Smart Cities Council

A first-of-its-kind collaboration between Smart Cities Council, Charter Cities Institute, Leading Cities, Smart Cities Americas, and Deep Tech Week—supported by Title Sponsor International Free Zone Authority | IFZA and Trade & Investment Partner Miami-Dubai Chamber of Commerce—bringing together 450 global leaders, project owners and experts to shape the world's largest smart city projects of the next 50 years. What to Expect: -Presentations from project owners, trade, tech companies, and capital funds and in-person discussions on mega-projects & global partnerships spanning #Israel #Palestine #Iraq #Libya #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Oman #Türkiye #Ukraine #Congo #Morocco #ASEAN, and beyond. -Hear from and meet global experts including ... Mike Lake Bernardo Scheinkman Nick Naamou Khaled Daher Aviel Sela Non Arkara Joaquin Luken Andrew C?té Junaid Islam Holger Schlechter Jeffrey Mason Oscar Huerta Melchor Alan Boehme Ryan Vega Nick Bray Marty Sprinzen Mark Thomas Jacob Clayton G. Michael G. Warren, MBM Mark Messow Joe Appleton Victor Pereira and many more global leaders and experts. #Tech #Startup & Capital Investment Track powered by Leading Cities' #AcceliCITY program with Deep Tech Week. -Smart Cities Academy’s new micro-credentialed #SmartCities Introductory Course in partnership with ZIGURAT Institute of Technology. -Workshops around Responsible AI, Transformation with AI and Cyber Compliance from SmartAIConnect, VANTIQ, Trellis Data and XQ Key Domains: #Sustainability #Mobility #Wellbeing #DigitalEquity #RegionalCommunities #Healthcare #ElderCare #Homelessness #Earthquakes #UrbanPlanning #Biourbanism Key Technologies: #AI #DigitalTwins #Metaverse #Blockchain #DigitalInfrastructure #5G #IOT #VirtualReality Key Commercials: #Startups #CapitalInvestment #TradeandInvestment #Finance #Funding #Procurement Key Regions: #MiddleEast #Africa #Ukraine #ASEAN #USA #Poland Learn more about how to attend, exhibit, and sponsor today: https://lnkd.in/gtDA3PQ8 #SmartCitiesSummit #FutureOfCities #UrbanInnovation #SmartCitiesNorthAmerica #DeepTech #SustainableCities #SCSNA2025 #SmartCities #SmartBuildings #AI #TradeandInvestment #Startups #Mobility #MiddleEast #Dubai #SiliconValley

Join us, Smart Cities Council - Middle East, Smart Cities Council - North Africa Smart Cities Council - Asia Pacific, our global event partners, members and network for a busy month if events across 4 continents. Special terms are available or #SCC Members to attend, sponsor and exhibit. Contact your SCC Regional Lead for more information.

We are honored to have Michael Holstein join us at the Smart Cities Summit North America, taking place in San Francisco on May 7-8, 2025. Read his full bio below: Michael Holstein began his career writing on HBO’s?The Wire?and working in media and marketing for MGM. After earning his law degree, Michael went on to serve as VP for Business Affairs and produce shows and movies for WETA-TV in Washington, DC, one of the nation’s largest PBS producers. While there, he created and worked on hundreds of shows, launched transformative media expansion, and managed groundbreaking initiatives including the first foray into strictly digital content. Next, for 12 years as Chief Executive Officer for The Content Farm (later, Mesmeric Media), Michael developed, curated, directed, and produced award-winning content across platforms and networks. He also created Allcast Media, an early-stage innovative streaming aggregator, managing and curating revenue-producing content distribution to 1.1B people. Michael then moved to elevating non-profits, serving as Chief Communications and Marketing Officer for America SCORES, and providing communication consulting services and content creation for several other non-profit organizations. Now, as Head of Communications and Counsel for the Charter Cities Institute, Michael has skillfully executed a comprehensive communications strategy including content marketing; publication production and dissemination; event planning and management; social media management; national and international policy advocacy; public and media relations; stakeholder engagement; brand building; and reputation management. Among other accomplishments at CCI, Michael planned the first ever “Africa’s New Cities Summit” event in Kigali, Rwanda with 300+ stakeholders from governments, NGO’s, venture capital firms, academia, international development, and other communities.??? ? Michael has won multiple Emmy, Davey, Telly, W3, and other awards and is the only three-time winner of the Real Screen Summit Showdown Pitch Contest. He is a regularly featured lecturer at Georgetown University, American University, and The University of Miami, and was a professor at UCLA, teaching The Business of Entertainment. We look forward to his insights at the summit. See our full speaker list here:?https://lnkd.in/gyigtkAN Charter Cities Institute

Smart Cities Council is pleased to be a global partner of Charter Cities Institute and collaborating on Smart Cities Summit North America in San Francisco in May, then New Cities Summit in Nairobi in June. #JoinUs as we scope the projects and build the teams that will deliver the largest and most socially and economically transformative projects of the next 50 years. #Africa #Kenya #Nairobi

If you’re in #Australia in the next week please join SmartAIConnect KJR and Smart Cities Council - Asia Pacific for the Responsible AI & Smart Cities Roadshow.

