beacon Council Consulate General of Israel in Miami South Florida Commuter Services (FDOT) Trade Commission of Spain Miami-Dade Transit - DTPW Austrian Institute of Technology FIRJAN Inter-American Development Bank Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience Apex Brasil ABDI - Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development OECD World Bank Broward County Office of Economic & Small Business Development Broward County ICEX Freddie Mac

ASSOCIATIONS & NGOS Urban Land Institute Chamber of Eco Commerce Chamber of Commerce of Cartagena Camacol - Latin Chamber USA Metro Atlanta Chamber The Global Chamber Catalonia Trade & Investment Polish Investment & Trade Agency Curitiba Agency for Development Economic Development Agency - City of Dortmund World Trade Center of Miami

GLOBAL COMPANIES Cisco Amazon Web Services Siemens Johnson Controls Certisign ZTE Corporation AECOM American Infrastructure Partners Hill International Renault Motorola Solutions Natura Kyocera Autodesk Enel X Hitachi Global Social Innovation Turner Construction Company Deloitte Stantec MCI Group Canada Jacobs Arzka International Uber Technologies Becker Frost & Sullivan

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Smart Disruptors Smart City Expo Miami welcomed 27 smart disruptors from around the world who presented virtual talks related to smart cities, sustainability, resilience, circular economy and more.

Francis Suarez Mayor, City of Miami Miami, FL

Matthew Bailey CEO, AIEthics.world Denver, CO

Jonathan Reichental Author & CEO, Human Future Palo Alto, CA

Dr. Edna Pasher Eyal Feder-Levy Founder, Israel Smart Cities Institute CEO, ZenCity Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel

Paul Doherty, AIA CEO, The Digit Group Memphis, TN

Guy Elad Deputy CIO, Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality Tel Aviv, Israel

Vito di Bari CEO, Di Bari & Associates Miami, FL Bernardo Scheinkman CEO, Smart Cities Americas Miami, FL Victor Dover, FAICP President, Dover, Kohl & Partners Coral Gables, FL Leticia Latino van-Splunteren CEO, Neptuno USA Hollywood, FL Prof. Carlos Moreno Sorbonne University Paris, France Dr. Amy M. Hochadel Director, Connected Places Catapult London, United Kingdom 18

Zoe Eather The Smart Community Podcast Queensland, Australia Mike Barlow Author, Cumulus Partners Fairfield, CT Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton Principal, CLB Strategic Consulting Portland, OR

Amir Elichai CEO, Carbyne New York, NY

Mike Hess Director, City of Orlando Orlando, FL Prof. Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal John Simmerman Founder, Active Towns Austin, TX Kris Libunao Director, SmartCT Hayward, CA

Raimundo Rodulfo CIO, City of Coral Gables Coral Gables, FL

Dr. Georgi Georgiev Member, European Innovation Partnership Munich, Germany

Eugene W. Grant Mayor, City of Seat Pleasant Seat Pleasant, MD

David Graham CIO, City of Carlsbad Carlsbad, CA

Sara Schurmann Journalist Hamburg, Germany

Arik Bronshtein CEO, Urban Leap San Francisco, CA

SMART DISRUPTORS

FRANCIS SUAREZ

JONATHAN REICHENTAL

PAUL DOHERTY

VITO DI BARI

BERNARDO SCHEINKMAN

VICTOR DOVER

LETICIA LATINO

CARLOS MORENO

AMY HOCHADEL

MATTHEW JAMES BAILEY

EDNA PASHER

GUY ELAD

ZOE EATHER

MIKE BARLOW

CORNELIA LEVY-BENCHETON

RAIMUNDO RODULFO

EUGENE GRANT

SARA SCHURMANN

AMIR ELICHAI

EYAL FEDER-LEVY

MIKE HESS

ISABEL FERREIRA

JOHN SIMMERMAN

KRIS LIBUNAO

GEORGI GEORGIEV

DAVID GRAHAM

ARIK BRONSHTEIN

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THE C-MOVEMENT SCEM 2020 launched the C-Movement, inviting Citizens, Community and Circular Cities to join it. The C-Movement aimed to engage and empower citizens and communities to participate in the planning and implementation of actions to meet the core functions of their cities: livability, workability and sustainability.

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THE C-MOVEMENT

The C-Movement Journey Smart City Expo Miami is a journey—a virtual journey that begins when registering, but is intended to inspire participants to continue learning and taking actions throughout life. It is a long-lasting and meaningful experience.

The C-Movement has the goal of engaging and empowering citizens, communities and cities. The new future envisioned is more about people connected to technology that responds to their needs and wishes than just smart technology itself. Quality of life, health, well-being, happiness, safety and privacy are the new indicators that we will have to take into account in the coming years.

How can citizens be more active in their communities? How can they speak up about their needs and express their ideas? How can they be engaged to contribute to the planning process and create a unified effort?

How can they be educated about creating a more sustainable world and a circular economy model? How can we understand their technological needs and worries?

How can communities connect with their citizens and empower them? How can communities be empowered to take a more decisive position in their cities? How can technology be developed to respond to citizens’ and communities’ endeavors?

Citizens and communities are the leaders and drivers of change. Communities should

be interconnected to learn from and teach one another.

