On Wednesday, Detroit served as the host city for Techonomy, the annual national confab billed by its organizers as “a one-day convergence of today’s brightest minds, gathered to reignite U.S. competitiveness, job creation, and urban revitalization in a technologized age.”
Held at Wayne State University, Techonomy was crawling with “thought leaders,” including Jack Dorsey, creator and co-founder of Twitter; Steve Case, co-founder of AOL; Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop; Quicken Loans chair Dan Gilbert; executives from Ford, Salesforce, IBM, Autodesk, Facebook, and Cisco; representatives from the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and many people from Detroit’s startup community.
To read the original article: Lessons from Techonomy Detroit: Thought Leaders Must Push City Hall | Xconomy
