Smart Cities Accelerators
The Accelerator Series offers a unique value proposition for city leaders and industry partners. Interested in learning more?
Spark Growth co-produced Smart Cities Innovation Accelerators and corresponding events with The Innovator’s Forum.
The Innovator’s Forum (TIF), a collaboration of senior executives from the public and private sectors, discusses approaches to emerging ideas and challenges in innovation and entrepreneurship. TIF was founded by Dr. David S Ricketts, Innovation Fellow, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH).
Smart Cities Accelerator Workshops
Smart Cities Accelerator workshops, supported by expert industry partners, build on Spark Growth’s other services to help city decision-makers by offering a broader perspective of successful strategies. In turn, the workshops help industry partners learn firsthand the many issues cities face and how they can better serve the needs of their city customers.
As an innovation firm and co-producer (with The Innovator’s Forum) of these events, Spark Growth provides experience design and facilitates the process of change—helping decision-makers and industry partners learn to think differently. Through participation in Smart Cities Accelerators, our clients and partners have found unprecedented opportunities opened up, opportunities for city decision-makers to learn from and co-design the next generation of smart cities solutions with the world’s leading smart cities innovators, researchers, and select startups and industry partners.
- The Accelerator Series offers a unique value proposition for city leaders and industry partners. Unlike open-registration conference events, these invitation-only opportunities bring together top city decision makers and senior level industry partners for real conversations and hands on innovation sessions.
A Smart City (or community) uses Information and Control Technology (ICT) to improve the efficiency of government and civic services to better meet residents’ needs. Smart Cities are about more than just sensors, data and analytics – the goal of Smart City development is to enhance how citizens live and work as well as to enable sustainability of the place and community.
A Smart City is a self-aware, introspective entity that engages its populace in creating a better quality of life. Smart Cities actively ask the important question: “How do we better serve our citizens?” And, focusing on quality of life and work, smart communities harness technology to provide answers and service as unique as each city, answers vital to the continued growth and satisfaction of the community.
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Working with Spark Growth has been a great experience for our programs and clients. Their work on developing our Smart City Accelerator has been invaluable. We went from zero to a fully supported program in a little over a year. The team there [is] the best to work with!
Dr. David S. Ricketts
The Innovator's Forum
The Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard
The Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard
