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Midtown Brews Schedule

By Betsey Merkel

Open Source Economic Development looks at five areas of investment: Brainpower; Innovation and Entrepreneurship Networks; Quality,
Connected Places; Dialogue and Inclusion; and Branding Stories.

Innovation
Topic
Date Framework Guest(s) Link Description
Focus
Category

Topics TBA, listed in random order:

1. Intersections of economic
development and urban design

2. Online collaborative communities,

ED & social software technologies:
G Nemeth, guests

3. Storytelling: Frank Mills, Josef

Reyes, Tim Devin

4. OH Energy Portfolio: Stefanie

Spear, Elisa Young, Gov/Private
TBA business leaders, guests

5. Business Renewable Energy

Investment: S Spear, guests

6. The Role of Foundations in Regional

Economic Dev - Norm Roulet

7. Carbon Neutral Homes: Jeff

Hershberger, Paul van der Sluis

8. Creativity: Carolyn Jack

9. Office of Citizen: Foot Soldier

Training: Jeff Schuler

Thur Dec 3,
2009

Thur Nov 5,
?Dave Atkins Social media
2009

Thur Oct 1,
?Susan Miller Bowen Local Food
2009, Insivia

Andy Halko, CEO, Insivia and Gary

Thur Sept 10, Innovation
Schoeniger, Founder/CEO - The Entrepreneurship
2009, Insivia Networks
Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative

Elisa Young, Wind Power Leaders Hocking Energy, wind power,

Thur Aug 6,
College; Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch Ohio; Liz initiatives, green skills training
2009
Ilg, Ohio Citizens Action and job creation

Thur July 9, Bruce LaDuke & Friends, Integrated

2009 Brainpower Futuring; Future Indiana group from Knowledge creation, futuring

Insivia Smaller Indiana

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Thur June 4, Frank Mills, Urban Paradoxes; F. "Branding Stories: Storytelling

2009 Branding Stories Christopher Reynolds, Tipping Point from the Depths of A Region's

Insivia Cooperative Network Culture"

Angelo Vermeulen, Biologist, artist and

Thur May 7, technologist; Ernest Andrade, Charleston
2009 Innovation "Innovate or Perish: NE Ohio
Digital Corridor, Charleston, SC; Mark
Networks as a Global Leader in BioTech"
Analiza Inc. Stratton, Analiza; Jim Cossler; Youngstown
Business Incubator ?

Green Jobs Initiative. ("Small"

Wind, Art, and Alternative
Energy Economic Development
in NE Ohio" - to be hosted at a
Thur April 2, later date.) What is the ED
2009 Brainpower Bill MacDermott & Friends potential of NEO of the

Analiza Inc. "Greening of America?" A

jump start on Congress's
conversation about what the
economic and enterprise
opportunities look like.

Thurs. March 5, Dr. Gwen Fischer, Professor Emeritus,

2009 Innovating "The New Landscape of Health
Hiram College and Debbie Silverstein,
Networks Care Reform"
Insivia Portage County, OH SPAN

"Building Brainpower with new

models of online education"
Thur Feb 5, Quality,
Connected Place; The value online education can
2009
Innovation and Shaun Redgate, COO, Chancellor University bring to urban and global
Chancellor Entrepreneurship networked communities; the
University Networks economic development value
urban university brings to local
workforce for skills refresh

"Quality, Connected Places:

Shrinking A Community's
Carbon Footprint with Water
Efficiency"

Making our area a safe and

environmentally friendly to
live in. Go with the ideas of
trying to get the chemicals out
Thur Jan 8,
Quality, of our lives to make it safer
2009 Energy Bruce Missig, Environmental Specialist
Connected Place for ourselves and safer for the
Insivia environment. We should get a
reporter from Green City Blue
Lake there to do an article.
Simple ideas that make big
changes in our economy and
improve the views of old that
we are a dirty old city,
becoming a city on the fore
front of being sustainable.

