Smart Cities Americas

What Smart Cities Americas does

Smart Cities Americas is a privately held, founder-led platform organization founded in 2018 and headquartered in Aventura/Miami, Florida, that operates the smart-cities ecosystem in South Florida through a portfolio of events, media, and community platforms. Its core product is Smart City Expo Miami, an international trade show and conference convening city leaders, mayors, policy makers, corporations, startups, NGOs, and technical bodies; the 2026 edition is scheduled for October 5–6 at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus and is structured around six innovation tracks covering regenerative finance, civic intelligence, neuro-urbanism, and living infrastructure. Surrounding the flagship event, the organization operates SmartCityMiami.com (urban innovation news), CIURBE.org (interactive urban innovation platform connecting local actors of change), CitiesHub.TV (news/video channel), Hack-a-Town (24-hour innovation competition), and the C-Movement citizen engagement initiative.

The underlying technology is primarily a content and community platform stack rather than a proprietary technology product: web properties, social channels, event registration infrastructure, and media production form the technical surface. Revenue is generated through event sponsorship and partnership tiers — including track partnerships and title sponsorships for Smart City Expo Miami — along with adjacent events production and platform services. Customer segments are segmented vertically across government, corporations, startups, and NGOs, with a community-led engagement layer targeting citizens and local actors.

The company is led by architect and urban planner Bernardo Scheinkman and operates with 11–50 employees. There are no disclosed funding rounds, no institutional investors on record, no app products, no integrations, and no public pricing. Reported economic-impact claims include $40 billion in projected new revenue opportunities and 20,000+ jobs for South Florida, though these are regional economic-impact figures rather than company revenue.

Name

Smart Cities Americas

Legal name

Smart Cities Americas

Website

https://smartcitiesamericas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Smart Cities Americas is a Miami-based platform organization that produces the Smart City Expo Miami trade show and operates complementary news, community, and citizen-engagement platforms (SmartCityMiami.com, CIURBE.org, CitiesHub.TV, Hack-a-Town, C-Movement) serving governments, corporations, startups, NGOs, and urban citizens.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart City Conference Services

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

akta.pro primary industry

Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Programs (Digital Planning, Civic Tech for Cities) (BPAIANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainable Cities, Urban Development & Green Infrastructure (BPADALAL), Local & City Guide Content Aggregators (MPACAKAJ), Digital Inclusion & Civic Tech (Connectivity, GovTech for Social Good) (BPAGALAK)

Keywords

• Smart city conferences
• Urban innovation events
• Trade show management
• Citizen engagement platforms
• Urban planning intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

Aventura

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Conference and Trade Show Sponsorships: Smart City Expo Miami offers partnership opportunities at multiple levels including track partnerships and title sponsorships. Organizations and innovators can present case studies through paid sponsorships.
2. Event Production and Platform Services: The organization offers events production services and platforms including Smart City Expo Miami, Hack-a-Town hackathons, and the C-Movement citizen engagement initiative.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Smart Cities Americas produces and hosts the Smart City Expo Miami international trade show and operates a portfolio of digital platforms (SmartCityMiami.com, CIURBE.org, CitiesHub.TV) that deliver smart cities news, research, and community engagement. It also runs the C-Movement citizen engagement initiative and the Hack-a-Town 24-hour innovation competition, targeting city leaders, corporations, startups, NGOs, and citizens.

