Mayors, senior city leaders, and Responsive Cities Network teams explored how data, AI, and trusted messengers can help cities better understand, anticipate, and respond to residents’ needs.
Baltimore's cross-agency collaboration on extreme heat led to the creation of a layered GIS map to guide equitable cooling interventions for pregnant people and young children.
Digital twins, data-driven virtual representations of a city's existing and proposed places, assets, and systems, now offer city officials enhanced opportunities to improve governance, operations, and collaboration.
City leaders can regulate data center development to protect air quality by leveraging permitting reforms, strategic coordination, and data-driven mapping to mitigate environmental impacts on their communities.
Milwaukee faced a childhood lead poisoning crisis, which was tackled through inter-agency collaboration, work with community partners, and deploying a data-driven, equity-focused strategy that has now become a national model.
Fairfax County shows how maps, dashboards and a layered data ecosystem are a critical part of responding to the affordable housing crisis by building greater consensus and identifying new sites that meet community needs.
How St. Louis used 3D digital twins and spatial technology to rebuild trust with residents of the Ville and transform community engagement in neighborhood development planning.
Host Stephen Goldsmith speaks with Dr. Francisca Rojas, executive director of the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins, about how technology and design are helping cities understand what residents actually need—and why legacy systems...
Learn how AI tools help local emergency managers process drone imagery and make faster decisions during hurricanes, wildfires, and more.