Texas Smart Cities Summit 2022
The Texas Smart Cities Summits bring together leaders from local government, industry, academia, nonprofit organizations and more to share information on the leading practices in smart cities efforts, to share ideas and experiences, and to discuss and plan new efforts to accelerate smart cities development in Texas and across the world. At the Texas Smart Cities Summit, we will present, share, and discuss successful smart city solutions addressing these aspects and collaborate on how to improve and implement them into our communities.
2022 agenda and lineup below:
2022 agenda and lineup below:
Hotel Information 2022 closed
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Host: City of San Antonio, Office of Innovation
The Office of Innovation was established in 2007 to identify improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of City services and business processes. The primary functions of the office are to improve City operations, manage special special projects, and lead major initiatives, while promoting a culture of innovation. The Office has also launched several ground-breaking programs. In FY 2016, the Office launched a smart cities program SmartSA, to harness the power of data, technology, and community to improve the quality of life for San Antonio residents. In FY2018, the Office launched CivTechSA, with local co-working company Geekdom, to partner students, entrepreneurs, and startups with City staff to co-create customized tech solutions to civic challenges and grow civically-minded tech talent. In FY2020, the Office launched Innovation Academy and R&D League. Innovation Academy is an intensive training program for city staff to develop problem-solving consultants embedded within City departments. The R& D League creates cross-sector, multidisciplinary teams that utilize scientific methods & data to investigate methods & data to investigate new ideas, facilitate evidence-based policymaking, and explore the the frontier of innovation for our 1.5 million residents. |
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Tech Port Arena: For more than 100 years, the land that is now Port San Antonio has been a center for innovation. Established in 1917 as the site of the former Kelly Air Force Base- where chapters in aviation history were written- the Port has redeveloped the property over the past 20 years to focus on the continued evolution of global technologies. Today, marquee names in aerospace, manufacturing, cybersecurity, robotics and other technologically advanced industries conduct an array of projects on our large site
Port San Antonio is the Alamo City’s large and dynamic technology and innovation campus—a place that provides connected solutions in an increasingly connected world. Our 1,900-acre platform just southwest of downtown San Antonio is home to leading global industries: Aerospace, Defense, Global Logistics, Manufacturing, Cybersecurity and Education. Over 80 tenant customers employ nearly 16,000 people on our unique air-, rail- and highway-served property. Together, they generate over $5 billion in annual economic activity in our region. Thanks to a vast and growing array of highly specialized commercial and industrial spaces—combined with strategic business and talent development support our team and our stakeholders provide—industries based here are connecting with one-another as they deliver technological innovations that are transforming mature industry sectors in our region, across the country and around the world. |
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Austin Smart City Alliance™ is an association collaborating to improve the quality of life for the people of Austin and beyond through smart city initiatives. Our membership includes government organizations, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, private sector companies, and interested individuals. Our mission is to improve the safety, health, mobility, sustainability, opportunities, education, infrastructure, and services of Austin for all people through applications of technology, data, and analytics that augment decisions, operations, and environments.