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Data & Digital Summit

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Add to Calendar 2025-10-21 09:00:00 2025-10-21 12:00:00 Data & Digital Summit Join colleagues from around the region to:Learn how to encourage a culture of innovation in your organization.Understand how to tell better stories with data.Share thoughts and ideas with fellow public sector professionals on the future of data and AI in our work.Come away with new ideas to create an innovative environment.Learn how to integrate AI in your data work in a way that is useful and reliable.Make new and renewed connections with other data leaders across our region.Registration is free but required. Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 noreply@marc.org America/Chicago public
Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110

Join colleagues from around the region to:

  • Learn how to encourage a culture of innovation in your organization.
  • Understand how to tell better stories with data.
  • Share thoughts and ideas with fellow public sector professionals on the future of data and AI in our work.
  • Come away with new ideas to create an innovative environment.
  • Learn how to integrate AI in your data work in a way that is useful and reliable.
  • Make new and renewed connections with other data leaders across our region.

Registration is free but required.

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Who should attend?

Anyone with a role or interest in data, technology, AI, and organizational leadership, including analysts, department directors, city managers, elected officials, and others, are encouraged to attend!

Schedule

9–9:45 a.m. — Opening keynote
9:45–10 a.m. — Break
10–10:50 a.m. — Breakout session 1
11–11:50 a.m. — Breakout session 2
 

Opening keynote

Encouraging and supporting innovation in public sector environments

 

Julie Lorenz
Julie Lorenz, Principal Consultant, 1898 & Co.

Breakout sessions

Leadership track: Building a culture of innovation and information in public sector organizations

This track is intended for leaders and managers in organizations responsible for building cultures of innovation with data.

  • Session 1: Data storytelling for local government decision-makers
    • Amanda Graor, director of Data and Digital Services, Mid-America Regional Council
  • Session 2: The emerging landscape of data for economic mobility for city leaders
    Panel discussion including:
    • Julie Lorenz, principal consultant, 1898 & Co.
    • Josh Akers, director of research, Kauffman Foundation
    • Additional panelists to be announced

Technical track: AI reality check: Turning data into decisions you can trust

This track is intended for those with more technical roles responsible for making decisions on governance in their organizations.

  • Session 1: What's possible - AI in plain English: What it can do today, what it can't, and where governments are already finding value
    • Facilitated by the UMKC Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center
  • Session 2: What's practical - moving from exploration to application
    • Facilitated by the UMKC Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center

Focus Area: Data & Maps