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Spring 2019 Speaking Update

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Summer is around the corner, which means the spring speaking season has already come and (mostly) gone. Here’s a quick recap of where I’ve been this year to date, and where I’m headed next.

• The Millennial Metricâ„¢, the New Suburbia, and the future of housing. While it hasn’t been officially announced, I’m currently working on a project with the NewCities Foundation and Ivanhoé Cambridge to develop a “Millennial Metric” predicting where American millennials will likely migrate as they reach middle age and child-rearing. Marrying the qualitative with the quantitative – I spent this spring visiting Denver, Nashville, Washington DC, Dallas-Ft. Worth, and Columbus –  we hope to make a major contribution to understanding of millennials as a cohort. But I’m not waiting until the report is published in June to start disseminating my findings.

In February, I delivered a keynote on “The New Suburbia” at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas, of which you can find (grainy) video here. (I gave a similar talk to SIOR in April, with video here.) I also gave a second talk at IBS on how technology is transforming home construction. (Video of that talk here.)

Related to that subject, I’m curating and hosting a pair of events this summer and fall. First, NewCities is hosting New Housing Solutions in New York in June – a two-day conference and workshop covering everything from the rise of “coliving” to the presidential candidates’ plans on housing policy. Second, I’m returning as the curator of reSITE 2019: REGNERATE in Prague this September. As the title implies, the theme touches upon both urban regeneration, and also generations of urban dwellers – everything from senior housing to millennial family-friendly cities.

Rounding out my city-focused work this spring, I spoke at Institutional Real Estate Investors’ VIP conference back in January (video preview here and recap here), and moderated the opening panel at the 92nd St. Y’s annual “City of Tomorrow” conference in March. (Video here.)

• “Micromobility” and the future of transportation. As the director of strategy for LA CoMotion, mobility is always on mind mind. In April, I delivered the opening keynote at ThinkTransit in Tampa, then ran a workshop on autonomous vehicles for 40+ public transport C-level executives from around the US and Canada. The month before, I moderated a panel organized by the British Consulate in New York starring Andy Byford, the former London and Toronto transit expert trying to fix NYC’s subways.

I also host a podcast series for LA CoMotion – the third edition of which will be held in November, and is expanding to Miami and France – with recent guests including futurist Scott Smith, former venture capitalist David Zipper  WhereismyTransport? CEO Devin de Vries, the New Zealand Transport Authority’s Martin McMullan, and former Baltimore transit chief Paul Comfort.

Zipper and I talked a lot about “micromobility,” i.e. scooters and bicycles, and I moderated a session at the inaugural Micromobility conference in San Francisco in January. (Audio here.)

• “Dark Hammer” and the U.S. Army Cyber Institute. I was at West Point this spring for the launch of “Dark Hammer,” a coffee table book published by the U.S. Army Cyber Institute(!) collecting eight comic books(!!) depicting the grave consequences of future cyber threats. (You can read more about it here.)

• AI & Autonomous Everything Last month, I finally had a chance to speak about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomy to the North American Meat Institute(!), which had more applications than you might think. (The Internet of Cows, anyone?)

• Next up in the docket: “Cities-as-a-Service” for CREtech Trailblazers in June, followed by Procurious in London a few days later, then ULI Florida a few days after that.

 

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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab, a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of Climate Alpha and remains a senior advisor. Previously, he was an urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale.

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