Press Release – SALT LAKE CITY — A world-renowned group of more than 120 experts have converged in Salt Lake City, along with 500 guests, for the third annual Winter Innovation Summit from January 25 to January 27 at the Salt Lake Convention Center. The conference is hosted by the Sorenson Impact Center in partnership with Salt Lake County and the Sundance Institute.
Jeremy Keele, President & CEO of Sorenson Impact, remarked, “The Winter Innovation Summit has become the preeminent convening in the social impact and innovation space. We welcome the most forward-thinking people working to solve social problems across the globe—from policy leaders, investors and nonprofits, to social entrepreneurs, community leaders and academics. The central theme of Sorenson Impact and the event itself is to explore how data, evidence, and innovation can be leveraged to solve difficult social problems like homelessness, chronic unemployment, incarceration, and poverty.”
Last year, David Wilkinson, then director of the White House Office of Innovation and Civic Participation, lauded the Summit as “the largest gathering of leaders committed to using measurable outcomes to change the way government works.”
Notable speakers today will include the following:
9:10am
Fostering Innovation in the State of Utah with Governor Gary Herbert
9:20am
Effective and Accountable Government: How City Administrator Rashad Young Runs D.C. with Rashad Young
9:35am
An Innovation Update from Washington with U.S. Congressman John Delaney
Many more mainstage speakers and panelists will share their knowledge and expertise on a range of subjects that touch on this year’s theme—innovation for social change. Select topics will include finding scalable solutions to social problems, data science for social good, impact investing, social entrepreneurship, social impact bonds / Pay for Success, correction reform, performance management, educational outcomes, measuring meaningful impact and impact investing through a gender lens—among others.
“Salt Lake County is leading the way in the use of data and evidence in local governance to achieve results and hold ourselves accountable to the public for spending scarce tax dollars,” said Mayor Ben McAdams. “Whenever a homeless teen or an impoverished child participates in a social program that doesn’t succeed, rather than one that does, that represents a human cost. Our Pay for Success initiatives are showing us how to deliver measurably better lives for the people that we serve.”
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