Our Fall 2021 newsletter includes the announcement of two new organizations, a toolkit to support resident engagement, and important updates on City Tech's future.

The new Civic Infrastructure Collaborative is an independent nonprofit organization that that will bring together physical, digital, and social assets to help cities thrive. Its mission is to drive public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

SWITCH, which stands for Sustainable Wellness through Innovation, Technology, & Collaborative Health, is a collaboration platform that accelerates, innovates, and scales tech-enabled solutions for healthcare challenges. SWITCH will bring together skilled partners as well as engage residents and healthcare patients to ensure they have an active voice in solution creation. In addition, SWITCH will leverage a robust and proprietary racial equity and inclusion (REI) methodology to address inherent bias in existing solution development processes.

City Tech Collaborative is launching two new, independent organizations focused on civic infrastructure innovation and community health and wellness, as well as an open-source toolkit to support and scale direct resident engagement in urban innovation. Following the successful launch of these efforts, City Tech will close its doors.

City Tech's work to understand the impact of green spaces and their reduction of urban heat islands' effects is featured in "Sustainable Cities and Society."

After a busy summer and an uncertain year, city residents and visitors are excited to return to destinations for fun - while also bringing raised expectations and cautious optimism for what it means to be in the public realm. City Tech, Navy Pier, and partners developed new capacity management and visitor experience solutions to improve operations and help shared public spaces navigate quickly shifting COVID-related capacity limits and public health and safety concerns.

Mobitas Advisors chatted with six experts - including City Tech - leading Smart Mobility initiatives across five cities to learn about their vision, boots-on-the-ground experience, and path forward.

In the original plans for Disney World, EPCOT wasn’t a theme park at all. Join us as we explore Walt Disney’s unrealized dream of an experimental prototype community and the impact it might have had on urban design. We’re also joined by Brenna Berman, Founder and CEO of City Tech, to unpack what human-centered design means in today's cities, and why certain aspects of urban living will simply never go according to plan.

City Tech Collaborative (City Tech) will join fellow winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards, the Chicago region’s foremost annual celebration of innovation, in New York City on Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 to ring the Closing Bell of the Nasdaq Stock Market.