Each day will focus on a specific level of your strategic plan. The 3-day program (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) is a hands-on, immersion accelerator for your city’s future where you will work alongside fellow city leaders, industrial experts, Harvard Fellows and researchers. The 2017 Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator will help city strategic urban planners, chief innovation officers, technology officers, and economic development leaders establish strategies and an actionable digital plan. How do cities innovate and leverage technology to not only provide the services citizens need but also to build a model that supports the rapid growth required to attract and sustain highly successful inhabitants? For residents and visitors, the expectation is for the city to meet ever-escalating demands. Citizens have come to expect rapid development and adoption of technology in their daily lives and in their businesses they don’t wish to see lines drawn between the enterprise and the community.
Moreover, the rate at which cities have adopted new technologies has been historically slow, frequently with investments that are far out of balance with other important community needs.Įlected leaders are increasingly being asked about technology in the community such as residential broadband, how to welcome driverless cars, and how to embrace citizen-empowering health technologies.
Technology has been the driving force of economies worldwide – but what about cities? Cities have to develop efficient operational models to provide services and infrastructure for their citizens however, most services and infrastructure are built on a mixture of technologies that can span decades.
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