Cities are the foundation of culture and people’s identities. Do we have a plan for the city with people, productivity and happiness in mind? Do we offer a real environment, using appropriate technology, that allows a comprehensive part of the population to speak up and participate in the city’s life? Is there new technology (right now) that is affordable and enables unprecedented participation while ushering in a new era of public support for a revitalized city?

Do we have a controlled process that produces successful projects that fit into our plan without wasted time or money while eliminating corruption? Do we have a plan for maintaining the completed assets that is locally resourced and sustainable?

Do we grant participation for citizens and communities to improve the legislative and regulatory framework?

There is urgency on the governance model’s transformation. The C-Movement is not a destination; it is a journey.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

CITIES EXPERIENCES INSIGHTS STAGE Through the Cities Experiences Insight Stage, participants had the opportunity to watch inspiring urban leaders and professionals, learn more about disruptive innovations and gain access to the forefront of cutting-edge urban solutions.

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CITIES EXPERIENCES INSIGHTS STAGE

Sustainable & Resilient Miami A commitment to developing a long-term climate strategy for the City of Miami.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Francis Suarez Mayor, City of Miami Miami, Florida Mayor Francis Suarez is 2nd Vice President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Chair of the Environment Committee. In these capacities, he takes a leading role in collaborating with fellow mayors from around the country to preserve the environment and develop programs and policies that directly benefit the City of Miami. He also serves as Vice-Chair of the Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) and is the former President of the Miami-Dade County League of Cities. In his role at the TPO,

As the mayor of Miami, I have experienced the devastation of climate change firsthand. But I’ve also seen the ways climate action and clean energy can provide a more sustainable and successful future for my city.

Just as we made Miami the most wind-resilient city in the world, I want to make Miami the most flood-resistant city in the world. My administration has been aggressively committed to developing a long-term climate strategy that aims to support Miami’s businesses through policies and programs that will advance our transition to a clean energy economy. Part of the commitment will be making Miami a carbon-neutral city by 2050.

The clean energy industry currently employs over 60,000 people in Miami, making us eighth in the nation in green jobs. And as we continue to break through as a national leader in solar and electric vehicle infrastructure, we will have the opportunity to expand employment opportunities even further.

None of this is possible overnight. It requires a meticulously coordinated effort across all of our departments. And, more importantly, it requires our residents to be fully invested in our vision. This issue impacts all of us, and it will take all of us to fix it.

The time has passed to simply be reactive to climate change. We must be proactive and pave the way for other cities in the U.S. and around the world to achieve lower carbon emissions while ensuring our communities remain safe and prosperous. Addressing climate change is a moral imperative.

And, if managed properly, it will also be the right move for the health of our residents and the health of our economy.

Mayor Suarez championed the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan, which was unanimously approved.

The SMART Plan expands mass transit options in MiamiDade County through six main corridors and new bus routes to ease traffic congestion and support future population growth.

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My administration has been aggressively committed to developing a long-term climate strategy that aims to support Miami’s businesses through policies and programs that will advance our transition to a clean energy economy.

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Victor Dover

President, Dover, Kohl & Partners Coral Gables, Florida Victor Dover is co-founder of the town planning firm Dover, Kohl & Partners.

Over the last 30 years, his practice has focused on regenerating sound neighborhoods as the fundamental building blocks of well-loved communities.

A tireless reformer, he has helped set the standards for green building and citizen participation at the neighborhood scale.

Better Streets & Parks for Smart Cities

SPEAKER

Open, inviting public realms are more important than ever for cities. Green spaces, including parks and squares, plus the tree-lined streets and greenway trails that connect them, are the distinctive hallmarks of any economical, equitable, enjoyable city. Investments in parks and street makeovers can maximize a neighborhood’s image, safety, access and convenience.

Carlos Moreno

Professor, Sorbonne University Paris, France Carlos Moreno is Scientific Director “Entrepreneurship, Territory, Innovation” Chair at Panthéon Sorbonne University – IAE Paris. He has earned recognition as a scientist with an innovative mind, pioneering works and a unique approach to urban issues. He is also a scientific advisor for national and international figures of the highest level, including acting as Smart City Special Envoy to the Mayor of Paris.

The 15-Minute City Concept

SPEAKER

The city of proximities, the 15-minute city is a new paradigm for living in cities in these challenging times of climate change and the pandemic crisis.

We have oriented the 15-minute city to provide access to six urban social functions—live, work, supply, enjoy, learn and create—within 15 minutes walking distance of one another.

Dr. Edna Pasher

Founder, Israel Smart Cities Institute Tel Aviv, Israel In 1979, Edna Pasher founded Edna Pasher Ph.D. & Associates (EPA), a strategic international management consulting firm that provides customized consulting services to organizations in the private and public sectors. She specializes in assisting client organizations to speed up strategic renewal in a turbulent world.

Engaging Citizens in Co-Creating a Better City Together

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Real estate and technology alone cannot achieve a smart city. People support what they help create, which is why engagement of citizens in urban planning and design is a critical success factor. At the Israel Smart Cities Institute, we help municipalities identify the competitive advantage of their cities and develop them using state-of-the-art technology for their citizens, tourists and business professionals.

