Texas Smart Cities Series

The Texas Smart Cities Series is a twice monthly online presentation from technology, business, government, and education leaders sharing about their expertise and experience in smart cities technologies and practices. This online "lunch & learn" series is held on Zoom on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month from 12pm-1pm CST. The speakers include a variety of experts from our own ASCA membership, the Austin community at large, and also national and global smart cities professionals. This series is free and open to the public. ​
Upcoming Texas Smart Cities Series
April 28th, 12pm-1pm | Building Resident-Centered Smart Cities: Actionable Insights on the Reopening of Texas
Featured Speaker: Assaf Frances, Zencity

Ensuring that all voices are heard is a challenge all cities face. Often city employees are tasked with manually monitoring various platforms to keep apace with resident sentiment [and dissension] via social media and other online channels to respond and react. In times of crisis, it is particularly vital to keep a pulse on public opinion to make informed - and ultimately proactive - decisions on how to serve residents, respond to concerns and make policy decisions. The reopening of Texas and its impact on residents, businesses, city services and special events is a particularly critical decisionpoint. Through partnership with Mastercard's City Possible initiative, Zencity has done analysis on sentiment in North Texas with the cities of Dallas and Richardson, as well as the state of Texas overall, on the impacts of vaccination rollout, reopening and the lifting of the mask mandate. Join us on April 28th at noon CT to hear results of this analysis, actionable insights derived; and what this means for local jurisdictions and the state as recovery continues. How can cities respond to better serve residents and facilitate full recovery