Webcast - Exploring a New America: What Drives Innovation Around the Country?

From big cities to small communities the best ideas come from local leaders and institutions working directly with the people. As the home of big ideas, New America will bring together the most innovative thinkers and doers from coast to coast for our 2015 Annual Conference. 

With keynotes by Senator Cory Booker and Governor John Kasich, the conference will feature a fast-paced lineup of conversations, panels, and refreshing vignettes offering a broad view on how America is transforming to keep pace with technological and societal changes. Other participants include New America staff, fellows, and board members, as well as government, social, and business leaders working at the forefront of innovation.

AGENDA:

Thursday, April 23

1:00 PM: Welcome Remarks

Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America

Senator Cory Booker, U.S. Senator from New Jersey

1:35 PM: Community Engagement and Police Response

Roy L. Austin Jr., Deputy Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity at Domestic Policy Council

Rabia Chaudry, International Security Program Fellow, New America; President, Safe Nation Collaborative

Cathy Lanier, Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department of DC

Moderator: 

Nicholas Schmidle, 2013 Schwartz Fellow, New America; Staff Writer, New Yorker

2:15 PM: Policy by Algorithm

Virginia Eubanks, Ford Academic Fellow, New America

2:30 PM: Rewiring the Labor Market

Byron Auguste, Managing Director, Opportunity@Work

Robert Hohman, CEO, Glassdoor

Moderator: 

Jordan Weissmann, Senior Business and Economics Correspondent, Slate

3:00 PM: Innovations in Online Higher Education

Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University

Moderator: 

Tyra Mariani, Managing Director, Opportunity@Work

3:30 PM: Detroit Stories

Pashon Murray, Co-Founder and Owner, Detroit Dirt

Steven Rattner, Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC; Board Member, New America

Laura Trudeau, Managing Director for the Community Development and Detroit Programs, Kresge Foundation

Moderator: 

LZ Granderson, Columnist, ESPN; Contributor, CNN

4:15 PM: The Philanthropic Future

Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation

Moderator: 

Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America

4:45 PM: The Next Silicon Valley

Elmira Bayrasli, Co-Founder, Foreign Policy Interrupted

5:00 PM: Remaking Mexico City with Technology

Jorge Soto, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Miroculus.com

5:15 PM:  Innovations in Financial Inclusion

Introduction:

Reid Cramer, Director of the Asset Building Program, New America

Don Baylor Jr., Senior Associate with the Policy Advisory Group, Urban Institute

Nga Chiem Janosov, COO and President, EARN

Jonathan Mintz, Founding President and CEO, Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund

Moderator: 

Catherine Rampell, Opinion Columnist, The Washington Post

Friday, April 24th

9:00 AM: Welcome
Peter Bergen, Vice President, Director of Studies, Director, International Security, Future of War, and Fellows Programs, New America

American Futures

James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic; Board Member, New America

Deborah Fallows, Author, Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language; Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

9:25 AM: Being Mortal

Atul Gawande, Executive Director, Ariadne Labs; Board Member, New America

9:45 AM: The Care Economy

Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Adviser, Allianz; Chair of President Obama’s Global Development Council; Board Member, New America

Sarita Gupta, Co-Director, Caring Across Generations; Executive Director, Jobs with Justice

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO, Care.com

Latifa Lyles, Director of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor

Moderator: 

Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America

10:30 AM: Modern City, Modern Families

Seleta Reynolds, General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Transportation

Moderator: 

Liza Mundy, Director of the Breadwinning and Caregiving Program, New America

11:00 AM: Snapshots from the Classroom

Yvonne Caamal Canul, Superintendent, Lansing, Michigan School District 

Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Director, CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon; Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University

Moderator: 

Lisa Guernsey, Director of Early Education Initiative and Director of the Learning Technologies Project, New America

11:30 AM: The End of College

Kevin Carey, Director of the Education Policy Program, New America; Author, The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

12:00 PM: Keynote, Governor John Kasich

Introduction: 

Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the board, New America; Executive Chairman, Google

Governor John Kasich, Governor of Ohio

Moderator: 

Gloria Borger, Chief Political Analyst, CNN

 12:45 PM:  National Service for the Next Generation

Introduction: 

Helene Gayle, President and CEO, CARE USA

Tulsi Gabbard, Representative from Hawaii

General Stanley McChrystal, Chair of the Franklin Project, The Aspen Institute; Co-Founder and Partner, The McChrystal Group

Paul Monteiro, Director, AmeriCorps VISTA

Moderator: 

Nicholas Thompson, Editor, newyorker.com

1:30 PM: The New American Community

LZ Granderson, Columnist, ESPN; Contributor, CNN

Hua Hsu, Ford Academic Fellow, New America; Associate Professor of English, Vassar College

Denise Soler Cox, Co-creator, Enye Project

Linda Tirado, Author, Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

Moderator: 

Anand Giridharadas, Author, True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas; Columnist, The New York Times

2:30 PM:  The Design and Practice of Resilient Cities  

Nikhil da Victoria Lobo, Head of Global Partnerships, Americas, Swiss Re Financial Services Corporation

Pamela Puchalski, Non Resident Fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Maxwell Young, Director of Global Communications, 100 Resilient Cities

Moderator: 

Sharon Burke, Senior Advisor to the International Security Program, New America

3:00 PM: The Connected City

Andy Berke, Mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee

Susan Crawford, Author, The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance; John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property and Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School

Maya Wiley, Counsel to Mayor de Blasio, New York City Mayor’s Office

Moderator: 

Alan Davidson, Vice President and Director, Open Technology Institute, New America

3:45 PM:  Conference Close