6th Annual Smart Cities Technology Symposium and Exhibition

• Moving toward the post-COVID-19 smart city
  
• Technology strategies for decarbonizing the built environment
  
• Leveraging the smart energy grid for other municipal applications
  
• Smart lighting advances, platforms and business models
  
• Smart transportation and parking
  
• Environmental monitoring and waste management
  
• IoT applications and communications networks for enabling the Smarter City
  
• Learning from the leaders: key smart city developments around the world
  
• Market trends and growth drivers: challenges and opportunities
  
• Phased, cost-effective approaches: efficiency measures that can fund additional steps
  
• Building a culture of performance via data analytics and benchmarking
  
• Enhancing sustainability, accessibility and livability
  
• Key emerging technologies and applications
  
• And more

Focus on Implementation: The conference places primary focus on actual implementations, key case studies and lessons learned to date, in order to formulate real-world success strategies going forward.

Technology Innovation: Exhibits in the coffee break and luncheon area allow for quality networking with industry thought leaders and interaction with cutting-edge innovations

Senior-Level Executive Attendees: The Symposium is uniquely designed for senior decision-makers, CIOs, and executives charged with making the smart city a reality in today's environment

Emphasis on Qualty Networking: Ample time is reserved for focused, one-on-one meetings and high-value interaction among attendees

• Municipal IT managers and technology decision-makers
  
• Mayors and municipal leaders
  
• Telecommunication service provider companies
  
• Electric, water and gas utilities
  
• Developers and construction companies
  
• Electric vehicle and transportation organizations
  
• Financial and investment professionals
  
• Smart grid technology providers
  
• IT and Big Data analytics companies
  
• Standards and regulatory organizations
  
• Industry associations

Join us for in-depth networking and information sharing with your Smart City technology colleagues and executives!

"Excellent opportunity to hear from technical experts and other practitioners of smart cities. Discussions from elected and appointed officials about how they are creating smart cities, as well as real examples and case studies were very helpful."
    -- Tom Dallessio, former President and CEO, Next City

"Lots of good and relevant information - very informative! I liked hearing from cities about how they are attacking the smart city initiative and seeing the different approaches. Also, very impressive and diverse crowd and panels."
    -- Kevin Clements, Project Manager, GDP Group

"Very high quality speakers, well designed and organized, very professional attendees -- the dialog has been amazing. An impactful, meaningful use of my time to attend."
    -- Jenn Toothaker, Project Manager, Tucson Department of Transportation

"The Symposium provided great discussion of what 'smart city' means today, with important practitioner insight bringing recent advances to life. Great event!"
    -- Matt Schmitt, Senior Research Fellow & Director, Regional Competitiveness Institute, University of Minnesota

"We need more conferences like these. It was a good balance from undergound to city infrastructure to individual use of technology, even some social issues such as security. We need discussions like these between companies, academia and government to equitably implement smart cities."
    -- Eric Boria, Urban Planning Graduate Student, UIC

Chicago Conference Center
205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605

Located in downtown Chicago's Loop, the Chicago Conference Center is steps away from the city's magnificent lakefront with world-renowned Millennium and Grant Parks, marvelous museums, restaurants and retail shopping.

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Prior-Year Attendees Include:

Argonne National Lab
360 Energy Group
ABB
ACTOGETHER UGANDA
AEM
Aeris Communications, Inc.
Agent Publishing
Aizawl Municipal Corporation
Argonne National Laboratory
Ascend Indiana
ATIS
Avascent
BioCrossroads
Bi-State Development
Black & Veatch
Blacks in Green
Bloomberg BNA
Bosch Software Innovations
BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL
Bronzeville Urban Development
BuildingIQ
CA Technologies
Capella Space
Capital City of Mongolia
Center for Technology in
Government, University at Albany
Chases' Crossings LLC
Chicago Department of Transportation
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Chicago Now
Chicago Streetcar Renaissance
Chicago Transit Authority
Chittagong Development Authority
CIDETEC-IPN
CIMCON Lighting
Cisco
City Digital (UIL)
City Intelligence
City of Akron, Ohio
City of Aurora
City of Carmel, IN
City of Champaign
City of Chicago
City of De Moines
City of Evanston, Illinois
City of Hillsboro
City of Indianapolis
City of Kalamazoo
City of Kansas City
City of Las Vegas
City of Milwaukee
City of Minneapolis
City of New York
City of Opelika
City of Orlando
City of Philadelphia
City of Racine, WI
City of San Diego
City of San Jose
City of Syracuse
City of Tacoma
City of Tucson
City of Wilkinsburg
Cityzenith
Clean Coalition
Clean Energy Trust
ComEd
Common
Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL
CompTIA
Consulate General of Canada
Copenhagen Capacity
Cornell University
County of Summit, Ohio
Cubic Transportation
Current
Cushman & Wakefield
Dell EMC
Deloitte
Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke, P.C.
EastBanc Technologies
Japan Research Institute Ltd.
ecoPreserve
Elevate Energy
Energize Ventures
Environmental Law & Policy Center
EVmatch
Exelon
EZ-EV
Forbes
Fujitsu
GE Power
General MicroGrids
Google
Government of Nepal
Government Sourcing Solutions
Govt of Punjab, Pakistan
GPD Group
GreenPreneur
Grumman/Butkus Associates
HERE Technologies
HomeGrid Forum
Hotwire Communications
IDTechEx
IGS Energy
Illinois Commerce Commission
Illinois Department of Innovation
& Technology (DoIT)
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Science and
Technology Coalition
Illinois.gov
Industry Analysis
Indy Chamber
Infobright
InformationWeek
Inovateus Solar LLC
INRIX
Institute for Market Transformation
Integral Blue
IPgallery
ISEIF
Itron
IUPUI
Johnson Controls
Kollabio
KOTRA Chicago
KPMG LLP
Leading Edge Forum
Louisville Metro Government
Lyft
Marketplace.city
Mastercard
Mazarine Ventures
McWane Ductile
Medill News Services
Medill School of Journalism
Meeting of the Minds
Metropolitan Airports Commission
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus
Microsoft
Midcontinent Independent System Operator
Midwest Energy Research Consortium
Miovision
Missouri Dept Economic Dev
MIT
Mizuho Bank Ltd.
Mosaico Digitale U.S.A.
National Governors Association
National Grid
Navigant
Network Services
Next City
Nissan North America, Inc
Northwestern University, ISEN
Open Geospatial Consortium
OpenDataSoft
Persistent Systems
POLCO
PowerSecure
Prada Governmental Solutions
Renewance
Residence Corporation
Rio de Janeiro
RoadBotics, Inc.
S&C Electric
University of Kansas
Scottish Development International
ScottMadden
Sierra Club
Silver Spring Networks
SJR Partners
Smart Grid Cluster
Smart Grid Consumers Collaborative
Smart Utility Systems
Society of Environmental Journalists
SPIDR Tech
StateScoop
StreetLight Data
Technology Association of Oregon
Teralytics
The Atlas Marketplace
The University of Chicago
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Triangle J Council of Governments
Trident Structures
Trilliant
Tucson Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of Commerce / U.S. Commercial Service
UC Santa Barbara
UI Labs
UIC
University of Alberta
University of California Davis
University of Illinois
University of Minnesota
Uptake
Urban Center for Computation and Data
urban.systems
USGBC-Illinois
Vandewalle & Associates, Inc.
Vectren Corporation
Verizon
VHB
VicRoads
WASTECH
Webitects
WECC
West Monroe Partners
Willdan/IIT
Wisconsin
World of Walas
Xaqt
Zonoff
Zytronic

To contact us about the Symposium in January, please click here

Or, you can contact the program manager at info@smartcities-symposium.com | +1-815-310-3343

We look forward to seeing you at the Symposium!