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Diane Dagefoerde, Executive Advisor at Smart Columbus, joins host Lauren Burke-McCarthy live on stage at the 2024 DataConnect Conference. We discuss how Diane is supporting the development of Smart Columbus' Community Information Exchange, aligning data across health and social service agencies to enable community insights, collaboration, and action.About DianeLeveraging 20+ years of technology and analytics experience, Diane has helped organizations reduce operating costs by 10-15%, freeing up funds for strategic investments, reducing employee turnover rates to as low as 4%, and streamlining service delivery to improve customer satisfaction.Her technology and analytics approach works equally well in large, complex organizations with over $1B in revenues and smaller companies with revenues in the $1-5M range. She also brings over 10 years of first-hand senior living experience as the primary caregiver to her mother, who has lived in Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care communities in Ohio and Florida.Diane is the author of Managing Elder Care from Afar: A Practical Guide for Busy People and has helped over 50 families navigate the caregiving journey.Relevant Links- Smart Columbus- Columbus CIE Website- Smart Columbus CIE Website- Get Involved: Tech Volunteers- Newsletter SignupFollow Diane- LinkedInFollow Lauren- LinkedIn- Twitter- WebsiteTranscript________________________________Interested in sponsoring an episode of WIA After Hours? Visit womeninanalytics.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

In 2016, Columbus won $50 million dollars in grants to transform the region into a high-tech metropolitan area of the future.

In 2016, Columbus won $50 million dollars in grants to transform the region into a high-tech metropolitan area of the future.

In 2016, Columbus won $50 million dollars in grants to transform the region into a high-tech metropolitan area of the future.

In 2016, Columbus won $50 million dollars in grants to transform the region into a high-tech metropolitan area of the future.

Jeff Varick is Founder and CEO of Brandmotion, LLC, a Novi, Michigan based vehicle systems engineering company focused on improving vehicle safety performance through emerging technology integration. Key topics in this conversation include: - The vehicle technologies that truly impact safety - Why the aftermarket is critical for reducing traffic collisions and fatalities - The Vision Zero Automotive Network - Why Jeff chose to gather the whole industry to work towards a common objective - The value of being humble, hungry, and smart Links: ● Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/jeffvarrick ● https://brandmotion.com ● https://vzan.org ● https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-varick-b80180/ Jeff's Bio and about Brandmotion Jeff Varick is Founder and CEO of Brandmotion, LLC, a Novi, Michigan based vehicle systems engineering company focused on improving vehicle safety performance through emerging technology integration. Brandmotion is the pioneer and market leader in integrating Connected Vehicle (CV) solutions to advance V2X communication technology to greater numbers of cars and trucks already on the road. The company was an inaugural member of the University of Michigan Mobility Transformation Center (MCity), and has served in Vehicle Integrator roles for over 20 national CV Deployments, including Smart Columbus, Denver Smart City and the Tampa USDOT CV Pilot, where as Vehicle Integrator, Brandmotion is responsible for all sourcing, verification, integration, installation, and field support of the vehicles. Brandmotion is also a developer of highly integrated vehicle retrofit safety solutions for the automotive aftermarket. Brandmotion distributes emerging safety technology and OEM-quality vehicle accessory solutions under the Brandmotion brand through a North American network of over 2,500 installers, fleets and dealers. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, effective, and accessible mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/ brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/

