ASU Hosts Collaborative Smart Region Summit

On Thursday, ASU hosted the Smart Region Summit, a collaboration with partners including Amazon Web Services, Arizona Institute for Digital Progress, Deloitte, and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council. This meeting of the minds, held on ASU’s downtown campus, was focused on one central concept: the development of smart cities that leverage new technology to improve daily life.

At the event, ASU and AWS announced the Smart City Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), which will use AWS Cloud to further that mission of improving daily life. UTO’s Deputy Chief Information Officer John Rome, among other ASU leaders, spoke with ASU Now about the new initiative and what it can accomplish. Read the full story here.