A conversation with elected officials from Oregon.
A conversation with federal government agencies on priority programs including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 and more.
Portland leaders join us to discuss an initiative passed in 2018 that provides a consistent, long-term funding source and oversight structure to ensure that the community’s climate action efforts are implemented to support social, economic, and environmental benefits for Portlanders, particularly communities of color and people with low incomes.
The Stena Foundation, a family foundation based in Utah, has recently launched the Stena Center for Financial Technology at the University of Utah, and are working to build a unique and sustainable ecosystem for fintech in partnership with the State, City and flagship university. This panel will explore the funding mechanisms within the project, including investment funds and large scale real estate projects that illustrate how government, universities and private partners can collaborate and achieve common goals.
State of the Lab: MetroLab’s Executive Director, Kate Burns, provides the annual update on the state of research and science in communities, and building our understanding of transformative partnerships with local governments and universities.
Three breakout rooms will each host a different topic throughout the afternoon.
The three tracks include:
Ballroom: Partnership and Community Engagement
The Role of Government in Building Trust with Residents
Please join us for a panel on how government can practically and sustainably build trust with the community. We’ll discuss different approaches for trust building with residents, from co-designing new solutions with residents to creating a shared set of values within city hall. With real-life expertise from Chief Innovation Officers, this panel will delve into the practical steps and actions that will allow your city to intentionally develop relationships with stakeholders and prove that you are trustworthy partners to address shared problems.
Room 296: Climate and Infrastructure
Using Accessible Technologies to Protect All City Dwellers from Climate Extremes
Climate change is making cities increasingly dangerous for their most vulnerable residents, including people with disabilities, older adults, and people who lack shelter. In this session, we discuss how Portland and other cities are protecting these populations from extreme heat, smoke, and incursions of wildfire into urban areas, and whether new technologies can help these people stay safe.
Room 327: Data: Using it and Protecting It
Modernizing public interest data practice: evaluating and addressing organization needs, tools, and capacity
Groups working towards a public interest, such as NGOs, municipal institutions, or social impact organizations, use data across a variety of program areas; data-driven or data-informed approaches are well established in strategic planning, impact evaluation, and public-facing communication. This panel brings together leadership, technical, and non-profit perspectives on the process of capacity-building through evaluating the unique data needs of public interest organizations, building tools and applications, and working towards a more equitable and accessible data practice landscape for organizations large and small.
Ballroom: Partnership and Community Engagement
Public Engagement Workshop: Connecting & Building Relationships
This interactive workshop introduces how and when research is used in policymaking and what informs policymakers’ day-to-day decision-making. The training emphasizes the value of building relationships with policy actors and helps scholars identify and take the first steps to initiate those connections.
Room 296: Climate and Infrastructure
Forest & Wildfire & Climate (Oh, My!): The Wicked Risk of the West
Room 327: Data: Using it and Protecting It
Integrating, Securing, and Using Collective Data through Collaborative Governance
Through a collaborative governance framework, design, implemented, and managed by participating organizations, Houston and Kansas were able to overcome differences in data, definitions, systems & tools, and security / access protocols to combine their data to achieve these goals and establish an ongoing, iterative governing body to leverage their data and agreement to address future goals and challenges. This panel will discuss the challenges of doing this work and how the collaborative governance framework enabled them to overcome their differences and establish an equitable and secure infrastructure to facilitate their needs, all while building trust and understanding among regional stakeholders that will be the foundation for collective work in the region for years to come.
Ballroom: Partnership and Community Engagement
Co-producing Place-based Impact through Community Engagement
The session will counterpose the familiar notion of the ‘smart city’ with the idea of the intelligent city (or region). We argue, using the UK as the research context, that an intelligent city maximises both the contribution of its anchor institutions and collaboration between them to (i) function effectively (and in inclusive way) and (ii) to compete nationally and internationally. There is clear evidence that having one or more university institutions, and especially a large research-intensive university, gives a city a significant competitive advantage compared with places that lack a university, but this advantage is only fully exploited where place needs guide shared agendas and when civic engagement becomes a core component of university missions and strategies.
Room 296: Climate and Infrastructure
Over the Horizon: Creating a Innovative Systems and Culture Adapt to Crisis
Communities around the globe had to adapt to the crisis of COVID-19 but what remains to be seen is whether those changes in response to an emergency will create lasting change for good. Hear from local innovators who are creating and innovative culture and creating systems of data-driven governance that improve operations but also can respond to any crisis. This requires an inclusive approach internally and externally, a forward-thinking strategy for adopting new ideas, and a peer centered approach to learning which democratizes skills and understanding rather than burying it with subject matter experts.
