Beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow, this year’s Meeting of the Minds, a leadership summit for sustainable cities, will kick off at Qwest Center Omaha. According to its website, the entire event, Thursday and Friday, June 17-18, will be live-streamed. You can find the live stream at americancity.org/index.php/meeting or ustream.tv/channel/2010-meeting-of-the-minds and the agenda at meetingoftheminds2010.org/agenda.
Meeting of the Minds is hosted by the Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities in partnership with the Urban Age Institute.
Here’s more about the event from its website, meetingoftheminds2010.org:
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It’s a core item on the agenda when more than 100 leaders from more than 15 countries join counterparts from public, private and independent sectors in Nebraska and the region. It’s about making sense of the complex interplay that links natural ecosystems, human infrastructure—energy, transport, waste, and water. It’s about the right balance of national programs, urban policies, financial incentives, land use plans, political leadership, and citizen ingenuity.
Meeting of the Minds is two and a half days of intensive exchange for leaders creating more sustainable cities using smarter design tools, sounder environmental practices, and cleaner energy systems. Meeting of the Minds is where innovators scaling-up practical urban innovations in infrastructure meet innovators in technology, energy, transport, water, finance—all are building more livable cities. At Meeting of the Minds, leaders from multiple sectors and diverse geographies share ideas and shape a common agenda.
In reference to its agenda above, the speaker lineup is definitely worth checking out, from Ron Dembo, founder Zerofootprint in Toronto to Saskia Ruijsink from the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to Dennis Murphey, chief environmental officer of the City of Kansas City.
You can find the complete linup at meetingoftheminds2010.org/speakers and the agenda at meetingoftheminds2010.org/agenda.
Previous years’ Meeting of the Minds were held in Oakland in 2007, hosted by the University of California, in Portland in 2008, hosted by the Oregon Business Council and Portland State University, and in New York City last year, hosted by JPMorgan Chase.