Warner Moore is a strategic executive leader and manager with a background in technology and information security. In this episode we talk with Warner about Columbus's tech growth, future opportunities for tech in Ohio, and the cybersecurity landscape.  He has focused his career in working with entrepreneurial growth organizations where technology is their business and product. Within these organizations, Warner has an accomplished record of building successful cybersecurity programs and high performing teams who embrace DevOps culture and practices.As an international speaker, Warner has been invited to present to university students, technology professionals, and business leaders in a classroom setting as well as at conferences such as Startup Week, CloudDevelop, Path to Agility, InfoSec Summit, CodeMash, Security BSides, DevOpsDays, and Abstractions.Warner is passionate about culture, innovation, and community. His commitment to these values is demonstrated though his work leading organizations such as Ohio LinuxFest, LOPSA, and Toastmasters. The culmination of this work is the founding of Tech Community Coalition in 2016, a non-profit organization whose mission is to enable the greater tech community.After building security and privacy capabilities for numerous organizations across industries at companies such as CoverMyMeds and Bold Penguin, Warner founded the cybersecurity strategy firm Gamma Force. Through Gamma Force, Warner serves as a virtual CISO for clients that include Deep Lens and Smart Columbus and advises startups to scale them through concept and growth phases.Learn more about Gamma Force: www.gammaforce.ioConnect with Warner on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/warnermoore

On today's episode we interview Matt Stephens-Rich! He has roughly a decade of EV experience, and is currently a Program Manager for the Electrification Coalition. Watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/ILTvgZA2ru8 Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MStephensRich Matt's TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/0dvviSOmat0 Electrification Coalition: https://www.electrificationcoalition.org/ Smart Columbus: https://smart.columbus.gov/ Want to hear something on a future episode? Shoot us a message on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivingElectric_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livingelectricpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingElectricPodcast/ Music by Punch Deck: https://www.youtube.com/c/punchdeck --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Warner Moore is a strategic executive leader and manager with a background in technology and information security. Warner Moore is the founder of the cybersecurity strategy firm Gamma Force. Through Gamma Force, Warner serves as a virtual CISO for clients that include Deep Lens and Smart Columbus and advises startups. He has focused his career in working with entrepreneurial growth organizations where technology is their business and product, organizations like CoverMyMeds and Bold Penguin. Warner's work has resulted in security and privacy capabilities for them and numerous other organizations across industries. Furthermore, Warner has an accomplished record of building high performing teams who embrace DevOps culture and practices. In this episode of Dark Rhino Security's Security Confidential discusses the role of the CISO, using risk a guiding factor in build an effective information security program, threat hunting, innovation in cybersecurity, and much more. He is joined by Host Manoj Tandon who is the Chief Sales Strategy Officer and EVP at Dark Rhino Security. Any CISO or cybersecurity practitioner, board member, or CXO would benefit greatly from Warner's thoughts especially in the light of the breach at Fireeye and the US Federal Government involving solarwinds. The videocast for this episode can be found https://youtu.be/2iI4ziP1Vt8 To learner more about Warner Moore To learn more about Dark Rhino Security To learn more about Manoj Tandon To contact Warner Moore please email kathy@gammaforce.io

How do you do something that’s never been done before? It’s a difficult question to answer, no matter what problem you’re trying to solve, but Jordan Davis has managed to pull it off over and over again, from kickstarting the Smart Columbus initiative to incepting Can't Stop Columbus. Jordan also went through a unique and traumatic adolescent experience that helped shape her perspective and instilled in her a drive that very few people have: for every year from 9th grade to sophomore year in college, she lost someone important to her. It was incredibly traumatic, but coming together with her community gave her much-needed support — and it taught her that all you need to solve a problem is community buy-in and support. What Brett asks: [08:15] How did growing up surrounded by unconditional love help shape your life? [14:50] From 9th grade to sophomore year in college, you lost someone important to you every year? [18:45] When experiencing tragedy as a kid, did you allow yourself to feel it or were you spiritually bypassing? [22:33] Tell me more about the experience of distrusting faith after being raised religiously [33:10] How do you get such a clear vision of what needs to happen and then actually make it happen when what you’re trying to do hasn’t been done before? [39:30] How difficult is it to get people on board to make things happen that have never happened before, especially as a young woman? [45:17] Let’s talk about the Columbus Partnership and Smart Columbus [56:55] What does the future look like for Jordan? [59:15] Tell us a little bit about Can’t Stop CBUS To learn more about intentional living, and for the complete show notes, visit: https://gravityproject.com/ (gravityproject.com) Resources: http://cantstopcolumbus.com (Can’t Stop Columbus) http://smart.columbus.gov (Smart Columbus) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-davis-96116310/ (linkedin.com/in/jordan-davis-96116310) Gravity is a production of http://crate.media (Crate Media).