CITIES EXPERIENCES INSIGHTS STAGE

Building Innovation Competency in City Leaders How to build an innovation mindset so that city leaders can drive change and create the kind of future cities we all want.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Jonathan Reichental CEO, Human Future Palo Alto, California Dr. Jonathan Reichental is a multiple award-winning technology and business leader whose career has spanned both the private and public sectors. He has been a Senior Software Engineering Manager and a Director of Technology Innovation and has served as Chief Information Officer at both O’Reilly Media and the City of Palo Alto. He also creates online education for LinkedIn Learning and recently published the book Smart Cities for Dummies.

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With so many intractable issues ranging from continued poverty to lack of inclusiveness, from energy challenges to transportation dysfunction, reinventing our cities for a better quality of life must be a priority for every city. But we’re struggling to get there. Sure, we have the technology for many of our problems. That’s seldom the issue these days. What we’re missing is a higher level of competency to execute on possibilities. It’s not enough for just the Chief Technology Officer to understand technology and innovation.

If we’re going to meet the challenge of our time, we need leaders across government who understand both. Building innovation competency in city leaders may be one of the best ways to execute 21st-century solutions.

There are many challenges, but if we get them right—and some cities have shown where they can do it right—everybody rises to a better quality of life.

Some cities will go fast, some will be slow, and some will be laggards who don’t move quickly at all, and their communities won’t see the benefits.

We have to start moving people along in a positive, progressive fashion.

Include everyone in the conversation, as many people as possible from your community—children, students, retired people and organizations. Include people from the region, and even people outside the region, to collaborate and create partnerships.

An innovation mindset requires courage. Of course, if it were easy, everybody would do it. You need to experiment. You will have failures. But you have to have leadership that’s committed to innovation and an innovation mindset.

It’s not enough for just the Chief Technology Officer to understand technology and innovation. If we’re going to meet the challenge of our time, we need leaders across government who understand both.

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Dr. Amy M. Hochadel

Director of Global Business Growth, Connected Places Catapult London, England Author of Local Leadership in a Global Era: Policy and Behaviour Change in Cities, Amy Hochadel works with stakeholders, private clients and governments across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. She specializes in enabling local governments around the world to build global innovation economies and future resilience.

Creating Innovation Locations in a COVID World: Building Foundations & Leapfrogging to Acceleration

SPEAKER

The Connected Places Catapult accelerates smarter living and traveling in and between the places of tomorrow. We focus on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enable new levels of physical, digital and social connectedness. We have infinite power to improve our cities and our citizens’ lives, and we need to prioritize that.

Guy Elad

Deputy CIO, Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality Tel Aviv, Israel Guy Elad is Deputy CIO and Director of Operations & IT Services in the Division of ICT and IT in the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Before his current position, he was Lieutenant Colonel at the C4I branch in the IDF.

Tel Aviv: The Startup Nation

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Israel is becoming a “Startup Nation,” and Tel Aviv has become its capital.

TLV actively encourages economic growth and development, which has made it a beta site for startups. Why should we invest in helping startups?

Usually, a municipality provides services to its residents. But there are other communities, companies, developers and startups that can join forces and give better, richer services. The idea is to create an ecosystem that leverages partners and inspires them to create services for residents.

Leticia Latino van-Splunteren CEO, Neptuno USA Hollywood, Florida With over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry, Leticia Latino vanSplunteren went from working for Merrill Lynch and Nortel Networks to extending her family business, Neptuno Group, in the U.S. in 2002. Her father founded the company in 1972 in South America, where they helped deploy some of the first cellular networks in the region and built over 10,000 towers.

Connecting Humanity for Tomorrow

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With infrastructure such as 5G now widely deployed, cities are facing the tough decision: to disrupt or to be disrupted. Sustainable economic development, the efficient use of natural resources and a “learning by doing” mentality have made Amsterdam successful and can be used as a learning tool for other cities that face similar challenges and opportunities.

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Smart Cities in the Age of Pandemics How cities can start implementing smart solutions to prepare for the “new normal.”

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Paul Doherty CEO, The Digit Group Memphis, Tennessee Paul Doherty, AIA, is an award-winning architect and Chairman and CEO of The Digit Group (TDG) Global Ventures, a Singaporeregistered smart city real estate development company.

He’s been featured on Bloomberg TV, acknowledged

by CNBC as one of America’s Business Titans and reported

by Forbes as “Changing the World.” He is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council (DFC) and a fellow of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). Concurrently, Doherty is the co-founder and producer

The disruption from the Age of Pandemics is changing our industry forever. We’re no longer just building cities. We’re building human urban environments that are data-centric. Position yourself for success with machine learning and artificial intelligence; voice assistance; big trusted data; robotics; modular/prefab, augmented and virtual reality; and BIM 2.0.

It’s not just about mother nature and climate change anymore. The challenge is no longer putting out a forest fire and thinking that we’re going to be okay. We now have a viral challenge to the entire human race that will continue and continue and continue. So how are we going to adapt? How are we going to adopt? How are we going to act?

We have to create environments where we can trust each other, and we can trust the environments that we’re in. That trust relationship will be the building blocks for how we start to climb out of this mess. It comes right back down to design, preparedness and resiliency.

