If I had to imagine what participation in a Washington think tank
would be like, I'd recollect my experience at last Wednesday's Regional
Energy Innovation Summit at the Gallup Organization’s Omaha
campus, a follow up of the Energy
Innovation Summit that took place May 7 at the White House.
Thanks to a partnership between Gallup, the White House, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the City of Omaha, HDR, and others, nearly 200 attendees gathered from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 16, for an intense day of presentations, panels, and discussions. Leading the group as the event emcee and serving as the connector to bringing the Summit to Omaha was Howard W. Buffett, policy advisor in the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Partnership.
"A lot of this started with a luncheon conversation just kicking the tires on something," said Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle when asked how the event landed in Omaha. "[Howard Buffett] was able to work with his employer, the Obama administration, to take an idea and begin to put it into reality."
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Author: Danny Schreiber
