2016 AGENDA

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MONDAY, MAY 16

7:15 – 9:15am: Shuttle Service from the Marriott Downtown to UMKC

7:30 – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast (Student Union Room 401) 

PLENARY SESSION: STUDENT UNION ROOM 401

8:30-8:45 am: Welcome from Aaron Deacon, KC Digital Drive

The “smart city” movement has reached North America. How can we combine it with the gigabit to focus on the people?

8:45-9:00 am: Tech Goes Home – Chattanooga Showcase, Kelly McCarthy

9:00-9:50 am: From Gigabit to Smart – How Cities Are Digitally Transforming, Joe Reardon, President/CEO of KC Chamber of Commerce, former mayor of Kansas City, Kansas

9:50 – 10:20am: Refreshment Break

TRACK A: GIGABIT CITY ACTIVATION

Student Union Room 401

10:20-10:50am: Creating Your Digital Playbook

• Mike Burke & Ray Daniels, Mayors Bistate Innovation Team – KCMO & KCK
• Ken Hays – Enterprise Center of Chattanooga 

10:50-11:20am: City Spotlight: Building a Playbook for Carbondale, IL

• Mike Brown, The Brainzooming Group (Kansas City)
• Dave Sandel, Sandel & Assoc. (St. Louis, MO)
• Gary Williams, Interim City Manager, City of Carbondale, IL

11:20-12:00pm: Meeting in the Middle: Bottom-Up Innovation + Top-Down Leadership

• Lev Gonick, OneCommunity (Cleveland, OH)
• Mike Schirling, BTV Ignite (Burlington, VT)

12:00-12:30pm: City Spotlight: Charlotte

• Alan Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Hearts Gigabit (Charlotte, NC) 

TRACK B: SMART CITY INFRASTRUCTURE

Bloch Hall Auditorium

10:20-10:50am Fiber as Foundational Infrastructure…and What’s Coming Next?

• Kevin Honomichl, BHC Rhodes
• Kelly Carnago, Google Fiber

10:50-11:50am City Spotlight: Cisco + Sprint: Making Kansas City Smarter

• Bob Bennett, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Kansas City, MO
• Cliff Thomas, Managing Director, Cisco
• Tony Singer, Sprint

11:50-12:30pm: Energy & Water in the Smart City

• Fred Ellermeier, VP, Black & Veatch Smart Integrated Infrastructure
• Jim Epp, Water Operations, Board of Public Utilities, Kansas City, KS
• Jason Bridges, VP Engineering, Milbank Manufacturing
• Debbie Acosta, CIO, City of San Leandro

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch in Bloch Executive Hall

TRACK A CONT'D

1:30-2:20pm:    Provider Engagement: Working with ISPs to Deliver Community Impact

• Rick Usher, Asst. City Manager (Kansas City, MO)
• Mary Beth Henry, Director at Office for Community Technology (Portland, OR)
• Nole Walkingshaw, Innovations and Civic Engagement Manager (Salt Lake City, UT)

2:20-2:30: City Spotlight: Montrose, CO

• Virgil Turner, Director of Innovation and Citizen Engagement, City of Montrose, CO

2:30-3:10: Leveraging City Assets for Fiber and Beyond

• Jim Baller, President of Baller Herbst Stokes & Lide PC (Washington,DC)
• Anne Callenbach, Polsinelli PC (Kansas City)
• Brett Deichler, City of Kansas City, KS

3:10-3:30 City Spotlight: Nevada City, CA

• John Paul, Spiral Internet

TRACK B CONT'D

1:30-2:00:  City Spotlight: ATL + AT&T

• Jason Watkins, CTO, City of Atlanta
• Torri Martin, City of Atlanta
• Randi Mason, Invest Atlanta
• Matt Foreman, AT&T Smart Cities

2:00-2:45: Smart Lighting

• Rick Freeman, GE, GM of Intelligent Cities
• Sean Harrington, COO, Sensity

2:45-3:30 Focusing On Community Impact: Engineering & Infrastructure

• Ted Smith, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Louisville
• Julie Lorenz, ‎Sr. Strategic Consultant, Burns & McDonnell
   

3:30 – 4:00 - Refreshment Break

PLENARY SESSION: STUDENT UNION ROOM 401

4:00-4:30pm: Fireside Chat: Philanthropy, Makers and the Innovation Ecosystem
    
Learn how a privately funded community tech library is helping patrons of all generations prepare for and engage with the knowledge economy. 

• Luis Rodriguez, Community Strategist, Ultimaker, (Kansas City)
• Rebecca Stavick, Executive Director, Do Space (Omaha, NE) 

4:30-4:45pm: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: City Selection for Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund

4:45-5:15pm: KEYNOTE: Peter Hirshberg, Grey Area Foundation for the Arts

At the center of the maker movement and urban prototyping, Peter Hirshberg paints a vision for the city of the future

• Keynote Speaker: Peter Hirshberg, CEO, the RE:Imagine Group & Chairman, the Grey Area Foundation for the Arts

Shuttle Service from UMKC to the Marriott Downtown

5:30-8:00pm: CITY CONNECTION DINNERS

You and your delegation will be invited to come out to dinner at a local eatery to get to know your fellow GCS-ers!

