2015 CHICAGO LEADERSHIP EXCHANGE l 1

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2 l DENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION

BY THE NUMBERS

45 SPEAKERS

160 DELEGATES ATTENDED

6 REGIONAL AND ELECTED OFFICIALS

30+ INDUSTRY SECTORS REPRESENTED

9 EXPERIENCES SHOWCASING EVERYTHING FROM PLACEMAKING TO BIG DATA


PRESENTING SPONSOR

VICE CHAIR SPONSOR

BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS SPONSOR

HOSTED BY:


EXCURSION SPONSOR

AIRLINE SPONSOR

DINING SPONSORS


PLENARY SPONSORS

MOBILE APP SPONSOR

ROOM GIFT SPONSOR


Children’s Hospital Colorado | CignaCraig Hospital | Deloitte | EKS&H | FirstBank

GE Johnson Construction CompanyHogan Lovells | IMA Financial Group

Jones Lang LaSalle | Lockton Companies, LLCMillerCoors | Molson Coors Brewing Company

Pinnacol Assurance | University of Colorado Denver University of Denver | University Physicians, Inc. | Western Union

NETWORKING SPONSORS

COMMUNITY SPONSORS

Bryan Cave | Colorado HeathOp | CRL Associates, Inc.Denver Urban Renewal Authority | Hensel Phelps

Moye White | TIAA-CREF


SNAPSHOT OF SPEAKERS

Gov. John HickenlooperState of Colorado

Michelle BooneCommissionerChicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events

Ed UhlirExecutive DirectorMillennium Park Inc.

Jeff MalehornPresident and CEOWorld Business Chicago

Tom RickettsOwnerChicago Cubs

Richard LongworthDistinguished Fellow - Global CitiesChicago Council on Global Affairs

Cheryl HymanChancellorCity Colleges of Chicago

Kevin CovalArtistic DirectorYoung Chicago Authors


The trip to Millennium Park has already set in motion new directions for the Auraria campus board of trustees as they consider artistic solutions for bridging Speer to connect lower downtown with the campus.

DELEGATE REFLECTIONS

As Denver grows, we CAN and STILL have the ability to keep our magic.

The importance of the four pillars of a global city: economic vitality, education, human capital and arts and culture. It takes intention and success in all four to be a truly global city.

Sometimes it takes unconventional ideas – like youth slam poetry – and unconventional leadership – like Kevin Coval – to truly transform culture and community. We learned an important leadership lesson about the power to transform young lives by empowering youth, trusting them, respecting their story and using creativity to unlock potential and courage.


SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS


Panel Discussion- Urban Innovation: Big Data Driving Big Change

Big Data has the potential to change how cities monitor, manage and enhance the livability of their communities—affecting transportation, education, public safety and city efficiencies. Chicago is leveraging the power of Big Data across sectors to improve the lives of Chicagoans.

Moderator: Chris Hansen, Senior Advisor, Janys AnalyticsTom Schenk, Chief Data Officer, Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) Daniel O’Neil, Executive Director, Smart Chicago Andrew Watkins, Vice President of Strategy, UI LABS

Panel Discussion- Strengthening Neighborhoods: Engaging Residents as Social Innovation Partners

The “City of Neighborhoods” has tapped a potent resource, its neighbors. Learn about an array of innovative Chicago initiatives that engage residents as social innovators and activated partners in resolving local issues with their own fresh ideas.

Moderator: Daniel Ash, CMO, The Chicago Community Trust Cheryl Hughes, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, The Chicago Community Trust – On The TableDavid Woolwine, Director - Reputation, Community Engagement and Public Affairs, Allstate Insurance – Youth Shout Out Sara Reschly, BPNC's Director of Community Partnerships, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council – Neighborhood Networks

Panel Discussion- Education: Cradle-to-Career Strategies

Public-private partnerships in Chicago are continuously aligning instructional practices, and academic and social supports, to demonstrate a new model of public education that seamlessly and successfully prepares children for

college, beginning at birth. Utilizing a robust statewide career-pathways system and cutting-edge research, education outcomes in Chicago are improving by 30 percent.

