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Earlier in 2017, Accenture opened a cutting-edge tech hub called The Dock in Dublin, Ireland, the single most connected building on the planet. With over 10,000 sensors (more per square foot than any space on the globe), the building is intelligently connected to all other things and people within its walls.

Smart city projects in New York are first and foremost about the people—improving quality of life for the millions of residents, workers and visitors who come here to live, work and play. Sure, the technology is great, and it is key to our mission, but it is not the end goal in itself.

Data is the new oil, and cities that know how to extract it will be the smartest cities in the world. Of course, it’s not just about the data—it’s about how you can take incoming data and transform it into actionable insights that will improve the quality of life within your city.

In Orlando, we see smart cities initiatives as a valuable way to promote and enhance the Orlando brand. Although Orlando is a city of just over 275,000 people, we are part of a larger metropolitan area of about 3 million. We also have the 4.5 million Tampa/St.

You don’t have to be the CIO of a city to know that the transportation industry is changing – and changing rapidly.

Two main goals of the Paris climate agreement are to meet the 1.5 degree Celsius target and to create a 21^st-century clean energy economy.

Two years ago, fifteen women CEOs came together with a common goal for their businesses: to learn the tools and disciplines that would allow them to accelerate their growth and ultimately achieve annual revenues of $20M.

Mentorship plays a crucial role in the growth of any entrepreneur, but it is especially important for women entrepreneurs. Mentors have the power to change your viewpoint and expand your horizons, showing you a world you never knew existed. During the Symposium, the importance of mentors was discussed at length during a lunch panel on mentorship.

Engaging and leveraging the tremendous advances that IoT brings to enterprise solutions can be challenging. The 2016 Strategic Innovation Symposium: The Intelligent Enterprise at Harvard brought together leaders from across industries to discuss the opportunities and challenges in engaging in the Intelligent Enterprise.

The Summit was an opportunity for senior city leaders to explore Smart City solutions that are happening at the present time.

Getting to know people, their plans and ambitions, and how they tackle challenges in different cities and countries around the world is what brings valu

There are many players involved in the successful implementation of Smart City solutions, but at the Summit, participants discussed the specific role of

Dublin is a small city of about 1.3 million people, with four local authorities that make collaboration a challenge.

In the United States, cities are run by mayors, and Smart City initiatives are not typically a priority for them.

Bristol is the 8th largest city in the UK and a booming city region of 1.1 million people.

The Strategic Innovation Summit and Symposia series was convened to enable multi-disciplinary discussions of senior leaders on relevant topics of the year. Unlike conventional, discipline-specific conferences, where topical content is narrow and participants are generally from the same discipline, the Summits bring together people from many sectors.

By Yuri Quintana, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, and Director of Global Health Informatics

Global Health Challenges

By David Ricketts, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard 

By Paolo Santi, Research Scientist, MIT

Presented by Rich Rao, Global Head of Devices and Education, Google

By Tom Bianculli, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Zebra Technologies

Housing, construction, and design were main topics at the ACE2016 Summit, but it’s important to remember that the official name of the event is “Affordable Communities Everywhere.” That represents a goal of not simply building more housing units to meet the needs of individuals, but ra

Albania, like most post-socialist countries, has experienced rapid privatization of previously state-owned housing and growing affordable housing shortages in its cities over the last two decades.

Today we are more connected than ever before. We use technology to enhance, share and control the world immediately around us—turning on lights, networking on demand, locating the nearest bike rack or parking space, all from pocket-sized devices. Our connectivity is not only expressed person to person and at the individual level.

Disabilities have a lot in common with the many of the technology markets I have analyzed for the last 30 years: each was developed and considered in isolation, solutions were specific to each area, and the cost was excessive. Nothing united the disability segments just like nothing united the different streams of technology. Until now.  

During the past two decades, the IT & Communications industry revolutionized our world by greatly enhancing what our minds can do.

An important part of selling your business is deciding what you are going to do in the next chapter of your life. A growing number of us reach a certain point in our lives when we look up from our desk and wonder if there is more to life than this?

STS Capital Partners has a history of successful mergers and acquisitions.

In 2012, on a scorching hot day in Chicago, I walked in to negotiate the final terms in the sale of my company, Appletree Answers. The tension level was through the roof. We argued back and forth about the finer points of the deal and I even walked out two times.

The city of the future looks very different from the one that has been the cornerstone of society for the past centuries.  The 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit revealed several trends that pose a fundamental change in how citizens use and interact with their city.  No longer are cities functioning as a source of infrastructure and services and as a common

A point that is often missed when assessing technology and its impact on society is the business model for implementation/utilization of the technology.  Glenn Wintrich and Brian Donnellan are co-investigators on a National Science Foundation grant researching smart cities.

One of the tenets of innovation and creativity is the ability to experiment with new ideas and fail. Experimentation and failure, however, are two words not found in any politician’s campaign promises.  Enabling experimentation and managing risk were common themes throughout the Summit.  Pilot programs and small initiatives are common in city government.