Bus Tour - Sponsored by Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
Hit the roads of the Motor City to see how it’s being transformed into an innovative urban metropolis. This is your chance to experience unique projects like The Heidelberg, Earthworks Garden and the Russell Industrial Center from an insider’s point of view. On this ride we guarantee to defy your expectation of Detroit. You will be amazed at how many times you say, “Wow!” (Limited seats available)

Featuring:
Anamaria Wills, Chief Executive, Creative Industries Development Agency, UK
Ana Carla Fonseca Reis, Founding Partner, Garimpo de Soluções Consultancy, Brazil
Dave Ivan, Field Agent, Economic Development Area of Expertise, Michigan State University Extension, East Lansing, MI
 

Marketing, Media and the Creative City
Sponsored by Detroit Renaissance 

In a time when people are more media saturated than ever, traditional approaches are decreasingly effective at marketing cities. This session highlights innovative approaches to messaging and discusses how to connect with a changing audience.

Featuring:
Paul Schutt, Issue Media Group, publishers of Model D Media, Detroit, MI
Shawn Micallef, Publisher Spacing magazine, Toronto, Canada
Jim Townsend, Executive Director, Tourism Economic Development Council, Detroit Metro CVB, Detroit, MI
 

Community Vitality: The Role of Artists, Gays, Lesbians & Immigrants

Members of these demographic groups play a vital role in community development. They are the urban pioneers, change agents and source of entrepreneurial activities. This panel explores the unique challenges and opportunities these groups present for cities.

Featuring:
Tim Jones, President and CEO, Toronto Artscape, Ontario, Canada
Kate Runyon, Interim Executive Director, Triangle Foundation, Detroit, MI
Bing Goei, President & CEO, Eastern Floral, Grand Rapids, MI
Moderator: Lou Musante, Managing Partner, Catalytix Consulting, Pittsburgh, PA
 

New Ideas in Urban Amenities

Cities compete for talent with their arsenal of amenities as much as tax breaks and development incentives. This rapid fire “Pecha Kucha” session highlights new and creative urban amenities that are being featured in the ongoing competition for talent.

Moderator: Daniel Kildee, Genesee County Land Bank Chair and Genesee County Treasurer, Genesee County, MI

Strickland has excelled in cultivating collaborative partnerships in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Baltimore and Kansas City. He has developed successful relationships with prominent foundations such as the ALCOA Foundation, Helen Bader Foundation, The Danforth Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Forbes Fund, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the Milwaukee Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Social Venture Partners, Pittsburgh Foundation, E. M. Kauffman Foundation, Heinz Foundation, R.K. Mellon Foundation and Pew Charitable Trust.

Bill is the author of Making the Impossible Possible, the story of how Manchester Bidwell has changed the nature of social and economic development and become a world wide model of excellence.

His new book, Who’s Your City? has been hailed a National Best-Seller, an International Best-Seller and Amazon Book of the Month. He is Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and Professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

Previously, Florida held professorships at Carnegie Mellon University, was a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT, and a visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution. Florida earned his Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
 

Featuring:
John Austin, Brookings Institute & University of Michigan

Richard Longworth, author of Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism
 

Measuring New Things: ROI and the Creative City

Economic progress has been measured by a standard set of criteria for generations. Yet in the creative economy, these measures are less and less applicable to how we live and work. Our speakers offer insight on how to develop new metrics that measure the growth and impact of the creative economy.

Featuring:
Chris Miller, Founder, Creative Cities Consulting, Savannah, GA
Joe Cortright, Economist, Impresa Consulting, Portland, OR
Dr. Kevin Stolarick, Associate Director and Research Associate, The Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
 

LEED ND Workshop
Sponsored by Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice 

The U.S. Green Building Council is rolling out the LEED for Neighborhood Development Rating System which integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism and green building into the first national system for neighborhood design. As with buildings, this LEED certification provides independent, third-party verification that a development’s location and design meet accepted high levels of environmentally responsible, sustainable development. This session provides an overview of the new system.

