Name: Smart Cities MIAMI 2025 Conference
Start: 2025-04-03T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-03T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Lakeside Expo Center

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Message from the Conference Chair

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.

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.

$50 per person

Attendance for University of Miami Faculty, Staff, and Students is complimentary. Please email idsc@miami.edu for the PROMO CODE.

Complimentary Parking for Day 1 is available in the Pavia Garage 1st floor Visitor Area | Valid: April 3rd 2025 only, from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. You will need your License Plate number to register your vehicle. Click here: https://www.offstreet.io/events/ZI71PBLC | Use Registration Code: 10708

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 Hall

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 Florida

Speaker 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.