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any of your questions in that chat box and then at the end of the webinar we will have time for q a and i'll read those questions out loud uh to our uh speakers uh so i think uh our welcomes are are done here um so here's our agenda uh and uh first i guess uh i'll just hand it right over to uh norrisville and she'll kick us off and uh give us a great overview thanks norah hey guys good morning thanks for uh joining us at 8 30 on a sort of blustery snowy morning um i know a lot of people are interested about surge and we just wanted to uh give people the opportunity to hear about what's going on what the city is up to um and really what we want to do is start off with a little bit of context for everyone thanks to the interwebs we have this cool video uh from cnbc about four minutes and hopefully it'll set the stage for the rest of our conversation this morning nora we can't hear it or i can't hear it yep i think shannon you have to be unmuted fountains that the world was first introduced is the fourth industrial revolution and it's been a hot topic among academics politicians and business leaders ever since but what exactly does it mean the term fourth industrial revolution was coined by the founder of the world economic forum a former professor named claus schwab schwab wrote a book with that title to describe an era marked by a technological revolution that is blurring the lines between the physical digital and biological spheres let's break that down technologies like artificial intelligence autonomous vehicles or the internet of things are becoming ingrained in our day-to-day lives and even our bodies think of voice activated virtual assistants face id recognition or healthcare sensors schwab first presented his vision of the fourth industrial revolution at the world economic forum's annual meeting here in davos in 2016. but to understand the idea we need to go much further back in history to industrial revolution number one the first industrial revolution started in great britain around 1760 and spread to europe and north america through the early 1800s it was powered by a major invention the steam engine the results new manufacturing processes the creation of factories and a booming textiles industry from the late 1800s the second industrial revolution was marked by mass production and new industries like steel oil and electricity the light bulb telephone and internal combustion engine were a few of the major inventions of viscera the third industrial revolution sometimes known as the digital revolution occurred in the second half of the 20th century in just a few decades we saw the invention of the semiconductor personal computer and the internet so what separates the fourth industrial revolution from the third experts say the main difference is that technology is merging more and more with humans lives and the technological change is happening faster than ever consider this it took 75 years for 100 million users to adopt the telephone instagram signed up 100 million users in just two years while pokemon go caught that amount in one month 3d printing is just one example of fast-paced technology in the fourth industrial revolution the industry has gone from a business idea to big business with 3d printer shipments expected to increase from just under 200 000 in 2015 to 2.4 million in 2020. today you can have a hip replacement from a 3d printed phone or use a 3d printed bionic arm talk about blurring the line between humans and technology right this new era of technology is driving a lot of innovation you can see in this chart the number of patents related to the fourth industrial revolution for things like 3d printing or ai has been climbing up and up since early 2000s organizations are embracing new technologies to make their businesses more efficient similar to how they embraced the steam engine during their first industrial revolution but some companies and governments are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of technological change research shows innovators investors and shareholders benefit the most from innovation the risk is that the fourth industrial revolution is making inequality which is already a big issue even worse one study found billionaires have driven almost 80 percent of the 40 main breakthrough innovations over the last 40 years that's a problem when the richest 1 of households already own nearly half of the world's wealth experts warn we are in a winner-take-all economy where high-skilled workers are rewarded with high pay and the rest of workers are left out studies confirm technologies like ai will eliminate some jobs and create demand for new skills that many workers don't have privacy concerns are another issue as the fourth industrial revolution turns every company into a tech company industry from food to retail to banking are going digital and they're collecting a lot more data about their customers along the way users are starting to worry that companies know too much about their private digital lives the world economic forum says the majority of leaders don't have confidence their organizations are ready for the changes associated with the fourth industrial revolution with tech changing facts every day it's time to catch up hey everyone elizabeth here okay so why does that matter well in 2018 city of syracuse staff took a deep dive into community data and identified five key barriers opportunity and found syracuse was falling behind pure cities and upstate not great those five key barriers were educational attainment housing stability workforce participation transportation and internet access historically our region's prosperity was tied to success in the first and second industrial revolutions think the erie canal and manufacturing as you just saw our failure as a region to adapt to the realities of the third industrial revolution is something we're still grappling with which is why we can't miss the opportunity that we're presented with now as noted in the video growth and inequality as syracuse experienced during the transition of the digital age leaves integral parts of our economy and workforce behind with slim chances of catching up without deliberate system change just last week the fed chair was testifying in congress and said that tech employment should be a key focus for long-term economic recovery and growth in the global economy right now we have strong clusters in unmanned systems advanced manufacturing software develop