The first full day of sessions and tours will be capped off with a hosted networking reception. This social event is designed to get our multi-disciplinary audience talking and networking with each other early in the conference.
Beers With Engineers Flyer PDF
7:00-8:00 pm panel: Join us for a wide-ranging discussion about improving our streets and our communities, including designing bike lanes, calming traffic, planning for self-driving cars, fostering equity in transportation and the engineering profession, navigating your transportation department,and more. Mingling before and after the panel discussion.
Named one of the city’s coolest office spaces by the St. Louis Business Journal, HOK is a global design, architecture, engineering and urban planning firm. A special thank you to HOK for providing the space and Earthbound Brewery for sponsoring the event’s craft beer.
Thursday, February 2 • 6:30 – 9:00 PM
Location: HOK, 10 South Broadway, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63102
(A 1.5-block / 2 – minute walk from the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel)
For the past eight years, the New Partners Conference has fostered a robust discussion about the need for inclusive, environmentally smart, equitable-development policies and practices. Join us at this morning session to talk about effective ways to continue to advance innovative efforts in housing, sustainable development and land use, environmental protections, transportation, fair housing and community resilience that are helping to build stronger, healthier and more inclusive communities across the country. We will be joined by leading practitioners in the field to kick-start our conversation.
Smart Growth is happening all across the country – from rural communities and small towns to big cities and suburban areas. Do you already work on smart-growth issues in a rural region or small town, and want to know what others are doing? Are you an urban dweller interested in rural towns near your city and the role rural places play in your urban economy? Do you want to learn more about how to forge meaningful partnerships between rural communities and urban areas? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then this networking session is for you! The session will include small group discussions on economic diversification, demographic change, rural-urban connections, and more, and will build on the themes discussed during the conference. Please join us to contribute and learn from these rich conversations, and to connect with others who care about smart growth in small towns and rural communities.
Big data has transformed tech companies, but these emerging technologies are just beginning to address energy and utility management for local governments and many other businesses. Come find out how the Internet of Things and cloud-based energy/sustainability management can give you a better real-time command of your energy use, allowing you to set and track benchmarks and save money as well as provide metrics for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Sustainable Tulsa will share their experiences with the building Scor3card program and its partnership with THG Energy Solutions to provide web-based sustainability and utility data.
Smart Growth America has created some exciting new ways to help local governments apply smart growth strategies which strengthen their downtowns. SGA’s vice president of economic development will be on hand to discuss those strategies and also some of the anti-displacement tactics that SGA has championed.
Come meet your colleagues working on planning, health and built environment issues around the country! Discuss your experience implementing planning and health projects or how you’d like to get started. Exchange information with other professionals about their experiences in smart growth practices, what worked, what didn’t, and insights gained. Identify core competencies for staff to work on planning and health issues. Participants will walk away with new ideas and a network of planning and health professionals to call on for technical assistance.
Transportation for America, a program of Smart Growth America, recently launched The Smart Cities Collaborative to guide cities through the challenging terrain of new mobility. SGA’s director of strategic partnerships will be on hand to discuss T4A’s leadership in this field and its goals for achieving triple-bottom line outcomes in this emerging field by bringing cities together.
