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Congratulations to the Innovation and Technology Department recipient of the 2026 Smart 20 Award for "Transformative Work in Smart Cities" and their "Smart City Research Lab and Gables TechTank Incubator" initiatives.
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City of Coral Gables received the 2026 Smart 20 Award for the CGIT Smart City Research Laboratory and Gables TechTank STEM Incubator initiatives:
(CGIT R&D Lab) - (TechTank - in collaboration with Economic Development).
From the award organization site : "The Smart 20 Awards annually recognize global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work."
This year, the award recipients included 16 organizations from the U.S., one from Canada, one from Brazil, and two from Taiwan. Full list in the above site link.
This is the city’s fourth Smart Cities Connect award: our team also received the 2024 Smart 20 Awards for our Smart City AI-Powered Modular Poles project, the 2023 Smart 50 Awards for our Digital Twin Smart City Horizontal Integration Platform (which was also named one of the Top-3 Global Winners), and the 2020 Smart 50 Awards for our Smart Districts Expansion project.
This is also the third award received by the CGIT Research Lab: our team also received the 2025 Tech Talent Pipeline Workforce Development Award and the 2025 GeoGov Innovation in Education, Workforce Development, and Capacity Building Award: .
CGIT Research Laboratory:
The CGIT Research Lab team and our student interns work at the Lab on impactful R&D technology projects for our community, in quality-of-life areas like public safety, emergency response, citizen services, mobility/transportation, and citywide operational efficiencies; leveraging advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning, 3D-...
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