
CityLab 2014
September 28 – 30, 2014
Los Angeles
Hosted by The Atlantic in partnership with The Aspen Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies, CityLab is one of our most innovative programs of the year, bringing together 300+ of the world’s top mayors, urban experts, city planners, writers, technologists, economists, and designers. The goal of the 3-day program is to foster constructive dialogue and create scalable solutions for city leaders to share with their constituencies across the world.
Just recently, the program was named Best Conference of 2013 at the FAME Awards. The inaugural program took place last fall in New York City, and this year, we brought the program to Los Angeles.
To see photos from the event, visit our Facebook page.
Speakers
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Paige Adams-Geller Founder and Creative Director PAIGE @PaigeDenim -
Mike Alvidrez Executive Director Skid Row Housing Trust -
James Anderson Head of Government Innovation Programs Bloomberg Philanthropies @jmsndrsn -
Katie Appel Duda Government Innovator Bloomberg Philanthropies @kjappel -
Carol Armstrong Director LA River Project Office -
Bob Bailey President Water Business Group CH2M Hill -
Scott Ball Architect; Author Livable Communities for Aging Populations -
Dan Barber Co-Owner and Executive Chef Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns @DanBarber -
Nir Barkat Mayor City of Jerusalem @NirBarkat -
Tom Barrett Mayor City of Milwaukee @MayorOfMKE -
Christian Bason Head MindLab @christianbason -
James Bennet Editor in Chief The Atlantic @JBennet -
Alan Berube Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program Brookings, District of Columbia @berubea1 -
Beth Blauer Socrata Director of GovStat @biblauer -
Michael Bloomberg Former Mayor New York City @MikeBloomberg -
Tim Blumenthal President PeopleForBikes Coalition @timblu -
Christine Boyle President Valor Water Analytics @valorwater -
David Bradley Chairman Atlantic Media -
Clara Brenner CEO Tumml @clara_brenner -
Rose Broome Co-Founder and CEO HandUp @rosical -
Omar Brownson Executive Director LA River Corp @Obrownson -
Ron Brownstein Senior Editorial Director Atlantic Media @RonBrownstein -
Amanda Burden Principal, Urban Planning Bloomberg Associates @AmandaMBurden -
Jamira Burley Executive Director City of Philadelphia Youth Commission @JamiraBurley -
Matthew Burnett Co-Founder and CEO Maker's Row @makermatthew -
Rick Caruso Founder and CEO Caruso Affiliated @RickCarusoLA -
Vishaan Chakrabarti Holliday Associate Professor of Real Estate Development and Director CURE @VishaanNYC -
Brian Chesky Founder and CEO Airbnb @bchesky -
David Chipman Senior Vice President, Public Safety Solutions ShotSpotter, Inc. @davidchipman -
In Dong Cho Vice Mayor Seodaemun District, Seoul -
Roy Choi Chef and Author Kogi @RidingShotgunLA -
Steve Clemons The Atlantic Washington Editor at Large @SCClemons -
Denis Coderre Mayor City of Montréal @DenisCoderre -
Rick Cole Deputy Mayor Budget and Innovations for Los Angeles @AngelenoRick -
Philip Colligan Deputy Chief Executive Nesta Innovation Lab @philipcolligan -
Ron Daniels President Johns Hopkins University -
Benjamin de la Peña Director of Community and National Strategy John S. and James L. Knight Foundation @benjiedlp -
Paras Desai Director Chicago Innovation Delivery Team -
Richard Dobbs Director McKinsey Global Institute @richard_dobbs -
Esther Dyson Founder HICCup @edyson -
Peter Eigen Founder Transparency International @p_eigen -
Ben Elers Transparency International Programmes Director -
Rudy Espinoza Executive Director of Leadership Urban Renewal Network (LURN) @MrDOLPH -
James Fallows National Correspondent The Atlantic @jamesfallows -
Esther Feldman President Community Conservation Solutions -
George Fertitta CEO and Principal, Marketing and Tourism Bloomberg Associates -
Greg Fischer Mayor City of Louisville, Kentucky @louisvillemayor -
Brian Fishman Lead, Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Work Palantir @brianfishman -
Richard Florida Co-Founder and Editor-at-Large CityLab @Richard_Florida -
Anthony Foxx U.S. Secretary of Transportation -
Eric Garcetti Mayor City of Los Angeles @ericgarcetti -
