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Innovation and the City
October 7, 2014 @ 1:00 pm - October 8, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
$100,00
Join the second Innovation and the City conference at District Hall in Boston’s Innovation District. The conference will convene scholars, policy makers, and practitioners to discuss the strategies, opportunities and drawbacks associated with innovation-based urban economic development.
Our goal is to help practitioners evaluate and deploy these strategies with an integrative and critical perspective that is both context-aware and informed by the latest thinking and practical experience.
The conference hotel is the Sheraton Boston Hotel, located at 36 Dalton St, Boston, MA 02199. The rate is $289 + tax. To get this rate, please reserve your rooms in this page, created specially for Innovation and the City.
Innovation and the City is hosted by the Venture Café Foundation, the not-for-profit sister organization of the Cambridge Innovation Center.
Innovation and the City – Conference Agenda
Tuesday, October 7th 2014
1:00 – 2:00 | Registration
2:00 – 2:15 | Welcome
- Carlos Martínez-Vela, President, Venture Café Foundation
2:15 – 3:30 | Session I: Making Cities Matter (More)
- Moderator: Carlos Martínez-Vela, President, Venture Café Foundation
- Amy Glasmeier, Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- Alexander “Sandy” Pentland, Director, Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Lab
- Kyle Polk, Detroit Future City / Town Partners
- Moderator: Fiona Murray, Associate Dean of Innovation, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Donna Cupelo, Region President, Verizon New England
- Lita Nelsen, Director, MIT Technology Licensing Office
- Jayson D, Pankin, President and CEO, AutoHarvest.org
- Cathy Wissink, Director, Technology and Civic Engagenemt, Microsoft
- Moderator: Teresa Lynch, Principal, MassEconomics (Moderator)
- Moderator: Julie Wagner, Brookings Institution Non-resident Fellow
- Dennis Lower, President and CEO, CORTEX Innovation Community, St. Louis
- Marcos Marrero, Co-Chair, Holyoke Innovation District Task Force
- Jed Howbert, Executive Director, Jobs and Economy Team, Detroit Mayor’s Office
- Tucker Reed, President, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
- Moderator: Travis Sheridan, Executive Director, Venture Café – St. Louis
- Gil Bickel, Chairman, St. Louis Arch Angels
- Jessica McLear, Angel Investor, Launchpad Venture Group
- Donn Rubin, President and CEO, BioSTL
- Shereen Shermak, CEO and Fund Manager, Launch Angels
- Moderator: Mark Coticchia, VP and Chief Innovation Officer, Henry Ford Health System
- Dean Amhaus, President and CEO, The Water Council, Milwaukee
- Cathy Belk, COO, JumpStart, Inc.
- Lavea Brachman, Executive Director, Greater Ohio Policy Center
- Benjy Kennedy, Senior Program Officer, Kresge Foundation
- Moderator: Travis McCready, Vice President, Boston Foundation
- Tito Jackson, Councilor, Boston City Council
- Gilad Rosenzweig, Founder, Smarter in the City
- Vicky Wu Davies, Founder, Youth CITIES
- Featuring The Honorable Governor Deval L. Patrick, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, invited to discuss Lessons from Eight Years Governing an Innovation Economy
- Moderator: Carlos Martínez-Vela, Ph.D., President, Venture Café Founation
