FutureStructure Summit 2013: Transportation & the Built Environment Overview
This is an invitation-only event.
FutureStructure is a new framework for thinking through and solving the challenges faced in building economically and socially robust communities. The aim of FutureStructure is to overcome the constraints inherent in haphazard and silo'd approaches that communities often take when conceiving, investing in and building their futures.
FutureStructure starts from the premise that a community or region is best envisioned as a large system of deeply interdependent smaller systems. These systems include "hard infrastructure" for things like transportation and utilities to "soft infrastructure" that support human capital, like education and economic development.
Harnessing developments in technology, like powerful analytics and the "internet of things" combined with designing communities as systems, FutureStructure is about what gets built, but more importantly how it's built and especially how what gets built connects with everything else.
This, the second of two 2013 FutureStructure Summits, will focus on opportunities and challenges associated with transportation and the built environment. The first Summit on the water, waste and energy takes place on August 29th in Chicago, Illinois.
Engage with colleagues at this invitation-only gathering of government leaders from across the US for a day of discussions about a new approach to 21st century city and community building. Hear thought provoking expert presentations and share your perspectives about:
Cities as Systems
Connected and well integrated, smarter with greater responsiveness to community needs, supportive of and less destructive to the environment, energy efficient with systems themselves designed to be maximally efficient, responsive to new technological opportunities in design and construction and less expensive to build and operate
Smart, Connected and Integrated Infrastructure
Technology promises to transform how we build, view and interact with the physical structures in the world around us. Smart infrastructure makes more efficient use of resources and improves the quality of life for the people who use it.
FutureStructure and Transportation
New ideas, policies and technologies are needed if we're to keep pace with 21st century mobility needs. Most of today's aging transportation system, largely designed and built to serve 19th and 20th century carbon heavy communities, needs modernization. Solutions range from intelligent traffic management tools to new integrated transit strategies, alternate fuels and high efficiency vehicles - all designed to help us get where we need to go faster, more affordably and with greater ease and safety.
FutureStructure and the Built Environment
We spend the majority of our lives in buildings where we work, live and play. Buildings are, in many ways, the hubs around which our transportation, waste, water and energy system revolve. Technology advances are making them more intelligent, connected, comfortable and efficient in the use of energy and water. But the separation between new high performance buildings and the vast bulk of our aging building stock is huge. Bridging that gap is vital to building robust economies and livable communities.
FutureStructure and Jobs
New types of job skills will be needed to develop, build, deploy and operate connected systems in our communities. Creating jobs, renovating infrastructure and improving communities will challenge government, academic, and business leaders to develop a workforce to match evolving requirements. This extends well beyond "greening jobs" - it's about anticipating and planning for how system thinking affects all jobs - the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. The economy will evolve and so will the jobs it creates and requires.
Connected and Integrated - The Political Challenges
Everything is connected to everything else. There isn't an element within a community that won't be touched by this renewal process. Developing an integrated system requires an understanding of its key leverage points. New government collaborations to manage these systems will need to put in place.
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Keynote Speakers
Marina Leight serves as GOVERNING's Associate Publisher for Infrastructure. She directs GOVERNING's expansion in the infrastructure, water, energy, waste and transportation verticals by developing new business, strategic relationships and policy and management-oriented programs for state and local government officials. She'll also coordinate on new content and product strategies while directing sales, marketing, and research operations for GOVERNING in the infrastructure area.
Leight has a diverse background in business development having also served as e.Republic's V.P. for Strategic Initiatives for GOVERNING working closely with strategic partners and public sector advisory boards, overseeing the content and execution of GOVERNING events and the development of GOVERNING's expanded range of business opportunities. As well as having served as Vice President of Education, developing the Converge media platform and the Center for Digital Education where she was responsible for running its award-winning magazine, leading website, custom publishing, research projects and high-level events in national jurisdictions.
Sessions
Tuesday Nov. 12 11:00AM |
Keynote - Smart, Connected and Integrated InfrastructureTechnology promises to transform how we build, view and interact with the physical structures in the world around us. Smart infrastructure makes more efficient... more |
A pioneer in the field, Dennis is a trusted advisor to both public- and private-sector leaders in the United States and internationally. Under his leadership, e.Republic's award-winning publications, websites, over 200 events and highly respected research operations are acknowledged as setting the gold standard in their respective fields. The firm's work has been cited in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Forbes, Time Magazine, The Washington Post and USA Today.
