2016 AGENDA

Note: Agenda subject to change

MONDAY, MAY 16

6:30 – 8:30am: Shuttle Service from the Marriott Downtown to UMKC

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

MAIN TRACK: 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

9:00-9:50 am: From Gigabit to Smart – How Cities Are Digitally Transforming

• Mayor Sly James (KCMO), Mayor Mark Holland (KCMO)

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, City Administrator, 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
• 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
• Sprint

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

• Black & Veatch
• Envision America

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, Interim Deputy Director of Community and Economic Development at Salt Lake City Economic Development

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

• Virgil Turner, Director of Innovation and CitizenEngagement, City of Montrose, CO

2:30-3:00: Navigating the Legal Waters of a Fiber Build

• Jim Baller, President of Baller Herbst Stokes & Lide PC (Washington,DC)
• Greg Kratofil, Polsinelli PC (Kansas City)

3:00-3:30 Digital Inclusion and the Innovation Economy

• Speakers TBD

TRACK B CONT'D

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

• City of Atlanta, GA
• AT&T

2:00-2:45: Smart Lighting

• Rick Freeman, GE, GM of Intelligent Cities

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

• Julie Lorenz, ‎Sr. Strategic Consultant, Burns & McDonnell
   

3:30-4:00 - Refreshment Break

MAIN TRACK: STUDENT UNION ROOM 401

4:00-4:30pm: Fireside Chat: Philanthropy and the Innovation Ecosystem
    
How private donors in Omaha funded a digital spin-off of the Omaha Public Library

• Lesa Mitchell, Instigator, Instigators + Co (San Francisco, CA)
• 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

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

6:30 – 8:30am: Shuttle Service from the Marriott Downtown to UMKC

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

TRACK C: DIGITAL INCLUSION

Room TBD

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

• Anne Schweiger, Boston

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)

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

Room TBD

1:00-1:20pm: City Case Study: UMKC/KCMO

• UMKC
• Kate Garman, Innovation Analyst, City of KCMO

1:20-2:05pm: Technology, Law and Public Policy

• Tony Luppino, UMKC Law School
• Jonathan Askin, Brooklyn Law School

2:05-2:25pm: City Case Study: Georgia Tech/Atlanta

2:40-3:00pm: City Case Study: University of Washington/Seattle

• Speakers TBD

3:00-3:40pm: Smart City Applications + University

• Ben Levine, MetroLab Network
• Gilles Bettis, IEEE Smart Cities Initiative

3:40-4:00pm: City Case Study: Charlotte/Queens

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

TRACK G: EDUCATION

Co-organized by Mozilla and 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

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

6:00-8:00pm: AFTER-HOURS MEETUPS

Code for America

Mozilla

National Digital Inclusion Alliance

US Ignite/Smart City

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18

COMMUNITY TECH TOURS - 8:00am-12:00pm
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.

GROUP 4: SMART STADIUM
Go west to the state-of-the-art Sporting Park, home of soccer stars Sporting KC and birthplace of FanThreeSixty, masters of 21st century fan engagement.

TOURS WILL END BY 1:00 PM, AND BOX LUNCHES WILL BE AVAILABLE.

Conference agenda is subject to change.

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