PLEXPOD WESTPORT COMMONS, 300 E 39TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO
(DOWNLOAD WORKING AGENDA PDF HERE)
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2018
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
City PARTNERship workshop
The event will bring together representatives from counties, cities, and towns that are looking for creative solutions in connectivity, data, and smart cities. This half-day pre-conference event will give participants the opportunity to speak one-on-one about the ways in which they can partner to deploy broadband or other services.
The City Partnership Workshop will mainly be set up to provide cities and vendors the opportunity to speak one-on-one to build relationships, discuss assets and needs, and create potential partnerships. The pairings of cities and vendors will be curated based on mutual interest, needs, and priorities between cities and vendors. Possible discussion topics range from fiber builds to 5G deployments to smart city analytics platforms.
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
EARLY ARRIVAL RECEPTION
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2018
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
SESSION 1
GIGABIT CITY MAYORS PANEL
- Mayor Sly James, Kansas City, MO
- Mayor David Alvey, Kansas City, KS
- Mayor Pauline Cutter, San Leandro, CA
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
SESSION 2
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Blair Levin, The Brookings Institute
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
SESSION 3
Building an Innovation Ecosystem for Civic Good
- Ken Hays, The Enterprise Center (Chattanooga)
- Kamran Siddique, City Innovate Foundation
- Brenna Berman, City Tech Collaborative AND/OR
- Jason Anderson, CleanTech San Diego
TRACK A
ORGANIZATIONAL & CAPACITY MODELS
A brand new gigabit network makes it real. Digital transformation is all around us of course. And while “gigabit” may not be the proxy for “new and exciting” that it was in 2012, the communities that have made the enormous investment—public or private—and gone through the headaches of building extensive fiber are forced to reckon with how to re-orient or build new civic capacity, within City Hall and outside it, to evolve alongside new technology infrastructure and applications
TRACK B
GIGABIT CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
The public appetite for gigabit may be part marketing—but only part. The ubiquitous, affordable fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-premise connections that are implied by gigabit are real community assets. As network improvements continue and the federal landscape shifts, it is important to maintain a focus on the actual infrastructure—how fiber and wireless complement one another, who takes responsibility for ensuring the network is available, and how broadband integrates with other emerging network and IT needs.
TRACK C
CIVIC TECH IN A GIGABIT CITY
We’ve closed the gap significantly between the smart city community and the civic tech community over the past several years, but the work isn’t finished. “Smart city” implies IoT, systems engineering and big corporate innovators—a top-down approach to innovation. “Civic tech”, on the other hand, is historically bottom-up—nimble, entrepreneurial, inclusive, community-driven, drawing on humancentered design. With a dual focus on emerging, pre-commercial technology and widespread community impact, gigabit cities offer a unique perspective on how to bring these approaches together.
TRACK D
GIGABIT CITY EVOLUTION
From the outset, the Gigabit City Summit has been an invitation to witness change in action, for better or for worse. Our community of cities does not just represent a collection of ideals and best practices or smart city hype. Gigabit cities have built something new, in place and on purpose. Through our physical locations, our community tours, and our content tracks, year-over-year, we offer a chance to see change over time. While gigabit has been an instrumental catalyst, we recognized from the outset that it’s a starting point not an end. The opportunity for a longitudinal study of a community over time yields a different sort of learning, especially across the many and diverse areas of development spurred on by gigabit, in Kansas City and beyond.