This idea of preparing for the next pandemic is not a scare tactic. This is science and data. We are smarter than this; we are better than this. We need to look at the principles of a data-driven human-centric environment, keep the biggest story in focus, embrace the collision of industries, and celebrate the absurdity of our industry by doing good for our world. If we keep these things in mind, we’re going to be okay.

You can emerge from a particular incident transformed, and that’s exactly what we’re going through right now, not just as a society, not just as Americans, but as humans around the world. We’re all in this together.

of the critically acclaimed AEC Hackathon.

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We have to create environments where we can trust each other, and we can trust the environments that we’re in.

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SPEAKER

Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira Professor, University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira is a professor at the University of Lisbon’s Centre of Philosophy and Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR).

She works on the ethical and social impacts of the massive deployment of robotics and AI. She recently published How Smart Is Your City?

Technological Innovation, Ethics and Inclusiveness (Springer Publishers).

How Smart Is Your City?

How smart is your city? This question cannot be dissociated from what kind of world do we want to live in? What kind of economic and social model do we favor? Which ties, bonds and values do we cherish and prioritize? The concept of the smart city has evolved from a mere techno-centric interpretation to a human-centric perspective of ICT-driven urban innovation and development, where contextual variance has to be taken into account. By posing the question, “How smart is your city?” and adopting a human-centered, age- gender- and culture-responsive stance to urban development, multiple pathways open up for technological innovation and business opportunities.

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The concept of the smart city has evolved from a mere techno-centric interpretation to a human-centric perspective of ICT-driven urban innovation and development.

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SPEAKER

Kris Libunao

Executive Director, SmartCT Hayward, California A pioneer in the smart city space in the Philippines, Kris R. Villanueva-Libunao is the Executive Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at SmartCT and currently training under the ASEAN Smart Cities Leaders Programme. She is also a smart sustainable cities instructor with IoT Academy and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Academy.

What Does It Really Take to Become Smart?

At its core, a smart city should be a welcoming, inclusive and open community. Past and current smart city initiatives are too tech-centered. If we check the international definition of a smart city, technologies are but a tool. Becoming a smart city is a journey of bettering the quality of the lives of citizens. SmartCT is tackling the smart development and implementation gap between developed and developing communities by creating a faster way to evaluate a local government’s smartness maturity through its offlinefirst approach and cultivating the data needed for innovation through localized publicprivate-people data portals.

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If we check the international definition of a smart city, technologies are but a tool; becoming a smart city is a journey of bettering the quality of the lives of citizens.

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Uplifting Human Experiences through Smart City Design Smart city shift and change. Predictions for 2021 and beyond.

We are in interesting times, where things are changing, particularly in the smart city, smart community space. There is an increased number of conferences, attendees at conferences, courses and university certificates or degrees, and cities, both large and small, that are adopting pieces, parts, components and elements of smart technology. It seems to be catching on and snowballing.

With the pandemic, we had the chance to take a look around and see some of our flaws, the

things that were the most broken. Those things— education, health care, education, safety and security—will become our top priorities in cities going forward.

This idea that somehow cities can be knocked out by a pandemic is just not true. Cities have already survived 6,000 years worth of this stuff. If we get together and be the leaders of this, we can make a huge dent. We can create. We are the keys to the circular economy.

PANELISTS

Mike Barlow

Zoe Eather

Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton

Fairfield, Connecticut

Queensland, Australia

Portland, Oregon

Mike Barlow is an award-winning journalist and prolific writer. He is the author of Learning to Love Data Science and co-author of Partnering with the CIO, The Executive’s Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy and Smart Cities, Smart Future. He has also authored numerous articles on technology subjects, including AI, machine learning, advanced data analytics, cybersecurity, software development and digital transformation.

Zoe Eather is an experienced consultant focused on smart communities, making the places we work, live and play more accessible, livable and sustainable for all. Her engineering background and ability to engage and explain complex topics in a friendly, informative way allows her to offer future-thinking, useful and realistic strategic advice. She hosts a podcast titled “The Smart Community.”

Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton is a strategic marketing and communications expert, a datadriven futurist and a technology enthusiast. As Principal of CLB Strategic Consulting, she makes complex new technologies beautiful, understandable and useful. She is co-author of Smart Cities, Smart Future, which is about how technology enables smart living and smart working in our communities and cities.

Author, Cumulus Partners

CEO, My Smart Community

Principal, CLB Strategic Consulting

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Mike Hess

Director, City of Orlando Orlando, Florida Mike Hess is a mechanical engineer focused on creating smart and sustainable cities. He leads Orlando’s future-ready efforts, including the development of its first future-ready master plan. He has worked on several smart city projects across the U.S., including those with connected and autonomous vehicles, carbonneutral micro-grids and other emerging technologies.

Orlando’s Future-Ready City Master Plan

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When people think smart city, they jump to technology. In Orlando, we focus on our community, figure out what issues they want us to solve, and then apply technologies where appropriate. We also think about how we can be more prepared for the growth in technology. This is one reason we rebranded as “future-ready” as opposed to “smart city.” It better captures what we’re doing.

