The Good Life Transformed: When Times Call for Radical Change

The Urban Leaders Summit is a national forum for the partnership network of CEOs for Cities that offers cutting-edge ideas, peer-to-peer learning and quick-start action strategies to advance the next generation of great American cities. Join us in Detroit for a provocative and timely discussion of the critical issues facing cities today. Learn from your peers who are working to create cities that are of, by and for us, and experience Detroit as a laboratory of radical, civic change.

The Agenda

Day one will be a day focused on local assets. From perspectives on the controversial shrinkage plan for Detroit and the urgency for emerging voices and leadership, we will be true to our theme of radical change. In the afternoon there will be excursions throughout Detroit. A reception at United Way for Southeastern Michigan and locally hosted dinner parties of emerging and institutional urban leaders will conclude the day.

Day two will draw on the themes of the US Initiative, which we launched at our spring meeting in New York. The day’s conversations and provocations will highlight innovations and leadership on the US values: livability, community, connectivity, opportunity and optimism.

An online application is available here and the deadline for submission is Monday, October 11. 

Registration
A block of rooms has been reserved at The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit, 1114 Washington Blvd for a discounted rate of $149/night. Please call 1-800-937-8461 to make your reservation. The discounted rate will be available until October 25. For additional hotel information, please visit:http://www.bookcadillacwestin.com.

The Urban Leaders Summit will be held at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit’s New Center, 460 W. Baltimore Ave. A limited service shuttle will provide transportation between the hotel and the meeting site.

The Urban Leaders Summit is a national meeting for CEOs for Cities’ partnership network and is not open to non-members. For partnership inquiries, please contact Julia Klaiber at jklaiber@ceosforcities.org.

All other inquiries about this meeting should be directed to Shreya Parekh at sparekh@ceosforcities.org.