TLG Program

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The 2020 Transforming Local Government Conference will take place May 5-8 in Phoenix, AZ.

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.

See the program from the 2019 conference schedule below to get an idea of what to expect!

Time	Event	Location
MONDAY - APRIL 8
8AM - 11AM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
10AM - 1PM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
2PM - 5PM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour [advance ticket purchase required] Switch TAHOE RENO [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
TUESDAY - APRIL 9
8AM - 11AM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
9:30AM - 3PM	Visit Tahoe Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
10AM - 1PM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
12:30PM - 5PM	Registration Station Open	Reno Ballroom Lobby
1PM - 4PM	Renown Health Community Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
1PM - 6PM	Exhibitor Move in	Solutions Hub
1:30PM - 4:30PM	Pre-conference Session: P2P (Procure-to-Pay) It Won’t Cost You a Thing to Find Out What P2P Costs Your Local Government	Reno Ballroom 2
2PM - 5PM	Tesla Gigafactory Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
6PM - 7PM	CivicPRIDE Reception	(Offsite) Roundabout Grill at Whitney Peak Hotel, 255 N. Virginia Ave, Reno, NV
7:30PM - 9:00PM	Innovation Ambassador Activation (invitation only)	Silver Baron CD
WEDNESDAY - APRIL 10
7:45AM - 8:30AM	The Do's and Donuts of TLG with nextERA (coffee and donuts provided, obviously!)	Reno Balroom 5
8AM - 5PM	Registration Station Open	Reno Ballroom Lobby
8AM - 9AM	Coffee, tea, juice service	Solutions Hub
8:30AM - 9AM	Evaluation Committee Meeting (Invitation Only)	Reno Ballroom 2
9AM - 10:15AM	Exhibitor Registration and Move-In	Solutions Hub
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	Solutions Hub 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 A campfire chat on our Green Building Program, Palo Alto, CA --- Reno Ballroom 5 How closely are we all listening?, Adams County, CO --- Silver Baron A A Recipe for Sharing: Why Storytelling is the Secret Ingredient for Local Government Success --- Silver Baron B Executive Track, break out session with Vinh Giang --- Silver Baron CD
12PM - 1:30PM	Innovation Academy Luncheon (By invitation only)	Silver Baron E
12PM - 1:30PM	Lunch	Solutions Hub
12:45PM - 1:30PM	(unConference): Choose Your Own Adventure – Conference Attendees – this is your chance to add your suggestions!	Reno Ballroom 6
1:30PM - 5PM	Generator Tour [advance ticket purchase required] NV Energy Tour [advance ticket purchase required] Startup Riverwalk Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
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 (unConference): Choose Your Own Adventure (topic coming soon!) --- Reno Ballroom 6 The Power of Performance Measures: Better Data, Better Decisions --- Silver Baron B Executive Track Session, Jonathan Koppell, Dean of the Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions, Arizona State University, presents on creating a culture of Innovation --- 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 Measure what Matters – How to accomplish results through an organization-wide initiative that increases employee engagement and leadership development opportunities, Scottsdale, AZ --- Silver Baron A Back to the Future: Local Government and the Sharing Economy Movement, Morrison County, MN --- Reno Ballroom 5 Navigating Through (Not Around) Racial Equity: Lessons from the City of St. Louis Park, St. Louis Park, MN --- Silver Baron E Spilling the Beans: Everything You Want and Need to Know about Strategy and Performance Management --- Silver Baron B Executive Track Session, Board Member led wrap-up discussion --- Silver Baron CD
4PM - 4:30PM	BREAK	Solutions Hub
4:30PM - 5PM	General Sessions: Public Private Sports Partnerships: Flipping the Paradigm to Maximize Community Benefit, Leverage Local Resources and Mitigate Public Financial Risk, City of Phoenix, AZ --- Reno Ballroom 5 (unConference): Choose Your Own Adventure (topic coming soon!) --- Reno Ballroom 6 What?! We have to change? Overcoming the Barriers to Organizational Transformation --- Silver Baron A Executive Track Session, Tesla presents --- Silver Baron CD StartUp Rapid Fire (SURF) Session --- Silver Baron B
5PM - 6:30PM	Welcome Reception and Innovation Academy Class of 2019 recognition	Solutions Hub
7PM	Regional Networking Dinners	Various locations around Reno
THURSDAY - APRIL 11
7AM	Fun Poker 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	Solutions Hub Open	Solutions Hub
8:30AM - 11:45AM	Regional Transportation Commission Coffee and Innovation Tour [advance ticket purchase required]	Offsite (meet at the Silver Legacy valet)
9AM - 10AM	General Sessions: A Customer 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 (unConference): Choose Your Own Adventure (topic coming soon!) --- Reno Ballroom 6 Staying Ahead of the Curve – Leveraging Technology for Better Fiscal Planning and Constituent Engagement --- 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 (unConference): Choose Your Own Adventure (topic coming soon!) --- Reno Ballroom 6 Taking the Pain Out of GovTech Procurement: 3 New Innovations in 2019 --- 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: Don’t Launch a Stinker: Learn how to build an Innovation Program that Engages Everyone, Park District of Oak Park, IL --- Reno Ballroom 5 From Connectivity to Community with Robert Bell, Intelligent Community Forum --- Silver Baron A Use of innovation to save lives in community swimming pools, LA County Parks and Recreation Department --- Silver Baron CD Leveraging Every Resource and Building a Community-centered Budget --- Silver Baron B Eating Lunch with ‘THOSE’ Kids: How Decatur Fire Rescue Expanded their Community Engagement Efforts Beyond Fighting Fires, Decatur, GA --- Silver Baron E
2:30PM - 3PM	BREAK	Solutions Hub
3PM - 4PM	General Sessions: Living the Dream: Innovation and Leadership in Chapel Hill, NC --- Silver Baron CD Think Geek: Solving Challenges with Civic Technology, San Antonio, TX --- Reno Ballroom 5 From Connectivity to Community with Robert Bell, Intelligent Community Forum --- Silver Baron A Economic Development Partnerships, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony --- Silver Baron E How Public Libraries Build Thriving Communities --- Silver Baron B
4PM - 4:30PM	BREAK	Solutions Hub
4:30PM - 6PM	Exhibitor Move out	Solutions Hub
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Rapid Fire Sessions: How I lead: An open conversation on building a culture of innovation with Joel Carnes, Alliance President and CEO --- Silver Baron A (unConference): Choose Your Own Adventure (topic coming soon!) --- Reno Ballroom 6 Operation Fix It: Helping a Community become Neighborhood Stewards, City of Scottsdale, AZ --- Silver Baron CD StartUp Rapid Fire (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 [advance ticket purchase required]	Bundox Bocce
8:30PM	nextERA Meetup (open to conference attendees)	The Eddy, 16 S Sierra St, Reno, NV 89501
FRIDAY - APRIL 12
7AM	TGIF Yoga	Silver Baron E
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 You are not Alone: Cybersecurity Resources for Local Governments --- Silver Baron B
10AM - 10:30AM	BREAK	Reno Ballroom Lobby
10:30AM - 12PM	Closing Ceremonies from Burning Man	Reno Ballroom 3 & 4
12PM	Evaluation Committee Meeting (Invitation Only)	Reno Ballroom 2
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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