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With generous support from The Chicago Community Trust, The MacArthur Foundation, KNEXT College Credit Advisors, Steelcase Inc., and the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, CEOs for Cities hosted our Fall National Meeting in Chicago on October 11-12, 2011. Over two days, we brought together 200 Civic CEOs from the public, private, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors and national subject matter experts to explore place-based innovations and strategies for accelerating the transfer of ideas, development of talent, and the creation of sustainable, vibrant, economically competitive and successful cities. Early recaps of the meeting were posted on Forbes.com, the HUD blog and ICIC's blog

Through a collaboration with Chicago IdeasWeek, we kicked off our time together with a special opportunity on Monday evening, October 10, to attend a MEGATALK featuring Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Atlanta Mayor Kassim Reed, Richard Stengel of TIME, and Tom Friedman of The New York Times.

Tuesday and Wednesday keynote remarks were made by U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan; Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City; Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman of CityView; Chris Kennedy, immediate past President of Merchandise Mart Properties and Bruce Mau, Founder of the Massive Change Network. Interspersed between them were panels highlighting Chicago, metrics for city success, mayoral leadership and talent, as well as a lightening round of presentations by innovators from around the country. We concluded with four tours of Chicago neighborhoods, including Bronzeville, Pilsen, River North and the West side to explore large-scale revitalization efforts, effective immigrant integration and urban agriculture.

Download a full summary of the 2011 Fall National Meeting here.

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan on Creating Great Places to Live

What are the most important success factors shaping cities today?

What innovation, practice or idea has your city implemented that others can learn from?

What does the city of the future look like?

Presentations

Several of the speakers and presenters at the 2011 Fall National Meeting have made their slides available for the public. You can view them here. 

City Vitals: How Do We Measure the Success of Cities? 

Lightening Round: Partner Provocations

Thank You to Our Sponsors

CEOs for Cities' 2011 Fall National Meeting is made possible with generous support from the Chicago Community Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and KNEXT, an independent subsidiary of Kaplan Higher Education that helps individuals translate prior learning into college credit. In-kind support has been provided by Steelcase Inc and The Richard H. Driehaus Museum.