SXSW EDU 2025
Reinventing the Heartland
Description:
To thrive in the 21st century, America’s heartland cities must create their own innovation economies and grow in more inclusive ways. While tech jobs, venture capital, and R&D are concentrated on the coasts, cities across the heartland are making historic efforts to reinvent themselves for the innovation age. Learn how to reorient civic ecosystems around inclusive tech-led growth from the very people who are doing it.
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Takeaways
- Every heartland city has a place in today’s innovation economy if they can identify and develop a tech niche.
- Urban reinvention requires ecosystem-wide coordination and a shared vision.
- To fund economic development, cities will need to leverage public, private, and social sector capital.
Speakers
- Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNation
- Josh Sirefman, CEO, Michigan Central
- Nicholas Lalla, Consultant, Independent
- Robert Burns, Director, Home Region Program, Walton Family Foundation
Organizer
Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNation
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