and iot internet of things which is my favorite phrase uh sensing technologies but regional success will require that groups that we're calling xpe's minorities women veterans and other disadvantaged populations are part of the fourth industrial revolution opportunity through partnerships with regional governments nonprofits and private industry stakeholders and with the jpmorgan chase advanced advancing cities grant we're intentionally working to provide local pathways for expe individuals and entrepreneurs in workforce and entrepreneurship i said that twice uh aligned with the global opportunity this morning you'll hear about specific opportunities and initiatives from my colleagues at center state and at the city of syracuse and the types of investments the city is making to capture first mover market opportunities as a smart city and how your companies can engage so i'm going to hand it over to caitlin moriarty at the tech garden and i took jessa's line good morning everyone jessica i apologize um so as nora mentioned i'm caitlin moriarty director of operations at the tech garden so for anybody unfamiliar with the tech garden we were a business incubator we opened in 2005 and we're located directly across from the syracuse marriott hotel it was created from the bones of a collapsed parking garage that sat vacant for about 10 years before we opened our doors downtown over the last five years or so we've been highly focused on building our core competency to assist high growth potential technology companies and we currently have about 108 startups in our membership so what we do is we provide the programs the resources events and ecosystem access that they need to help them achieve their venture goals and we feel as we've been successful when our startups obtain significant follow-on funding and or our cash flow positive as a result of syracuse surge initiative we are now considered the city center innovation hub where we're creating the technologies necessary to execute on the syracuse surge vision to make syracuse a smarter city we're focused on attracting and serving and retaining of course companies that are leading innovation in big data unmanned systems internet of things data to decision and more like iot ai and robotics we average about 26 new members a year and we are seeing higher and higher caliber of startups applying which is very exciting for us we're also excited about some of the other syracuse surge initiatives like the syracuse steam school which will replace that former central tech high school located just a block or so away from the tech garden because that'll serve as a pipeline of young aspiring entrepreneurs right here in syracuse to our membership programs like our genius new york accelerator are attracting startups globally nationally and locally who are staying in central new york to build and scale their companies and our cleantech centers seem to have attracted companies organically clustered around property technologies to create smarter buildings in particular so what's really exciting is our entrepreneurs are leading the charge on how their technologies can create a smarter city and how we can leverage the public data from sensor infrastructure investments that the city of syracuse has already made so just briefly to highlight a couple of those members to illustrate one example is true weather solutions true weather solutions is a graduate of the genius new york accelerator and what they do is they provide micro weather data analytics and decision insights for drone pilots and why is that important so as we move closer to being a smart city that can do for example medical or package delivery using drones we will need to ensure that we have accurate and precise weather data for pilots and dispatchers to make a decision so drones don't fall out of the sky both ruining an expensive asset and potentially injuring people below so imagine now that we can leverage data from those sensors on each of the 18 000 street lights that we've invested in to better understand whether specific to where drones are flying lower in the atmosphere where typical weather data does not track well another example i think i saw resilience i was supposed to be here another genius new york graduate who is building software to monitor the health and integrity of automated systems so what their software does they can detect isolate and analyze faults within a complex system of systems now the easiest way i have found to explain what they do is to imagine an old-school string of christmas lights the kind where if one bulb is broken the whole string doesn't work for you so using that example of the 18 000 smart lights smart street lights as an example imagine each street light was one bulb and if one streetlight went down it would bring the whole system down and we wouldn't know which one of those lights was causing the problem so using software like resilience um instead of having to check each of the 18 000 lights individually we could detect which one was the bad bulb and fix it to bring the whole system back online faster now imagine how important that would be for a system of iot devices to make sure that one bad bulb doesn't bring the whole system down or even worse prevent a cascade in a system of systems where one system failure could lead to another a couple more density and iot right are two others in our cl um that are focusing on creating smarter buildings so iot right is creating a platform designed to integrate building systems like hvac and air purification monitoring to aggregate actionable data for facility managers and building owners so they can make better decisions density who i'm sure you might have heard of after a significant investment raise this year has both a hardware component creating sensors that anonymously count people and monitor space usage that feeds into their software solution to analyze trends and empower their customers to adapt their space needs so thinking about as a result of colvid19 i don't need to tell you how important it will be to make data-driven decisions regarding the future of spaces where we all work and play so we're building the technology right here in syracuse to arm employers building owners and managers and others to make better decisions to have the ability to create smarter and safer physical environments when we do get together in person once again the tech garden also serves as a proud testbed for many of these technologies as we have density sensors installed in our