Room 327: Data: Using it and Protecting It
City in Motion: Data & Digital Infrastructure for Mobility
As technology continues to intersect with transportation, the way we move around our cities constantly changes. Learn more about how innovative public agencies and companies use data and digital infrastructure – including open-source data standards – as effective tools to manage urban mobility and curb space. Speakers will discuss how cities are digitizing regulations, gathering data about curb use and shared mobility services, and modernizing management strategies to address city policy needs and reach safety, equity, and sustainability goals.
Please join us at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) for an opportunity to network with fellow Summit attendees.
Pascal Caraccioli-Salinas, Data Science Student at Portland State University, welcomes the summit to kick off day two.
Established in 2020, MetroLab’s Student Cup Competition recognizes, amplifies, and supports impactful collaboration. A prize is awarded to students from MetroLab member universities working in partnership with government and/or community collaborates on civic technology, data, and innovation projects. We will hear presentations from the finalists during this session.
Data Privacy & Equity Impact Assessment for Oakland, CA
Lane County Parks Deferred Maintenance and Operations Funding Alternatives
Precision Forecast of Land Cover Change
Community-Scale Spatial Mapping to Prioritize Green and Grey Infrastructure Locations to Increase Flood Resilience
This panel will feature a discussion among industry leaders, local government, and policy experts to consider the following: 1) What are the possibilities of AI and its everyday use case(s)? 2) How can cities and counties use this technology to streamline processes? What are some cautionary policies to consider? 3) Similarly for universities, how can AI benefit education and what parameters should be set?
Hear updates and announcements from the MetroLab Data Governance Task Force, launching a digital tool for local governments seeking policy guidance with respect to data governance, protecting data, and community engagement.
A conversation with Portland Community Leaders on the role data justice can play in creating equitable, thriving communities.
This year’s summit will feature a new style of conversation among all summit attendees. We will have two rooms concurrently to host a facilitated roundtable discussion, inviting experts to discuss new research efforts, research needs, and promising solutions on Sustaining Connected Communities, Student Engagement, Community Engagement and Local R&D Agenda. Further details below.
Ballroom: Sustaining Connected Communities
To better understand and address issues related to the integration and scaling of smart communities technologies, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Carnegie Mellon University’s Metro21: Smart Cities Institute (Metro21) to host a workshop entitled Enabling and Sustaining Connected Communities Rooted in Solving Societal Challenges. The in-person workshop and pre-workshop virtual listening sessions were designed to elicit feedback and suggestions from experts in academia, government, nonprofits, civic organizations, and industry to identify solutions to the significant technical, policy, and socioeconomic challenges to integration and scaling of connected communities technologies. The findings include feedback from experts in the following domains: mobility/transportation, energy, climate resilience, ecosystem services and multiple applications. The resultant solutions and suggestions are summarized in a soon-to-be released report that will be the highlight of this roundtable discussion, where we’ll discuss the opportunities for collaboration.
Room 327: Student Engagement
This roundtable session will feature a discussion on how to support students, and how students can bring solutions to our shared challenges. How are students bringing creativity and brilliance to cities? How can we engage students with local governments to create a better workforce pipeline? How can we connect students with resilient agencies and NGOs? What are innovations in curriculum and student programs at universities to prepare and inspire the future workforce?
Ballroom: Community Engagement
This roundtable session will feature a discussion on how to continue improving ways in which we can engage with our community. How can we ensure community engagement is inclusive and diverse? What are some unique ways to broaden outreach? How can universities and local governments work together to streamline efforts in acquiring feedback and more deeply understanding community issues? How can universities coordinate community engagement efforts?
Room 327: Local R&D Agenda
EcoTrust Building- Natural Capital Center
Please note: shuttles will be provided for Summit attendees to the event venue.
Platform for Long-Term Disaster Recovery
Digitally Mapping New York City’s Underground
Job-Based Microtransit
Bike-to-Work Communities of Practice
Resiliency Mapmaking Curriculum for Youth
MetroLab Network’s Executive Director, Kate Burns, will sit down with Paola Maynard-Moll, Executive Director of the Scholars Strategy Network to discuss research in the field
CIVIC Teams will split into breakouts, topics for breakouts will be suggested and voted on by participants.
CIVIC Teams will split into breakouts, topics for breakouts will be suggested and voted on by participants.
CIVIC Teams will split into breakouts, topics for breakouts will be suggested and voted on by participants.