The Smart21 Communities of 2025 will be announced in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada – a 3-time Smart21 Community and 2-time Top7 Intelligent Community. Hamilton is a city of 520,000 people, known for industry, education and cultural diversity, having the third-largest foreign-born population in Canada.

Featuring a theme of Communities in Transition, this conference includes a full day of Plenary Sessions followed by an evening Awards Dinner Reception on March 6. The day before, attendees can also register for an optional Pre-Summit Community Tour, Indicators in Action, in and around local Intelligent Communities. The 5th will end with an evening Reception of the Arts at 7 Innovation Exhibition hosted at the Hamilton Technology Centre.

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Theme: Communities in Transition

The realities of the current economic, social and political landscape have communities globally reeling with compounding crises of homelessness, drug addiction, healthcare and wealth inequality. Technology held the promise of helping communities deal with the underlying issues to support the ICF Community Accelerator Strategy social and cultural Factors for Engagement, Inclusion and Sustainability. To do so, technology must deliver on the economic Factors of Connectivity, Workforce and Innovation to inform, measure and improve decision making, the built environment and public policy. While many regions may have solved local broadband connectivity to residents, most have not, beyond a plethora of point solutions, found the way to stitch together recent connectivity, innovations and policies nor found the necessary workforce. There are however many successful communities in transition working toward solutions. Participants will learn what it means to fulfill the Accelerator Strategy Factors, build and connect the necessary infrastructure and how success impacts social wellbeing through a series of six panels of experts and two keynotes providing real world examples of how they are implementing solutions that drive the six key Factors.

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