building as well so for the sake of time these are just four of the over 100 startups creating technologies that will bring syracuse surge to life so now we're here today to talk about how you and your companies can get involved in syracuse surge and from a tech garden perspective the easiest and most obvious is if you are a startup we would love to have you encourage you to apply for the tech guard membership which you can do through our website at thetechgarden.com or if you're a larger company and you do corporate spin outs we would also love to encourage you to consider the tech garden to offer the programs resources and events for that spin-out startup to succeed in addition to members we also work with a wonderful network of partners who assist us in our efforts to attract serve and retain startups here in central new york so our resource partners are preferred service providers that offer the services startups need and they typically also offer incentives empathetic to startups like discounts and flexible payment schedules we also have investor partners who are angel investors and venture capitalists who are interested in using the tech garden as a pipeline for future investments and of course if you're just an individual with relevant expertise you can serve as a subject matter expert to be a speaker or a mentor to our startups as well so if you or your company would be interested in engaging with us in any of the ways that i've described please don't hesitate to reach out um and just to echo thank you for being here today excellent thank you so very much caitlin um so now i'm back on duty i am unmuted and uh back to moderating so uh thank you caitlin appreciate it very much if you have any questions for caitlyn please make sure you drop them in the chat uh just a reminder and uh next up we will hear from liza semede and megan durso both uh with work train at center state ceo and uh without further ado please take it away megan i'm going to kick it off to you to introduce our favorite video that we like to play for everyone all right wonderful well i'm really excited to be a part of this panel today i think we all have these amazing amazing elements of surge that are coming together and one of the other things we're thinking about on this side and taking a tackle at is we have to have a really amazing workforce to be able to support these large initiatives so eliza and i are going to talk a little bit about our the industry partnership model that we're deploying across various industries and this model some of you might have seen this before but you know check it out and then we'll talk a little bit more about it so thank you shannon for letting that play jobs they're moving pretty fast these days most of us know what it's like to feel obsolete in the modern job market or to move away from home to find a good job at the same time lots of local employers struggle to find the right talent to make their businesses grow and thrive it's an unfortunate misalignment and it's a really big deal because if businesses aren't growing and creating quality jobs the economy suffers and if people can't access quality jobs the community suffers so what's going wrong here what explains the disconnect between what businesses need and what schools are teaching aren't here a bunch of programs already working with businesses to meet their needs absolutely in fact lots of groups are trying to solve this problem except they're doing it on their own education workforce development and economic development organizations are all talking to businesses they're running focus groups and holding advisory meetings what happens is that some employers are over solicited asked to participate in lots of different meetings and boards while others are ignored entirely business leaders get burned out industry involvement is low and survey samples are skewed to make matters worse conversations with business are often organized around narrow topics like what are your entry-level training needs the result is that we often miss out on the bigger opportunities and needs that are shaping the industry for tomorrow which just so happened to be the topics that business leaders are most interested in talking about so what if we were able to flip things around a little bit what if instead of the public sector pushing their programs and services on businesses what if we could mobilize a whole industry to team up and engage with public partners to pull what they need from us building the talent and skills of our local workforce while growing businesses and strengthening the sector it's called a next generation sector partnership and it can transform your region's time next-gen sector partnerships are different than traditional sector partnerships in three key ways one industry is at the center instead of organizing conversations with businesses around programs or grants business leaders define and champion their own agenda and stay invested as a result industry at the center means that literally only businesses are given a seat at the center table public partners sit around the outside of the room in listen only mode does that mean they're passive not at all it means they give the floor to industry to design their own agenda and they're poised for collective action as a result it also means that businesses personally champion priorities this is important next-gen partnerships don't advance initiatives unless there are business champions committed to them two they tackle more than just workforce needs in any growing industry workforce is likely to be a top priority but other things matter too like infrastructure needs supply chain issues or access to capital next-gen sector partnerships tackle all of the above anything business leaders agree is important is a priority of a next-gen partnership three community support next gen sector partnerships are a team effort education workforce and economic development partners work together to respond to industry needs it's not about a special initiative or new program it's a way of working better together next-gen sector partnerships work across the country they're having a real impact metropolitan and rural areas have made timely changes to education programs at the right scale for the labor market people are getting good jobs and keeping them meanwhile businesses can hire the talent they need to grow and they're generating new ideas new markets and new product lines because they're better connected with their peers this boils down to stronger