#JoinUs, Charter Cities Institute and Smart Cities Council - North Africa in #Nairobi #Kenya June 12 & 13 where we will progress the outcomes of our May "#Africa & #MiddleEast in Focus" program in #SanFrancisco. More information: https://www.ncs2025.city/ #NewCitiesSummit https://lnkd.in/gtDA3PQ8 #SmartCitiesSummitNorthAmerica #SCSNA2025 Deep Tech Week Leading Cities Smart Cities Americas Smart City Expo World Congress Miami-Dubai Chamber of Commerce International Free Zone Authority | IFZA VANTIQ SAGINT Trellis Data SmartAIConnect XQ Tr3Dent Sherbro Island City Junaid Islam Robyn Francis Lauren Louie Fanni Melles, PhD Karim El Khayati Mustapha CHAFIK Daouda GUEYE Siaka Stevens Julian Hagenschulte Vitor Pereira Michael Lake Bernardo Scheinkman Andrew C?té Yolanda Perez Nick Naamou Ugo Valenti David Sprinzen

?? Climate Mitigation & Smart Cities: The Global Carbon Reward ?? How can smart cities take the lead in climate mitigation? What if central banks and private sector investments could help drive global climate action beyond traditional government policies? In this episode of the Smart Cities Council podcast, we sit down with Dr Delton Chen Chen, Global Thought Leader for Climate Mitigation, to explore the Global Carbon Reward—a groundbreaking policy designed to incentivize large-scale climate action. ?? Key insights: ?? The role of smart cities in tackling climate change ?? How the Global Carbon Reward creates a new market for climate solutions ?? The rise of incentive-based climate action ?? The balance between "carrots and sticks" in sustainability policies ?? Overcoming economic misunderstandings about climate change and market impacts This episode unpacks how cities can drive global change through local action. Don’t miss it! ?? ?? Listen now: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #SmartCities #ClimateMitigation #CarbonMarkets #Sustainability #FutureCities

We’re thrilled to welcome Andrew J. C. as a speaker at our North America Summit, taking place May 7-8 in San Francisco, CA. Andrew Cary has nearly 40 years working in the public, private & non-profit sectors. He served as a public educator & senior administrator, an executive director and board member of multiple non-profits and as a global edtech leader & business developer. Now, as CoFounder/CEO of SNAAP Transportation? , Andrew leverages his decades of entrepreneurial tenacity, innovation & business acumen to bring this sustainable alternative to personal transportation to the global market. SNAAP? Transportation is also a proud Gold Sponsor of the North America Summit. At the Summit, Andrew will present: “A Scalable & Sustainable Alternative to Personal Rapid Transit for Smart Cities." Andrew has helped numerous education, edtech startups & large companies go to market, grow share of wallet to exit. He has successfully managed the layers of relationships across organizations, channels, partners & markets. He maintains deep and lasting relationships in LatAm, Greater Europe & APAC. Presently, through his corporate business line Future Educational Options and Cary Enterprises LLC, Andrew serves in strategic leadership, advisory & direct engagements for global partners, ministries and departments of education and a variety of other private & public sector service providers. Additionally, serves as an advisor and coach for the Chambers of Commerce, StartEd in New York, Sykes Business School, UT Lowth Entrepreneur Center & numerous startups. He maintains offices in the US and Sao Paulo and looks to expand to Dubai in 2025. Check out the full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gG5GRd43

We are extremely pleased to have Miami-Dubai Chamber of Commerce as an event partner for Smart Cities Summit North America. #JoinUs in #SanFrancisco

Join our Smart Cities Council Global Thought Leader - Digital Trust, Junaid Islam, and fellow #cyber experts Bob G. and Derek Doerr on Tuesday March 11 for all the latest on #OMB #FISMA and #CISA #ZeroTrust #Compliance. In the webinar you will learn how combining Zero Trust principles with AWS infrastructure enables agencies to: > Strengthen data governance and compliance with federal frameworks > Safeguard sensitive data through encryption, geofencing and external key management > Simplify FISMA audits and quickly adapt to evolving CISA directives To register follow the booking link below: https://lnkd.in/gnz7vGcM *This Webinar is CPE eligible. XQ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Carahsoft