We are currently in the planning process for our next Inner City Economic Summit to be held in 2019.
On September 15 and 16, 2015, thought leaders, policy makers and business leaders convened in Detroit, an epicenter of economic development and revitalization innovation, for our 11th Inner City Economic Summit to discuss leading edge research and practice on inner city economic development. This Summit, Revisiting the Promise and Problems of Inner City Economic Development, included keynote addresses by ICIC’s founder and chairman, Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, and Rock Ventures’ President and CEO, Matthew Cullen.
Our partners for the 2015 Summit were:
The conference kicked off with a bus tour of some of the projects reshaping Detroit’s inner city followed by an evening reception celebrating the release of a special edition of Economic Development Quarterly that will revisit a set of articles published by EDQ in 1997 on a conversation with Michael Porter about his groundbreaking research on the competitive advantages of inner cities.
Summit Recap Materials
Keynote Speaker Michael E. Porter
Videorecording
Presentation (PDF)
Keynote Speaker Matthew Cullen
Videorecording pt. 1 (via YouTube)
Videorecording pt. 2 (via YouTube)
Videorecording pt. 3 (via YouTube)
Videorecording pt. 4 (via YouTube)
Videorecording pt. 5 (via YouTube)
Pre-Tour Discussion with William Sander, William Testa & Martin Lavelle
Mercedes Delgado, Assistant Professor, TIES Group, MIT Sloan School of Management
Scott Mosley, Director of Investment Strategies, The Water Council
Paul Riser, Jr., Managing Director, Technology-Based Entrepreneurship, TechTown Detroit
Kevin Stolarick, Director, India Institute for Competitiveness, Toronto, ON
Timothy Bates, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University, Detroit
Ray Leach, Chief Executive Officer, JumpStart, Inc., Cleveland, OH
Rashida Thomas, Director of Education and Workforce Development, Focus: HOPE, Detroit