Tech Innovation in Our Cities: Can Civic Institutions Keep Up?
Scott Mauvais '90 is the director Microsoft Cities where he works with local leaders to infuse technology into existing real-world systems to make cities better places to live, learn, work, and innovate.
Mauvais has been at Microsoft for 18 years. Most recently, he was the director of the Microsoft Technology Center, an innovation lab where Microsoft’s top architects work hand-in-hand with Fortune 500 companies to envision, architect, and prove out solutions based on Microsoft’s newest technologies. Prior to that, he worked for Microsoft Consulting Services where he ran early stage projects for customers in Microsoft's Early Adopter Program. He has written extensively for Microsoft Press and Ziff-Davis.
He serves on the national boards of Upwardly Global, City Innovate Foundation, and the Urban Age Institute and co-owns of The WELL, the ground breaking online community founded in 1985. When not working, Scott enjoys skiing in the winter, backpacking in the summer, and seeing—and photographing—as much live music as possible year-round.
A 1990 graduate of CMC, Mauvais majored in economics and government.
Mr. Mauvais' Athenauem talk is co-sponsored by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government and the Lowe Institute of Political Economy, both at CMC.