BITS City Competition Kickoff

Local Sense Lab

The platform of the future isn’t a phone. It’s a place: Boston. The city is investing in new technologies, new applications, and new policies to make Boston smarter, friendlier, and more livable for everyone. But the city of the future needs citizen technologists, designers, and dreamers. That’s why we’re opening Boston to your apps, hardware, design, and policy innovations in the first-ever <A HREF="bitscity.github.io" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">BITS City Competition</A> (aka Boston Is The Smartest City). Form teams and solve problems in four challenge areas: Reappropriating Infrastructure, Waiting Places, Sensors in the City, and Other. Win cool prizes, bragging rights, and recognition from the Mayor’s Office. Any undergraduate student, graduate student, postdoc, or faculty in the Boston-area is eligible to enter. For more details, see <A HREF="bitscity.github.io" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">bitscity.github.io</A>, or come to the kickoff on September 12, 12pm at the MIT Martin Trust Center. Applications open September 12.
In the meantime, take a look at <A HREF="http://monum.github.io/playbook" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Boston’s Smart City Playbook</A> for a sense of the criteria.
<H2>Key dates</H2>
Kickoff: September 12, noon @ MIT Martin Trust Center (E40-160)  
<UL>
<LI>Lunch! + Networking: noon - 12:40pm</LI>
<LI>Smartest City Panel: 12:50pm - 1:30pm, featuring</LI>
<UL>
<LI>Anne Schweiger (Chief Equity Officer @ City of Boston)</LI>
<LI>Andrea Chegut (Research Scientist @ MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab)</LI>
<LI>Chris Rezendes (Founder @ IoT Impact Labs)</LI>
</UL>
<LI>Formal contest open: 1:30pm</LI>
<LI>Office Hours @ MIT: after 2pm</LI>
</UL>
Applications open: September 12, noon
Office hours @ City Hall: TBA
Applications close: September 25, 11:59pm

Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

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