Kathy Garmezy Associate Executive Director, Government and International Affairs Directors Guild of America -
Linda Gibbs Former New York City Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services -
Meg Gill Co-Founder Golden Road Brewing @MegGillGRB -
Rose Gill Hearn Principal, Municipal Integrity Bloomberg Associates -
Jeffrey Goldberg National Correspondent The Atlantic @JeffreyGoldberg -
Stephen Goldsmith Director of the Innovations in Government Program Harvard Kennedy School @GoldsmithOnGov -
Gabriella Gómez Mont Director Laboratorio para la Ciudad @Gabriella_Lab -
Michael Govan CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Los Angeles County Museum of Art -
Jenn Gustetic Prizes and Challenges Program Executive Office of the Chief Technologist at NASA @jenngustetic -
Sascha Haselmayer CEO CityMart @LLGACities -
Ben Hecht President and CEO Living Cities @benhecht -
Betsy Hodges Mayor of Minneapolis @MayorHodges -
Marc Huffman Vice President of Planning & Entitlements Brookfield Residential -
Linda Immediato Editor Los Angeles Magazine @LAmagStyle -
Walter Isaacson President and CEO Aspen Institute @WalterIsaacson -
Michele Jolin Co-Founder and Managing Partner Results for America -
Lucy Jones Visiting Research Associate Seismological Laboratory of Caltech @DrLucyJones -
Giorgos Kaminis Mayor City of Athens, Greece @KaminisG -
Alex Kapur CEO OpportunitySpace @Ospce -
Bettina Korek Founder ForYourArt @bettina_korek -
Mitch Landrieu Mayor City of New Orleans, Louisiana @MayorLandrieu -
Myung Lee Executive Director Cities of Service @myunglee -
Mia Lehrer Founder Mia Lehrer + Associates @MLAGreen -
Amy Lemisch Executive Director California Film Commission -
Peter Levine Associate Dean for Research and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs Tufts University's Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service @peterlevine -
Greg Lindsay Senior Fellow World Policy Institute @Greg_Lindsay -
Lewis MacAdams Co-Founder and President Friends of the Los Angeles River @FoLARtweets -
Michael Maltzan Founder and Design Principal Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. @MaltzanArch -
Sommer Mathis Editor CityLab @sommermathis -
Gavin "Mizzle" McNeill Creative Director and Owner YOUth Store & Gallery @Mizzle_JBC -
Mary Melton Editor-in-Chief Los Angeles Magazine @MaryMeltonLA -
Gary Lee Moore City Engineer, Public Works City of Los Angeles -
Pam O'Connor Mayor City of Santa Monica, California @PamOConnorMetro -
Katherine Oliver Principal, Media and Digital Strategies Bloomberg Associates @kolivernyc -
Warren Olney Host and Executive Producer "Which Way, LA?" and "To the Point" @ToThePoint_KCRW -
Henk Ovink Former Director General of the Netherlands' Spatial Planning and Water Affairs; Senior Advisor US Department of Housing and Urban Development @henkovink -
Andrew Papachristos Associate Professor of Sociology, Public Health, and Law Yale University @AVPapachristos -
Stephen Patrick Executive Director Aspen Forum for Community Solutions, Aspen Institute -
William Peduto Mayor City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania @billpeduto -
Gidion Peters Consultant Scrum Company @gidionpeters -
Andrea Phillips Vice President Urban Investment Group, Goldman Sachs @GoldmanSachs -
Arun Rath Weekend Host, All Things Considered NPR -
Kasim Reed Mayor City of Atlanta, Georgia @KasimReed -
April Rinne Global Sharing Economy & Shareable Cities Advisor @aprilrinne -
Jay Roewe Senior Vice President, West Coast Production HBO -
Barbara Romero Commissioner Los Angeles Board of Public Works -
Cynthia Ruiz Deputy Executive Director of External Relations Port of Los Angeles @CynthiaMRuiz -
Janette Sadik-Khan Principal, Transportation Bloomberg Associates @JSadikKhan -
Bruce Saito Executive Director Emeritus L.A. Conservation Corps -
Tanja Santucci Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer Corruption and Economic Crime Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) -
Evan Shapiro President Pivot @eshap -
David Sheard Leader Kirklees Council @CllrDavidSheard -
Donald Shoup Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning UCLA @DonaldShoup -
