Cities across the country have become labs for all kinds of innovation. They're small enough to focus on key issues and with the right leadership can achieve great things. While each city has its own strengths, many without large budgets and well-funded backers are finding ways to spark community action and make their cities emerging centers for innovation and entrepreneurship. For this session we share the insights of three mayors from a variety of emerging cities looking not only on what they've been able to do, but how leaders from other cities and regions can bootstrap their communities as well.

1. Bootstrapping Your City’s
Innovation Ecosystem

2. Bootstrapping Your City’s Innovation
Ecosystem
City mayors from emerging innovation hubs share their lessons learned in
sparking new activity with limited resources - and how other communities can
do so as well.

3. Bootstrapping Your City’s Innovation
Ecosystem
Cities across the country have become labs for all kinds of innovation. They're
small enough to focus on key issues and with the right leadership can achieve
great things. While each city has its own strengths, many without large budgets
and well-funded backers are finding ways to spark community action and make
their cities emerging centers for innovation and entrepreneurship.
For this session we share the insights of three mayors from a variety of
emerging cities looking not only on what they've been able to do, but how
leaders from other cities and regions can bootstrap their communities as well.

4. Bootstrapping Your City’s Innovation
Ecosystem
The power of cities
● more than half the world’s population
● competing for talent and other resources
● sized to experiment and get things done
● potential to replicate and scale solutions

5. Bootstrapping Your City’s Innovation
Ecosystem
The city as a platform
● providing support for business creation and growth
● facilitating connections & creative collisions
● seeking out & implementing innovative solutions
● promoting local businesses and the local brand

6. Bootstrapping Your City’s Innovation
Ecosystem
Programs and Networks
● Bloomberg Cities
● Code for America
● Living Cities
● Rise of the Rest

7. Bootstrapping Your City’s Innovation
Ecosystem
Common Themes
● identify local strengths and cultural identity
● create and share vision
● find partners, supporters and sponsors
● lead

8. Bootstrapping Your City’s Innovation
Ecosystem
Initiatives from three cities

9. Bootstrapping Your City’s Innovation
Ecosystem
This session will answer the following questions:
● What can city leaders do to bring their communities together and pursue
bigger objectives?
● What can members of the tech and startup communities do to help build
local ecosystems?
● What kinds of initiatives have had the most impact in improving different
cities?