Heartland Summit 2018
2018 Heartland Summit Recap Video
Eye On the Heartland
Economics. Innovation. Inspiration.
With an eye on issues impacting the Heartland, Summit attendees participated in interactive discussions on topics ranging from the arts to investment, and so much more.
Heartland Rising
Our opening session kicked off with an introduction by Olivia Walton, Co-Founder of the Heartland Summit, and Kyle Peterson, Executive Director of the Walton Family Foundation, and performances by Movement Artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck.
Secret Sauce
Moderated by Olivia Walton, this session focused on the question “What is the secret sauce that makes the heartland great?” We dive in with Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, MO, Siobhan Spain of Des Moines, IA and Santosh Sankar of Chattanooga, TN.
Investing in the Heartland
Steuart Walton, Wendy Guillies and Steve Case discuss the value of heartland investment and what it takes to build robust local investment ecosystems.
Speakers
Byron Auguste
CEO and Co-founder
Opportunity@Work
Ross Baird
President
Village Capital Group
Luis Benitez
Director
Office of Outdoor Recreation Industry - State of Colorado
Howard W. Buffett
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Steve Case
Chairman and CEO
Revolution
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Co-Founder
Chopra Center for Wellbeing
Carol Coletta
Senior Fellow
The Kresge Foundation
Lisa Conn
Community Partnerships
Facebook
Devita Davison
Executive Director
FoodLab Detroit
Ross Devol
President and CEO
Heartland Forward
Jessica Droste Yagan
Managing Partner
Impact Engine
Jeff Edmonson
Managing Director
Ballmer Group
Meka Egwuekwe
Executive Director
Code Crew
Louise Epstein
Director of University Partnerships
Walton Family Foundation
James & Deborah Fallows
Authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
Tim Ferriss
Best-selling Author and Host of "The Tim Ferriss Show" Podcast
Richard Florida
Urbanist and Author of "Rise of the Creative Class"
Heartland Forward Senior Fellow
Jennifer Garner
Ambassador
Save The Children
Newsha Ghaeli
Co-Founder
BioBot
Wendy Guillies
President and CEO
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Christine Gulbranson
SVP, Chief Innovation Officer
University of California
Alex Holland
Lead Community Planner
McClure Engineering Co.
Sly James
Mayor of Kansas City, MO
Emily Larson
Mayor of Duluth, MN
Robert Lynch
President and CEO
Americans for the Arts
Zach Mannheimer
Principal Community Planner
McClure Engineering Co.
Tom Mastrobuoni
Chief Financial Officer
Tyson Ventures
Christina McFarland
Research Director
National League of Cities
Kathleen McLaughlin
Chief Sustainability Officer of Walmart Inc. and President of the Walmart Foundation
Doug McMillon
President and CEO
Walmart, Inc.
Cecilia Munoz
Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives
New America
Mark Muro
Senior Fellow and Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
Brookings Institution
Kyle Peterson
Executive Director
Walton Family Foundation
Sankar Santosh
Co-Founder & Director
Dynamo VC
Jim Shelton
Senior Adviser
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Mark Shriver
SVP
Save the Children
William Simpson
President
DisposeRX
Shamina Singh
President and CEO
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
Anne-Marie Slaughter
President and CEO
New America
Megan Smith
Founder
shift7
Siobhan Spain
Executive Director
Mainframe Studios
Joseph Steinmetz
Chancellor
University of Arkansas
Jerry Stritzke
CEO
REI
Michelle Sullivan
CEO
Caterpillar Foundation
Joy Sun
Co-Founder and COO
Groups Recover Together
Chuck Templeton
Managing Director
S2G Ventures
Joseph Thompson
Founding Director
Mass MOCA
Tom Vilsack
Former United States Secretary of Agriculture
Alice Walton
Board Member
Walton Family Foundation
Lukas Walton
Board Member
Walton Family Foundation
Olivia Walton
Co-Founder
Heartland Summit
Steuart Walton
Co-Founder
Heartland Summit
Tom Walton
Co-Founder
Heartland Summit
Hank Webber
Executive Vice Chancellor for Administration
Washington University
Mary Winnefeld
Founder
Project S.A.F.E.
Sandy Winnefeld
Founder
Project S.A.F.E.
Entertainers
Amasa Hines
Bonnie Bishop
Leon Bridges
Lil Buck and Jon Boogz
Kweku Collins
Common
Elise Davis
The Going Jessies
Jeff Houghton
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats
Smokey & the Mirror
