Baltimore Innovation Week 2014

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Civic Track Day

Wednesday, September 17
6:30am–6pm

Learn about how technology is impacting local government and civil society. Hackers, politicians, bureaucrats and citizens will meet to discuss social enterprise, the creative class and technology's economic impact.

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Track Day Events

  • #SocEnt Breakfast

    The SocEnt Breakfast is a forum and platform for idea sharing, resource exchange and connecting among Baltimore's social entrepreneurs, nonprofit and civic leaders, community advocates, grant-makers, and social investors.

    Wednesday, September 17, 7:30am–9:30am

  • Bridging the Gap: Connecting Cultural Institutions and Learners in the Digital Age

    A lunch roundtable connecting museum professionals from area cultural institutions with educators and school leaders to examine the educating role of cultural institutions in the digital age.

    Wednesday, September 17, 11:30am–1:00pm

  • Economic Impact of the Technology Sector Roundtable

    This panel will focus on economic development and business taxes that affect the tech economy in Baltimore.

    Wednesday, September 17, 5:00pm–7:00pm

Speakers

  • Senator Bill Ferguson

    Senator Bill Ferguson

    Senator Ferguson, 30, was elected to the Maryland State Senate in 2010, then becoming the youngest ever-elected State Senator in Maryland’s history. Bill is currently serving his first term as State Senator for Maryland’s 46th Legislative District. The 46th Legislative District is located entirely within Baltimore City, including neighborhoods in south Baltimore, downtown near and around the Inner Harbor, and southeast Baltimore.

  • Councilman Nick J. Mosby

    Councilman Nick J. Mosby

    COUNCILMAN NICK J. MOSBY was elected to the Baltimore City Council in November 2011, and represents a diverse group of neighborhoods in the 7th District of West Baltimore. This product of the Baltimore City Public School System and proud Baltimore Polytechnic Institute alum has always had a love for Baltimore. Following graduating with an Electrical Engineering degree from Tuskegee University in Alabama, he returned to his beloved city to pursue his dream of owning a home and jumping into the political arena.

  • Rodney Foxworth

    Rodney Foxworth

    Rodney Foxworth is a social justice advocate, community builder, and grassroots grantmaker. Rodney is Community Manager of BMe, a nonprofit social venture organization developed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in partnership with Open Society Foundations that celebrates black men as societal assets and funds, promotes and networks enterprising black male leaders across a growing number of U.S. cities. He is also co-founder and co-organizer of SocEnt Breakfast, a monthly meetup that convenes Baltimore-area social entrepreneurs.

  • Sheri Parks

    Sheri Parks

    Sheri Parks’ research focuses on public aesthetics, with particular concern for popular culture as public mythology and its effect upon individuals, families and minority cultures. Her book Fierce Angels: The Strong Black Woman in American Life and Culture will be released in paperback edition in April of 2013. She is an active public intellectual, appearing in national and local media, and is in demand as a public speaker. Dr. Parks is active in the university’s civic engagement initiatives, as a steering committee member of the Coalition for Civic Engagement and as an instructor whose classes often include projects that benefit non-profit associations. In 2008 she was recognized by the campus as the Outstanding Woman of Color and as Faculty of the Year in the University Honors Program.

  • Eliza Nevers

    Eliza Nevers

    Eliza Nevers is the Vice President of Product for AOL Platforms. In this role, she is responsible for driving product innovation and development of programmatic platform solutions. Since joining Advertising.com in 2005, Eliza has held a variety of positions within the product management organization and has overseen all aspects of the product development lifecycle for both internal infrastructure projects and externally facing products. Most recently, Eliza has leveraged her knowledge of the Advertising.com business to conceptualize, develop and release AdLearn Open Platform and MARKETPLACE by ADTECH.