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Rachel Medanic

May 22, 2012 at 8 a.m. PDT

 

Thomas Wright, Executive Director of Regional Plan Association (RPA), will  present a webinar on "Collaborative Urban Innovation" that reviews the research, planning and advocacy techniques used by this, the United States’ oldest independent regional planning organization, over its 90-year history--and also reaches out to the community to provide input on key research topics.

 

This presentation is part of a series of pre-"Meeting of the Minds 2012" events hosted by the Smart+Connected Communities Institute and the Regional Plan Association. In it, Wright will highlight the new urban and regional developments in communication outreach techniques affecting the U.S. tri-state Metropolitan Region (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) surrounding New York City.

 

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The RPA has been creating and disseminating these long-term strategic plans since the 1920s, placing the organization at the  forefront of planning techniques and technology. From simulations in the 1930s to advocacy planning in the 1960s to television documentaries  in the 1970s to electronic town hall  forums in the 2000s, RPA has been  an early adopter of communications technology in regional planning.

 

Today, as the RPA considers the scope, scale and ambition of a Fourth Regional Plan, it explores social media, crowd sourcing, gaming and other new communication tools for their potential in extending reach and impact. This effort, undertaken in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, will describe the history of RPA's approach and pose questions about directions for the future.

 

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Rachel Medanic

A greenfield development of 1500 acres with a 100 million square foot build out, Songdo International Business District (IBD) has become the global model for smart, sustainable urban transformation. Currently 40% complete, this city-scale development rising on the western coast of Korea boasts 22,000 residents and a workforce of 25,000 commuting into it every day.

 

Songdo IBD has received numerous international design and engineering  awards and is also part of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership  in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. By 2016, Songdo will  be home to more than 65,000 citizens, delivering a thriving livelihood  to 300,000 Korean and international workers.

 

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ln this webinar, Tom Murcott, Executive Vice President and Global Foreign Investment Officer of Gale International, will:

 

  • Review the Songdo model
  • Explore how the innovation, integration and implementation of new technologies in Songdo IBD will grow the local economy, create new opportunities for future city-scale development projects and affect the human experience.

 

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Rachel Medanic

If you weren't able to join us on the 22nd March at 8:00AM (U.S. PDT) for the webinar:  San Francisco’s Innovations Secret – Direct from the Source, you can now access the session recording:

 

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This special event featured a presentation by Jay Nath, the City of San Francisco’s Chief Innovation Officer. The event was moderated by Gordon Feller, Cisco’s Director of Urban Innovations.

 

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This webinar answered a few key questions:

  • On the  road toward becoming a smarter and more connected city, how and where is  San Francisco succeeding?
  • What steps has the city government  taken to nurture this? What role has the private sector held? What has  the role been for citizens?
  • Is SF doing things that others —  including corporations and universities — will find useful?
  • Is  the SF model replicable, scalable, and transferable?
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Jill Hundley-Keefer

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The Smart+Connected Communities Institute will host Hardik Bhatt at 11:30 a.m. ET on December 14 to present a webinar, "How to make an existing community smarter and connected: A case study."

 

Bhatt is the former CIO of the City of Chicago and the champion for  Chicago’s Digital Excellence efforts, and now carries that torchlight  for Cisco, to develop smart and connected communities around the globe.

 

See the link below to access the webinar presentation and audio the day of the event.

 

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How would you make a 170 years old community smarter and connected so it can complete with a new community coming up on the other side of the world with completely new thought, design and technology? Chicago tried to do exactly that. The Chicago approach was both-  top-down: when it came to infrastructure and bottom-up: when it came to Digital awareness and literacy. But on both ends, success lies in creating partnerships with stakeholders across various sectors.

 

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Hardik Bhatt is working for Cisco’s Global Smart + Connected Communities group as Director of Business Development and strategy. Hardik oversees Cisco’s large, marquee Smart Connected Communities projects for the Americas. Hardik joined Cisco after being the Chief Information Officer of the City of Chicago and Commissioner for Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology for close to 5 years.

 

As the CIO, Hardik had been leading a team of 250+ employees and consultants with an annual budget of over $150 Million. Hardik also lead Mayor Daley’s charge for universal and affordable broadband for all Chicagoans through various initiatives, including the Smart Communities program. In last 3 years, Hardik brought over $25 Million from Federal, State, Foundation and Private sector sources for Chicago’s Smart Communities program. On the way, he was instrumental in establishing partnerships with Chicagoland Healthcare providers, Utility and energy sector leaders as well as public safety, transportation and non-profit leaders.

 

Prior to joining the public sector, Hardik worked as a consultant with Oracle corporation in the US and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in India. Hardik has an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from M. S. University, Baroda, India.

