SMART CITIES AMERICAS BUILDING SOUTH FLORIDA’S SMART CITY ECOSYSTEM

than 20,000 new jobs in our region.

Smart Cities Americas is building South Florida’s smart city ecosystem. Led by architect and urbanist Bernardo Scheinkman, it is the leading platform for smart cities intelligence, trade shows, and conferences. The organization interacts with local, national, and international stakeholders to offer a wide range of news, research, and events that promote sustainable solutions for complex urban environments.

According to Scheinkman, “A city is smart if its citizens are smart.” Technology might immediately come to mind when people think of smart cities. However, technology is just a tool that enables modern urban areas. Smart Cities Americas believes in focusing on what citizens want and need from their government, and using new technologies to make the government work for them.

It is clear that businesses stand to gain from the smart city revolution. Global market research consulting firm Frost & Sullivan expects the market value of smart city opportunities to surpass $2.4 trillion by 2025. Technology spending comprises approximately 15% ($327 billion) of this overall valuation. The remaining 85% is distributed across activities including education, smart infrastructure, smart health care, smart energy, smart transportation, and smart building.

Smart Cities Americas is fostering a community around urban innovation. The organization unites smart cities stakeholders under one roof, from architects and urban planners to business leaders and cuttingedge technologists.

Miami continues to be validated as a top destination for developing new ideas and catalyzing innovation. Leading startups and venture capital firms are increasingly growing roots in the Magic City. Miami is home to innovative environmentally conscious companies working in sectors as diverse as mobility, marine tech, and built infrastructure.

Equally, local government officials are tackling climate change head on. The City of Miami has committed to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, having set out an action plan for building a green economy. Miami-Dade County even has the world’s first Chief Heat Officer. And with its ongoing Sea Level Rise Strategy, Miami-Dade County is identifying and developing financially feasible mitigation and adaptation strategies to prepare for sea level rise and coastal storms.

Smart Cities Americas’ flagship event is Smart City Expo Miami, which brings together some of the world’s leading urban innovators under one roof. The 2022 brought award-winning and globally recognized experts to raise awareness on the importance of urban planning, climate action, and green economy.

Simultaneously, Smart Cities Americas is developing Miami’s smart cities ecosystem through a handful of other initiatives. Its forthcoming news channel, SmartCityMiami. com, will highlight trends related to urban innovation and citizens’ engagement in the process of building sustainable and resilient urban environments. Its streaming hub, CitiesHub.tv, will provide video content about the Smart City Expo Miami and related media.

Its Hack-a-Town program and CIURBE-Urban Innovation Lab will enable civic minded technologists to maximize their impact.

With these and more initiatives already underway, Smart Cities Americas is attracting leading smart cities companies to Miami that will generate $40 billion revenue for South Florida businesses, while creating more than 20,000 new jobs in our region. And the best is yet to come.

Discover more about Smart Cities Americas’ quest to put Miami on the map for smart city innovation by visiting SmartCitiesAmericas.com.