Moderator: Robin Steans, Executive Director, Advance IllinoisSara Ray Stoelinga, Director, University of Chicago Urban Education InstituteJonathan Furr, Executive Director, Education Systems Center, University of Northern IllinoisCharlotte Johnson, Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, IBM

Stony Island Art Bank & Dorchester Art + Housing collaborative: The Art of Community Revitalization

Rebuild Foundation is a nonprofit organization that endeavors to rebuild the cultural foundations of under-invested neighborhoods and incite movements of community revitalization that are culture-based, artist led and neighborhood driven.

The Stony Island Arts Bank, opened in October 2015, serves as a platform for site-specific commissions and exhibitions, a venue for artist and scholar residencies and a home for Rebuild's archives and collections. Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the bank at 68th and Stony Island, once a vibrant community savings and loan, has been vacant since the ‘80s. The radically restored building will serve as a space for neighborhood residents to preserve, access, reimagine and share their heritage—and a destination for artists, scholars, curators and collectors to research and engage with South Side history.

The Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative (DA+HC) is a rehabilitated block of 32 townhomes that serves as residences for artists and community members with the intent of fostering dialogue and collaboration between both groups. The DA+HC is mixed-income housing and features and an even distribution of artist, low-income and market-rate units. Originally conceived in 2011, the project was

FRIDAY, OCT. 23


spearheaded by the Rebuild Foundation in partnership with the Chicago Housing Authority, Brinshore Development and Landon Bone Baker Architects. In addition to housing units, the project features a new arts center complete with a spring-loaded dance studio as well as a public meeting space and community garden.

Rebuild Foundation is the creation of Chicago native, artist, urban planner and Wall Street Journal 2012 Innovator of the Year Theaster Gates, Jr.

UI Labs: Urban Infrastructure Innovations & Digital Manufacturing

UI LABS is a Chicago-based research and commercialization collaborative, bringing universities and industries together to define problems, design partnerships and deliver scalable solutions to tomorrow’s most important challenges. UI LABS brings together universities and industries, along with national labs, civic and government partners, to solve complex challenges no one sector or player could address on their own. UI LABS consists of a growing portfolio of labs to accelerate the deployment of innovative technology to make lives better and enhance the competitiveness of the U.S. and Chicagoland region.

Wrigley 1060 Project: A Good Neighbor Approach

1060 Project is a $575 million revamp of Wrigley Field so it may continue to be a healthy economic driver for Chicago. One of the most unique attributes of Wrigley Field is its home, nestled within a vibrant and diverse neighborhood. For years, Cubs baseball and Wrigley Field have enriched the Lakeview community by hosting millions of baseball fans each year and providing world-class and unique events. These activities have contributed to the energetic environment of the neighborhood, while delivering millions of dollars in economic activity.

The Cubs are committed to being good neighbors and ensuring the plan protects neighborhood businesses, while enhancing the quality of life in the Lakeview community. The Cubs will pay $3.75 million over 10 years for community infrastructure-related projects.



Guided Walking Tour: Millennium Park

Millennium Park, when it opened on July 16, 2004, transformed an industrial wasteland into Chicago’s showplace for cutting-edge art, architecture, landscape design, music and more. Now, ten years after the unveiling, it isn’t just a success—it has proven to be a visionary work that has changed the way the world sees Chicago.

As Mayor Emanuel works to increase Chicago’s rank as a tourist destination (currently it’s ninth in the US) and boost its number of annual visitors to 55 million by 2020, he views Millennium Park as “a hub to that process.”

Building the park took $484 million, with $222 million raised from more than 100 individuals, foundations, and corporations. That’s in addition to the $29.5 million in short-term loans that the city took out between 2005 and 2011 to operate the park, and the $6.195 million the city has budgeted for 2014 for that same purpose.