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Dec 2008

Rescheduled tp
Jan 2009

Broadcast Branding Stories of Humanity:

Live Art, Advocacy and Global
Thur, Nov 6, Creative Dr. Pat Fallon, Urseline College and On-Demand
Branding Stories Networks. Art & Advocacy:
2008/Insivia Industries Students
Part 1 and Should morality be taught to

Part 2 visual artists?

Meet The Bloggers:"The Changing

Landscape of Public Advocacy: Citizen-
Community Priorities and Web 2.0" Bill
Callahan: issue driven politics on the
web/Lee Chilcote and colleagues, Cleveland
Collectivo: strengthening start-ups/Jeff "Social Media Tools Advancing
Freidman, Webtego & Volunteer, The Economic Advocacy" The
Climate Project: storytelling & national Insivia team collaborates with
networks/Mike Gesing, Northeast Ohio Meet The Bloggers for a
Citizens League (NEOCL): regional citizen Broadcast special program focused on
Thur, Oct 2,
Branding Stories Technology advocacy/Jason Hass: political Live engagement technologies and
2008/Insivia
blogging/The Insivia team: engagement On-Demand political process. Conversation
technologies/Marc Leftkowitz, Green City focused on how social media
Blue Lake: social media/Peter McDermott, tools have changed public
E4S/Local Food Cleveland: network advocacy for political, social,
weaving/Susan Miller, REALNEO and Put It and environmental issues.
On The Ballot Campaign: issue driven
politics on the web/George Nemeth: search
engine optimization/Stephanie Spear,
EarthWatch Ohio: community advocacy
practices

O-Web Technologies & ONOSYS, "Making Broadcast Making Fast Food Faster:
Thur, Sept 4,
Brainpower Technology Fast Food Faster: Technology Innovating Live Technology Innovating the
2008/Webtego
the Service Industry" On-Demand Service Industry

Waterloo Band Culture in Collinwood,

with Cindy Barber, Beachland Ballroom and

Tavern; Ryan Weitzel, Exit Stencil
Recording Studio & Mystery of Two, band
Waterloo Band Culture in
Thur, Aug 7, Quality, Creative member. Clint Holley, Audio Spectrum You Tube Collinwood
2008/Webtego Connected Places Industries Recording & Hayshaker Jones, band interview
member will not be with us tonight. We will
be joined by Clint's good friend, Lawrence
Daniel Caswell, This Moment in Black
History and National Suicide Day, band
member and WCPN announcer.

Innovation and Jim Cossler, Chief Evangelist, Youngstown Broadcast The Youngstown Business
Thur, July 10, Incubator: A Global Model of
Entrepreneurial Technology Business Incubator and Craig Zamary, CEO, On-Demand
2008/Insivia Quality, Connected Business
Networks Green Energy TV Live Show
Innovation

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Cuyahoga County Treasurer, Jim Rokakis &

Nathanael Z. Hoelzel, Brownfield Programs Broadcast

Thurs, June 5, Dialogue and Essential Footing:Our
Energy Manager, Department of Economic On-Demand
2008/Insivia Inclusion County-Wide Land Bank
Development Live Show

Cleveland City Hall

Thurs, May 1, The Energy Construct: Toward

Brainpower Energy Ben Cipiti, Sandia Research Lab Broadcast
2008/Webtego Economic Transformation

Thurs, April 3, Dialogue and Marnie Urso, Research & Policy Anaylst,
Energy Broadcast Great Lakes Basin Compact
2008/Webtego Inclusion Audubon Ohio

Creative Capital for a 21st

Century Digital Media

Geof Pelaia, Dir. Digital Media, Virginia Marketplace. Exploring new

Marti College of Art & Design Digital Media business opportunities at the

Collective, Virginia Marti College, a student intersections of technology,

Thurs, March 6, Creative digital media, and the fine
Brainpower group that focuses on filmmaking, Melissa Listen.
2008/Insivia Industries arts.
Daubert, Experience Artist, Laura Wright,
Graphic & Web Design and Eric Purcell, With online partners at
Products & Partnerships, Insivia SmallerIndiana.com,a Web 2.0
community focused on ideas
and creative people.