TRACK A
ORGANIZATIONAL & CAPACITY MODELS | Aaron Deacon, KC Digital Drive
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SESSION 4
ELEMENTS OF AN ECOSYSTEM
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
City of San Leandro - A Story of Transformation: Building a Tech & Innovation Ecosystem by Debbie Acosta, former Chief Innovation Officer, City of San Leandro
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Infrastructure by Kate Hodel, KC SourceLink
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
The Intersection of Entrepreneurship & Civic Tech by Evan Absher, Kauffman Foundation
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Panel Discussion w/ Debbie Acosta, Kate Hodel, Evan Absher
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Break
2:50 PM - 3:05 PM
Building Inclusion into an Innovation District by Ken Hays, The Enterprise Center, Chattanooga
3:05 PM - 3:20 PM
Digital Inclusion Playbook: Charlotte by Bruck Clark, Digital Charlotte
3:20 PM - 3:35 PM
Civic Tech & Data Collaborative Framework by Elizabeth Reynoso, Living Cities
TRACK B
GIGABIT CITY INFRASTRUCTURE | Alison Brooks, IDC
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SESSION 5
FIBER, 5G, & MORE
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
The State of 5G by Doug Hohulin, Nokia
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM
City Planning for Wired & Wireless by Kevin Travelstead, BHC Rhodes
1:40 PM - 2:40 PM
Public vs Private Assets in a 5G World by Christopher Mitchell, Alan Tilles, Mitsi Herrera
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Impact of the BDAC & the Future at the FCC by Michael Ray, FCC, and Daniel Freisen, Mayor of Buhler, KS (TBD)
TRACK C
CIVIC TECH IN A GIGABIT CITY | Chelsea Collier, Digi.City
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SESSION 6
GIGABIT APPS & NEXT GEN INNOVATION
1:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Mozilla-Ignite: Retrospective & Looking Ahead by Bill Wallace, US Ignite and Lindsey Frost, Mozilla, NSF
1:40 PM - 1:50 PM
App Demo by Mozilla
1:50 PM - 2:00 PM
App Demo by US Ignite
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Building a Digital Town by Jonathan Wagner, Big Bang, Scott Turnbull, US Ignite, Matt Delcambre, Lafayette
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Break
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
App Demo by Dominique Davison, PlanIT Impact
3:00 PM - 3:10 PM
App Demo by Prasad Calyam, U of Missouri
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Reverse Pitch (TBD)
TRACK D
GIGABIT CITY EVOLUTION | Susan Norris, ECCO Select
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SESSION 7
ADJACENT NETWORKS: ENERGY & MOBILITY
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Avis Mobility Lab (Connected Fleet) by Avis/Bob Bennett
1:20 PM - 2:00 PM
Google, Replica, & Sidewalk Labs (Transportation Data) by Jim Hubbell, Mid-America Regional Council, Nick Bowden, Sidewalk Labs, Portland
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Freedom Ride KC (First Mile/Last Mile) by Tyler Means, KCATA
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Air Travel in a Connected Age (KC Airport) by Ashely Hand, CityFi
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Going Green (EV Charging Network) by Jeff Beeson, KCP&L
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Cities & the Paris Accord (Energy Monitoring) by Dennis Murphey
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM
Panel Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
SESSION 8
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: A NEW CITY O/S
- Neil Kleiman, NYU Center for Urban Science & Progress
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
COMMUNITY CONNECTION DINNERS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2018
TRACK A
ORGANIZATIONAL & CAPACITY MODELS | Aaron Deacon, KC Digital Drive
9:00 AM - 12:30 pM
SESSION 9
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WITHIN CITY HALL
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Organizing City Hall for Innovation: Ottawa Case Study by Saad Bashir, Chief Information Officer, City of Ottawa
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Organizing an Innovation Office by Bob Bennett, KCMO, Alan Howze, KCK, Saad Bashir, Chief Information Officer, City of Ottawa
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
City Spotlight: San Diego by David Graham, City of San Diego
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
City Spotlight: Lincoln, NE by David Young, City of Lincoln
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Design Thinking in City Government by Ariel Kennan, Sidewalk Labs, Anthony Lyons, City of Gainesville, FL, Tim Stock Scenario DNA
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
SESSION 13
REGIONALISM: BALANCING SYSTEMS & SCALE
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
The Role of States in Smart Regions by Jake Rashavy, Denver South Economic Development Partnership, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, State of Kansas, Smart Georgia Challenge
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Center City & Suburbs in a Regional Economy by Centennial, CO, Olathe, KC, Chula Vista, CA, Innovation Pavilion
3:20 PM - 3:35 PM
Break
3:35 PM - 4:30 PM
Data Sharing & Systems Integration by Alamo Regional Data Alliance, Mid-America Regional Council, CleanTech San Diego
TRACK B
GIGABIT CITY INFRASTRUCTURE | Alison Brooks, IDC
9:00 AM - 12:30 pM
SESSION 10
VARIATIONS ON THE FIBER RFP