In this video, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla discusses COVID-19 with Dublin, Ohio CIO Doug McCollough. Doug is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the City of Dublin, Ohio, where he leads initiatives in IT Innovation, Digital Experience, Smart City, Broadband, Intelligent Communities, and Blockchain. Dublin, Ohio has a growing reputation as a haven for technology oriented businesses interested in the collaboration opportunities between Smart Cities and the Private Sector. The City is innovating in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Broadband, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Mobility, Intelligent Transportation Systems, IoT, UAVs, and Automation. Through the Global Institute for the Study of the Intelligent Community and the Intelligent Communities Forum, Dublin reaches out to communities throughout the State of Ohio in an effort to establish the first Intelligent State with the Intelligent Communities Forum. The City partners with the 33 Innovation Corridor Council of Governments in the establishment of the 33 Smart Mobility Corridor for the testing of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. Doug supports the Smart Columbus project (SMRT CBUS) through sitting on the Data Policy Workgroup of the Smart Columbus Operating System (SCOS). Is is a member of the National Advisory Board of Tech Corps, and the Advisory Board of Per Scholas Columbus. As a motivated advocate for extending the opportunities of the IT industry to the widest possible community of talent, Doug has spoken on the priorities of diversity, inclusion, workforce development, and opportunity with Columbus Women In Technology, and is Chair of the Planning Committee for the 2018 CIO Tomorrow Conference. He was honored with a C-Suite Award in 2017, and has spoken on numerous technical topics in Colorado, California, New York, Toronto, and Ohio.

In this episode of the Smart Community podcast, I have a brilliant chat with Ryan McManus, the Founder and CEO of SHARE Mobility, a mobility company that helps organisations and cities solve big transportation problems with mobility-as-a-service. Ryan and I met on my trip recently to Columbus, Ohio, which was in January, 2020. I met Ryan at a meeting with Smart Columbus where I learned about the work they're doing. Now obviously, this episode was recorded before the corona virus became a pandemic. Currently SHARE is repurposing their shared transport network and customer support staff to serve the needs of the people who are staying at home.On the topic of Covid-19, I just want to give you a little bit of an update of what our team is doing to respond. Our My Smart Community team was virtual already and will remain this way. We are following the health advice and following hygiene and social distancing precautions. For now, the podcast will continue as per usual while the situation continues to develop, but down the track and once there's a bit more data, we anticipate and doing few episodes on this pandemic. In the meantime, we will continue to provide you with regular podcast content to entertain and educate you. If you're finding yourself with more time on your hands than usual, remember we have a wonderful back catalogue of episodes for your listening pleasure!Now, more than ever, it's time to be Smart and make our technology work for us so that we can stay human. We use it to work as we need to, for us and our teams and be able to adapt as the needs change. We can use it to consume credible information from credible sources and stay up to date with the latest advice and switch off from the channels that aren't serving us right now. We can use it to be kind, understand that we may need to do things differently for a while and reach out to those who might find themselves isolated, or vulnerable. To be smart, so that we can stay human.In this episode Ryan and I discuss his interest in cars and innovation, and how he brought concepts from IoT and automotive industries together to create SHARE. We talk about how SHARE works and the gap they are fulfilling that is different from both public transit and from what ride-sharing companies were providing. Ryan tells us what a Smart Community means to him, and how we can integrate mobility into our communities. We discuss some of the projects Ryan has been working on, the different ways organisations are working together in Columbus to solve mobility problems, and the benefits of working in the Smart Columbus ecosystem. We finish our chat talking about the emerging trends of the opportunity for improvement when it comes to insurance in the mobility space, as well as the ever-important topic of data being used for public good. As always we hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it.Find the full show notes at: www.mysmart.communityConnect with Ryan @rynmcmns on Twitter or via RidewithShare.comConnect with me via email: hello@mysmart.communityConnect with My Smart Community via LinkedIn or TwitterThe Smart Community Podcast is produced by Perk Digital.

