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MetroLab Network includes 41 cities, 4听counties, 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鈥檚 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 鈥� Registration, Light Breakfast
8:30 AM 鈥� Welcome by听Dr. GP 鈥淏ud鈥� Peterson, President, Georgia Tech
8:45 AM 鈥� Welcome by听Renata Rawlings-Goss, co-Executive Director, South Big Data Hub
9:00 AM 鈥撎齅ayor Pete Buttigieg, South Bend, Indiana
9:30 AM 鈥� Creating a Culture of Innovation Panel Discussion with Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Governor Martin O鈥橫alley and Mayor Steve Goldsmith
10:30 AM 鈥� Break
10:45 AM 鈥撎齊&D Project Showcase
11:40 AM 鈥撎齌he Human Services 360 Project: Supporting Next Generation Human Service
Infrastructure to Address Big Picture Questions
12:00 PM 鈥� Lunch
1:00 PM 鈥撎鼴reakout Discussions
- Engaging Students and Research Fellows
- Citizen Engagement with Data and R&D Projects
- Human Services 360: Technical Discussion
2:00 PM 鈥� Break
2:15 PM 鈥撎齈rocuring Tech & Innovation
3:00 PM 鈥撎齊&D Project Showcase
4:00 PM 鈥撎鼵IOs, CTOs, and CDOs, O My
5:00 PM 鈥撎鼵losing Remarks
6:00 PM 鈥� Shuttle to Reception at the听
Thursday, December 14th
8:00 AM 鈥� Registration, Light Breakfast
8:30 AM 鈥� Fireside Chat on Global Innovation with Mayor Kasim Reed and Governor Martin O鈥橫alley, Moderated by Gabe Klein
9:15 AM 鈥� Mark Wallace, Senior Vice President, Global Engineering and Sustainability at UPS
9:45 AM 鈥撎齅etroLab Network Governance
10:00 AM 鈥� Break
10:20 AM 鈥� R&D Project Showcase
11:15 AM 鈥� Privacy and Smart City Technologies
12:00 PM 鈥� Lunch
1:00 PM 鈥� Scaling the Array of Things
1:20 PM 鈥撎�淔irst, Do No Harm鈥� 鈥� Applying Predictive Analytics to Human Services
2:20 PM 鈥� Break
2:30 PM 鈥� Breakout Sessions Part I
- Future of Privacy Forum 听Discussion: Privacy and Smart Cities听
- Predictive Analytics for Child Welfare: Fundamental Principles
- Environmental Sensing: Air Quality
3:30 PM 鈥� Break
4:00 PM 鈥� Breakout Sessions Part II
- Future of Privacy Forum 听Discussion: Privacy and Urban Instrumentation听
- Predictive Analytics for Child Welfare: Fundamental Principles
- Environmental Sensing: Urban Water
5:00 PM 鈥� Break
5:10 PM 鈥� Reconvene & Closing Discussion
5:15 PM听鈥� Program Concludes
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