The 24.5 acres Millennium Park has made Chicago a more desirable place to live, attracting millennials and young professionals, who want urban living with cultural amenities. Millennium Park is more than just a cultural statement, it also has an economic function for the entire region.

Chicago Art Institute: David Adjaye Exhibit & Curator Talk

David Adjaye, with over 50 built projects across the world – including Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art - is rapidly emerging as a major international figure in architecture and design. Rather than advancing a signature architectural style, Adjaye’s structures address local concerns and conditions through both a historical understanding of context and a global understanding of modernism. The first comprehensive museum survey devoted to Adjaye, this exhibition offers an in-depth overview of the architect’s distinct approach and visual language with a dynamic installation design conceived by Adjaye Associates.

Of African ancestry and raised in Ghana, the Middle East, and England, Adjaye now has offices in London, New York, Berlin,

and Accra. Like many international architects, he is itinerant, and his practices defy cultural borders and geopolitical categories. However, Adjaye is unique in being an African-born architect working in a global landscape. Having traveled the world studying buildings and architectural styles, most recently and extensively in Africa, he is acutely sensitive to the effects of location. A proponent for architecture from beyond the Western canon, he brings a distinctive contemporary “Afropolitan” view to his various projects.

This exhibition, comprising furniture, housing, public buildings, and master plans, fills the first-floor Abbott Galleries and the second-floor architecture and design galleries in the Modern Wing. In addition to drawings, sketches, models, and building mock-ups, a specially commissioned film featuring Adjaye’s collaborators—helps bring his projects to life and makes clear the important role that Adjaye plays in contemporary architecture today.

Chicago Culture Center: Bold Alternatives

Chicago Cultural Center, the main hub of the Biennial, is a five-story Beaux-Arts building located in the heart of downtown Chicago. Formerly home to the city’s public library, the building now functions as a thriving public institution. Frequently called the “People’s Palace,” it regularly hosts cultural events and exhibitions. The Chicago Architecture Biennial will utilize all of the Chicago Cultural Center’s galleries and public spaces for exhibitions and newly commissioned installations—the first time that the entire building will be dedicated to a single curatorial project.

The Chicago Cultural Center also houses BOLD: Alternative Scenarios for Chicago. Architect Iker Gil of MAS Studio is organizing the exhibition of Chicago-based architects that showcases new ideas and alternative development scenarios for Chicago. BOLD will feature speculative proposals that re-imagine the design potential of the city’s waterways, roadways, vacant lots and public space, as well as new projects that explore the present conditions of the city through film, photography and mapping. This is a self-guided tour.

SATURDAY, OCT. 24

C O N T E N T Discuss business and policy issues critical to our region’s future with Salt Lake City’s top experts and change-makers from the Denver community.

C O N T E X T Get a front row seat to see Salt Lake City’s innovations in place-making and cultural tourism, global city strategies, P-12 education models, regionalism and cross-sector research and development.

A C C E SS Deepen connections with other prominent business and civic leaders that will strengthen collective vision and collaboration in our own community.

I M PA C T Lead the charge in implementing stand-out innovations and best practices to move our region forward.

D e n v e r L e a d e r s h i p . o r g / L e a d e r s h i p E x c h a n g e / L e a d e r s h i p Fo u n d a t i o n @ D e n L e a d e r s h i p / i n /d m c l f

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWDates:September 22-24, 2016

How to apply:This program is by invitation only.

Those who are interested in being

considered for the delegation may

submit an online self-nomination form

beginning July 14.

Sponsorships:Program sponsorships are available.

Kirsten Vermulen at

[email protected]

for more information.

See more than sights.For 26 years we’ve been taking 150 of the region’s top leaders to a different region to learn from its leaders on the annual Leadership Exchange (LEX) program. We’re headed to Salt Lake City, UT, to bring home the best practices and innovations that the city has to offer and apply them in our region.

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