The Texas Smart Cities Series is a twice monthly online presentation from technology, business, government, and education leaders sharing about their expertise and experience in smart cities technologies and practices. This online "lunch & learn" series is held on Zoom on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month from 12pm-1pm CST. The speakers include a variety of experts from local, national, and global smart cities professionals.
This series is free and open to the public.
This series is free and open to the public.
Upcoming Texas Smart Cities Series
April 28th, 12pm-1pm
Building Resident-Centered Smart Cities: Actionable Insights on the Reopening of Texas
Ensuring that all voices are heard is a challenge all cities face. Often city employees are tasked with manually monitoring various platforms to keep apace with resident sentiment [and dissension] via social media and other online channels to respond and react. In times of crisis, it is particularly vital to keep a pulse on public opinion to make informed - and ultimately proactive - decisions on how to serve residents, respond to concerns and make policy decisions. The reopening of Texas and its impact on residents, businesses, city services and special events is a particularly critical decisionpoint. Through partnership with Mastercard's City Possible initiative, Zencity has done analysis on sentiment in North Texas with the cities of Dallas and Richardson, as well as the state of Texas overall, on the impacts of vaccination rollout, reopening and the lifting of the mask mandate. Join us on April 28th at noon CT to hear results of this analysis, actionable insights derived; and what this means for local jurisdictions and the state as recovery continues. How can cities respond to better serve residents and facilitate full recovery?
Building Resident-Centered Smart Cities: Actionable Insights on the Reopening of Texas
Ensuring that all voices are heard is a challenge all cities face. Often city employees are tasked with manually monitoring various platforms to keep apace with resident sentiment [and dissension] via social media and other online channels to respond and react. In times of crisis, it is particularly vital to keep a pulse on public opinion to make informed - and ultimately proactive - decisions on how to serve residents, respond to concerns and make policy decisions. The reopening of Texas and its impact on residents, businesses, city services and special events is a particularly critical decisionpoint. Through partnership with Mastercard's City Possible initiative, Zencity has done analysis on sentiment in North Texas with the cities of Dallas and Richardson, as well as the state of Texas overall, on the impacts of vaccination rollout, reopening and the lifting of the mask mandate. Join us on April 28th at noon CT to hear results of this analysis, actionable insights derived; and what this means for local jurisdictions and the state as recovery continues. How can cities respond to better serve residents and facilitate full recovery?
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Featured Speaker: As Zencity’s Director of Urban Policy and Partnerships, Assaf manages the company’s relationships with industry, state, and national government organizations. Assaf also oversees the team’s content creation including blogs, case studies, webinars, and more. Prior to his work at Zencity, Assaf served as a Senior Project Manager for the City of Tel Aviv’s Innovation Team (i-team) supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. As part of his role on the i-team, Assaf spearheaded several projects including improving the city's cleanliness, decreasing loneliness amongst the elderly, and increasing neighborliness amongst residents. Assaf holds an MSc. in Urban Regeneration from the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, London.
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Past Texas Smart Cities Series:
Check out past Texas Smart Cities Series on our Youtube Channel.
May 12th, 2021 | Texas Smart Cities Series 12pm-1pm
Featured Topic: Moving from Smart Cities to Smart Regions...and Beyond
Featured Speaker: Jennifer Sanders, Executive Director, Dallas Innovation Alliance & North Texas Innovation Alliance
Past Texas Smart Cities Series
March 24th, 2021 | AI for Civic and Traveler Engagement
Featured Speaker: Steve Steinberg, iOLAP
March 24th, 2021 | Building Towards the Future City While Operating during Budget Shortfalls
Featured Speaker: Ruthbea Yesner, IDC
March 10th, 2021 | Smart Cities In A Post COVID World with Smart Philadelphia
Featured Speaker: Emily Yates, Smart Cities Director for the City of Philadelphia
February 10th, 2021 SMART is Just The Start
Featured Speaker: Jordan Davis, Director of Smart Columbus
January 27th, 2021 Edge Computing for Artificially Intelligent Cities
Featured Speaker: Charlie Catlett, University of Illinois, Discovery Partners Institute
Check out past Texas Smart Cities Series on our Youtube Channel.
May 12th, 2021 | Texas Smart Cities Series 12pm-1pm
Featured Topic: Moving from Smart Cities to Smart Regions...and Beyond
Featured Speaker: Jennifer Sanders, Executive Director, Dallas Innovation Alliance & North Texas Innovation Alliance
Past Texas Smart Cities Series
March 24th, 2021 | AI for Civic and Traveler Engagement
Featured Speaker: Steve Steinberg, iOLAP
March 24th, 2021 | Building Towards the Future City While Operating during Budget Shortfalls
Featured Speaker: Ruthbea Yesner, IDC
March 10th, 2021 | Smart Cities In A Post COVID World with Smart Philadelphia
Featured Speaker: Emily Yates, Smart Cities Director for the City of Philadelphia
February 10th, 2021 SMART is Just The Start
Featured Speaker: Jordan Davis, Director of Smart Columbus
January 27th, 2021 Edge Computing for Artificially Intelligent Cities
Featured Speaker: Charlie Catlett, University of Illinois, Discovery Partners Institute