Civic Marketplace Joins the City Innovation Network

The best ideas in government rarely stay in one city for long.

Innovation accelerates when public-sector leaders have opportunities to learn from one another and share what works, whether it's a new approach to AI governance, digital service delivery, transportation, public safety, or infrastructure resilience.

That's why Civic Marketplace is proud to join the City Innovation Network (CIN), a global community of city leaders, innovators, and organizations dedicated to advancing the future of urban government.

At Civic Marketplace, we spend every day working at the point where innovation meets implementation. We see firsthand that cities are struggling to navigate an increasingly crowded landscape of technologies, vendors, contracts, and competing priorities. The challenge is often not identifying what's possible. It's turning possibility into action.

The City Innovation Network creates space for the conversations, relationships, and shared learning that help cities move from experimentation to adoption and from isolated success stories to scalable impact.

"We're entering a period where the pace of technological change is accelerating faster than most institutions were designed to handle," said Al Hleileh, Co-Founder and CEO of Civic Marketplace. "Cities need trusted networks where they can learn from one another, challenge assumptions, and share practical lessons about what is actually working. That's what makes the City Innovation Network so important, and we're excited to contribute to that community."

As a CIN industry member, Civic Marketplace looks forward to engaging with city leaders around the world, sharing lessons from the procurement and technology landscape, and supporting the exchange of ideas that help cities deliver better outcomes for the people they serve.

On September 9 and 10, our CEO and co-founder Al will be speaking at the CIN Leadership Forum in San Diego, hosted by Jonathan Behnke, CIO of the City of San Diego. This is a peer-to-peer, invitation-only forum for city leaders to exchange best practices through roundtable discussions, Q&A sessions and case study presentations. You can apply to get involved here.