Featuring:
Doug Farr, Architect and Planner, and Chair of the USGBC LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) Core Committee
 

Transportation Innovation for Cities
Sponsored by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 

In this new age of the internet, GPS, and iPhones, it is time for a new, smart mobility paradigm – making our personal transportation options right-sized and context-sensitive to fit the communities and cities where we live and move.  Transformation is coming to personal transportation, and that change is upon us:  in Paris, visitors and residents rented smart bicycles 28 million times last year alone.  In more than 500 cities around the globe, car sharing has taken hold.  And in China, 125 websites help riders find drivers.  The mobility paradigm of the last century – the automobile — reshaped our urban form.  What kind of world will the next mobility paradigm create?  Join moderator Jean Jennings of Automobile magazine and two transportation innovators who have each introduced a new mode of personal transportation to the world to explore the shape of transportation’s future.

Featuring:
Dean Kamen, Founder and President, DEKA Research & Development Corp., Manchester, NH
Dan Sturges, President and Founder, Intrago Corporation, Boulder, CO
Moderator:  Jean Jennings, President and Editor-in-Chief, Automobile magazine, Ann Arbor, MI

Charles is an authority on creativity and its uses and how city futures are shaped by paying attention to the culture of a place. His recent book The Art of City Making has been highly acclaimed. It focuses on how cities can be more “creative for the world” so that the energies of individuals and companies can be brought into alignment with their global responsibilities. This builds on his original ideas in The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators, which has now been reprinted 10 times.

Moderated by Carol Coletta, President & CEO of CEOs for Cities and host of nationally syndicated radio program Smart City Radio.
 

Join Segway inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, Google’s John Burchett and Google Adwords’ Grady Burnett in a conversation with mayors, university administrators, and other leaders of Michigan’s emerging economy as they discuss the critical connections between cities and universities and how those connections impact the talent pool for business. Hear why companies like Google choose the places they do and how cities and universities can become more globally competitive.

Featuring:

• John Burchett, State Policy Counsel, Google, Ann Arbor, MI
• Grady Burnett, Head of Online Sales and Operations at Google Adwords, Ann Arbor, MI
• Dean Kamen, President/CEO, DEKA R&D, Inventor, Entrepreneur, FIRST Foundation, National Youth Robotics Competition, Manchester, NH
• Mayor Virg Bernero, Lansing, MI
• Stephen R. Forrest, Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Kim A. Wilcox, Provost, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
• Lizabeth Ardisana, Chief Executive Officer, ASG Renaissance, MI CA SC DC Ontario CA
• Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
• David Hollister, President and CEO, Prima Civitas Foundation, Lansing, MI (invited)
• Mike Finney, Ann Arbor SPARK, Ann Arbor, MI (invited)

Mistress of Ceremonies:  Karen Gagnon, CCS2 Co-Producer, Cool Cities

Moderator:  Peter Kageyama, CCS2 Founder & Co-Producer 

Featuring:
Doug Rothwell, President, Detroit Renaissance
Kelly Lee,Executive Vice President, Innovation Philadelphia
Moderated by Peter Kageyama, Summit Co-Producer
 

Featuring:
Yvette Livesey, Co-founder & Director, In the City Music Festival, Manchester, UK
Ed Bailey, Vice President of Brand Development, Austin City Limits, Austin, TX

Jason Huvaere, Producer, Detroit Electronic Music Festival, President – Director of Operations Paxahau Promotions Group, Detroit, MI

Moderator: Howard Hertz, Promoter, Manager and Entertainment attorney at Hertz Schram, Detroit, MI
 

Race & the Creative City
Sponsored by Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice 

This session will cover the impact that current and historic race relations have on the emerging creative city. The panel discussion will follow the triumphs, challenges and lessons learned of urban, creative professionals who were able to transcend racial barriers and spur social and economic innovation.

