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What 40 Mayors, Techies, and Investors Are Cooking Up At an Italian Villa
The first-ever CityXChange summit aims to change the way cities define and solve problems.
This week, an unlikely group is assembling on the crystal-blue shoreline of Lake Como in Italy: Eleven global mayors, twelve start-up technologists, and more than a dozen of the world’s highest profile venture capitalists are putting their heads together over five days at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. On the docket: Solve the toughest urban challenges of the 21 century.
“Too often, cities think they know what the problem is, and what the universe of solutions is,” says Michael Berkowitz, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program. “Often, I think, their thinking could use some expansiveness.”