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
City Spotlight: Ft. Collins, CO by Ft. Collins, CO
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
City Spotlight: Topeka, KS by Topeka, KS
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM
The Future of Open Access by Deb Socia, Next Century Cities, Jeff Gavlinski, Mountain Connect, Ft. Collins, Dennis Leonard, Alabama Power & Light
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Break
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM
Innovative Financing Models: From Infrastructure to Community Impact by Mike Faloon, Neighborly
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
City Spotlight: Winthrop, MN by Mark Erickson, City of Winthrop
11:40 AM - 12:05 PM
Spotlight: Rural Alaska by Phil Glynn, Travois
12:05 PM - 12:25 PM
Panel Discussion
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
SESSION 14
REGIONALISM: BALANCING SYSTEMS & SCALE
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Fiber Optic Master Plan by Debbie Acosta
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Anchor Challenges in Competitive Fiber Markets by Joe Fives, Kansas City, KS Public Schools, David Young, Lincoln, NE, Charlotte-Mecklenburg
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Adding Capacity with Private Networks (Schools) by Unite Private Networks, Alan Howze, Kansas City, KS, Dallas Independent School District
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Adding Capacity with Private Networks (Business) by Joe Fasone, Pilot
TRACK C
CIVIC TECH IN A GIGABIT CITY | Chelsea Collier, Digi.City
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SESSION 11
CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT: DATA, STARTUPS, & INCLUSION
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Internet Health & Net Neutrality as Local Priorities by Lindsey Frost, Mozilla and Chris Brown
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Data as New Infrastructure by Kate Garman, City of Seattle, City of San Antonio
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Making Sense of Tool Sets in the Data Revolution by Digital C, Stephen Hardy, MySidewalk
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Digital Inclusion & Digital Transformation by John Horrigan, Tech Policy Institute
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Enabling Open Innovation in Closed Systems by Kate Garman, Lindsey Frost
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
SESSION 15
BEYOND P3: HOW PARTNERS BUILD COMMUNITY
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
The Role of the ISP in a Gigabit Ecosystem by Rick Usher, KCMO, Rachel Merlo, Google Fiber, Cox Communications, San Diego or Phoenix
2:45 PM - 3:25 PM
Alphabet Soup: NSF, NGO's, GCTC & More by Sokwoo Rhee, NIST, Andrew Rodgers, The Enterprise Center, Portland Tech Jam, Miguel Gamino, Kamran Siddique, City Tech Collaborative
3:25 PM - 3:40 PM
Break
3:40 PM - 4:30 PM
The Give & Take Between City & University by UC-San Diego, MetroLab, UMKC, KU, Alan Howze, KCK
TRACK D
GIGABIT CITY EVOLUTION | Susan Norris, Ecco Select
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SESSION 12
PLACE-MAKING, EXPERIENCE, & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Smart Property Management by Blake Miller, Homebase
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Smart Home + Health Care by Joe Colistra, KU School of Architecture & Design
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Passive Home by Jonathan Arnold, Arnold Development Corporation
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM
TBD
10:05 AM - 10:15 AM
Quindaro Ruins by Marvin Robinson
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Open Spaces by Consuelo Cruz, Office of Cultural & Creative Services
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Toward a New Convention Hotel by Mike Burke
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Connected Stadiums & Entertainment Districts by Populous, Cordish
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Densification of the Suburbs by Velocity, Lee's Summit, Downtown Overland Park, Frisco, TX, Lenexa City Center
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
COMMUNITY EXHIBITS
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
SESSION 16
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY: HEALTH, HUMAN SERVICES, & EDUCATION
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Is Community Health a Government Problem? by John Fitzpatrick, KC Digital Drive, Doug Bowles, UMKC, Sarah Martin Anderson, City of Kansas City, MO
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM
Smart Cities & Integrated Social Services by Brent Schondelmeyer, Local Investment Commission, San Antonio
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Data & the School Board by Audrey Mathis, LumenTouch, Bob Dillion, Director of Innovation Learning, University City, MO
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
The Future of Work & Education Innovation by Kari Keefe, KC Social Innovation Center
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
SESSION 17
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: RETHINKING UTOPIA-THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
- Tim Stock, scenarioDNA
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2018
8:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Community Tours
Entrepreneurship | Matthew Marcus, KC Startup Foundation
Digital Inclusion | Leslie Scott, Community Activist
Smart City
Maker City
Energy & Utility