Our Ohio Energy Portfolio:

Economic Development in Your
Backyard

Conversation topics:

The proposed
Richard Stuebi, BP Fellow for Energy and AMP-OH's
Environmental Advancement at The 960-megawatt
Cleveland Foundation, NextWave Energy, conventional
Inc., Founder and President pulverized coal-fired
Councilman Matt Zone, City of Cleveland, power plant to be built
Ward 17 in Meigs County.
Thursday,
Dialogue and Nolan Moser, Law Fellow, Ohio
February 7, Energy Listen. How should CPP
Inclusion Environmental Council
2008,/Insivia diversify its energy
Andrew Flock, Painesville Councilman
portfolio? What role
Andrew Watterson, Cleveland Sustainability
should renewables and
Programs Manager, City of Cleveland
energy efficiency play
Department of Utilities
in this make up? Net
Elisa Young, Founder, Meigs CAN (Citizens
Metering, Smart
for Action)
Metering, Combined
Heat & Power?

Is IGCC (Integrated
Gasification Combined
Cycle) a better
technology?

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Is Carbon Capture and

Storage (CCS) a viable
solution?

Solar Power (photovoltaics) with

Guest, Bill MacDermott,
Cleveland Solar & Wind, CEO.
Dynamic conversation covering
Thursday,
the industry basics every
January 10,
Brainpower Energy Listen. homeowner should know about
2008/
getting off the grid with solar
Webtego
shingles. Big and small picture
rationale, research results, and
the in's and out's of next steps.
Read Bill'sblog on REALNEO.

We'll join the crowd at CSU this

Thursday,
week for the pre-Las Vegas
November 1,
Listen. BlogWorld Expoconversation
2007/
and send off of NEO's favorite
Webtego
bloggers .

Jeffrey Bowen, Executive

Director, Greater Cleveland
Habitat forHumanity (GCHFH),
will talk about GCHFH's program
Thursday, toREuse, REcycle and REsell
October 4, 2007/ Listen. functional building materials
Webtego and tools withproceeds to
benefit Habitat's mission to
eliminate poverty
housingthroughout our
community.

Michael DeAloia, Senior

Executive for Technology
Development, Department of
Economic Development, City of
Cleveland. ''Edict of
Development:The Wins, The
Losses, The Joy, The Tears.'' A
discussion of one
youngprofessional's tour
Thursday, through the economic
September 6, development landscape
Listen.
2007/ inCleveland. A quick synopsis of
Webtego where we are as a community
and where weshould have been.
An honest and insightful
conversation of the trialsand
tribulations of tech development
- the successes and the
hurdles.Bring your questions
and get honest, provocative
answers.Read aninterview
earlier this year with Michael on

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''Cool Cleveland''.

Sarah Morrison,founder/director,
MORRISON DANCE, an
innovative dance company
andparticipant in Cleveland's
2007Ingenuity Festival,
presenting dance collaborations
with technology leader,the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). Sarah
enjoysa unique vantage point
on the arts in Northeast Ohio,
Thursday, July 5, leading a dancecompany that
Listen.
2007 has evolved over time, allowing
a range of
collaborations,working with
some of the most fascinating
artists in the area in orderto
create innovative performances
involving technology, nature,
andunusual spaces. Cyclist,
Kevin Cronin also joined us in
July to talkabout Cleveland
Bikes Bicycle Villageat Ingenuity
Festival.

David Beach, EcoCity Cleveland,

''DesigningCities in Balance with
Thursday,June 7, Nature.'' David is a presenter at
Listen.
2007 the July 7 -12, SOLAR 2007, the
nationalsolar conference, hosted
in Cleveland, Ohio.

