TLG Program

The 2019 Transforming Local Government Conference will take place April 9 -12 in Reno, Nevada. Early Rates end February 15, 2019!

What to Expect

TLG is presented in partnership with the Alliance for Innovation and The City of Reno and County of Washoe, NV. It will be multiple days of carefully curated workshops, presentations and tours that will bring together more than 500 of the U.S. and Canada’s best and brightest municipal innovators.

The conference is designed for the civic disruptor, the municipal innovator, the team builder, the change-maker who wants to make communities, especially their local governments, even better.

It will be multiple days of carefully curated workshops, presentations and tours that will bring together more than 700 of the U.S. and Canada’s best and brightest municipal innovators.

TLG 2019 will take place in Reno, NV at the Reno Ballroom and Silvery Legacy Resort.

Time	Event	Location
MONDAY - APRIL 8
9AM - 11AM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour	Offsite
11AM - 1PM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour	Offsite
3PM - 5PM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour	Offsite
TUESDAY - APRIL 9
12:30PM - 5PM	Registration Station Open	Reno Ballroom Lobby
9AM - 11AM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour	Offsite
9:30AM - 3PM	Visit Tahoe Tour	Offsite
11AM - 1PM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour	Offsite
1PM - 4PM	Renown Health Community Tour	Offsite
1PM - 6PM	Exhibitor Move in	Offsite
1:30PM - 4:30PM	Pre-conference Sessions: P2P (Procure-to-Pay) It Won’t Cost You a Thing to Find Out What P2P Costs Your Local Government
3PM - 5PM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour	Offsite
5PM - 6PM	Corporate Partner Reception	TBA
7:30PM - 9:30PM	Innovation Ambassador Activation	TBA
WEDNESDAY - APRIL 10
9AM - 10:15AM	Exhibitor Registration and Move-In	Solutions Hub
8AM - 5PM	Registration Station Open	Reno Ballroom Lobby
8AM - 9AM	Coffee, tea, juice service	Solutions Hub
7:45AM - 8:30AM	First time attendees session with nextERA, coffee and donuts	Reno Balroom 5
8:30AM - 9AM	Evaluation Committee Meeting	Reno Ballroom 2
9AM - 10:30AM	Opening Ceremonies, Award Presentations and Vinh Giang Keynote	Reno Ballroom 3 & 4
10:30AM - 11AM	Refreshment Break	Solutions Hub
10:30AM - 6:30PM	Exhibit Hall Open	Solutions Hub
11AM - 12PM	General Sessions: See how the City of Albuquerque is engaging employees to solve problems like entrepreneurs!, Albuquerque, NM --- Reno Ballroom 2 Green Building Program, Palo Alto, CA --- Reno Ballroom 5 Corporate Partner session --- Silver Baron B Executive Track, break out session with Vinh Giang --- Silver Baron CD
12PM - 1:30PM	Innovation Academy Luncheon	Silver Baron E
12PM - 1:30PM	Lunch with exhibitors	Solutions Hub
1:30PM - 5PM	Artech Tour	Offsite
1:30PM - 5PM	Startup Riverwalk Tour	Offsite
1:30PM - 2:30PM	General Sessions: Beyond the Org Chart: Mapping the Ties that Bind in the Workplace, Bloomington, MN --- Reno Ballroom 2 Opening Our Future: Using Human Centered Design to create Chapel Hill's Civil Rights Community History Project, Chapel Hill, NC --- Reno Ballroom 5 What Happens when Government Launches an Accelerator Program?, Sacramento Area Council of Governments --- Silver Baron A Choose Your Own Adventure --- Silver Baron E Corporate Partner session --- Silver Baron B Executive Track Session --- Silver Baron CD
2:30PM - 3PM	Refreshment Break	Solutions Hub
3PM - 4PM	General Sessions: Look out Barbie, here comes BRAD! A dolled-up approach to construction communication, Novi, MI --- Reno Ballroom 2 Organizational Performance Management – We’re in this together!, Scottsdale, AZ --- Silver Baron A Back to the Future: Local Government and the Sharing Economy Movement, Morrison County, MN --- Reno Ballroom 5 Race, Equity and Inclusion, St. Louis Park, MN --- Silver Baron E Corporate Partner session --- Silver Baron B Executive Track Session --- Silver Baron CD
4PM - 4:30PM	BREAK	Solutions Hub
4:30PM - 5PM	General Sessions: Choose Your Own Adventure --- Reno Ballroom 2 Creating an Innovation Culture with Joel Carnes, Alliance President and CEO --- Silver Baron A Innovation Award Winner Presentation --- Reno Ballroom 5 Executive Track Session --- Silver Baron CD SURF Session --- Silver Baron B