Featuring:
Keith Cooley, Director, Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth, Lansing, MI
Dr. Fern Espino, President & CEO, Espino Enterprises, Dearborn, MI
Yohannes G. Hailu, Visiting Professor and Research Coordinator, Michigan State University, Land Policy Institute, East Lansing, MI

Moderator: Harold Core, Special Assistant to the Director, Michigan Department of Civil Rights, Lansing, MI
 

Planning for the Creative City

Codes and planning restrictions often seem at odds with creative city making. Using new approaches to codes, planning processes and creative bureaucracies, some cities are able to achieve amazing results.

Featuring:
Dr. Terry Holzheimer, Director, Arlington Economic Development, Arlington, VA
John Berry, Senior Consultant, Greystone Global, Grand Rapids, MI
 

Old Buildings and New Ideas: Creative Uses of Old Spaces

Urbanist Jane Jacobs famously said “New ideas need old buildings” and this rapid fire “Pecha Kucha” session highlights many thought provoking and creative examples of old buildings being re-imagined into new uses.

Moderator: Cézanne Charles, Director of Creative Industries, ArtServe Michigan

Featuring:
Craig Christie, Playwright, Producer, Composer, Director, No Mates Productions, Melbourne, Australia

Shawn Micallef, Concept/Creative Director, Murmur Project, Toronto, Canada
 

The City’s Role in Attracting and Retaining Talent
Sponsored by Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce 

Thriving locations have a high proportion of knowledge-based industries and knowledge-based workers are concentrating in central city neighborhoods that offer a plethora of amenities and provide a sense of place. Historically, talent attraction and retention was the responsibility of business and now many cities are embracing a more active role in the competition to retain and attract talent. This session discusses examples of cities taking a more participatory role and the implications of that shift.

Featuring:
Dan Gilmartin, President, Michigan Municipal League, Ann Arbor, MI
Lou Musante, Managing Partner,Catalytix Consulting, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Soji Adelaja, Director, Land Policy Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
 

The Future of Creative Expression for Cities

Creative practitioners are drawn to places with ecologies that can sustain and invigorate what they do. Creative and cultural activity can revitalize neighborhoods, allow residents to re-imagine the place they live, and shape a new identity for a place in the face of competition for talent, investment, and recognition. The Future of Creative Expression for Cites will explore the value and impact that practitioners working across the fields of art, design, architecture, urban planning and new technology are making on cities now and will discuss the implications for the future. Join our group of panelists as they share examples, inspiration and insights from their work and participate in the debate.

Featuring:
Monica Ponce de Leon, Dean of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Steve Dietz, Artistic Director of Zer01, San Jose, CA
Lewis Biggs, Chief Executive of Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK

Moderator: Cézanne Charles, Director of Creative Industries, ArtServe Michigan
 

Creative Industry Incubators and Accelerators
Sponsored by Detroit Renaissance 

Today’s incubators and accelerators must offer far more than cheap space. This session highlights three exceptional examples of new thinking in this area, ranging from physical space, to completely virtual networks to a hybrid that is training future entrepreneurs.

Featuring:
Anamaria Wills, Chief Executive, CIDA & the Media Centre, Huddersfield, UK
Jennifer Thomas, Director, Civic Innovation Lab, Cleveland, OH
Ross Sanders, Executive Director, Bizdom U, Detroit, MI
 

In 2003, SSBx started the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program (BEST): one of the nation’s first urban green-collar job training and placement systems. In 2007, she and Van Jones co-founded Green For All to advocate for a national green-collar job agenda. She is a MacArthur “genius”, one of Essence magazine’s 25 most influential African-Americans for 2007, co-host of The Green on Sundance Channel, and recording a special national public radio series called “The Promised Land” for 2008 release.

Final Thoughts – Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Poet Laureate for the City of Toronto and Author, The Municipal Mind

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