 

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Jill Hundley-Keefer

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Metropolitan Internet Economic Development

 

The Smart+Connected Communities Institute will host Gordon Feller,   Director of Urban Innovation at Cisco Systems, Tim Campbell, author of  "Beyond Smart Cities—How Cities Network, Learn, and Innovate"  and David  Sandel,  President of Sandel& Associates will reflect upon the Kansas City Broadband initiative and  other historical infrastructure shifts and the emergence of the metropolitan Internet economic development organization.

 

The webinar will take place at 11:30 EDT, Thursday, September 29, 2011. See the link below to access the webinar presentation and audio the day of the event.

 

Kansas City Broadband Governance

 

In February 2010 Google announced its Community Fiber for Communities program. Then on March 29th 2011, Google announced Kansas City Kansas as the first recipient of its Community Fiber award. In the announcement Google mentioned two key factors that helped them in the selection process were the willingness of the utility to participate as a collaborative stakeholder (and perhaps even more important) the willingness of the Mayor and local stakeholders to participate in a collaborative community process.

 

What has captured the nation’s attention is that there is now a clear vision of a major digital city in which politicians, city workers, businesses and residents alike can realize the potentials for broadband economic development. A digital city empowered by bringing community collaboration and infrastructure into alignment – a platform for innovation and economic growth for “the new economy”.

 

The Kansas City Broadband Governance Leadership Summit will explore collaboration models that can be used by communities in planning, funding and accelerating the economic development of their respective metropolitan Internets. The Summit will also feature keynotes from leadership of both Kansas Cities.  There will also be presentations from national experts on how collaborative partnerships, innovative business models and implementation strategiesare leading the emergence of the metropolitan Internet economy. These will be the next fundamental economic cornerstones for our cities.

 

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Jill Hundley-Keefer

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Our next webinar,  Integrated Urban Governance, will take place at 11 a.m. EST June 14.  Hanns-Uve Schwedler, PhD, is the managing director of the European  Academy of the Urban Environment in Berlin. He is the author of the  recently published METROPOLIS manual on “Integrated Urban Governance –  The way forward”.

Integrated Urban Governance – the way forward

Cities  are confronted nowadays with new challenges that are related to  globalisation and socio-spatial segregation. Traditional, sectoral  approaches to meet these and other challenges have often proved to be  expensive and inefficient or even were a total failure. Therefore, new  forms of governance have gained importance by involving civil society  (NGOs, business, the 'people') in decision making and in implementing  these decisions. This integrated urban governance approach requires  changes in administrative action and settings, too. Integrated Urban  Governance implies going beyond mere coordination between policies, and  thus encompasses joint work among sectors and disciplines. The  presentation – being based on the METROPOLIS manual on Integrated Urban  Governance and on case studies and practices from all over the world –  argues, that integrated urban governance requires action and approaches  in the following fields:

  • public participation and citizen’s involvement
  • political and organisational arrangements beyond city boundaries
  • political and organisational arrangements within city boundaries
  • capacity building

Core instruments for enabling new approaches and policies are presented.

 

About the Presenter

Hanns-Uve  Schwedler, PhD, is a geographer by training and managing director of  the European Academy of the Urban Environment in Berlin. He is honorary  professor at the University of Aberdeen and has been teaching at the  Free University of Berlin and the University of Kuwait. He has been a  member of several EU advisory and expert groups. He is editor of more  than fifty publications of the Academy. His personal publications  include work on urban development questions, socio-spatial segregation,  social inclusion, noise mitigation and governance. He is author of the  recently published METROPOLIS manual on “Integrated Urban Governance –  The way forward”.

 

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Ivana Gazibara, Senior Strategic Advisor at Forum for the Future – a UK’s sustainable development NGO. Her work at Forum focuses on using futures thinking to foster dialogue around sustainable development, create strategic imperatives for change and implement innovative solutions to sustainability challenges. She leads Megacities on the Move - a multi-stakeholder scenario planning initiative which promotes and supports sustainable mobility solutions for the future.

 

Gazibara will present “Megacities on the Move: The future of personal mobility in cities” to our Smart+Connected Communities Institute online community at 11:30 a.m. EST Tuesday, April 5.

 

The presentation will highlight the background of this work (i.e. why they decided to do it, how they did it, etc.).  She will share the scenarios and the key findings and overarching messages about future-proofing urban mobility, as well as existing innovations.

 

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Wiliu

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As part of the Smart+Connected Communities Institute Learning Series, we will offer a webinar at 11:30 a.m. EST March 30, 2011.

 

The webinar "Driving the Next Generation Learning Experience" will be presented by Vito Amato, Ph.D, Education Manager for Cisco Systems.

