REMINDER: Meeting of the Minds 2012: Challenging Old Paradigms With Urban Innovations and Fresh Ideas From Around the World
October 09 2012 - 8:00AM
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What: Meeting of the
Minds is an annual leadership summit that brings together leaders
from the world's most innovative organizations to spotlight fresh
ideas in urban connectivity and sustainability. The multiday event
focuses on interlocking themes: future of cities, advanced/smart
networks, economic re-development stimulated by investments in
energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Global
innovators including government officials, corporate executives,
and foundation/NGO leaders showcase innovations that harness
innovative ideas paired with the power of advanced technologies (in
transport/mobility, networks and connectivity, energy).
Since 2007, when it first convened, Meeting of the Minds has
become the premier platform for new initiatives to be launched and
for existing innovations to be replicated, scaled and transferred.
For more information, and for a complete program agenda visit:
http://www.MeetingMinds2012.org/
Meeting of the Minds illuminates specific solutions and smart
strategies that are accelerating the emergence of successful cities
around the globe -- and creates a smarter and more connected future
for all of them. The program features a select group of innovators
who are solving critical problems, especially those who lead
organizations and companies making smart investment choices. This
year's Meeting identifies breakthrough policies and practices
enabling our institutions and systems to become more connected and
more resilient.
The following list of global leaders presenting on stage offers
a sampler of the event's "rethinking" of a city's economic, social
and technological development:
- Mayor Edwin Lee, City & County of San Francisco ("San
Francisco's Secret Sauce - Innovation Drives Livability and
Sustainability")
- Mayor Gregor Robertson, Vancouver, British Columbia ("City
Breakthroughs and Lessons Learned - The Vancouver Experience")
- Bill Reinert, National Manager of Advanced Technology, Toyota
Motor Sales-USA, ("The Urban Mobility Revolution")
- Suzanne Seitinger, Director of City Innovation, Philips
Lighting North America ("From the Empire State Building to the Bay:
The Energy Costs and Environmental Impacts of Smart Lighting")
- Matt Grob, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology
Officer, Qualcomm Incorporated ("Mobile Internet Transformation -
Meeting Network Capacity Needs of Cities")
- James Anderson, Vice President, Schneider Electric
Infrastructure Business - U.S. ("Future Cities Made Real -
Efficient, Sustainable, Livable")
- Dr. Colin Harrison, Distinguished Engineer, Smarter Cities
Technical Strategy, IBM ("Next Big Innovation: Smarter
Cities")
- Gordon Feller, Director, Urban Innovations, Cisco Internet
Business Solutions Group; Co-founder and Convenor of Meeting of the
Minds
- And, more than 300 other leaders from
more than a dozen countries, including China, Europe, Canada,
Australia!
Additional sessions include: "From Industrial Zones to
Innovation Zones"; "The Successes and Failures of Car Sharing --
What is Next"; "New Tools for Social Engagement -- How to Better
Engage the Public"; "Building the Smart, Sustainable City -- New
Strategies for Law and Policy"; and "The Clean Energy and Water
Nexus."
As a global sponsor of Meeting of the Minds 2012, Cisco will be
presenting thought leadership papers on topics including the "Smart
City Framework," the "City24/7" Smart Screen project, and a "New
Model for Government."
When: October 10 - October 11, 2012
Where: Julia Morgan Ballroom, 465
California Street, 15th Floor, San Francisco
Who: Each year, Toyota joins forces with
key partners to present this Meeting and to encourage rich
dialogues that link public sector, private sector and independent
sectors. The program's main organizers are renowned, high-impact
non-profit institutions: Regional Plan Association and Urban Age
Institute with the Presidio Graduate School and Lincoln Institute
of Land Policy as key partners. Global Sponsors are Schneider
Electric and Cisco. Gold level sponsors are Philips Lighting,
Qualcomm and IBM. Silver Level sponsors are SOM, CH2M Hill, Jones
Lang LaSalle, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Netherlands Consul
General, The Ford Foundation, Humanitas Wine and Silicon Valley
Bank. WSP Group is sponsoring and hosting the October 9 evening
Opening Reception. Other organizations have joined as Meeting
partners, including SPUR, the Urban Land Institute, Greenprint
Foundation, Bay Area Council Economic Institute, International
Water Association, CEOs for Cities and US Green Building
Council/Northern California.
- The full Meeting schedule
(http://www.rpa.org/motm2012/files/MotM2012-Program.pdf) contains
speaker biographies, and provides details about more than two dozen
sponsors and partners.
- Real-time access to the full two-day program is being broadened
for this Meeting's sessions. The Meeting features live on-site
TelePresence videoconferencing to connect the San Francisco venue
with locations around the globe. The webcast
(http://www.MeetingMinds2012.org/u) is streamed live throughout the
full Meeting program and is free of charge.
Additional Background:
Key facts:
- Over the course of its first six years, Meeting of the Minds
has become the premier leadership summit for connected and
sustainable cities. The event provides the setting for intensive
exchanges on urban innovation with an invited group of more than
350 leaders from more than a dozen countries. Each one, and their
respective organizations, are working towards creating more smart
design, planning, policy and technology innovations that enable
cities and regions to respond to increasingly complex
problems.
- These innovators gather to learn from each other about
scaling-up practical urban innovations, especially in
infrastructure. They exchange ideas and action strategies with
innovators working in technology, energy, transport, water, finance
-- all of whom are building better ways to govern while also
growing more prosperous economies for their communities.
- Participating leaders are drawn from multiple sectors and
diverse geographies to share ideas and projects -- with the aim of
shaping a common agenda for future innovation. Participants
represent leading organizations from public, private and
independent sectors headquartered in North America, Europe and
Asia.
Presented by: Toyota (NYSE: TM) is the
world's largest automaker. The company operates under a global
earth charter that promotes environmental responsibility throughout
the entire company, and recognizes the need for comprehensive
approaches to the effective use of resources and to the reduction
of pollution and global warming. It presents this event each year
in partnership with the lead sponsors.
Lead Sponsor: Cisco
(NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that
transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate.
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Co-Convenors: Urban Age
Institute The Urban Age Institute is an independent nonprofit
'think-and-do tank' working to support innovators based inside the
world's cities. It publishes Urban Age Magazine and delivers
programs around the globe. http://www.urbanage.org/
Regional Plan Association Regional Plan
association that nation's oldest independent urban research and
advocacy group. RPA prepares long range plans and policies to guide
the growth and development of the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut
metropolitan region. RPA also provides leadership on national
infrastructure, sustainability, and competitiveness concerns.
http://www.rpa.org/
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