Creative Cities Summit Lexington – Co-Producer Phil Holoubek
Peter Kageyama at Fuel Milwaukee, September 10, 2009
It was my pleasure to speak at Fuel Milwaukee’s award show, “Flex in the City.” The event celebrated the most innovative and flexible workplaces in the Greater Milwaukee region.
“K Week”
The University of Kentucky does a 9 day intro and orientation for incoming students (5000 freshmen and transfers). Now in its third year, activities range from tours, parties, games, lots of food, bus tours, dances, comedy, business fairs, etc.
This year they have added a summer reading requirement for all incoming students of James McBride’s The [...]
The Rise of the City-State?
In this excerpt of Paul Starobin’s new book, After America, he makes an interesting case for the rise of city-states in the 21st century. If global talent flows to places where it is valued most, the world’s 40 mega-regions will continue to grow and prosper in the 21st century while most other communities stagnate, loss [...]
Attracting Google to Your City
Last year I had the opportunity to ask Grady Burnett, the head of the 1000 person Google operation in Ann Arbor, MI why they chose Ann Arbor. He said ” We go to the coolest, hippest place in a region, where we think young, smart, energetic people will want to live and work.”
He never mentioned [...]
Richard Florida @ Creative Cities Summit 2.0
Dr. Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City speaks at the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 in Detroit, October 2008. He asks the fundamental question of “what makes a great city” as well as discussing the impact of the financial crisis on our communities.
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It’s All About Talent
From Peter’s Guest Blogging for Metromode, the Issue Media Publication for Southeast Michigan:
9/19/08
It’s All About Talent
Everyone is talking about talent attraction and retention. Every city and economic development organization in the country now has a plan of some kind to attract and retain talent. Every city complains about losing talent to some particular city (I hear about [...]
War for Talent is a Shooting War
July 23, 2008
The war for talent is heating up. In Tampa this week, Louisville, KY mayor Jerry Abramson is hosting a party for young professionals. Called the “Louisville Reunion,” the party hopes to lure ex-pat Kentuckians back home. Abramson is bringing “jobs and Kentucky bourbon” to Tampa Bay.
What is interesting about this is its audaciousness. [...]
Tampa Bay Media Talk – Who’s Your City
Peter Kageyama is a guest on Tampa Bay Media Talk discussing Richard Florida’s new book, Who’s Your City and his upcoming appearance at the Tampa Bay Partnership’s Regional Leadership conference.