Interview starts: 6:24Debrief starts: 58:09Jordan Davis is the Director of Smart Columbus for the Columbus Partnership, leading strategy and public-private partnerships for the Central Ohio region's $550 million smart cities initiative. She was instrumental in Columbus becoming the sole winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart Cities Challenge in 2016 and since has managed the upstart of a new joint venture for the region focused on realizing a connected, autonomous, shared, and electric transportation ecosystem that improves people's lives. Jordan facilitates collaboration between the public and private sector, secures new private investment in the Acceleration Fund, oversees public affairs, and supports the long-term strategy to sustain the Smart Columbus Initiative. Additionally, she oversees an aggressive electric vehicle adoption program, shared mobility growth plan, autonomous vehicle deployment, and a dynamic corporate engagement portfolio.We discuss: AD: Finding experienced employees for your new business with Integrity Power Search (4:58) "Smart" trends currently happening in cities (7:03) Initial focus when the grant started (9:16) Other forward thinking cities at the time of winning the grant (11:06) Why did Columbus win? (14:57) Research process (18:50) Choosing technology vendors (20:13) Evaluating successful adoption (25:08) New structural (vs. iterative) changes (27:30) EVs in Columbus (31:37) Replicable Columbus (36:31) Learn more about Smart Columbus: https://smart.columbus.gov/Follow Jordan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDLeadFollow upside on Twitter: https://twitter.com/upsidefmAdvertise with an upside classified: https://upside.fm/classifieds--This episode is sponsored by Integrity Power Search, the #1 full stack high growth startup recruiting firm between the coasts. They partner with venture capitalists, private equity groups and CEOs to build amazing teams for the world's most disrupting companies.Learn more about or get in touch with Integrity Power Search: https://upside.fm/integrity

Jordan leads a team that is accelerating human progress through open mobility.

Columbus muscled its way to the front of forward-thinking cities in 2016 when it stunned six other U.S. cities with much greater tech cred to win the Department of Transportation’s Smart Cities Challenge and be designated America’s Smart City. On this week’s episode, host Zach Adams speaks with Mark Patton, Vice President of the Smart Columbus initiative. Mark and Zach explore Columbus’ role in helping transform American cities, including a preview of Columbus’ downtown autonomous bus service, which will begin shuttling passengers in December 2018. Columbus aims to deliver more diversified and nimble transportation options by using data and a connected, complete network that supports healthy activity and a more attractive and sustainable urban form. Mark is a terrific guide to Smart Columbus’ impressive efforts. For additional show notes and resources, please visit https://www.tuckerellis.com/driverless.

Bobby & Joey discuss all things 'future' with Smart Columbus' Jordan Davis. Jordan is the Director of Smart Columbus at the Columbus Partnership and she helps us understand what technologies and collaborations are happening in our city -- and the impact it will have on us all. Download, subscribe and share!   www.ElevateCbus.com

Summary: Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, having launched over 45 new products and companies. Previously he was the President & Founder of ContentVia and the Co-Founder of Pangaea Services, and currently he is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Smart Columbus and the Co-Founder/CEO at SHARE. SHARE is a new ride-share service that helps you plan …