businesses and more people with better jobs and that's what matters most in making our communities thrive is your region ready for something different visit nextgensectorpartnerships.com perfect thank you um so really exciting group of you know different strategies and things like that that have moved along on that side so center state has a next generation sector partnership so far in healthcare advanced manufacturing and construction so all continuing to develop workforce and other solutions at a high level with business at the center of the table so we have more information on that if you need some additional if you aren't yet part of a partnership and are interested in being part of one you know we can obviously we'll share some information at the end of it we'll start next by letting liza talk about the tech partnership and some of the amazing work that she's already done with that hi everyone um liza semi day um it's early give me some reactions that you hear uh down in the reaction button some thumbs up um if if you like that video that you just saw or um you're just present give me a reaction um thank you megan for that overview of the video um so i just want to reiterate we have four industry partnerships we have healthcare construction advanced manufacturing and then we have tech that is kind of focused on software um as opposed to uh manufacturing products um so i got my job i i was in the healthcare industry doing the same thing that i'm doing now um right when colgate hit so luckily um everyone was adaptable and adapted to zoom and our first industry partnership was in july and since then we've met three times and our goal of this table is that we understand that one organization can solve all the barriers and challenges that we have here in syracuse and and we understand that in order to move this economy forward we need to diversify the tech industry so we have over uh 25 between over 25 and 30 employers at this tech table right now talking about different challenges and opportunities while at the same time we have our syracuse search workforce task force which comprises of what you saw on the video uh lemoyne college the syracuse school district suny eoc mercy works on point for college say yes to education and others listening into what the challenges are that businesses are um going through as far as training attracting retaining and advancing the workforce um and another um thing that i want to point out was caitlyn you mentioned true weather their startup they're at the tech garden they're also at my tech industry partnership because they understand the value of building that diverse workforce uh while at the same time growing their business so i just wanted to point that out and give a shout out to don for showing up to those meetings um and then i want to briefly talk about some of the strategies that we're talking about at the table uh one of them is apprenticeships into software development um it's something we're currently in research we understand that we and employers understand that people don't necessarily need to go to school and get a master's um in order to start a career in software um so we are working on that and researching that and we'll have a model out to employers later on in the year we understand that our community are at different levels in order to enter a tech career so we have piloted a customer service training class which is a great way to get your foot in the door and understand computers laptops different softwares that you have to use especially now during covid all jobs have become some sort of tech so we have piloted that we have a group of customer service employers that are helping us with that um and so far so good we are going to make some adjustments and add some on the job training to that training we also have our amazing partners that i forgot to mention is hack upstate which i'm sure some of you have heard of them they run a careers encode bootcamp that's 24 weeks long and it is a great way to get your foot in the door with software development and they're actually launching their second cohort next week or in two weeks so we're very excited for that so if you're looking for software developers please reach out to them you can reach out to me i can connect you to them they'll be graduating in 24 weeks and ready for what an internship or an entry level position at jobs um in attraction i also want to talk about our tech and culture network that we're building so it's a network of young professionals i have a six-year-old this is real life zoom bombing right now uh that just finished class so he's coming over here to check on me okay i will help you later i'm gonna meet you um so tech and culture is a network of young professionals that uh we want to we want to build that network to share opportunities in the tech sector while at the same time mentoring advancement and all that good stuff um and then i am not well versed in this but the good life cny platform raise your hand if you heard of it it's kind of hard to see people yep that one hand everyone else is off camera please come up off camera if you can we'd love to see your face uh it is a great platform to highlight all the great things about central new york and get people to move here it's a great place to live buy house raise kids um have a good job so in that and in that website we have a job board where we highlight all the employment opportunities and in that we are working with employers to really develop that out and attract even more diverse professionals from outside of the area so really excited for that um and then um i also want to point out something from the video that every time i watch it i just get something new from it is the idea that we don't only talk about workforce right we talk about other things like transportation we understand that in order for people to get to a job they need reliable transfer uh transportation other things we're talking about child care that is real i have a six-year-old you just saw him right now interrupting me and in the meeting um i can't even imagine people that have to go in and um where can they take their kids um and also housing is another um topic that we've talked about at the tech table so overall i just want to wrap it up that it is a table that everyone comes together and just thinks and talks and strategizes and brainstorms about some of the challenges and opportunities that we have here in syracuse with the whole goal of racial equity and building equitable