2023 Smart 50 Awards

Honoring the 50 most transformative smart projects each year.

Smart 50 Awards, in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation, and US Ignite, annually recognize global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work.

Strong applicants will represent innovative projects with current or future municipal-scale impact and application. Applications should clarify their connection with a municipal or municipal-similar partner such as a county, region, campus, installation, base, or facility complex.

A fee of $300 is due for each application submitted, invoiced via email once your submission is received by our team, to qualify your entry. Entry fees support city leader travel to Smart Cities Connect events and are managed by Smart Cities Connect Foundation, a 501c6 nonprofit.

Finalists receive one (1) full registration waiver to Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo and (2) gala awards tickets.

Interested in sponsorship? Contact our team.

Awards Gala

When: TBD
Where:TBD
Dress: Business Casual

Each ticket includes open bar, seated dinner, and access to the Smart 50 Awards program. Additional tickets cost $195 per person and pre-purchase is required.

Registration Coming Soon

Hosted in conjunction with the Smart Cities Connect Fall Conference and Expo, November 27-30, 2023

2021 Award Recipients:

Snow and Ice Command Program, Village of Schaumburg, Illinois
TikTak By Moovit On-Demand, Haifa, Israel
Project Aeolus, Tucson, Arizona
Starship Technologies - Fairfax City Partnership, Fairfax, Virginia
Road Paving Phase 2 With Roadbotics, Inc, Montgomery, Alabama
City of Virginia Beach Traffic Data-Sharing Partnership, Virginia Beach, Virginia
AI Road Quality Assessment, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SALI, An Advanced Critical Aid System Establishing "Safe Zones" For Medical Response For The Benefit of Marburg, Germany, Marburg, Germany
ENDEAVRide: Taxi + Telemedicine For Vulnerable Populations In Small and Rural Communities, Nolanville, Texas
payit St.Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Virtual Desktop Environment Hosted In The Cloud, Corona, California
Connected Beyond The Classroom, San Antonio, Texas
How The Village of Bolingbrook Used Zencity’s Resident Feedback Data To Track and Increase Mask-Wearing Compliance, Village of Bolingbrook, Illinois
City of Indianapolis: Dine Out Indy, Indianapolis, Indiana
Building America’s Smartest City In Kansas City With RUBICONSmartCity™, Kansas City, Missouri
WSSC Water Main Replacement Program Planning, WSSC Water (Laurel, Maryland)
Salt Optimization with AI, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
City of Vaughan LED Streetlight Retrofit Project, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
CityDash: Unified City-Wide Geospatial AI, San Leandro, California
Smart Green Infrastructure Monitoring System Pilot, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Station of Being, Umeå, Sweden
Resilient Bay Area Virtual Power Plants, Alameda County, San Mateo County, and Santa Clara County, California
Chattanooga Regional Crash Prediction Model, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Early Detection Wildfire Imagining Network (EDWIN), Layton, South Salt Lake, Murray City, Woodland Hills, and Orem, Utah
Innovation In Advancing Community Health and Fighting COVID-19, Tempe, Arizona
Austin Energy Drives Electric Dealer Program, Austin, Texas
Internet of Everything Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah
City of Jacksonville Smart Water Meter Infrastructure Project, Jacksonville, Texas
Digitalization of The Education Process In The Municipal Schools In Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Plan, Pay, and Ride Across Israel: Moovit’s First National MaaS Launch, In Partnership With Israel’s Ministry of Transportation, Israel
Smart Curbside Management Corridor, Las Vegas, Nevada
A Comprehensive Spatial Analysis and Onset Risk Prediction Platform For The COVID-19 Pandemic In Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Tai O Village Pedestrian Traffic Monitoring Project, Tai O Village, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
First-Ever Smart Tree Monitoring Project Using Low-Power Wireless Network For Urban Forestry and Tree Management, Hong Kong
Velodyne Lidar’s Intelligent Infrastructure Solution Powered By Bluecity, New Jersey, Montreal, Kelowna, New Brunswick, Reno, Austin, Boca Raton
Pullman Police Department - Washington State University Research Fellowship Program, Pullman, Washington
Water Treatment State of Modernization Project, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Arlington Texas: On-Demand Public Transit With AV Integration, Arlington, Texas
Tenderloin Smart Waste and Community Identity Initiative, The Tenderloin, San Francisco, California
City of Miramar AMI Project, Miramar, Florida
City of Miramar Smart Building Energy Management Systems, Miramar, Florida
MicroNetwork for citizen surveillance of air quality in the commune of Conc√≥n, City of Concón, Chile
ICA UTC Pedestrian Analysis Along The East M.L. King Boulevard Smart Corridor, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Gainesville Smart Water Network, Gainesville, Georiga
Hopewell's Broadband Project, Hopewell, Virginia
Smart wastewater monitoring in support of environmental and human health, Saskatoon, Canada
The Small World AI Project, Tokyo, Japan
Carlsbad Economic Recovery and Revitalization Initiative, Carlsbad, California
Pivot App by Smart Columbus, Columbus, Ohio
Smart Columbus Smart Mobility Hubs, Columbus, Ohio

Congratulations to all of the 2021 Smart 50 Awardees. We thank you for your patiences as we work through programming and announcement updates for your awards. On behalf of the entire Smart Cities Connect team we look forward to connecting with you all soon and we will reach out to you shortly with updates.

For more information, please contact Laura Benold, Smart Cities Connect at