Smart Cities MIAMI 2025

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.

Message from the Conference Chair

Day One is being held at the University of Miami Coral Gables campus Lakeside Village Expo Center. The Day Two Workshop will gather a by-invitation group of international experts for a brainstorming session to develop a collection of articles for a special issue to be published in the Journal of Urban Technology. More details on the JUT special issue “Promoting Digital Access in Smart Cities” is available at this link.

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 Center
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
  • Florence M. Chee, PhD, Associate Professor & Director, Center for Digital Ethics & Policy, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago
  • Fábio Duarte, PhD, Associate Director, MIT Senseable City Lab
  • Anthony Townsend, PhD, Senior Research Associate at Jacobs Urban Tech Hub, Cornell Tech

Moderator:  Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury, PhD, 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
  • Masahiko Haraguchi, PhD, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Yan Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of Urban Agility and Resilience Lab, University of Florida
  • Eduardo Costa, PhD, Professor of Knowledge Management, Federal University of Santa Catarina

Moderator:  Nicholas Tsinoremas, PhD, 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
  • Fredrik Wannius, Co-Founder and Chief Executive, 1Print
  • Victor Dover, Founding Principal, Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning
  • Tony Garcia, Co-Founder and Principal, Street Plans
  • Matthieu Merchadou, Co-Founder & CEO, Magma

Moderator:  Anna Queiroz, PhD, 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

Jennifer Clark, PhD

Professor and Head, City and Regional Planning Section
The Ohio State University

Nathalie Crutzen

Nathalie Crutzen, PhD

Founder/Director HEC Smart City Institute
University of Liège, Belgium

Martin de Jong

Martin de Jong, PhD

Professor and Director of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity
Rotterdam School of Management. Erasmus University, Netherlands

Fabio Duarte

Fábio Duarte, PhD

Associate Director of Research & Design, MIT Senseable City Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Anthony Townsend is a research director at the Institute for the Future and a senior research fellow at NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management.

Anthony Townsend, PhD

Senior Research Associate at the Jacobs Urban Tech Hub
Cornell Tech

Yan Wang, PhD, Smart Cities MIAMI 2025 speaker

Yan Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor and Director of Urban Agility and Resilience Lab
College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida

Eduardo Costa

Eduardo M. Costa, PhD

Professor of Knowledge Management
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Masahiko Haraguchi

Masahiko Haraguchi, PhD

Harvard University T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Rodolphe el-Khoury

Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury, PhD

University of Miami School of Architecture

Sarbeswar Praharaj

Sarbeswar Praharaj, PhD

Conference Chair
Assistant Professor and Director, Urban Sustainability & Resilience Program, University of Miami

Nick Tsinoremas

Nick Tsinoremas, PhD

Director, University of Miami Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing

Fredrik Wannius

Fredrik Wannius

C0Founder and Chief Executive, 1Print

Florence Chee

Florence M. Chee, PhD

Associate Professor & Director, Center for Digital Ethics and Policy, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago

Victor Dover

Victor Dover

Founding Principal, Dover, Kohl, & Partners Town Planning

Jayson Dunn, MBA, NVIDIA

Jayson Dunn

Sr. Business Manager – State and Local Government, NVIDIA

Tony Garcia

Tony Garcia

Co-Founder and Principal, Street Plans

Matthieu Merchadou

Matthieu Merchadou

Co-Founder & CEO, Magma

Nora Noori

Nora Noori, PhD

Digital Transformation Advisor
Erasmus University, Netherlands

Anna Carolina Muller Queiroz

Anna Carolina Queiroz, PhD

Associate Professor, University of Miami School of Communication

Raimundo Rodulfo

Raimundo Rodulfo

Director/CIO of Innovation & Technology, City of Coral Gables

Paula Christian Viala

Christina Viala

Sustainability Coordinator, City of Pompano Beach