Dr. Georgi Georgiev

Member, European Innovation Partnership Munich, Germany Georgi Georgiev has degrees in architecture and urban planning engineering from RWTH Aachen University. In 2019, he obtained his doctorate in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Integration Strategies. He operates his own company and interdisciplinary team for consulting on planning, innovation and policy, and manages large-scale projects on sustainable regional development in the EU and China.

Integration Strategies for Urban Air Mobility

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The integration of a comprehensive Urban Air Mobility system into the existing urban infrastructure ecosystem of a medium-sized city is a serious test for urban and building planning specialists, as well as for aircraft designers and engineers, transport and transport management engineers, and, above all, citizens, who are the main target group of the system.

John Simmerman Founder, Active Towns Austin, Texas John Simmerman is a program implementation professional, content creator and consultant. He has spent much of the past three decades helping to build vibrant environments and implementing health promotion initiatives grounded in evidence-based behavior change strategies within various population groups.

Cycling for Everyone, All Ages & Abilities

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In too many cities, cycling has primarily been an activity of the strong, the fearless or the poor. But this is changing as more cities transform their streets into safer, more inviting environments for cyclists, regardless of their age or ability. The building out of comprehensive, cohesive and connected cycle networks featuring protected and separated facilities, as well as ultra-lowspeed shared space, are resulting in massive increases in ridership.

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Smart City and Beyond: For the City of the Future, Smart May Not Be Enough KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Vito di Bari CEO, Di Bari & Associates Miami, Florida Vito di Bari is an innovation designer and urban artist.

He was the only keynote speaker to have given a TEDx Talk on five continents.

A former professor at the Polytechnic University in Milan, he has served as Executive Director for the IMI Institute of UNESCO in Paris and as Innovation Designer of the World Fair Expo 2015. He also hosted the show “Live from the Future” on the Discovery Channel.

In 1999, Di Bari secured his vision and legacy by founding Next Media Lab (where he currently serves as CEO), a cutting-edge international research laboratory named “Milan’s think tank” by Wired.

In 2009, after moving to Miami Beach, he founded Di Bari & Associates, a design studio that is changing the world through his iconic, cutting-edge, artistic urban installations.

The city of the future should be a canvas to be painted with emotions.

A pope, a Nobel Prize laureate and an idiot were asked for a solution to all the world’s problems. Sounds like the setup to a joke, right? But it’s not. Not only is it true, the funny thing is they all came up with the same answer. It’s the answer that I, too, have discovered in my work as an innovation designer.

We’re already living in a cloud. There are hotspots everywhere. We can’t see them, but they surround us. The cities of the future will be brimming with messages that we will not see. Mixed-reality applications will help us move around our cities or provide us live home interviews by computer-generated inputs. Transportation will change drastically, and traffic will be managed in real time. We will be in control of all aspects of our working spaces in smart buildings. Architects and engineers will work on these projects remotely, and previously stand-alone technologies will become part of the system, transforming the way buildings are designed, built and managed.

However, we keep forgetting that if we really want our cities to be smart, the cityscapes must be designed around us. Beautification is now an emerging movement, and it has a lot to do with sustainability. According to the Financial Times, art installations add 5% value to urban developers, while iconic landmarks such as the New York City Highline doubled the property value in the surrounding area by up to 20% per year. A smart city is a prerequisite for a decent life in the city of the future, yet I believe that is not enough. We need to humanize our smart cities. We must have the courage to innovate above self-interest. I like to think of the cities of the future as canvases that will be beautiful with design and emotions. I firmly believe that beauty will save the world. This statement is not mine, nor is it new. It’s 150 years old. It passed from the mouth of a media man to the lecturer of a Nobel Prize laureate, then into the words of a pope.

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If we really want our cities to be smart, the cityscapes must be designed around us.

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Liberating Artificial Intelligence to Become a New Digital Citizen KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Matthew James Bailey Founder & CEO, AIEthics.world Denver, Colorado Matthew James Bailey is an internationally recognized maven in the Internet of Things, innovation, smart cities and artificial intelligence.

He is Co-Chair of a national Artificial Intelligence-Smart City-Super Computing Cluster that is part of the Global City Teams Challenge.

Artificial intelligence is a powerful ally that, if we steward correctly, can become a tremendous benefit in helping us innovate into the future.

The field of artificial intelligence was officially launched in the 1950s at a famous Dartmouth conference, and it spurred a whole wave of global innovation and collaboration. You’re probably aware that at the 2018 CS Expo, Intel announced a “brain chip,” a silicon device that contains the model of the human brain, bringing artificial intelligence into the very heart of silicon and the heart of our computing systems.

Artificial intelligence is already becoming a member of our society. It’s creating tremendous value in different aspects of the digital services that we all use today. It’s helping in genomics with breakthroughs in medicine to treat people with particular conditions. It’s protecting our cyber-grids and in our energy grids. It’s used in those annoying chatbots when we’re trying to use digital services and a human isn’t available. And it’s being used in social media. There’s a lot of conversation around the ethics of social media services, but nevertheless, artificial intelligence is creating lots of value in society. Last year, Forbes predicted that by 2030, artificial intelligence will generate another $15 trillion in global GDP. I believe the majority of that GDP will occur within the smart city, smart region phenomenon.

