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Raimundo Rodulfo started his career 30 years ago in the early 1990s as an electrical engineer in the telecommunications industry. He joined the City of Coral Gables in 2004 and currently serves as Director of Innovation & Technology and Chief Innovation Officer. He leads strategic planning, oversight and management of citywide IT operations, infrastructure and smart city initiatives. Under his leadership, the City has received numerous awards including IEEE Smart Cities Jury Award in 2022, first place in the Government Experience Awards in 2023, first place in the Digital Cities 2018, first place in the U.S. Open Cities Index in 2019 and 2020, Smart 50 Award in Urban Infrastructure in 2020 and 2023, Smart Cities Council Innovation Excellence Award in 2022, Smart21 and Top7 Intelligent Community in 2023, and being recognized as one of the 8 Smart Cities to Watch in 2020 by State Tech Magazine and as one of the 12 finalists worldwide in the Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards for government in 2021.

Prior to joining the City, he spent ten years in the private sector working for various Fortune 500 companies such as Bellsouth, Siemens, and NCR in varying capacities, managing projects, developing urban networks, electronics and expert systems. During this time, he also worked on technology projects with Motorola and Lucent Technologies in Chicago, and Agilent Technologies in Silicon Valley.

He volunteers as Co-Chair of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Global Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) Superclusters, as a member of the World Business Angel Investment Forum (WBAF) Miami Board of Directors and the Cities Today Institute (CTI) Leadership Forum, and as an advisory member of international nonprofit professional committees, academic programs, and engineering standard development organizations. He has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences and events, and has also authored multiple research papers, articles, technical book chapters and other publications in the areas of smart cities, engineering and technology.

Rodulfo has received numerous awards and recognition throughout his career. Most recently, he was named City Executive of the Year in the 2022 LocalSmart Awards, received the Globant Digital Disruptor award and the CyberTrust Pioneer award in 2021, was named to State Tech Magazine’s list of 30 State and Local Government IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2020, and received the Key to the City from the Mayor of Coral Gables.

He holds a Master of Science in Engineering Management and a Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Systems from Florida International University (FIU), and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Polytechnic University (UNEXPO). He is a Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E., Florida and National NCEES Record), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), and a certified professional in PCI, HIPAA, Incident Management, Virtualization, SAP, and ITIL

CONFERENCE

Coral Gables Smart City Journey: Challenges, Strategies, Solutions, Success Stories

Coral Gables was founded on innovation, being one of the very first planned communities in the United States. Today, we’re known nationwide as a Smart City, leveraging advanced infrastructure and technologies to benefit our residents, employees, businesses and visitors, as well as make our city more resilient and sustainable. Our City is the home of the University of Miami, 140+ multinational corporate headquarters, 20+ international consulates and trade offices, and a vibrant innovation ecosystem.

City of Coral Gables received the 2022 IEEE Smart Cities Awards Jury Prize and the 2022 Smart City Innovation Excellence Award, was recognized as one of Top 7 Intelligent Communities in 2023 and won first place nationwide in the 2023 Government Experience award, the 2020 and 2019 Open Cities Index, and the 2018 Digital Cities award, among other recognitions. These benchmarks recognize a city’s performance and innovation in using technology to align with city goals; promote citizen inclusion in important government processes; share government data with the public; proactively address citizen expectations; boost cybersecurity and increase efficiency.

The City of Coral Gables promotes the development of a smart city ecosystem that fosters innovation and economic growth by bringing together technology People; Businesses, Organizations; Things, and Systems. By leveraging strategic planning, innovation and best practices, the City’s digital transformation and smart initiatives benefit the citizens with continuous improvement of customer service and quality of life. Our smart city roadmap is defined by the components of transparency, value creation; open data and analytics; actionable information, efficiencies; citizen engagement, mobility, accessibility; crowdsourcing; inclusion, and collaboration. 

This presentation will go over some of the challenges, strategies, solutions, and success stories that marked our continuous and exciting journey to become an internationally recognized, award-winning smart city.