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