Smart Cities MIAMI Conference – Bringing relevant trending topics to the table

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 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
8:30-9:00 AM	Registration Opens
9:00-9:10 AM	Introduction and Welcome Opening Remarks: Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury Conference Chair Remarks: Sarbeswar Praharaj, PhD
	SESSION 1
9:10-9:40 AM	KEYNOTE 1 \| Jennifer Clark PhD, Professor and Head, City and Regional Planning The Ohio State University
9:40-10:10 AM	KEYNOTE 2 \| Nathalie Crutzen PhD, Founder and Director, HEC Smart City Institute University of Liège, Belgium
10:10-10:30 AM	Break
	SESSION 2
10:30-11:30 AM	Session 2 Presentations Speaker 1: Fábio Duarte PhD, Associate Director of Research and Design, MIT Senseable City Lab, MIT Speaker 2: Masahiko Haraguchi PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
11:30-12:00 PM	PANEL DISCUSSION Aileen Bouclé AICP, Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization Fábio Duarte PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jayson Dunn MBA, NVIDIA Public Sector Raimundo Rodulfo P.E. MSEM PMP CSSBB, City of Coral Gables Innovation & Technology
12:00-1:30 PM	Networking Lunch with Exhibits
	SESSION 3
1:30-2:30 PM	Session 3 Presentations Speaker 1: Anthony Townsend PhD, Senior Research Associate, Jacobs Urban Tech Hub, Cornell Tech Speaker 2: Eduardo Costa PhD, Professor of Knowledge Management, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
2:30-3:00 PM	PANEL DISCUSSION Masahiko Haraguchi PhD, Harvard University Anna Queiroz PhD, University of Miami Anthony Townsend PhD, Cornell Tech Paula Christina Viala MPS, City of Pompano Beach
3:00-3:15 PM	Coffee and Networking
3:15-4:00 PM	Closing KEYNOTE \| Martin de Jong PhD, Professor and Director of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Rotterdam School of Management. Erasmus University, Netherlands and Nora Noori PhD, Digital Transformation Advisor, Erasmus University, Netherlands
5:00 PM	Closing Remarks \| Sarbeswar Praharaj PhD

Featured Speakers
	Jennifer Clark, PhD Distinguished Professor and Head, City and Regional Planning Section The Knowlton School, College of Engineering The Ohio State University Editor-in-Chief, Regional Studies
	Nathalie Crutzen, PhD Professor and Founder/Academic Director of the Smart City Institute, HEC Liège, University of Liege (Belgium)
	Martin de Jong, PhD Professor and Director of the Erasmus Initiative on ‘Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity’ Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University Rotterdam
	Fábio Duarte, PhD Associate Director of Research & Design, MIT Senseable City Lab Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Jayson Dunn, MBA Sr. Business Manager, NVIDIA Public Sector (State and Local Government) CxO Advisor \| AI/ML SME
	Aileen Bouclé, AICP Executive Director, Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization Miami-Dade County
	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
	Eduardo M. Costa, PhD Full Professor of Knowledge Management CEO of LabCHIS.com and Author of Humane and Sustainable Smart Cities Federal University of Santa Catarina
	Masahiko Haraguchi, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Harvard University
	Nora Noori, PhD Digital Transformation Advisor Erasmus University
	Paula Christina Viala, EI, CFM, LEED AP® ND, ENV SP Sustainability Coordinator City of Pompano Beach
	Raimundo Rodulfo, PE, PMP, MSEM Director of Innovation and Technology and Chief Innovation Officer City of Coral Gables
	Yan Wang, PhD Assistant Professor and Director of Urban Agility and Resilience Lab College of Design, Construction and Planning University of Florida