The human and artificial intelligence partnership is becoming a reality.

The question is: How do we steward that into society, into jurisdictions, for our citizens, ethically and with meaning and purpose? How do we liberate artificial intelligence to become a digital citizen? What’s your vision for artificial intelligence in your city?

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The human and artificial intelligence partnership is becoming a reality.

The question is: How do we steward that into society, into jurisdictions, for our citizens, ethically and with meaning and purpose?

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CIO MUSIC HALL The CIO Music Hall brought together like-minded CIOs to present and discuss experiences linked to smart cities and the C-Movement. The presentations brought new visions for creating exceptional living quality for all and ways to contribute to rethinking the approach to designing, building and maintaining living spaces to create smart communities, smart cities and happy citizens.

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Raimundo Rodulfo

Eugene W. Grant

David Graham

Coral Gables, Florida

Seat Pleasant, Maryland

Carlsbad, California

Raimundo Rodulfo is responsible for strategic planning, oversight and management of Coral Gables’ citywide IT operations, infrastructure and smart city initiatives. He is Co-Chair of the NIST GCTC Data Supercluster, where he collaborates on global, national and regional smart/safe cities standards, policies, R&D projects and case studies.

He is also a member of IEEE standards working groups, developing international engineering standards for smart cities.

Eugene W. Grant has been leading the City of Seat Pleasant, “A Smart City of Excellence,” since 2004. Under his guidance, the city has deployed smart technologies that have drastically improved government operations and services. His guiding principle that citizens are the most important stakeholders, and the strategic partnerships he helped forge with private, educational and public institutions, were the catalysts behind the city’s successful and historical transformation.

David Graham is CIO of the City of Carlsbad. He also serves as a national and regional leader in smart and sustainable communities. His passion for land use, civic innovation and intelligent infrastructure has led him to be a recognized leader and regular conference speaker nationally and internationally.

Coral Gables Strategic Planning

Small. Smart. Seat Pleasant

Coral Gables promotes the development of a smart city ecosystem by bringing people, businesses, organizations and systems together through technology. By leveraging strategic planning, best practices and innovation, the city’s digital transformation and smart initiatives benefit citizens with continuous improvement of customer service and quality of life. Our smart city road map is defined by transparency, value creation, business intelligence, actionable information, efficiencies, citizen engagement, mobility, accessibility, inclusion, learning and collaboration. Our mission is to make Coral Gables—and our entire region—more livable, sustainable and resilient.

Seat Pleasant is a bedroom community in Prince George’s County, Maryland, with a population of approximately 4,721. The city is a transportation hub that sees over 200,000 cars per day, provides easy access to the Metro and is close to three airports. Over the years, I’ve spearheaded efforts to transform Seat Pleasant into the world’s first authentic small smart city. During this transformation, we deployed smart city technologies that improved the efficiency of government operations and services. Our coveted distinction has gained national and international recognition and proves that a city of any size can implement a successful smart city transformation. The key is to be citizen-obsessed and smart and to start small with the end in mind.

CIO, City of Coral Gables

Mayor, City of Seat Pleasant

CIO, City of Carlsbad

Civic Innovation: Together Making Change for Good

In an era of misinformation, distrust and polarization, cities are tackling the challenge of creating authentic community connections. There have never been more ways for the public sector to connect with its residents, businesses and visitors. At a time like this, there’s an opportunity to reimagine what community outreach and civic engagement can be. Civic engagement should be a passionate love affair between a city and its people. This can only come from a context where there’s a loving partner who values the relationship and puts time and effort into developing a shared understanding. For me, this is the future of creating long-term civic engagement in communities where value is found across the board. Start dating your community. You’ll be surprised at what you discover.

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MEDIA HUB The media gives citizens and communities voices to express their opinions related to their cities and helps raise awareness about urban issues and peoples’ lives. This hub brought together media professionals to discuss and share knowledge and experiences to enhance citizens’, communities’ and cities’ engagement and empowerment through the media’s journey.

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Media Coverage of the Climate Crisis Doesn’t Manage to Communicate Its Real Threat SPEAKER

Sara Schurmann Journalist Hamburg, Germany Sara Schurmann has worked as a journalist for more than 10 years. She has written for the German publications Tagesspiegel, VICE, Gruner + Jahr and Zeit Online, among many others. In 2018, Medium Magazine chose her as one of its “Top 30 under 30.”

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Many journalists have apparently still not grasped how serious the climate crisis is, nor that we are at a crossroads that will decide the fate of the planet.

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This is a political problem, as media coverage is a decisive element for forming public opinion.

Germany decides to stop using coal as an energy source no sooner than 2038, and there’s no weeks-long media outcry. The EU agrees on a huge corona stimulus package, and the vast majority of journalists report it as a historic accomplishment. Researchers spend days publicly discussing whether the Greenland ice sheet is going to melt for good, and it’s barely featured on the news. This shows that many journalists have apparently still not grasped how serious the climate crisis is, nor that we are at a crossroads that will decide the fate of the planet.

There are five reasons why the media doesn’t manage to communicate the real threat of the climate crisis and why this is a huge political problem.