5PM - 6:30PM	Welcome Reception
6PM	Innovation Academy Class Celebration
7PM	Regional Networking Dinners
THURSDAY - APRIL 11
7AM	Morning Run	Truckee River
8AM - 5PM	Registration Station Open	Reno Ballroom Lobby
8AM - 9AM	Coffee, tea, juice service	Solutions Hub
8AM - 10AM, 2:30PM - 4:30PM	Exhibit Hall Open	Solutions Hub
8:30AM - 11:45AM	Regional Transportation Commission Coffee and Innovation Tour	Offsite
9AM - 10AM	General Sessions: Choose Your Own Adventure: A Costumer Experience Journey, Fort Worth, TX --- Reno Ballroom 2 Turning Your Community into a Living Lab, City and County of Durham --- Silver Baron A Zombies, Sticky Notes, and Sour Patch Kids: One city’s quest to serve with excellence, Hillsboro, OR --- Reno Ballroom 5 PHX CARES: A Collaborative Approach Addressing Homelessness, Phoenix, AZ --- Silver Baron CD Corporate Partner Presentation --- Silver Baron B
10AM - 10:30AM	BREAK	Solutions Hub
10:30AM - 11:30AM	General Sessions: Accelerating a Data-Driven Culture, Tempe, AZ --- Reno Ballroom 2 Washoe Leadership Program: Innovation by Employees for Employees, Washoe County, NV --- Reno Ballroom 5 Mather Veterans Village: A Place to Call Home, Rancho Cordova, CA --- Silver Baron E BIG Ideas Session --- Silver Baron A Corporate Partner Presentation --- Silver Baron B Analytics Academy: How Raleigh empowers employees to make data-driven decisions, Raleigh, NC --- Silver Baron CD
11:30AM - 1:15PM	Innovation Awards Luncheon	Reno Ballroom 3 & 4
1:30PM - 2:30PM	General Sessions: Hearing from your whole community: How we cut through the noise to build consensus for more affordable housing solutions, Placer County, CA --- Reno Ballroom 2 Don’t Launch a Stinker: Learn how to build an Innovation Program that Engages Everyone, Park District of Oak Park, IL --- Reno Ballroom 5 Intelligent Communities Session, Robert Bell --- Silver Baron A Use of innovation to save lives in community swimming pools, LA County Parks and Recreation Department --- Silver Baron CD Corporate Partner Presentation --- Silver Baron B Dollhouses & Scavenger Hunts: How Decatur Fire Rescue Expanded their Community Engagement Efforts Beyond Fighting Fires, Decatur, GA
2:30PM - 3PM	BREAK	Solutions Hub
3PM - 4PM	General Sessions: Leading for Collaborative Innovation, Chapel Hill, NC --- Silver Baron CD Think Geek: Solving Challenges with Civic Technology, San Antonio, TX --- Reno Ballroom 5 Intelligent Communities Session, Robert Bell --- Silver Baron A Economic Development Partnerships, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony --- Silver Baron E nextERA Session --- Reno Ballroom 2 Corporate Partner Presentation --- Silver Baron B
4PM - 4:30PM	BREAK	Solutions Hub
4:30PM - 6PM	Exhibitor Move out	Solutions Hub
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Rapid Fire Sessions: Maintaining an Innovation Culture with Joel Carnes, Alliance President and CEO --- Silver Baron A Innovation Award Winner Presentation --- Silver Baron CD SURF Session --- Silver Baron B Leveraging Local Resources and Knowledge for Government Innovation: Building a Regional Network, Salinas, CA --- Reno Ballroom 2
5:30PM - 8:30PM	Conference Festival	Bundox Bocce
8:30PM	nextERA Meetup	The Depot Craft Brewery Distillery, 325 E 4th St, Reno, NV 89512
FRIDAY - APRIL 12
7AM	TGIF Yoga	TBA
8AM - 12PM	Registration Station Open	Reno Ballroom Lobby
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Coffee, tea, juice service	Reno Ballroom Lobby
9AM - 10AM	General Sessions: Manatee County's Game of Drones, Manatee County, FL --- Reno Ballroom 2 Innovation Academy Presentations --- Silver Baron A Can employees be swayed? Engaging employees to create an organizational culture change, Salisbury, NC --- Reno Ballroom 5 Electronic Document Certification: An Innovative Usage of Blockchain Technology in Local Government, Washoe County, NV --- Silver Baron CD Corporate Partner Session --- Silver Baron B
10AM - 10:30AM	BREAK	Reno Ballroom Lobby
10:30AM - 12PM	Closing Ceremonies and Keynote	Reno Ballroom 3 & 4
12PM	Conference Ends

It will be multiple days of carefully curated workshops, presentations and tours that will bring together more than 700 of the U.S. and Canada’s best and brightest municipal innovators.

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