Meeting of the Minds Annual Summit 2017 | Meeting of the Minds | 23 October 2017 | Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center, 127 Public Square, (Driveway Entrance on 1360 West Mall Drive), Cleveland, OH 44114, USA

This year’s Meeting of the Minds Annual Summit on the shores of Lake Erie will unearth tools and best practices working for city leaders across the globe. Our sessions will feature solutions that are scalable, replicable and transferable from city-to-city and sector-to-sector. All of our discussions are couched in a deep understanding of technology and equity as key drivers for innovative cities.

If you are a leader who is seeking cross-sectoral and partnership-focused strategies that deliver scalable solutions on the ground in urban neighborhoods, then we invite you to join us at our Annual Summit 2017.

2017 Speakers:

Jannet Walker Ford
Vice President and General Manager, Eastern Region, Cubic Transportation Systems

Jeremy Goldberg
Director of Emerging and Breakthrough Technology, New York City Mayor’s Office of Tech and Innovation

Neil Weiss
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Indians

Jared Hawkins
Director of Informatics, Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator, Boston Children's Hospital

Nicolette Jaworski
Director of External Affairs, AT&T

Scott Miller
General Manager, Collaborative Safety Research Center, Toyota Motor North America

Michael Conley
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Cavaliers Operating Co. LLC

Justin Bibb
Senior Adviser, Gallup

Jennifer James
Director, Smart City Solutions, Black & Veatch

Jon Coleman
Director, City Solutions, Ford Smart Mobility, LLC

Kim Zentz
Co-Founder & Director, Urbanova

Gabe Batstone
CEO, Contextere

Heather Rosentrater
Vice President, Energy Delivery, Avista

Oktawia Wójcik
Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Elliot Roth
CEO, Spira

Len Komoroski
CEO, Cleveland Cavaliers

Natoya J. Walker Minor
Chief of Public Affairs, City of Cleveland

Armond Budish
County Executive, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Greta Byrum
Director, Resilient Communities, New America

John Sankovic
Center Chief Technologist, NASA Glenn Research Center

James Weinberg
CEO, FUSE Corps

Jeff LeBrun
Co-Founder & CEO, Pillsy

Mordecai Cargill
Fund Development Manager, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress

Shelly Callahan
Executive Director, Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees

Anthony J. Coyne
President, Mansour Gavin LPA

Erin Henninger
Executive Director, Interactive Commons, Case Western Reserve University

Saket Soni
Executive Director, National Guestworker Alliance and New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice

Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells
CEO, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

Liz Forester
Director of Programs and Partnerships, DigitalC

Morgan Taggart
Director of Ag|re|culture, St. Clair Superior Development Corporation

Tayyib Smith
Co-Founder, The Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship

Ronald B. Richard
President & CEO, The Cleveland Foundation

Matthew Schmidt
Program Director, The Trust for Public Land

Jenny Spencer
Managing Director, Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization

Veronica Njodinizeh
FUSE Fellow, Office of the City Manager, City of Long Beach

Bryan Stubbs
Executive Director, Cleveland Water Alliance

Leon Wilson
Chief of Digital Innovation & Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Foundation

Doug Arent
Executive Director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, NREL

Huda Shaka
Associate Director, Arup

Mark Griswold
Professor of Radiology, Director of MRI Research and Director of the Interactive Commons, Case Western Reserve University

Erika Anthony
Senior Director of Advocacy, Policy and Research, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress

Bill Mitchel
Senior Director, World Wide Public Sector, Microsoft

Dan Horrigan
Mayor, City of Akron

Joe Calabrese
CEO & General Manager, The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA)

Gayathri Thaikkendiyil
FUSE Fellow, San Francisco Ethics Commission

Alice Brown
Director of Water Transportation, Boston Harbor Now

Michael Sering
VP, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry

Donald S. Burke
Dean, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

Lisa Camp
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

Juleian Curtis
Planning Coordinator, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority

Scot Rourke
‎Chief Information and Transformation Officer, Technology, Innovation & Performance, Cuyahoga County

Siobhan Foley
FUSE Fellow, Office of the Deputy Mayor & CAO, City of New Orleans

Greg Malkin
Director, Young Entrepreneur Institute and Leadership Center

Nigamanth Sridhar
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cleveland State University

Jeffery Patterson
Chief Executive Officer and Safety Director, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority

Carlos Cruz-Casas
Assistant Director, Transportation Strategic Planning, Miami-Dade Department of Transportation & Public Works

Brian Zimmerman
Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Metroparks

Matthew Zone
Councilman; President, City of Cleveland; National League of Cities

Joe Kenyon
Vice President, Global Customer Service and Support, Actelis

Ken Kovatch
Founder & Executive Director, RET3 Job Corp

Eric Avner
CEO, People's Liberty

Randy McShepard
Co-Founder, Rid-All Green Partnership

Michael Lim
FUSE Fellow, Department of Transportation, City of Los Angeles

Kenneth Loparo
Nord Professor of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

Erin Kray
Associate Director of Housing and Shelter, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry

Susan Chapelle
City Councillor, Squamish, BC

Patrick Holland
Management Team, RET3 Job Corp

Donald Butler
Information Technology Director, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority

Tuvia Barlev
Founder & Executive Chairman, Actelis

Jessie F. Hahn
Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds

Gordon Feller
Co-Founder, Meeting of the Minds

2017 Sponsors:

•Toyota
•Barr Foundation
•Deloitte
•Cleveland Foundation
•Microsoft
•Cubic Transportation Systems
•Black & Veatch
•Itron
•Ford Smart Mobility
•Wells Fargo
•Volvo Research and Educational Foundation
•Logicalis
•Burton D. Morgan Foundation
•Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
•Greater Cleveland Partnership
•Vulcan Inc.
•Cuyahoga County
•AT&T
•PNC
•JobsOhio
•Team NEO
•Panta Rhea Foundation
•Case School of Engineering
•Noll & Tam Architects
•Dassault Systèmes
•Coalfire
•Community Foundation of Western Nevada
•Great Lakes Brewing Company
•Fresh Water Cleveland
•Ideastream