They outline what it takes for a city to be future ready. This is an hour and 25 minutes. All right, good afternoon and thank you for joining us for the event, local economies of the future and how cities thrive in the digital age. I am the Vice President of Global Innovation policy at the Information Technology and foundation. I will be your moderator. I should mention the twitter handle for this event is futurecities. Have become key economic units driving the modern global economy. It is expected that cities will account for 90 of global population growth in this century. The advent of many new , the internet of things, automation technology, big data techniques, and many others are opening up transformative possibilities to reimagine how cities developed deliver Public Services any and utilities and educate their citizens and improve quality of life. As we will here today, the leading cities are thinking deeply about their future readiness so they can remain vibrant in a competitiv
[ room noise ] okay. All our new mayors that are in the audience, please stand up. We need to see you and know who you are. [ applause ] all right. We know this group will be instrumental in defining our priorities and helping this organization go forward. I am now very pleased to bring to the podium one of those rookie mayors. She is from the great city the District Of Columbia. Mayor bowser served as a City Council Member for eight years prior to being elected. For yearly 35 years the conference has been fully supportive of full Voting Rights for the District Of Columbia. [ applause ] mayors lets give a round of applause for Muriel Bowser thank you. Well, good afternoon, mayors. And welcome to your nations capital, my hometown, our capital city, washington, d. C. And thank you, mayor johnson, for your kind introduction. But most importantly for your leadership of this conference and your great city. Im honored to stand before you as mayor of the District Of Columbia and bring you gre
He been able to pitch in the big leagues before segregation was ended by jackie robinson. He pitched five years. Age 47 he won a game. The Sports Writer it is his birthday, they say whats it feel like being 47 in the bigs pitching in he said, boys, thats not the way i look add it. He said i look at it this way. How old would you be if you didnt know how old you are . Im 42. [ laughter ] im 42. Look. [ applause ] my wife whos a fulltime professor, right now in the classroom. Teaches 15 credits. No help. She does it you know, no t. A. And she has an expression. She said, joe any countries going to out produce us out compete us. You know it and i know it. By the way of all the things to get in your cities ill bet one of the top of the list is a university in the middle of the city. A Community College in the middle of your city. An Education Institution that attracted new people in the middle of your city. And so heres the deal. We think we think that you should be in a position, america
We wanted to talk about sequestration in a different kind of way. Oh stop. [laughter] sequestration . This is quite serious. They were shut down for six months. Control room, they are saying, are you kidding me . Overnight,go come german confidence falls to an eightmonth low on concern over ukraine. U. K. Food prices follow supermarkets compete for consumers. We got a mixed read. , manufacturing fell less than expected. The german news was the big deal. A series of we did coming out of germany. Eight months of falling consumer confidence. I know we will joined by ian bremmer to talk about what is happening. Economic data in the u. S. A few things. On is theam focused jolt jobs. That suggests we are hiring at a rate which is the highest we have seen. But what are we paying them . The question we will ask the mayor of boston. Jpmorgan says the claims are back to where they were. Unbelievable. Yeah. A shame were only counting the in 1973 ineople participation. Earnings season is winding d
A high-level delegation from Wuxi led by its mayor Zhao Jianjun visited Singapore, the Republic of Korea and Japan from May 4 to May 12 to strengthen economic, trade and cultural ties, and signed 79 cooperation projects amounting to a total contract value of $12.2 billion with the top companies of these countries, according to the Wuxi municipal government.