Peter Hirshberg has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 25 years. As chairman of The City Innovate Foundation, Peter shapes strategies at the confluence of business and government. He leads civic innovation initiatives in San Francisco and founded the Maker City Economic Development initiative a collaboration of 100 U.S. cities and the White House. He has led the development of Urban Prototyping, a global movement that engages citizens in the co-creation and co-planning of their cities. He has contributed to the United Nations Global Pulse where he addressed the General Assembly on their initiative for real-time data analytics for international development.
During a nine-year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute.
Peter is a frequent technology and media industry speaker, having presented at TED, the World Economic Forum, DLD, the Entertainment Gathering, and The Aspen Ideas Festival.
Peter earned his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.
Analytics + Data
Civic Jazz in the New Maker Cities
The civic innovation movement began when cities started opening up data. Citizens found new pathways to help generate local energy and growth. Now the movement is getting support from the White House and extending to cities around the country. Communities are getting engaged, and Maker Cities are the result.
A Maker City is A Jazz City
A Maker City is a Jazz City Like jazz, a maker city is about the interconnectivity of ideas, innovation and improvisation. Kirkpatrick: People, like Tianna are working on projects like that. Our next speaker is similarly engaged in something that he created himself and that’s even tied in to what she was talking about, what our opening panel […]
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Detroit 15
The impact of tech on the American economy, its cities and the transformation of the urban ecosystem shaped the agenda for our fourth annual one-day Techonomy Detroit conference.
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Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
