first up, we have have dan kinkead, the director of protects in the detroit city's implementation office. i love, implementation office. at the name suggests dan will talk about the range of engagements underway to catalyze transformation, and how all that relates to economic growth and how that relates to neighborhood stability. dan was trained as an architect and recently became the father of twins. congratulations on that. probably harder than fixing detroit, and then after dan, the s-h-h-h aalini, involved in a collaboration working to build partnerships across water, energy, and transportation. and i think she may be the only person who actually has a patent, begin her work on interactive climate change adaptation cools. next will be shin-pei tsay. the directoff or research and development in transit center. he has a broad range of expertise in making the environment more accessible, equitable and sustainable from the policy side and the practical side. real work on theground. she was most recently the director of cities and transportation for the carnegie endowment which i think is

so please join me in welcoming the panel and bring up dan kinkead. >>k yause] >> thank you very much. thank you all for allowing me to speak with you this morning. the image that you see on the screen is one that you have probably seen before of detroit. right? it's one that tends to illustrate disinvestment, depopulation, and some conventional thinking that may have led to both of those things. but for us within detroit future city and the implement indication office, group that actually implements with a host of partners, public, private, philanthropic and otherwise, we think it's different. we think it actually may be the site of an incredible opportunity for transformative innovation, particularly transformative innovation within infrastructure and looking at things a little differently than the past. with a real opportunity to begin to stabilize our city as a whole, minimize costs, increase revenue, and ensure we can improve the health of all detroiters and those within the southeast michigan region, to ensure that we can establish 21st century