You’re in for a ride today. I know we’ve been digging into some serious podcasts around trafficking, but this podcast is about a different kind of traffic: transportation. Who is EmpowerBus? I met with Aslyne and Jerry of EmpowerBus - a social enterprise which strengthens the roads to social mobility. What does that mean? It means providing dignified, reliable, and on-time transportation to and from employment, education, and healthcare opportunities. Basically getting people without access or means to transportation where they need to go, trying to close the gap between opportunities and the transportation barriers that exist in Columbus, Ohio. EmpowerBus is strengthening the roads to social mobility by providing dignified, reliable, and on-time transportation to and from employment, education, and healthcare opportunities. How did access to transportation become an issue? When the city was younger, factories and jobs were available downtown - and low-wage workers were able to access these jobs. With urban sprawl, Columbus grew outwards, and as rents raised, it pushed low-income areas out of downtown, but still within the beltway. But as the city continued to grow and attract big businesses business parks sprung up either downtown or outside the beltway -- effectively creating a transportation barrier for low-wage workers. The sprawl of Columbus makes it difficult to offer a comprehensive system of affordable transportation... meaning for people in low-cost areas have a harder time reaching the job opportunities.  Not only is this a challenge for low-income workers, but this also impacts businesses with higher costs from higher turnover. Is it about access or fair wages? EmpowerBus built a business around connecting low-income areas with businesses that want to provide reliable transportation to their workers. Aslyne and Jerry are very aware of the dark side of this: are companies paying unfair wages, keeping employees from meeting their basic needs?  Part of their company's DNA is to vet who they work with to ensure that the companies they work with are fair with their wages and employee benefits. The two sides of Columbus Still - Columbus has two sides. One side is well off and thriving, and another which is low-income, and disconnected. I must admit, until I started this podcast, I had no understanding of what that meant. Aslyne described it pretty well, what it means to live in a low-income area: A Kroger store shut down -- the nearest one was far enough away to make it prohibitive to reach by public transit. Two bus changes, and unpredictable bus routes? Some of these people use the grocery store in ways that I couldn’t imagine - it’s their bank, it’s where they go to cash their checks, to pay their bills. Things which you’ve automotive because you have a bank account and bill pay... other people go to the grocery store. It’s their lifeline. EmpowerBus is not alone in trying to tackle this. SMART Columbus is an initiative to develop the transportation needs for Columbus. But instead of competing with them, they’re working together, looking for opportunities that the other can’t serve. For example - as a for-profit company, they can bus people across county lines... meaning they can connect people living in Franklin County with the Honda plant in Union County. Building social entrepreneurs Both Aslyne and Jerry served in Teach for America - this is actually how they met.  I've seen with programs like Teach for America, the Peace Corps, Americorps a similar thread of entrepreneurial spirit and social change activism.  When I asked Jerry about this, he shared his perspective: These organizations find naive well-accomplished college graduates who believe they can go and change the world. As they join, they get to see firsthand how deep and how challenging the world really is -- and they face all these difficulties head on and when they come out the other end...

