Venues + Hotels
About the Theme
Our Columbus, Ohio City Cluster will host over 400 cross-sector leaders from 75 cities across North America. Those in attendance will include mayors and other elected and appointed officials, business and civic leaders, foundation executives, college and university presidents, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit leaders.
We will bring together a unique mix of creative thought leaders for interactive events – using the host city of Columbus, Ohio as both a backdrop and a laboratory. Participants will walk the streets, hear about what was, is, and will be, from the Columbus leaders making it happen.
We will showcase the great work being done in Columbus which is experiencing surging momentum that has attracted the world’s attention by being a smart, open city with a resilient spirit. Columbus recently won the highly competitive national Smart City Challenge and we’ll learn how Columbus won and why it’s important not only to Columbus but to all cities.
Columbus’ challenge, and the challenge facing all cities, is how to be a city that aligns its economic growth with inclusion so that many of its citizens and neighborhoods are not left behind. We’ll explore how cities and regions are working to achieve inclusive economic growth and opportunities for widespread economic success.
VENUE:
Express Live (405 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH) Formally known as LC Pavilion
HOTEL:
The Joseph (620 N High St., Columbus, OH)
● Classic King Guestrooms – call 1-855-811-0075 and reference CEOs for Cities
AIRPORT TRANSPORTION:
COTA will pick you up at Airport + Hilton Hotel
2016 Working Agenda
Visit the full, working 2016 National Meeting agenda* to see details on sessions, speakers and what’s in store.
- Sept 27-29, 2016
- Tuesday, Sept. 27
- Wednesday, Sept. 28
- Thursday, Sept. 29
Registration
9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Welcome Remarks
1:30 p.m.
The View of the City as a New Mayor
1:45 p.m.
Views of the City from the Swing States
2 - 3:15 p.m.
Interactive Session // National Urban Agenda
3:15 - 4 p.m.
Afternoon Keynote // Mark Kvamme
4 - 5 p.m.
Opening Reception: North Market
5:30 - 7 p.m.
Dinner in Columbus
7 p.m.
Registration + Breakfast Buffet
7 - 8 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
8 a.m.
Columbus: The Opportunity City
9 - 12 p.m.
Luncheon Keynote // Harvard Professor Jan W. Rivkin
12:15 - 2 p.m.
Evening Reception: Pizzuti Collection
6 - 8 p.m.Dinner on Your Own
8 p.m.
Breakfast Buffet
7 -8 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
7:45 a.m.
Morning Keynote // Gabriel Metcalf
8 - 9 a.m.
Break
9 - 9:15 a.m.
A New Philanthropic Approach to Combating Inequality
9:15 - 10:15 a.m.Break + Networking
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
Smart Cities Panel
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Closing Remarks
2 p.m.*The agenda is a work-in-progress, updated on a regular basis.
Speakers
Find the following speakers, moderators and experts on the 2016 CEOs for Cities National Meeting agenda.
Angela Glover Blackwell President + CEO, PolicyLink
Andrew E. Boy Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Michael B. Coleman Director of Business and Government Strategies, IceMiller Legal Counsel
Gabrielle C. Burton Five Sisters Productions
Mayor John Cranley Cincinnati, Ohio
Sharon L. Davies Vice Provost for Diversity & Inclusion + Chief Diversity Officer, The Ohio State University; Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Moritz College of Law; Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity
Joe DeLoss Owner, Hot Chicken Takeover
Aparna Dial Deputy Director, Department of Public Service, City of Columbus; Program Manager, Smart Columbus
Peggy Kriha Dye Artistic Director, Opera Columbus.
Alex Fischer President + CEO, Columbus Partnership
Lee Fisher CEOs for Cities
Mayor Andrew J. Ginther City of Columbus, Ohio
J. Daniel Good, Ph.D. Superintendent + CEO, Columbus City Schools
Kelley Griesmer Director of Special Projects, The Columbus Foundation
Mayor Daniel Horrigan City of Akron, Ohio
Lisa Hinson President + Founder, Hinson Ltd Public Relations
Paula Hicks-Hudson Mayor, City of Toledo
Nancy Kramer Founder + Chairman, Resource Ammirati
Doug F. Kridler President + CEO, The Columbus Foundation
Mark Kvamme Co-Founder + Partner, Drive Capital
Dr. Lillian M. Lowery President + CEO, FutureReady Columbus (OH)
Sidney R. Hargro Executive Director, Community Foundation of South Jersey (CFSJ)
Michelle Maggiore Associate Partner, IBM
Christine Márquez-Hudson President & CEO, The Denver Foundation
Elijah McKnight Founding Member, Triple Play Leadership Club
Gabriel Metcalf President + CEO, SPUR
Bob Milbourne Chair, CEOs for Cities Board
Dr. Manuel Pastor Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Brian Payne President, The Central Indiana Community Foundation + Indianapolis Foundation
Hannah D. Powell, Executive Director, KIPP Columbus
W. Spencer Reeder Vulcan, Inc.
Jan W. Rivkin Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Tanisha Robinson Founder + CEO, Print Syndicate
R.T. Rybak President + CEO, Minneapolis Foundation
Dan Sharpe Director, Community Leadership & Nonprofit Effectiveness, The Columbus Foundation
Alex Shumate Managing Partner, North America Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Janelle N. Simmons Chief Diversity Officer, L Brands, Inc.; President, L Brands Foundation
Larry Smith Founder, Six-Word Memoir
Mayor Nan Whaley City of Dayton, Ohio
Mayor Knox H. White City of Greenville, SC
Wim Wiewel President, Portland State University
Michael Wilkos Director of Community Research, The Columbus Foundation
Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher State University of New York
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