pathways for different communities to enter the tech career because it is a very lucrative career uh for people to get into and as you saw in the videos that's where we go on now in the 21st century it's all techie scary but good um and if you have any questions i would love for you to reach out to me uh i'll drop my email in the chat i will also love to invite you to our tech table um so you can get a feel of what it's like we can do some one-on-one so we can understand the challenges that you're facing or if you have a crazy idea i would love to hear it i come from a startup where all ideas are amazing and we talk about them so please i'll drop my email and you can definitely reach out to me um when you can and if you have any questions drop them in the chat but we can talk a lot at a later time because i don't know how i did on time jess i'm looking at you i think i think we're doing pretty pretty well really appreciate it liza thank you and megan thank you very much uh we do have a couple of questions coming through so that's fantastic we'll get to those at the end uh so liza did put her uh well liza and megan both put their email addresses in the chat we will also have a slide at the end with everyone's contact information uh so you'll have another opportunity to uh to grab that uh their contact information there as well um jess i don't want to interrupt you and i'm sorry uh but i did i do want to kick it off to megan megan if you did wanna you manage three three industries maybe you can highlight a little bit of the advanced manufacturing really quick if you'd like we don't want to forget about that oh yeah sure sorry about that so excited on that side there's there's a lot going on in a couple different elements and what i can do is just share a little bit about the advanced manufacturing partnership so one thing that's come up with our advanced manufacturers is the ability for folks to do electrical maintenance that's been a really big key part and as things have continued you know for our manufacturers are non-manufacturers in the room machines are now connected to the internet everything has a diagnosis everything has so many different elements that are running into programs of all elements so really exciting in that part as that kind of career continues to develop especially in syracuse when we have such a wide range of connectivity with our manufacturing processes some of our processes are 100 online some of them are 100 percent still rock and old-school machinery and both of them require such a wide range of talent so something that's really exciting is we're continuing to work on all the availability and just affinity for electrical maintenance programs that are going on you know we've partnered with occ in boces in different elements finding instructors looking at different kind of expanding like how can we make this into an apprenticeship that's faster so that's just one example of kind of like a partnership and element that's coming out of these tables is talking a lot about these really wide system problems that nobody can solve but you know if if anybody's tried to go get a maintenance manager with some kind of electrical focus on indeed or a zip recruiter or anything like that you won't find them and that's something that we're working as a whole as an advanced manufacturing industry to keep changing so this is a good example of the manufacturing partnership and one of the programs that we're working on but you know wanted to share that and you know everyone can act on linkedin or wherever else you know happy to inform and share anything else that's going on lovely thank you thank you thank you very very great updates appreciate it uh so again uh information there in the chat uh and also we will have the slide at the end with everyone's contact information so i think we are ready to uh to move to our last speaker of the day last but certainly not least uh jennifer tifft from the city of syracuse to give us some updates and some information there and take it away yeah thanks so much can everyone hear me using some new a new headset okay great um well uh as uh as jessica said my name is gentift and i'm the deputy commissioner at the department of neighborhood and business development with the city of syracuse i'm really pleased to be here this morning a part of such a wonderful panel um of uh very impressive uh women which is a you know sort of a unique thing actually as a tech focused talk to have a an all female panel um so that's uh just a quick observation at the start uh but uh but you know i think that the video that started it off i i honestly when i put these slides together wasn't sure we were going to be doing that um so i won't have to spend a lot of time on this slide but i think it really does sort of um contextualize the really and rationalize why we are so focused on um becoming a smart city i mean certainly there's an overall trend um around smart cities it's an industry unto itself that is emerging um and of course as a as a municipality we want to be a smarter city and operate more effectively and efficiently but is in large part related to our economic development as a city and a region um you know we really see that there is an opportunity if we can focus on collectively on some of these emerging technologies and how we utilize them and make them very much a part of our local marketplace we will be able to create opportunity for all you know the kind of inclusive growth that's really necessary for a region and a city that is as diverse um as ours uh you can move on to the next slide i won't spend too much time on the fourth ir since we already talked about it but um but this really i think you know kind of summarizes you know what i'm talking about we believe that the smart city itself uh really has a driving role in the new economy i'm sure a lot of people on this call who do business development for their respective companies you know have have looked at market reports about some of the um anticipated growth in these new markets and as many people probably do know you know smart cities is considered its own emerging industry that industry you know was valued by one industry analyst at about 410 billion dollar market globally in 2020 it's expected you know to grow uh to almost double that um you know by 2025 and that's a pretty impressive caker so you know we really want to as a city and a region position our local market to capture some of that growth we want a slice of that pie um we want that