Subject: December 16th: CCI Annual Meeting - Advancing Safe + Smart Cities in the Chesapeake Crescent Region
From: "Stephanie Carnes " <[email-masked]>
To: "Carnes, Stephanie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:17:59 -0500

On behalf of the Chesapeake Crescent Initiative (CCI), I would like to invite you to CCI’s annual regional meeting on Tuesday, December 16th from 9AM to 3PM (doors open at 8:30AM) at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center’s Rotunda Room in Washington, D.C.

The “Advancing Safe + Smart Cities in the Chesapeake Crescent Region: A New Collaborative Framework” event details are still being finalized, but we expect to:  

*	Highlight CCI’s Safe + Smart Cities program, which helps cities in the MD-VA-DC-DE region optimize their operational performance and harden their resiliency through a collaborative process between local government and the program’s multi-sector coalition of experts;
*	Examine challenges and opportunities encountered by local governments as they seek to position their communities to be robust city-engines – with enhanced services, citizen-participation and economic development opportunities – which remain hardy in the face of adversity;  
*	Explore how different sectors – private industry, government, finance, academia and the law –  each play a role in developing safe + smart communities; 
*	Share initial takeaways from the first Safe + Smart Cities pilot project in Newark, DE and what lies ahead from the Safe + Smart Cities Coalition.  

Please let us know if you are able to join us by December 2nd by emailing Lindsay at [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]> .  A light breakfast and lunch will be served, so please let us know in your RSVP if you have any special dietary needs.  

Space is extremely limited! The event is free, but RSVP is required to attend. 

Best, 

Stephanie 

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Stephanie Carnes

Managing Director

Chesapeake Crescent Initiative 

Email:  [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>  I Phone: 202-360-6271 

Website:  www.chesapeakecrescent.org <http://www.chesapeakecrescent.org/>  I Twitter: @cciinnovation 

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