Holly Harlan and the E4S Team,

is a diverse network of over
3,800 leaders who are putting
theprinciples of sustainability
into action. Holly Harlan started
building the E4S Network in
Thursday, May 3,
Listen. 2000 with entrepreneurs -
2007
attracting theentrepreneurial
thinkers, the change agents
from business,
government,academia and
non-profit sectors of the
Northeast Ohio community.

Joseph L. Shaffer, PE Deputy

ProjectManager for Construction
Thursday, April 5, of the Euclid Corridor
Listen.
2007 Transportation and others from
GCRTA will join the Midtown

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Brews Roundtableto discuss

some specifics of the Euclid
Corridor Project and
theimportant part that Public
Transit plays in shrinking our
carbonfootprint. Besides talking
about shrinking carbon
footprints, and howshrinking
those footprints offer a wide
range of economic
developmentopportunities in
Northeast Ohio the conversation
will also considerwhat
opportunities the Euclid Corridor
Project brings to us.

Cathy spent over 20 years

cultivating a global mergers
&acquisitions and venture
finance legal practice, serving a
myriad ofclients that range from
the Fortune 100 companies to
emerging andmid-market
enterprises. Cathy spent 15
years in London, where
shedeveloped a passion for
Listen.
technology in the emerging
Thursday, March Video from companies’ marketplace. In
1, 2007 NEOhio.org Europe, she formed her own
here. consulting practice and
workedwith global enterprises
and start-ups to foster and
capture the valueof strategic
technology innovation.

To learn more, visit Cathy’s

website Panzica Investments,
LLC.

Cathy Panzica, Beta Strategy

Group. News here and here.

Hunter Morrison, Center for

Urban and Regional Studies,
Youngstown State University,
shared his moving story of
Northeast Ohio thought
leadership and insights for next
steps addressing our global
Thursday, imperative to design new
Listen.
February 1, 2007 paradigms for sustainable
regions. Links to learn by:
America 2050: The Next
Hundred Million, The Stern
Report: The Economics of
Climate Change andTravel
Matters: Regional Emissions
Maps

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''Our Global Imperative", a

conversation lead by Jeff
Friedman, partner, Webtego, an
Ohio based technology
Thursday, company.Jeff is one of a
Listen.
January 11, 2007 thousand Inconvenient Truth
National Leaders telling the
story about planet sustainability
challenges and solutions. Learn
more about The Climate Project.

Lawrence Krauss, Ambrose

SwaseyProf. of Physics and
Astronomy, Director Center for
Education and Research in
Thursday,
Cosmology and Astrophysics.
December 7, Listen.
You can listen to the open
2006
conversation at Meet The
Bloggers here. You can read
about Lawrence's work
here,here and here.

Lev Gonick, VP for Information

Thursday,
Technology Services & CIO,
November 2, Listen.
Case Western Reserve
2006
University.

"Getting to Critical Mass in

Cleveland" with George
Nemeth, Gloria & Tim Ferris,
Jason Haas of Meet The
Bloggers. A lively presentation
by the core team of Northeast
Ohio's innovative citizen
journalists. Leaders of a cutting
Thursday,October
Listen. edge networkbuilding a national
5, 2006
reputation for supporting
freedom of speech,citizen
dialogue and strengthening
transparent political process
-keystones of Democracy.

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Thursday, Brad Kleinman, BSK Consulting

September 7, & Corporate College
2006

Len Steinbach, CIO, Cleveland

Museum of Art talked about how
Thursday, the Cleveland Museum of Art is
August, 3, 2006 incorporating new ways of
integrating technology in the
upcoming building expansion.

Michael C. DeAloia, "Tech Czar",

Senior Executive for
TechnologyDevelopment, City of
Thursday, July 6,
Cleveland, "Updates on Small
2006
Business
TechnologyDevelopment in the
City of Cleveland"

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