No. 1: We don’t make the connection to our own lives. No. 2: We know too little about the climate crisis. No. 3: People who deny the scope and urgency of the climate crisis get too much attention. We are concerned about reporting in an “objective” or neutral way; unfortunately, this leads to journalists upholding climate scientific facts against political opinions and economic interests. No. 4: Journalists and politicians tend to think everything is negotiable—that the truth almost always lives somewhere in the middle. But you can’t negotiate with science. No. 5: Many of us seem to think that life and humanity will just go on, that it always looks bad, but in the end, we are fine.

However, the risk assessment of the climate crisis for the next 10, 20, 30 years deviates fundamentally from the population’s sense of security. If we don’t dramatically change our ways, the world will look completely different by then. We are at the turning point of the crisis. It is such a huge threat that many of us can’t wrap our minds around it.

Climate change deniers aren’t preventing us from changing our world. The problem is everyone who understands that we have a problem but who doesn’t want to know how big an issue it is. The COVID crisis has shown the difference that fast and decisive action can make. It has shown how quickly a crisis can escalate when people ignore scientifically proven facts. And while COVID can affect anyone, the climate crisis will affect everyone. And this time, staying at home won’t protect you.

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STARTUP HUB The Startup Hub presented three startups’ experiences that established a niche in disruptive innovation for smart communities and cities.

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Eyal Feder-Levy

Founder & CEO, Zencity Tel Aviv, Israel Eyal Feder-Levy is CEO and co-founder of Zencity, a startup that is revolutionizing civic engagement by collecting and analyzing wide-scale citizen feedback using advanced AI technology. The platform allows municipalities to manage cities in accordance with their citizens’ priorities.

The Road to Reopening Effectively is Paved with Social Media Data

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Leaders are working hard to rebuild as many of their community members face unemployment, businesses struggle to stay afloat, and public health is at stake. Reopening is one of the biggest hurdles city leaders face, and their ability to understand residents’ needs and priorities is more critical than ever. AI can help turn the noise of social media into effective data that cities need to decipher resident feedback and successfully reopen, recover and rebuild.

Amir Elichai

Founder & CEO, Carbyne New York, New York Amir Elichai is a transformational leader who combines business acumen with strong financial discipline, deep operational insights and organizational management. He is a growth-focused, results-oriented leader with a proven history of bringing analytical insights and pragmatic solutions to key business challenges.

Redefining Emergency Collaboration

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As the world changed in 2020, our needs in public safety management changed as well. The most critical factor in emergency operations is the ability to automate roles and responsibilities so that action can be taken fast and efficiently. Having live, actionable data in real time that can be streamed from the emergency level to the state (and the other way around) dramatically increases the interoperability and the efficiency of response to our citizens.

Arik Bronshtein

Co-Founder & CEO, UrbanLeap San Francisco, California Arik Bronshtein started his career as the Director of the State Guarantees Department at the Israeli Ministry of Finance. His company UrbanLeap enables local governments to effectively procure technology solutions and get the best results by leveraging data from other cities and emphasizing internal collaboration.

Procuring Innovative Solutions Requires an Innovative Approach

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While supporting innovation efforts in over 70 local governments, we frequently hear that the procurement process can be as daunting as the challenge they are solving. We are developing the first outcome-driven procurement platform that leverages data from other cities, facilitates internal collaboration and enforces best practices. Our goal is to improve outcomes while simplifying and shortening the procurement cycle.

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Quick AI Guidance for Cities How to bring artificial intelligence as a digital citizen into your jurisdictions.

Matthew James Bailey, Founder & CEO, AIEthics.world There are many ways in which cities and nations around the world can start incorporating artificial intelligence into their jurisdictions. Here are some ideas: Set up a task force of local stakeholders.

One of the brilliant things that the smart city phenomenon has taught us is that it’s a great way of bringing local stakeholders together. This is a strong economic development play, and we should follow the same approach that smart cities and nations around the world are doing. Set up a task force of local stakeholders—your academia, your private-public sector and your government—to discuss and establish your data and AI ethics certification models.

Build an innovation center or test bed.

Something that is common practice in smart cities is building an innovation center or a test bed to validate that AI is being imported or developed within your jurisdictions. Any AI that has to be deployed goes through this clearinghouse, where its data ethics are ranked and certified. It’s given a batch to show whether it’s appropriate or not for certain aspects of your society.

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Bring the public into the conversation.

People have seen all sorts of movies about artificial intelligence. Some are good. Some are bad. Build your own vision, and share it with the public.

Allow them to help build your data and AI ethics models. Learn from their cultural leaders about their values, their principles and their desires for how the digital world must honor their cultures.

This will build that trust paradigm with your citizens.

Use AI to solve the challenges your citizens are facing.

Think about how you solve current challenges—or challenges you’re predicted to face, whether it’s climate change, pandemic resilience or smart transportation. Think about how artificial intelligence can start operating to help you solve these problems.

So, get going! Create your statement, your task force. Bring the stakeholders together. Start to consider test beds and your own certification model. Bring the citizens right into the conversation to bridge that trust paradigm, and then start solving particular challenges that are important to every one of the moment using artificial intelligence.

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People have seen all sorts of movies about artificial intelligence. Some are good. Some are bad. Build your own vision, and share it with the public.