Jennie Smith-Peers Executive Director Elders Share the Arts @DignityInAging -
Kate Sofis Executive Director SFMade @ksofis -
Arun Sundararajan Professor and Rosen Faculty Fellow New York University @digitalarun -
Blair Taylor Chief Community Officer Starbucks -
Fernando Torres-Gil Professor of Social Welfare, Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging UCLA -
Xavier Trias Mayor City of Barcelona, Spain @xaviertrias -
Dayne Walling Mayor City of Flint, Michigan @MayorWalling -
Fred Walti Executive Director LA Cleantech Incubator @LACIncubator -
Charles West Leader New Orlean's Innovation Delivery Team -
Jonathan Woetzel Director McKinsey & Company @JonathanWoetzel -
Brian Wolshon Founding Director, Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency Louisiana State University -
John Zimmer Co-Founder & President Lyft @johnzimmer
Agenda
Live Stream Agenda
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
8:45 a.m. PT / 11:45 a.m. ET Welcome and Introductory Remarks
- James Bennet, Editor-in-Chief and Co-President, The Atlantic
- Michael Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies
9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET What's Mine is Yours? The New Dynamics of the Sharing City
- Brian Chesky, CEO and Founder, Airbnb
- April Rinne, Global Sharing Economy and Shareable Cities Advisor
- Arun Sundararajan, Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, New York University
- David Sheard, Council Leader, Kirklees Council
- Moderator: James Bennet, Editor-in-Chief and Co-President, The Atlantic
9:40 a.m. PT / 12:40 p.m. ET Reinventing City Hall
- Eric Garcetti, Mayor, Los Angeles
- Interviewer: Walter Isaacson, President, The Aspen Institute
10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET Case Study: Rethinking Resilience in a Post-Sandy World
- Henk Ovink, Senior Advisor to Secretary Shaun Donovan, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Interviewer: Sommer Mathis, Editor, CityLab, The Atlantic
10:20 a.m. PT / 1:20 p.m. ET Wheels of Change: What's Driving the Future of Urban Mobility?
- Janette Sadik-Khan, Principal, Bloomberg Associates
- Donald Shoup, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA
- John Zimmer, Co-Founder and President, Lyft
- Moderator: Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET Narrowing the Gap: How Cities Can Fight Income Inequality
- Alan Berube, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- Bill Peduto, Mayor, Pittsburgh
- Blair Taylor, Chief Community Officer, Starbucks
- Moderator: Richard Florida, Co-Founder and Editor at Large, CityLab.com; Senior Editor, The Atlantic
11:35 a.m. PT / 2:35 p.m. ET Governing the World's Most Complicated City
- Nir Barkat, Mayor, Jerusalem
- Interviewer: Jeffrey Goldberg, National Correspondent, The Atlantic
11:55 a.m. PT / 2:55 p.m. ET Local Food: Beyond Farm-to-Table
- Dan Barber, Owner and Executive Chef, Blue Hill Farm
12:20 p.m. PT / 3:20 p.m. ET Wrap Up
- Margaret Low Smith, Vice President, The Atlantic and President, AtlanticLIVE
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET Welcome/Introduction
- James Anderson, Government Innovation, Bloomberg Philanthropies
12:10 p.m. PT / 3:10 p.m. ET Infrastructure Investments that Change Lives
- Hon. Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- Arun Rath, Weekend Host, All Things Considered, NPR
12:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m. ET Trend Breaks: What a World of Change Means for Mayors
- Richard Dobbs, Director, McKinsey Global Institute
12:45 p.m. PT / 3:45 p.m. ET New in Town: Mayors on Immigration
- Denis Coderre, Mayor, Montreal, Canada
- Kasim Reed, Mayor, Atlanta, Georgia
- Interviewer: Ron Brownstein, Editorial Director, Atlantic Media
1:10 p.m. PT / 3:10 p.m. ET LA Story: Strategies for Stopping a Runaway Industry
- Kathy Garmezy, Associate Executive Director, Government & International Affairs, Directors Guild of America
- Amy Lemisch, Executive Director, California Film Commission
- Katherine Oliver, Principal, Bloomberg Associates
- Jay Roewe, Vice President of Production, HBO
- Moderator: James Bennet, Editor in Chief and Co-President, The Atlantic
1:30 p.m. PT / 4:30 p.m. ET Event Concludes