Dinner Hosts:

US Ignite | Innovation/Gigabit Ecosystems

FTTH Council | Fiber Infrastructure

Next Century Cities | City Leaders and Broadband Policy

TUESDAY, MAY 17

7:15 – 9:15am: Shuttle Service from the Marriott Downtown to UMKC

7:30 – 9:00am: Continental Breakfast (Student Union Room 401) 

TRACK C: DIGITAL INCLUSION

Track Chair: Carrie Coogan, Kansas City Public Library

8:30-9:15am: How Should Government Invest in Bridging the Digital Divide?

• Anne Schwieger, City of Boston
• Jim Loter, City of Seattle
• Linda Jones, City of Raleigh

9:15-9:45am: Keynote: New Approaches to Bridging the Digital Divide

• Colin Rhinesmith, Asst. Professor, Library & Information Science, University of Oklahoma

10:00-10:45am: Developing New Localized Capacity for Digital Inclusion

• Michael Liimatta, ConnectHome (Washington, DC)
• Leana Mayzlina, Digital Inclusion Campaign Manager, NTEN (Portland)
• Elizabeth Lindsey, ByteBack (Washington, DC)

10:45-11:30am: Incorporating Digital Inclusion into Existing Social Services

• Tom Esselman, CEO, Connecting for Good (Kansas City)
• Kami Griffiths, Community Technology Network (San Francisco)
• Bill Hulterstrom, United Way of Utah County (Provo)

11:30 – 1:00pm: LUNCH & COMMUNITY EXHIBITS

Bloch Hall Atrium

Grab lunch and explore the Community Exhibits, a unique expo of people, organizations and companies in connected cities that leveraging broadband and smart city technology for community impact. 
Exhibits will be open throughout the afternoon.

AFTERNOON TRACKS

TRACK E: UNIVERSITY + CITY COLLABORATION

Track Chair: Luke Norris, PayIt

1:00-1:30pm: City Case Study: UMKC/KCMO

• Ellen Suni, UMKC Law School
• Kate Garman, Innovation Analyst, City of KCMO

1:30-2:15pm: Technology, Law and Public Policy

• Tony Luppino, UMKC Law School
• Jeanette Eicks, Vermont Law School
• Evan Absher, Kauffman Foundation

2:15-2:45pm: City Case Study: Georgia Tech/Atlanta

• Jennifer Clark, Georgia Tech University

2:45-3:30pm: Smart City Applications + University

• Ben Levine, MetroLab Network
• Yinhai Wang, University of Washington, IEEE Smart Cities Initiative

3:30-4:00pm: City Case Study: Queens/Charlotte

• Eric Freedman, Dean of the Knight School, Queens University

TRACK G: EDUCATION

Track Chairs: Janice Wait (Mozilla) and Kari Keefe (Think Big Foundation)

1:00-1:45pm: Keynote: Education as a Top Priority to CIOs

• Richard Culatta, CIO, Rhode Island

1:50-3:00pm: The Role of Education in Leadership to Support the Development of Smart, Digital Cities

• Leigh Anne Taylor Knight, Debruce Foundation & ThinkShift
• Michael Baskin, Chief Policy Officer, City of Chattanooga
• Sheri Gonzales Warren, Community & Economic Development Project Manager, Mid-America Regional Council (KC Rising)
• Connie Yowell, CEO, Collective Shift (LRNG)

3:00-4:00pm: Ignite Talks: High Tech Applications for Learning + Teacher Led Innovation + Startups Impacting Education

• DeAnna Soukup, SenseEd+ Middle and High School Science Teacher, Lee's Summit School District
• Brice Jensen, Gamified Physics Curriculum, Winnetonka High School
• Daniel Green, Immersive Education Santa Fe Trail / Freedom Trail Project
• Sammy Lowdermilk, Tech Goes Home
• Clarence Tan, edcoda
• John Vandewalle, CEO, LumenTouch
• Katie Boody, Co-founder and CEO, The Lean Lab

4:00 – 6:00pm: COCKTAIL RECEPTION AND KEYNOTE: STUDENT UNION

  
4:30-4:50pm: KEYNOTE: Blair Levin, Brookings Institute

Cities, Technology and the Next Administration

Shuttle Service from UMKC to the Marriott Downtown

6:30 – 8:30pm: AFTER-HOURS MEETUPS

Join us at one or more track happy hours to continue the conversation.

More details at the links below.

Education Track Happy Hour, w Mozilla at EduHub KC, 4049 Pennsylvania Ave, Suite 301 

Digital Inclusion Track Happy Hour, at Ruins Pub, 1715 Main Street

Civic Tech Happy Hour, w Code for KC, at Snow & Co., 1815 Wyandotte Street

Smart Gigabit Communities Happy Hour, w US Ignite, at Harry's Country Club, 112 E Missouri Ave

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18

COMMUNITY TECH TOURS - 8:00-11:45am
Starting from the Marriott Downtown, you will have the chance to board shuttles (or walk) to innovation destinations around the city.

GROUP 1: ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Travel to the original shark tank! We’ll take you to The Kauffman Foundation to witness 1 Million Cups, the national weekly startup session where entrepreneurs pitch and the public judges.

GROUP 2: DIGITAL DIVIDE
See where the work of digital inclusion is being done in Kansas City. Stops include Juniper Gardens, Reconciliation Services, Center City Community Wifi

GROUP 3: SMART CITY & STREETCAR
Hop on board Kansas City’s new streetcar and learn about the downtown smart city corridor, its interactive kiosks, public wifi, and sensors gobbling up tons of data.

TOURS WILL END BY 12:00 PM, AND BOX LUNCHES WILL BE AVAILABLE.

Conference agenda is subject to change.

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