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The Imperative Role of Architects and Urban Planners in the New Cities Paradigm Planning and building environments to improve quality of life.

Bernardo Scheinkman, Architect and Urban Planner Founder & CEO, Smart Cities Americas Founder, CEO & Curator, Smart City Expo Miami There is an urgent need to adopt new thinking and action in our cities, buildings and lifestyles to face today’s challenges.

It is imperative to promote the best use of resources, guaranteeing the essential fundamentals of quality of life and citizens’ happiness.

Architects and urban planners have the great challenge of working diligently with citizens, mayors and city managers to find suitable environmental solutions. External spaces are essential for health and leisure, creating the necessary socialization of society. The internal spaces need to be resized for greater comfort, health and safety, and have adaptability to shelter families and meet their basic needs.

There is a need to act immediately to transform public and private indoor and outdoor spaces, buildings and cities into safe places from the point of view of health, well-being and the trust of the population.

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Listening to the different actors who build city life in their day-to-day lives is essential.

Reconciling the guidelines of public health, economic security, and natural, technical and technological resources with the expertise of architects and urban planners in the retrofitting of buildings and cities is more than necessary.

During previous pandemics, architects and urban planners were instrumental in redesigning building models that would allow citizens to return to their daily activities. But to get to this achievement, it is also necessary to let the population speak up, so their city managers can better understand their needs, desires and fears and work to provide what is necessary.

The imperative role of architects and urban planners in the new cities paradigm is to plan and build environments for a better quality of life.

Reconciling the guidelines of public health, economic security, and natural, technical and technological resources with the expertise of architects and urban planners in the retrofitting of buildings and cities is more than necessary.

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It's been a great conference, and I loved participating. It was fun, and I learned a lot from your excellent choice of speakers and topics. You've evidently worked very hard to put this all together and it shows!

Congrats to have had a very well-received conference!

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It is always a pleasure to speak at Smart City Expo Miami for Connected Places Catapult.

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It is a pleasure to be part of such a successful event.

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I am so impressed with this virtual event! The interface was user-friendly and really did a nice job replicating the feel of a conference! Incredible speakers, unparalleled networking opportunities and application that maximized the whole experience.

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Thank you Bernardo, thank you Smart City Expo Miami 2020. A blast of ideas, innovation and engagement!

Congratulations on the great outreach and tremendous success of Smart City Expo Miami 2020! A wonderful organization and a great vision from you and the entire team behind it. I wholeheartedly congratulate you for your vision and leadership that made this successful event possible and brought leaders from both the local ecosystem in our region and from around the world, representing centers of innovation in multiple continents and bringing a broad diversity of ideas, case studies and life experiences.

Thank you once again for the great opportunity to participate in this successful and consequential event and to share our experiences and ideas around improving quality of life in our beloved communities! I learned a lot from all the insightful and masterful participation from fellow presenters.

I look forward to your content portal to share this great wealth of knowledge with our team in the city. We look forward to your 2021 initiatives and to our continued collaboration!

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— Vito di Bari, Founder & CEO, Di Bari & Associates

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Congratulations on a very successful virtual expo. It was great reading your synopsis and the outcomes of your event. Thank you for permitting us to participate in your program.

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— Eugene Grant, Mayor, Seat Pleasant, MD

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Urban Life and Proximity at the Time of COVID-19?

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The Great Reset: A New Business Renaissance

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Smart Cities, Smart Future: Showcasing Tomorrow

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Empower people: citizens and communities.

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Stimulate publicprivate partnerships in infrastructure with the adoption of stateof-the-art technology: 5G and IoT.

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WHY MIAMI?

Why Miami?

Out of all the cities in the world, why choose Miami for the Smart City Expo?

1. The Gateway of the Americas Miami’s geographic location is easily accessible to North and South America and the rest of the world. Plus, its 85 consulates, 74 binational chambers of commerce and 264 sister cities make it a perfect fit for a growing global company.

2. The Cruise Capital of the World PortMiami is home to the world’s largest cruise lines and welcomes more than 7 million cruise passengers each year.

3. America’s New Global Gateway Miami International Airport (MIA) welcomes 45 million passengers per year.

It is the Americas’ leader in international freight and the world’s largest gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean.

4. Business Environment Miami has a multilingual workforce and is one of the nation’s leading centers for international banking, with a large concentration of international and domestic banks.

5. Innovation Hub Miami is a thriving ecosystem for innovation and No. 1 for entrepreneurship in the U.S.

This brings significant financial benefits, thousands of jobs for residents and sustainable economic growth.

6. Cultural Activities Miami offers a diverse range of communities and cultural backgrounds for business locations and lifestyle choices.

7. Media & Telecommunications Miami is the epicenter for Spanishlanguage media. Television networks like Univision and Telemundo have major operations here, as do Sony Music Latin and Universal Music Latin Entertainment.

8. Top Employers & Workforce Diversity With a growing economy and a trained workforce with highly educated young professionals, Miami has the highest college enrollment in Florida.

9. Diverse Neighborhoods Miami has 34 different municipalities, each with its own unique personality and assets.

10. Low Tax Environment Miami-Dade County offers low tax structures to all levels of business.

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