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Metrolab NetworkĚý
MetroLab Network includes 41 cities, 4Ěýcounties, and 55 universities, organized in more than 35 regional city-university partnerships. Partners focus on research, development, and deployment (RD&D) projects that offer technological and analytically-based solutions to challenges facing urban areas including: inequality in income, health, mobility, security and opportunity; aging infrastructure; and environmental sustainability and resiliency.
City-university partnerships are mutually-beneficial relationships in which the university is the city’s R&D department and the city is a test-bed. Faculty and students get access to real-life laboratories to test advanced approaches aimed at addressing city priorities and challenges. Cities, and their residents, benefit from technologies and policies that leverage digital and information technology, data analytics, sensing, and more.
Individually, city-university RD&D partnerships are beneficial and help drive innovative approaches in government. When networked together, they present an opportunity to scale effective solutions, accelerate best practices, and advance the understanding of urban science.
AGENDA
Tuesday, December 12th
Wednesday, December 13th
8:00 AM – Registration, Light Breakfast
8:30 AM – Welcome byĚýDr. GP “Bud” Peterson, President, Georgia Tech
8:45 AM – Welcome byĚýRenata Rawlings-Goss, co-Executive Director, South Big Data Hub
9:00 AM –ĚýMayor Pete Buttigieg, South Bend, Indiana
9:30 AM – Creating a Culture of Innovation Panel Discussion with Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Governor Martin O’Malley and Mayor Steve Goldsmith
10:30 AM – Break
10:45 AM –ĚýR&D Project Showcase
11:40 AM –ĚýThe Human Services 360 Project: Supporting Next Generation Human Service
Infrastructure to Address Big Picture Questions
12:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM –ĚýBreakout Discussions
- Engaging ŔÖ˛Ą´«Ă˝ and Research Fellows
- Citizen Engagement with Data and R&D Projects
- Human Services 360: Technical Discussion
2:00 PM – Break
2:15 PM –ĚýProcuring Tech & Innovation
3:00 PM –ĚýR&D Project Showcase
4:00 PM –ĚýCIOs, CTOs, and CDOs, O My
5:00 PM –ĚýClosing Remarks
6:00 PM – Shuttle to Reception at theĚý
Thursday, December 14th
8:00 AM – Registration, Light Breakfast
8:30 AM – Fireside Chat on Global Innovation with Mayor Kasim Reed and Governor Martin O’Malley, Moderated by Gabe Klein
9:15 AM – Mark Wallace, Senior Vice President, Global Engineering and Sustainability at UPS
9:45 AM –ĚýMetroLab Network Governance
10:00 AM – Break
10:20 AM – R&D Project Showcase
11:15 AM – Privacy and Smart City Technologies
12:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM – Scaling the Array of Things
1:20 PM –Ěý“First, Do No Harm” – Applying Predictive Analytics to Human Services
2:20 PM – Break
2:30 PM – Breakout Sessions Part I
- Future of Privacy Forum ĚýDiscussion: Privacy and Smart CitiesĚý
- Predictive Analytics for Child Welfare: Fundamental Principles
- Environmental Sensing: Air Quality
3:30 PM – Break
4:00 PM – Breakout Sessions Part II
- Future of Privacy Forum ĚýDiscussion: Privacy and Urban InstrumentationĚý
- Predictive Analytics for Child Welfare: Fundamental Principles
- Environmental Sensing: Urban Water
5:00 PM – Break
5:10 PM – Reconvene & Closing Discussion
5:15 PMĚý– Program Concludes
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