Product overview

Smart Cities Americas operates as a multi-platform smart city intelligence, trade show, and conference organization. The portfolio consists of Smart City Expo Miami (an international trade show), SmartCityMiami.com (a news channel), CIURBE.org (an urban innovation platform), C-Movement (citizen engagement initiative), Hack-a-Town (24-hour hackathon competition), and CitiesHub.TV (television channel). These products work together to provide comprehensive smart city ecosystem coverage through events, news, citizen engagement, innovation competitions, and media content across South Florida.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Smart City Expo Miami: An international trade show featuring experts leading the change in urban planning, bringing the forefront of innovation in sustainable urban solutions with representatives from cities, countries, technical bodies, NGOs, corporations, startups, and entrepreneurs.
• C-Movement
• SmartCityMiami.com
• CIURBE.org
• Hack-a-Town
• CitiesHub.TV

Products and services

• Smart City Expo Miami International trade show featuring experts leading change in urban planning, bringing to Miami the forefront of innovation in sustainable urban solutions with representatives from cities, countries, technical bodies, NGOs, corporations, startups, and entrepreneurs.
• SmartCityMiami.com News channel highlighting trends about urban innovation and citizens' engagement in the decision process to build sustainable and resilient urban environments.
• CIURBE.org Interactive, interdisciplinary, and multicultural urban innovation platform engaging local actors of change from different community sectors to identify challenges, facilitate partnerships, and lead implementation of innovative solutions.
• C-Movement Initiative aimed to engage and empower citizens and communities to participate in the planning and implementation of actions to meet core city functions: livability, workability, and sustainability.
• Hack-a-Town 24-hour programming and innovation competition in which participants are challenged to imagine their city in a smarter way, enabling broad participation in shaping ambitious and innovative urban ideas.
• CitiesHub.TV Television channel platform focused on smart city content and urban innovation topics.

Quantifiable outcome

• $40 billion in new revenue opportunities for South Florida
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Miami Dade College (Wolfson Campus)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 October 2026Smart City Expo Miami 2026 will be hosted at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus. The college serves as the venue partner for this flagship two-day conference on urban intelligence and regenerative cities.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sustainable Brands: Conference and media platform covering sustainability across business and society. Comparable as a B2B events-and-content business where the regenerative/sustainable urban track is a meaningful area of audience overlap with Smart City Expo Miami.
• Smart Cities Dive: Industry news and events brand published by Informa covering smart-city technology, policy, and infrastructure. Comparable as a vertical B2B content-and-events platform targeting the same municipal buyers and corporate partners.
• Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo: US-based smart-cities event run by the United States Smart Cities Alliance. Directly competes with Smart City Expo Miami for the North American city-leader audience and municipal/government sponsorship budgets.
• GovTech (e.Republic): Government Technology magazine, conferences, and awards produced by e.Republic. Comparable as a B2B media-and-events platform targeting city, county, and state CIOs/decision-makers, the same primary segment Smart Cities Americas sells to.
• Urban Future Conference: European conference focused on sustainable cities and urban innovation. Directly comparable to Smart City Expo Miami on theme (sustainable urban solutions) and audience (city governments, urban planners, solution providers).
• Smart City Expo World Congress: Operated by Fira de Barcelona, this is the global flagship smart-cities trade show in Barcelona. Directly comparable to Smart City Expo Miami on vertical, audience, and expo production model, but with first-mover brand recognition and a larger global sponsor roster.
• Cities Today: A leading global media and events brand covering smart-city innovation and city leadership. Directly comparable to Smart Cities Americas in combining editorial content, conferences, and a city-leader community platform.

Broad incumbents

• Planet Smart City: Italy-based urban-innovation firm developing integrated smart-city neighborhoods. Comparable as a brand targeting city authorities and smart-city solution narratives, and it interacts with the same international city-leader audience as Smart City Expo Miami.
• Siemens Smart Infrastructure: A large industrial conglomerate division selling urban infrastructure, building technology, and mobility solutions. Comparable because it both sponsors and participates in smart-city events, and shares the same city-leader customer base that Smart Cities Americas cultivates.
• Cisco Smart+Connected Communities / Cisco Kinetic: Cisco's smart-city and IoT programs for municipalities. Comparable as a broad smart-city technology incumbent that both sponsors smart-cities events and addresses the same government/city-leader buyers Smart Cities Americas targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SmartCityMia
• Facebookfacebook.com/SmartCityExpoMiami
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/smart-cities-americas
• Instagraminstagram.com/smartcitymia

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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