for ou know obviously for our our regional economy our local economy for all the people who live here uh for their personal uh household economies but we want that for all of you as employers here to be able to take advantage of the type of growth and profitability that comes from leveraging these technologies in this market so um on the right hand side of the slide you know these are really three the three ways that the city is um itself trying to um both i think generate more local market needs but also create some of the infrastructure that's really necessary to really help grow and sustain some of these technologies so that the roles that the city can directly play versus some of our our partners who we look to like center state and others um to help with other aspects of our surge strategy you know the city can directly help to create connectivity and data infrastructure for the city um we can obviously help to provide and support education and workforce development activities that's very much a role that the city can play and then certainly um one of our real focus areas is becoming uh ourselves kind of a smarter city so that means um our you know procuring and developing and testing and deploying technologies um that make us operate more effectively and efficiently as a smart municipality so i'll talk about each of those in a little bit more detail so everyone has a bit of a sense of um you know how we're doing these three things and where maybe folks can start to think about where you could maybe plug in or take advantage of some of these things uh you've gone to the next slide please shannon okay so around connectivity and data infrastructure uh you know we're really making some key investments in digital infrastructure to not only create more connectivity for uh you know residents in the city and businesses in the city um but you know to also create some of the infrastructure that's needed to really share and process the kinds of big data that are very much underlying the fourth industrial revolution so one of the first things that we did um back in 2019 and the project was actually completed in 2020 was you know make an investment to essentially purchase back our street light network from national grid and convert all of those street lights to uh energy efficient led street lights but more importantly those those street lights are all connected through an interconnected uh network which enables us to um not only you know have real-time information about how the lights themselves are performing but it also enables us to plug in other uh sensors and devices on top of that network and use that network to transmit data from those devices as well so um so in 2020 as i said we did complete kind of the conversion of the lights themselves we stood up the the connected network um in 2021 we'll be um really starting to focus on sensor deployment um some of which you know do sit on that network and i'll talk about that a little bit on the next slide um you know we're looking to create basically assets for for data transmission and storage um as a city ourselves you know we're making investments in our own data warehousing capabilities and we're also entering you know partnerships which i think you know we we obviously want to leverage um but i think you know we can also look to bring in third-party partners especially startups and other companies to maybe work on projects together and utilize some of those uh partnerships one one of those partnerships and i think this is related to one of the questions in the chat is with microsoft and syracuse university and so you know through our data sharing agreement with syracuse university um and our digital alliance with the university and microsoft we can actually take advantage of some of the resources both the the student resources as well as the professional resources at microsoft to actually help um you know test some of this technology do a really cool analytics with it you know stuff that the city itself doesn't really have uh its own uh workforce to support so we can extend our capabilities by leveraging those capabilities of our partners and we can make some of those capabilities i think available to other third parties that want to co-develop and co-test technology with us um and then you know of course we're doing things like working with private telecommunications firms to bring more broadband networks to our area we've got right now agreements in place with both verizon wireless and att i think we're very open which is frankly not the case of other municipalities but we're very open to making those 5g commercial networks available here um and then you know one of the very exciting things that uh you know we're looking forward to kicking off this year is a partnership with a nonprofit organization called u.s ignite which really works with municipalities and communities around the country to develop and implement broadband strategies and other smart city deployment strategies this is one of the things that we really think will help us to come up with solutions that get at our digital divide challenges so we know we have a big digital divide in syracuse that means a lot of our households don't have reliable access to high-speed internet or don't have access to the devices that can use it even if they did have access and so this is one of the partnerships that we're kicking off to really come up with some solutions um to to really better address that problem that might mean you know that we'll come up with strategies to you know put more fiber into different parts of the city for example or to add more wireless options you know to address that in different parts of the city and i'm sure there might be some companies on uh on this call or or zoom that want to maybe help us uh implement some of those strategies so um so that's kind of uh what we've been focused on from a connectivity and infrastructure perspective uh we can move on to the next slide shannon thanks um okay so then you know the other area that i talked about was you know sort of our municipal smart applications and again this is really where you know we're we're really open and excited about you know having conversations with many of you and your companies about ways that you can get engaged in some of this um you know we do have a couple things in flight right now but we're constantly evaluating options and looking at new pilots and things that we could do to become a smarter city and partner more effectively with uh the