 

What does it take to successfully implement the next generation learning experience?  The next generation learning experience takes many shapes and forms, and most educational institutions employ one method or another. This webinar will provide trends, challenges, best practices, solutions and practical methodologies relevant to driving and implementing the next generation learning experience.  The next generation learning strategy focuses on the implementation of a solution that can enable highly interactive and collaborative teaching and learning experiences, while delivering any content, anytime, anywhere to any device.

Dr. Amato will present flexible and comprehensive approaches to harnessing the power of next generation learning solutions to enhance teaching and learning. The goal of this webinar is to present approaches to implementing the next generation learning experience, which will enable an understanding and confidence when evaluating, analyzing, designing, developing, and implementing next generation learning solutions.  In addition, this webinar aims to assist the community of practitioners and decision makers in education to better understand the components of the next generation learning experience along with the key areas of focus for deploying solutions that effectively meet the needs and requirements of the various stakeholders involved in the implementation process.

 

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Wiliu

 

"Beyond Smart Cities: How Cities Network, Learn, Innovate" - Tim Campbell, Urban Age Institute

 

In addition to the webinar Learning Series, we will also be interviewing global thought leaders to share their current projects, innovative ideas, research and more. I interviewed three urban sustainability experts and to share with you their work and ideas.

 

Urban Age Institute Chairman Tim Campbell is researching how cities learn. This is particularly interesting information for this online community as we facilitate learnings and best practices from city to city. His research also touches on the challenges of governments that can be in silos, which is often discussed in the Smart+Connected Communities Institute.

 

Once I caught up with Tim Campbell, who was sailing from Ibiza to Gibraltar along the Spanish coast and then spending a couple of weeks in Egypt, he told me about his research for his new book "Beyond Smart Cities: How Cities Network, Learn, Innovate." Campbell conducts his research by surveys and face-to-face interviews, and the findings will be included in his book. The cities are not the largest or the smallest in terms of population, rather his subjects are average-sized cities- 1 to 5 million in population. He has interviewed up to 25 key players in each city during the face-to-face research.

 

"Cities are learning from each other," he said. "In this process, they are reaching out to other cities on many questions, such as how did they get ICT, talent and a lot more."

 

Campbell sees cities becoming autonomous and developing their own self-sustaining personalities as they start to influence national decisions.

 

"Cities are taking on new responsibilities," Campbell said. "They are defining their role in international trade."

 

Campbell continued that Europe is a good example where this influence is already happening with the EU policy and movement. The European city regions have stronger presence and recognition with knowledge, economies, regional cities linking together, including academic institutions and city hall.

 

According to Campbell, cities learn in many ways, but face to face contacts that build trust is very important. To start, the cities explore their own changemakers, gradually forming a cloud of trust, and this facilitates collaboration with various civil, public and private groups. The "cloud of trust" became a beacon in Campbell's research. He discovered that trust is crucial with city leaders and management.

 

To hear more about Tim Campbell's research, the Smart+Connected Communities Institute will host Campbell at a live webinar at noon EST February 22 via WebEx Event.

 

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Smart grid, energy trends and building infrastructure was the focus of the  Smart+Connected Communities Institute Learning Series presented January 25, 2011.

 

Cisco Systems Matt Laherty, creator of EnergyWise, presented a session providing professionals from Planning, IT, Facilities,  Sustainability and Finance with insight into emerging energy trends,  tools and implementation processes required to leverage ICT for energy  savings—and explained the way in which these groups must interact to  achieve success.  During the presentation he explained the future of  ICT for energy conservation and provided meaningful actionable steps  necessary to start a simple sustainability program.

 

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Smart+Connected  Communities Institute: Learning Series

The webinars will  feature sustainable urban development subject matters experts from  around the globe. They will share their implementation successes and  challenges as well as best practices and innovation in the areas of real  estate, urban planning,  transportation, buildings-energy consumption,  education, information and  communication technology and more. For  upcoming webinar topics and presenters, follow the S+CC Institute blog.  For questions or  to ask about presenting in the series, contact community  manager Jill Hundley Keefer.

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The Smart+Connected Communities Institute will launch its monthly Learning Series on December 14.   The webinars will feature sustainable urban development subject matters experts from around the globe. They will share their implementation successes and challenges as well as best practices and innovation in the areas of real estate, urban planning,  transportation, buildings-energy consumption, education, information and  communication technology and more.  Mark your calendar!

 

"What is a Smart+Connected Community?" presented by Gordon Feller, Cisco Systems

1  p.m. EST, December 14 via WebEx Event
  • Tips and best practices on sustainable urban development
  • Better  ways to invest stimulus dollars to ensure a more efficient  infrastructure, and much more

 

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