Eric is back again to detail yet another story of the homeless hating him. Why does one man have so many stories about the homeless wanting to knife him? Are they Chinese sleeper agents trying to execute the anti manadrin propgandist? Does he offer to give them money through wechat? To find these answers, and more, tune in to this episode of Columbus this Week! Columbus This Week on Podbean: https://columbusthisweek.podbean.com/Columbus this Week on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-columbusthisweeks-podcast/id1260782318?mt=2follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/cbusthisweekfollow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/columbusthisweekfollow us on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvFwFccKFrh818EFYhfSe-A ~~~~~~~Construction roundup~~~~~~~~~~https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/7ryrbc/columbus_considers_urban_high_line_park_trail/Imagine walking or bicycling along an abandoned rail line with a clear view of the Downtown skyline. That’s what’s being planned for Franklinton: a mini-version of Manhattan’s wildly popular High Line trail.The one in Franklinton would be 1,000 feet long, between the intersection of Lucas and Chapel streets and the Scioto River, and would run along an abandoned railroad viaduct and on bridges over West Town and West Rich streets near the 400 West Rich artist colony.“It’s just a really cool view of Downtown,” said Brian Hoyt, a spokesman for Columbus Recreation and Parks Department.The elevated Columbus trail would be part of the Franklinton Loop Trail, a series of on-street and dedicated trails linking areas of Franklinton with the Scioto Trail along the Scioto River.http://www.columbusunderground.com/public-art-to-transform-short-north-construction-sites-we1Short North will be allowing people to paint the construction barriers and whatnothttp://www.dispatch.com/news/20180124/cogo-expanding-bikesharing-network-in-city-suburbsCoGo will be expanding bikeshare to other neighborhoods like Upper Arlington, Bexley, and Grandview~~~~~~TWO MINUTES HATE~~~~~~https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/41352/ Students take over campus building, issue list of 23 demands, including expulsion of right-wing student https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/opinion/quitting-twitter-lindy-west.html"Well, here’s what my new life is like: I don’t wake up with a pit in my stomach every day, dreading what horrors accrued in my phone overnight.""I don’t get dragged into protracted, bad-faith arguments with teenage boys about whether poor people deserve medical care, or whether putting nice guys in the friend zone is a hate crime.""I shouldn’t have had to walk away from all that because for Twitter to take a firm stance against neo-Nazism might have cost it some incalculable sliver of profit"  https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/957411344688603136 NYT is now a white supremacist paper. The multiple Nazi puff pieces, constant pro-Trump PR, and praise for Miller on today of all days is not exceptional -- it's the guiding ideology of the paper. I don't think every writer there shares it, but it dominates coverage #Unsubscribe~~~~~~~~~Columbus~~~~~~~~~http://radio.wosu.org/post/columbus-ranks-near-bottom-economic-well-being-immigrants#stream/0Students take over campus building, issue list of 23 demands, including expulsion of right-wing student. At Wooster University someone posted a racist meme in some conservative facebook group, and students decide to stage a protest to close down the building. Jesus. http://www.columbusunderground.com/short-north-retailer-pursuit-will-outfit-2018-usa-mens-curling-team-ls1Pretty cool - Pursuit is a suit company here in Columbus and they will be outfitting the USA Men's Curling Team which is pretty coolhttp://www.columbusunderground.com/city-unveils-new-policy-for-incentives-and-tax-abatements-bw1The City of Columbus today unveiled a new set of policy guidelines that would change the way tax abatements are awarded for development projects and formalize the system of tax breaks offered for new businesses promising job growth.In response to a growing chorus of opposition to the existing tax abatement policy – in which any new development in one of 16 designated neighborhoods is eligible for a 15-year, 100 percent property tax abatement – the city commissioned a study last year to examine the issue.The number of affordable units required would break down like this – 10 percent of units “affordable and rented to” households making up to 80 percent of the average median income (AMI), and another 10 percent of units would go to households making up to 100 percent of the AMI.http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180130/columbus-building-technological-heartbeat-of-future-smart-citiesSmart Columbus wants proposals to create and build the backbone of an information system to allow all the elements of a “smart city″ to talk to one another.“This is really the heartbeat of the Smart Columbus” project, said Brandi Braun, deputy innovation officer for the city of Columbus who is working on the project. “All of our projects require data and will give off data.”Smart Columbus is looking to build a web-based information system that will collect and share all of that data, Braun said. It will include data that allow vehicles, roads and streetlights to communicate.The data will be open source — available to anyone online to allow entrepreneurs to look at and analyze the information and spark ideas for applications to make transportation more efficient.https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/01/amazons-second-headquarters-gay-groups-say-amazon-should-avoid-indianapolis-8-cities/1085837001/SAN FRANCISCO — Gay-rights advocates plan a "No Gay? No Way!" campaign Thursday to pressure Amazon to avoid building its second headquarters in a state that does not protect its residents from discrimination for their sexual orientation or gender identity.Of the 20 cities on Amazon’s list of finalists, nine are in states with no anti-gay-discrimination laws, according to the campaign. They are Indianapolis; Austin and Dallas; Nashville; Atlanta; Columbus, Ohio; Miami, Raleigh, N.C.; and the D.C. suburbs of northern Virginia.http://www.columbusunderground.com/more-than-half-of-columbus-residents-are-now-renters-we1Over the course of past decade, Columbus has become a “renter-dominated market” along with 21 other major U.S. cities. That means that more than half of the population of the city of Columbus now lives in a rental units rather than an owned unit.~~~~~~~~~~~Debate and Discussion~~~~~~~~~~~~~https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data-leaks-by-stripping-path-information-in-http-referrers/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-to-create-healthcare-company-jd1lraa9“I’m in favor of anything that helps move the markets a bit, incentivizes competition and puts pressure on the big insurance carriers,” said Ashraf Shehata, a partner in KPMG LLP’s health care and life sciences advisory practice in the U.S.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/opinion/nationalize-5g-network.htmlNo one can accuse the Trump administration of being boring, even when it comes to telecom. According to leaked documents, there is a proposal going around the White House to build a federally owned 5G telecommunications system — the next version of a mobile broadband network — or perhaps even to nationalize the 5G networks that private telecom companies are now building. (5G is the “fifth generation” wireless protocol, which promises to be faster and more secure than its predecessor, 4G, but requires new antennas and cell towers.)The White House proposal, which at the moment is just an idea, appears driven by concerns about security threats related to China’s development of 5G networks. But the strongest case for building a national network is different. Done right, a national 5G network could save a lot of Americans a lot of money and revive competition in what has become an entrenched oligopoly. Done wrong, on the other hand, it could look like something out of Hugo Chávez’s disastrous economic playbook.https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16721230/wechat-china-app-mini-programs-messaging-electronic-id-systemWeChat is popular in China - platform for everything, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and others blocked though, also China is implementing a national ID system through WeChat and you can even pay to upgrade to a color version!

