2016 AGENDA
MONDAY, MAY 16
LOCATION: UMKC Student Union / Bloch Executive Hall
6:30 – 8:30am: Shuttle Service from the Marriott Downtown to UMKC
7:00-9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
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
9:00-9:50 am: From Gigabit to Smart – How Cities Are Digitally Transforming
9:50-10:20 am: Refreshment Break
TRACK A: GIGABIT CITY ACTIVATION
Sessions to include:
Creating Your Digital Playbook
Meeting in the Middle: Bottom-up Innovation + Top-down Leadership
The Value of Multi-City Collaboration
Digital Inclusion and the Innovation Economy
Provider Engagement: Working with ISPs to Deliver Community Impact
Maker Cities: Building an Innovation Economy
TRACK B: SMART CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
KC Project Highlights: Cisco’s Smart+Connected Community & Think Big Living Lab
Supporting the Civic Internet Of Things
Systems Engineering on a Fiber Backbone: Water, Energy, Mobility
Focusing On Community Impact: Engineering & Infrastructure
Fiber and Community Wifi
DAY 1 SALON SESSIONS
Regionalism
Mobility
AFTER-HOURS MEETUPS
Code for America, Mozilla Hive Networks, Digital Inclusion, Smart Cities
TUESDAY, MAY 17
TRACK C: EDUCATION (#GCSEDU)
In Partnership with Mozilla, we will be reprising our popular EDU Summit – details to come soon!
TRACK D: DIGITAL INCLUSION
How Does Government Invest In Bridging The Digital Divide?
Developing New Localized Capacity for Digital Inclusion
Incorporating Digital Inclusion into Existing Social Service
TRACK E: CIVIC TECH
Open Data Approaches
Design Thinking and Citizen Engagement
Open Source Solutions: Importing and Exporting
Building a Volunteer Coding Brigade
TRACK F: UNIVERSITY + CITY COLLABORATION
Smart City Applications + University Research (Metrolab, US Ignite, IEEE)
Technology, Law and Public Policy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Infrastructure Opportunities @ Gig.
TRACK G: GIGABIT & SMART CITY ECOSYSTEMS
Connected City Networks
Gigabit Applications
Smart City Testbeds
Making Friends with Entrepreneurs and Civic Hacker
DAY 2 SALON SESSIONS
Public Safety
Education
COMMUNITY EXHIBIT HALL
Special Exhibition Hall Featuring Booths from Community Organizations Harnessing Technology for Civic Impact
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18
KC TECH TOURS
Embark on Guided Tour of Kansas City's Innovation Spaces!
Cisco/Sprint Smart City Corridor (feat. the RideKC Streetcar)
Think Big Partners
Sprint Accelerator Powered by Techstars
KC Startup Village
Google Fiber Space
Note: Agenda subject to change
