Our future cities combine information technology with buildings and urban infrastructure. Exciting collaborations between architects, planners, and technologists are transforming the ecosystems of city living: Tomorrowland is being built today. This town-hall discussion will explore the pressing issues facing civic leaders, private developers and city-residents as they try to imagine their shared spaces 10, 20, 50 years into the future. How can we harness the creativity and energy of cities in new ways that boldly develop innovation economies alongside more equitable and sustainable communities? How do we balance safety and privacy, the workplace and open green space, overcrowding and happy collisions? Who has access to connectivity, and how can new networks be used to generate “people power” and foster civic engagement?
Greta Byrum reimagines the way we design, build, control, and distribute communications systems. She designs and tests community technology projects intended to build digital justice, support local communications preparedness, and train people from different backgrounds to become... Read More →
As President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, Robert T. “Bob” Geolas works daily to create a stronger Research Triangle Park for the benefit of people across all of North Carolina. He is leading the first redevelopment effort in RTP’s 50 year... Read More →
Ben Johnson is the host of Marketplace Tech and the digital-only podcast Codebreaker. He joined Marketplace in 2012 and officially became the host of Marketplace Tech in early 2014. In 2010, he began to work as a freelance web producer at The Takeaway, a national radio show produced... Read More →
Wanona Satcher is the CEO/Founder of ReJuve and Neighborhood Development Specialist for the City of Durham, North Carolina. Over the course of her career she’s served as an urban designer, landscape architect designer, city planner and economic developer. Wanona combines landscape... Read More →