private sector to do some cool stuff with technology so um you know we have a grant through the new york power authority that is actually enabling us to deploy a number of sensor pilots this year um we were actually named new york's flagship smart city a year and a half ago or so and so we're really excited about our partnership with naipa um and i'll uh i'll share a couple examples of uh some of the types of uh pilots we're looking to deploy um but in addition you know we've got some really cool uh pilots that we're about to launch in a collaboration uh one with usu one with new air um which i think is really important because we really you know for us in in syracuse and in our region given our um given our differentiation in unmanned aerial systems and the strength of that cluster you know we really see a lot of cool opportunity at the intersection of iot smart tech and drones and we really want to try to leverage those capabilities and so we're we're super excited to launch a pilot uh in collaboration with new air um that pilot will actually be uh measuring algae blooms in skinny atlas lake which a lot of people here know is a a problem most summers uh in recent years and so um you know some of the other things we're doing and piloting in 2021 include things like um you know sensors to measure flooding conditions both at the creek as well as on some of our city streets we're also measuring air quality not um not yet from a pollut pollutant perspective but really moisture and humidity levels in the air so that we can better predict uh when there might be a event a weather event that could lead to dangerous road conditions um and then a really cool pilot actually two of them focused on vacant structures in the city and being able to use sensors to monitor when there is an issue at one of those vacant structures so that we can hopefully deploy someone to go check that out before it becomes a really dangerous uh situation so uh those are some of the things that we've got you know kind of already in the pipeline those are uh related to sensors and pilots we'll be launching in the next uh two to three months um you know and then we're looking to stand up you know kind of a municipal command center really around all of these different things so as we think about it over time we'll be bringing on you know a whole array of different sensors devices you know eventually love to get into how do we incorporate ai and machine learning and more robotics certainly unmanned systems uh whether they're air based or uh you know whether they're uh ground-based autonomous vehicles and so um you kind of need to have a municipal command center around that that really is thinking through you know how are you dealing with at just such large quantities of data um coming in and do the analytics around it and incorporate that into our day-to-day operations as a city um so those are all things that you know we're kind of starting to do some work around um certainly would welcome uh you know the thoughts and the support and uh partnership from um as many folks as as possible to you know to work on some of this stuff together um all right you can move on to the next slide trying to talk very fast so we can get to questions um and this is the kind of the last slide so um you know i think it's been mentioned a couple times or hinted at a couple times on this call um you know some of the stuff that we're doing from a workforce development perspective and i think the steam school was was referenced earlier maybe by caitlyn um so the third area that the city really has a direct role in is around education and workforce uh development and enablement um and so one of our signature initiatives that's a part of the surge is the development of a state-of-the-art science technology engineering arts and math high school this will actually be um constructed at the site of the former central tech high school which is a beautiful building the top picture there um you know that's basically been vacant for 25 30 years um just south of downtown and so um you know we're really thrilled that the state has committed more than 70 million dollars to this project we're anticipating that work will begin to renovate and rehabilitate that structure this year in 2021 um this will be a school that will be managed by the syracuse city school district so it will be a part of this of the public school district in syracuse but it will admit up to 40 percent of its students from the area uh suburban school districts so it's a really unique model a truly the first of its kind in new york state we had to get special legislation passed even make it happen um that i think will really start to blend and create you know a very diverse learning opportunity for the students but also you know for all of you hopefully importantly will create a pipeline for talent um some of whom you can hire maybe right out of high school because there will be some really intense certification programs and things like that that those students have access to while they're still in high school and and others of those students will obviously go on um you know to two-year four-year other uh types of opportunities um but we'll hopefully decide to stay in syracuse because of all the work we're collectively doing to create a thriving economy here and a job market that's really focused on technology engineering um scientific type jobs um you know and then finally we are working on a bus rapid transit solution which is uh probably a topic for a whole other hour if not more you know but i think the important point about you know we do need better um transportation solutions that enable people to access some of these educational opportunities but also the job opportunities um that exist and really that connect some of these corridors and these key parts of the city um you know and bus rapid transit is is a really cool option because you know it basically is operates a little bit more like a high-speed rail solution but it relies on bus technology which is a little bit more appropriate frankly for the infrastructure that we have in syracuse and a little bit quicker to implement and it itself is a you know kind of a smart city solution um given that it's so reliant on connectivity and uh technology and sensors so um so that kind of wraps up uh you know in a nutshell all the things that the city is kind of working on today and hopefully has started to plant the seeds for everyone for some of the things you might want to take advantage of