Carla Bailo, assistant vice president for Mobility Research and Business Development at The Ohio State University, helps the university accelerate sustainable mobility and transportation innovation. While integrating related research and education across Ohio State’s academic units, she also helps coordinate Ohio State’s involvement as the primary research partner for Smart Columbus, a $140 million program to transform Central Ohio into the nation’s premier transportation innovation region. Carla is a leader in engineering and vehicle program management, with 35 years of experience in the automotive industry. Before joining Ohio State, she served as senior vice president of research and development for Nissan North America. She was responsible for vehicle engineering and development operations in Michigan, Arizona, Mexico and Brazil, managing a $500 million budget and 2,500 employees. In addition to her Ohio State activities, Carla is currently the 2016-2018 vice president of automotive for SAE International, a global association of more than 138,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries.

Columbus is in the national spotlight after winning the federal government's Smart City Challenge, bringing millions into the region to spur innovation in transportation and mobility. Mayor Andrew Ginther has said he wants private investment to boost the amount put into the effort to more than $1 billion. He has high hopes the overall Smart Columbus initiative can not only transform how residents get around the region, but also can provide a lift to low-income neighborhoods by providing greater access to quality jobs. Spearheading the effort for the city is Michael Stevens, a veteran economic development official who was hired in spring 2017 to be the city's chief innovation officer. Columbus Business First sat down with Ginther and Stevens for an update on where the Smart City/Smart Columbus initiative stands, what are its long-term goals, and how soon we can start seeing tangible results.

Columbus is in the national spotlight after winning the federal government's Smart City Challenge, bringing millions into the region to spur innovation in transportation and mobility. Mayor Andrew Ginther has said he wants private investment to boost the amount put into the effort to more than $1 billion. He has high hopes the overall Smart Columbus initiative can not only transform how residents get around the region, but also can provide a lift to low-income neighborhoods by providing greater access to quality jobs. Spearheading the effort for the city is Michael Stevens, a veteran economic development official who was hired in spring 2017 to be the city's chief innovation officer. Columbus Business First sat down with Ginther and Stevens for an update on where the Smart City/Smart Columbus initiative stands, what are its long-term goals, and how soon we can start seeing tangible results.