Smart Cities Connect brings together 200+ cities and their leadership with city leaders, technologists, urban planners, policymakers, researchers, and industry experts to share best practices, insights, and solutions for smart city development and municipal government operations. Examines strategies, partnerships, and technologies driving long-term impact across city systems from experimental pilots to large-scale infrastructure. Features Innovation Challenge Showcase, Smart 20 Awards, and 150+ exhibiting companies representing world-class smart IoT technologies and services. Topics include lighting, water, waste, planning, emergency response, autonomous vehicles, public transit, EV fleet transition, security infrastructure, 5G, and AI-enabled systems. Cities attend at no cost. Co-located with TechConnect World and SBIR/STTR Spring Innovation Conference.