leverage or you know partner with us all on so i will uh i will cease and desist at this point happy to answer questions jen thank you so much that was uh that was a wonderful update uh and yes i do hope that that uh answers some questions uh raises some questions hopefully uh it's just gotten uh some ideas flowing uh with our participants here so that's fantastic um we have had an active chat which is great we love children photo bombs also dogs and cats we uh we like to see those too um but i i did see a lot of contact information so please make sure that uh you're checking the chat for contact information from participants as well as other opportunities and i do see one question i believe this would be for jen um so this was a question will you be providing contacts for microsoft smart city located in syracuse or is that a possibility yeah i mean we're certainly happy to connect anyone um you know and and i think happy to have a conversation uh you know about what exactly you're looking to do and and um you know one thing we've learned as we've uh developed more of a relationship with microsoft over the last year is that um you know they have obviously a huge company um they've been honestly super uh great to work with because they really um you know for the communities that they partner with actively they really try to make as much of their company available to um you know to us and to the businesses and the nonprofits that exist here in our ecosystem um so you know we do hope that there will be lots of opportunities for some of you individually but obviously for for us collectively to continue to tap into that so yeah happy to happy to provide that information um anyone can just uh you know shoot me an email i think shannon you mentioned there would be a yeah shoot me an email happy to talk about what exactly it is you're looking to do and then um i can probably direct you to the right the right person to hopefully uh make the introduction over there thank you jen [Music] um so it looks like again a lot of uh networking opportunities popping up in the chat a lot of people looking to hopefully connect with other interested parties which is fantastic we love that um we did have a question pop-up it looks like uh can you address the total investment investment from the state county and city and what is the collaboration between the entities and uh i guess the last part of that is what is the timing so that might be for jen as well sure um so uh it's a great question um i actually don't think i've done recently kind of a tally so to speak on the total investment but um that would be a worthwhile exercise probably you know i will say so so the one thing just to kind of think about um when you're thinking about syracuse surge is it really is a it's a strategy right so it's kind of a big umbrella it creates you know sort of a five to ten year strategic plan for us if you will but it's not really a single project or even just the initiatives that we talked about today so we can certainly put you know some size around the investment that we've made for example in the street lights i think i mentioned you know this the city invested um 38 million dollars in just the conversion of that lighting netw rk um or the steam school you know the state obviously committed i think 70 and some change million in the steam school so we can kind of go through each of the initiatives that's already launched and put you know some numbers around it um but you know we're kind of you know continuously looking for thinking of and and frankly responding to new grant opportunities as well so you know i mentioned um you know we got a a 200 000 grant through empire state development which i think everyone here knows as the the state's economic development arm because they've they've really become interested in smart cities uh for frankly all the reasons we've talked about here today and so you know we're working with that's the grant we're working with syracuse university and new era um to administer this year to launch a couple of of uh smart city pilots um you know so those opportunities kind of are are commonly emerging or really more frequently emerging so you know i i suspect frankly the investment quote unquote and those numbers they change and it will continue to grow over time um you know because this isn't just an initiative that's like one and done you know it's not going to be done this year it's not going to be done next year uh it really sets the you know kind of a framework for us and creates a collective strategy that we're going to work toward um and like i said you know it's probably more like a five to ten year strategy frankly um but you know there there's uh obviously quite a lot of opportunity one of the you know one of the bigger projects frankly that i think we'll hopefully see a lot more investment around will be the bus rapid transit system which again fits very directly into everything we're talking about um and those those projects tend to be pretty big ticket projects which will have federal state and local resources flowing into our city in our region so i'm sorry that was a little bit of a non-answer but but i think it kind of uh gets it at the question um both from a investment perspective but also from a timing perspective thank you jen um and if anyone is unfamiliar with new air and what that means nora did drop that in the chat so you can visit newair.org to get some more information on new air and the unmanned aerial systems industry and how they uh kind of connect there um so let's see we are we are at time uh and i hate to uh to keep people afterwards uh uh so i if you do have time to stick around we can answer a few more questions possibly um but if not uh thank you very much we appreciate it all of the information uh contact information is right here on this last slide um the advancing cities grant jpmorgan chase we'd like to really thank them for that and making uh a lot of this possible i mean it's really fantastic so um i hope that this got some great questions going uh and ways to get involved uh thank you all very much for participating i see some more things coming up in the chat there and again any other questions you're welcome to email anyone on this list and also support center state uh ceo.com that's another way to get some some questions through too and we can direct you to the appropriate uh to the appropriate party so again thank you all so much for uh for participating we appreciate it and uh have a great day you