Smart City Vegas

Online and In-Person

Here are some important details:

• Check our Smart City Vegas Events Calendar for times and links, check prior for any cancellations or updates. This is a Luma calendar, for now…
• We are using Jitsi, an open source, free-to-use, cross-platform video conference platform. There are mobile applications for Jitsi, and it works in your browser.
• Our meetups are intended to be open to anyone, please join in and bring a friend or colleague who might be interested in The Challenge.
• Please observe our Code of Conduct if you choose to participate. Since we know you aren’t going to read it, be pleasant, even if you want to argue.

Events

The Sprint

Ahead of the year-long Challenge kicking off in January 2027, we thought it might be fun, informative, and maybe even inspirational to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Week events in Nevada with something of an appetizer, and amuse bouche if you will, in form of an Innovation Sprint to last the duration of GEW2026. One week, 16-22 November 2026 (as one will find on our Event Calendar).

The idea is simple, any one of any age with any interest can, individually or as part of a team conceive of some startup idea which would address some civic innovation challenge, to elevate a community in some way, to solve a specific issue, or maybe just do something interesting, which might go from idea to startup. *Might* is the operative word there, a good idea is sufficient, there is zero requirement that the idea actually be pursued as a startup. That it could be will be just fine. For now…

Based on participation numbers we can identify a venue and will plan for final presentations and, perhaps, some judges and more to go along with all of this, and anyone who wants to take their idea and run with it is encouraged to do so, this is how Entrepreneurship works, right?

Please sign up initially by submitting an RSVP to the Begin Smart City Sprint on 16 November 2026 if you plan to participate in the sprint (each member of a team please RSVP). If you would like to be a spectator for the results please RSVP to the End Smart City Sprint on 22 November 2026.

We are also in the MetaPlanning stage now for The Sprint and for The Challenge coming up in January, visit our Events Calendar on Luma to locate a time that works for you to join one of the online meetups or perhaps an in-person gathering. Come with questions as well, even if you do not intend to take part in the MetaPlanning efforts.

The Challenge

If you have ever noticed something in your neighborhood, near school or work, or anywhere in the Greater Vegas area that could use some attention, some pondering, some innovation perhaps, the Smart Smart City Challenge might be what you have been waiting for this whole time.

Details are not quite final and we will invite input from participants as part of the Early Sign-Ups, but consider inviting others to collaborate on an idea, an innovation perhaps, to elevate your community, Greater Vegas, maybe the world. Your team is probably busy with work, school, life, you might not be able to join in on one of these “Hackathons” that sometimes go 40 hours or more on a long weekend.

The Smarter Smart City Challenge will last through all of 2026, into January 2027. Take your time. Collaborate when you can. Invite your friends, family, colleagues, anyone else to join in. Join in any time, and in fact, anyone can join in right up to the final moment of The Challenge, solo, on a team with others, or on more than one team, work on one idea or a few.

Our Smart City

Many will say that Greater Vegas (located in Clark County, based more on where people are than formal administrative boundaries) is already a Smart City. A Smart Region, perhaps. Could it be smarter? Of course.

You, me, everybody, not always at the top of the list of Smart City features. Should a place which is considered a Smart City be building out infrastructure, maintaining services and resources, and always innovating to look after the people living within it?

We say yes.

Details So Far

• Any age welcome, guardian permission essential, invite them to join in!
• There will be in-person events, but none required, participate on your terms
• We are seeking sponsors for incentives and prizes (still early)
• Early Sign-Ups for those who would like to join in on finalizing The Plans