In 1985 Dennis developed and published California County magazine in partnership with the California State Association of Counties. In 1987, as one of the first to recognize the impact new digital technologies were to have on the public sector, Dennis launched Government Technology, the first national magazine covering information technology in state and local government. Government Technology was followed with the development of other successful media platforms, including: Converge, Public CIO and Emergency Management. All are recipients of numerous editorial and design awards with Public CIO named "Magazine of the Year" in 2009 by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) and Government Technology and Emergency Management named as best publications in their respective categories at the 2011 and 2012 Western Publishing Association's Maggie awards.
Dennis also created Government Technology TV (GTtv) -- an online video news and information channel hosted on govtech.com. A year after being introduced, GTtv won BtoB Media's Online Video Award for "Best Overall Use of Video, Small B-to-B".
Seeing the need for stronger analysis and research to support public sector innovation, Dennis developed and oversees management of the Center for Digital Government -- the first of its kind research and business intelligence advisory focused exclusively on state and local government. The Center is home to the widely cited Digital States Survey.
In 2009, e.Republic acquired GOVERNING from Congressional Quarterly. GOVERNING is the nation's leading media platform covering politics, policy and management for state and local government leaders. Since the acquisition, Dennis has broadened its offerings, building out its online presence, establishing the GOVERNING Institute headed by former Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser and greatly expanding its national events portfolio. In 2011 GOVERNING received the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award from American Business Media for exceptional editorial content.
Dennis has served as an advisor to the Education Commission of the States to help develop effective strategies for use of information technology in education and was a board member of the Information Technology Association of America's subcommittee on state and local government.
Dennis served as chair of the Technology Task Force for Governor Pete Wilson's California Mentoring Initiative, serving on the governor's team representing the state of California at the Presidents' Summit for America's Future held in Philadelphia in 1997.
As a speaker, Dennis has addressed national and international organizations, including the National Governors Association, National Conference of State Legislatures, Little Hoover Commission and Education Commission of the States.
He is recognized by FOLIO as one of the most influential people in magazine media and by BtoB Media Business's "Who's Who in Business Publishing."
Sessions
Tuesday Nov. 12 9:20AM |
The Future of FutureStructure |
Stephanie Pincetl is Adjunct professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Systems at the UCLA Institute of the Environment. Dr. Pincetl conducts research on environmental policies and governance and analyses how institutional rules construct how natural resources and energy are used to support human activities. She is expert in bringing together interdisciplinary teams of researchers across the biophysical and engineering sciences with the social sciences to address problems of complex urban systems and environmental management.
Dr Pincetl has written extensively about land use in California, environmental justice, habitat conservation efforts, water and energy policy. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research with biophysical scientists on urban ecology and water management in Los Angeles, as well as from the California state Energy Commission PIER program to develop a methodology to understand energy use in communities in California using urban metabolism methods coupled with social policy considerations. Her book, Transforming California, the Political History of Land Use in the State, is the definitive work on land use politics and policies of California. She is the leading author of the urban section of the Southwest Technical Report to the National Climate Assessment and a contributing author of the urban section of the National Climate Assessment.
Dr. Pincetl has a PhD in Urban Planning and teaches at UCLA. She worked 10 years in the nonprofit environmental justice sector and has taught in the Masters of Public Affairs at the Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris. Pincetl is the Faculty Director of the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC), a Los Angeles regional organization dedicated to working across jurisdictions to achieve a better future. She was instrumental in making the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA its institutional home.
Sessions
Tuesday Nov. 12 10:15AM |
Moderated Panel & Discussion - Cities as Systems |
Erin Waters is publisher of GOVERNING, a division of e.Republic, where she oversees GOVERNING's editorial content and production teams as well as the GOVERNING Institute, the magazine's in-house research team, business development and sales across key market segments in the state and local government space; including finance, management, technology, workforce, health and human services, infrastructure and transportation.
Prior to being named publisher, Waters served two years as associate publisher during which time she focused on business development and expansion across the GOVERNING platform. Prior to joining GOVERNING, Waters worked for National Journal and Congressional Quarterly, where she first managed the digital media platform and later handled advocacy advertising sales across print, online and event properties. A graduate of Rice University, Waters lives in Washington, D.C.
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