URBANEXUS forum will be streamed live online

Can’t make it to Northern Kentucky University for the first-ever URBANEXUS event, showcasing the city’s most creative and innovate thinkers? Then you can watch it and ask questions online.


URBANEXUS, sponsored by Next American City magazine will be streamed live online on USTREAM. Viewers will be able to ask questions of the panel in real time leveraging Twitter (@SoapboxCincy). The event tag is #cincyinnovation.


URBANEXUS is being hosted with help from Soapbox Media, CincinnatiInnovates.com, Northern Kentucky Forum and Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation.


“The panelists who will be taking part in the URBANEXUS conversation represent a diverse, cross-section of innovation in our region, from both the private and public sectors. Greater Cincinnati is flush with some of the world's most innovative companies. What we are trying to better understand is how we can leverage this corporate innovation into our civic realm and put Cincinnati on the map as a progressive, innovative and creative region,” said Soapbox Media Publisher Dacia Snider.


Cincinnati’s URBANEXUS panel discussion will be June 25, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Northern Kentucky University’s Student Union on the Highland Height’s campus. Themed, Creating the Innovative City, it will encompass a panel discussion on how the community "can tap Cincinnati’s internal innovative culture to inspire a broader civic culture that makes Cincinnati synonymous with creativity, ideas and energy." It’s free and open to the public.

There’ll be a meet and mingle before the panel at 5 p.m., also at the student union. Admission to that is free only for Next American City subscribers. Admission is $15 for non-subscribers in advance or $20 at the door, and includes a one-year subscription to the magazine.

Next American City is published by a national non-profit of the same name, dedicated “to promoting socially and environmentally sustainable economic growth in America’s cities and examining how and why our built environment, economy, society and culture are changing.” The non-profit is based in Philadelphia.


Confirmed panelists are: Mark Peterson, Director of External Business Development at Procter & Gamble; Anne Chasser, associate vice president at the University of Cincinnati's Intellectual Property Office; Cincinnati City Manager Milton Dohoney; Doug Perry, College of Informatics Dean at NKU; Niki Robinson, director at Cincinnati Children’s Center for Technology Commercialization and Chad Reynolds from Fanattik.com, a web site that allows users to create customized school sportswear.


Writer: Feoshia Henderson

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