Summit on State Planning for Digital Equity and Economic Inclusion:
Moving the Needle on Poverty
April 27 – 28, 2023
Atlanta Community Food Bank
Atlanta, Georgia
This summit brings together both State planning leaders for digital equity and economic inclusion, as well as State and local leaders from “covered populations” whose involvement is essential for your State plan’s development, funding, implementation, and enduring impact on systemic digital and economic inclusion. We invite DEI leaders and those with expertise in digital, financial, economic and educational inclusion to join us.
You will learn about and share promising strategies to remove digital divide barriers of every kind and strengthen integrated pathways out of poverty for individuals, families, and communities. The summit will assist states to incorporate new allies and strategies into your plans and funding requests, to ensure that the $1+ billion in federal funding over the next four years for digital equity produces significant impacts on poverty.
Why Attend?
Day One Thursday, April 27, 2023
Noon Buffet lunch and welcoming remarks
12:25 p.m. Welcoming remarks, by Barry Wides, deputy comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, US Treasury Department
12:30 p.m. Keynote address: “Melding Digital, Financial and Economic Inclusion: Contributions of the Community Reinvestment Ecosystem”, Louisa Quittman, director, office of financial education, US Treasury Dept.
1:00 p.m. Q & A with Louisa Quittman
1:15 p.m. Introduction of framing speaker by host, Venus Lockett, lead advisor, Bank On Georgia. Framing Presentation: “The Unprecedented Challenge and Opportunity of the Digital Equity Act”, presented by Dr. Robert McLaughlin, executive director, National Collaborative for Digital Equity
2:00 p.m. Q & A, moderated by Terry Lee, FDIC Atlanta
2:15 p.m. Agenda Overview: State leaders strategizing for learning, networking & sharing – presented by Jenelle Leonard, director, leadership development for inclusion, National Collaborative for Digital Equity (NCDE)
2:30 p.m. “Suggestions for Leveraging Summit Time to Enhance Your State Planning and Funding Request”, Angela Thi Bennett, digital equity program officer, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
3:00 p.m. Break and refreshments: networking time!
3:20 p.m. 1st concurrent Breakout Session: Inclusion Leaders compiling recommendations for ways their expertise can contribute to State plans for impact on poverty
Breakout Room A: Financial Inclusion Leaders: Welcoming remarks Sarah Segrest, chief learning officer, NCDE
Breakout Room B: Economic & Educational Inclusion Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Ji Soo Song, digital equity advisor, US Department of Education.
Breakout Room C: Digital Inclusion Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Tom Finn, CEO, Avid Products
Breakout Room D: DEI Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Janice Underwood, director, office of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, Office of Personnel Management
4:20 p.m. Plenary session: Breakout Groups Report-Out, highlighting ways experts and resources in their inclusion dimension can best enhance State plans to impact poverty. Moderated by Terry Lee, FDIC.
4:45 p.m. Wrap-up
5:00 p.m. Reception and Systemic Inclusion Resource Showcase: welcoming remarks by Bonnie Sutton
6:15-7:15 p.m Buffet Dinner and Featured Presentation, Nikita Pearson (invited), Deputy to the Chairman for External Affairs, FDIC
Day Two Friday, April 28, 2023
7:45 a.m. Continental breakfast: networking time!
8:15 a.m. “Manchester’s systemic inclusion efforts: a brief case study” – remarks offered by Ken Sheldon, NH state president, Bank of America
8:30 a.m. Welcome and introduction of featured panelists.
8:35 a.m. Panel: “Role of banking and financial empowerment coalitions in a systemic approach to digital equity and poverty”.
Panelists:
Bola Delano, executive director, Bank On Illinois
Patrick Eichholtz (invited), executive director, Bank On Florida
Kara Wilkins, director, Bank On Arkansas+
Venus Lockett, lead advisor, Bank On Georgia
Marquita Robertson, Bank On North Carolina
9:05 a.m. Q & A with the panelists
9:15 a.m. Break & transition to concurrent break-out sessions
9:40 a.m. 2nd concurrent Breakout Session: Inclusion Leaders compiling priority requests by leaders in their inclusion dimension for support from those in other dimensions, to enhance their efficacy:
Breakout Room A: Financial Inclusion Leaders:
Breakout Room B: Economic & Educational Inclusion Leaders:
Breakout Room C: Digital Inclusion Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Dean Folkers, director, education data and technology, Council of Chief State School Officers
Breakout Room D: DEI Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Leslie Saucedo (invited), director, office of civil rights, FEMA
10:40 a.m. Break and refreshments: networking time!
11:00 a.m. Plenary session: Concurrent groups report out, highlighting ways in which those in one inclusion dimension most want those in others to support their efforts, moderated by Terry Lee, FDIC Atlanta
11:30 a.m. State teams in roundtables brainstorming ways different inclusion dimension strategies & resources should be reflected in their State plan and funding request
12:15 p.m. Buffet lunch: “Banks, community reinvestment, and fostering systemic inclusion impacts: one bank’s experience and insights”, presented by invited, JPMorgan Chase.
1:15 p.m. State teams in roundtables preparing to report out briefly (“two-minute sprint”), highlighting most important digital divide and economic inclusion challenges their need-sensing has uncovered thus far
1:45 p.m. State teams report out (2 minutes each): Their state’s priority digital divide and economic inclusion concerns
(Break and refreshments available throughout State report-outs)
3:00 p.m. 3rd concurrent Breakout Session: Inclusion Leaders quickly highlight inclusion resources and allies that can help States with their priority concerns:
Breakout Room A: Financial Inclusion Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Dr. Gerry Hanley, executive director for SkillsCommons and MERLOT, California State University
Breakout Room B: Economic & Educational Inclusion Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Dr. Robbie Melton, interim provost, Tennessee State University, and founder HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions initiative
Breakout Room C: Digital Inclusion Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Roger Rosen, president and founder, Rosen Digital
Breakout Room D: DEI Leaders: Welcoming remarks by Dr. Ashlee Canty, director of equity initiatives, Hunt Institute
3:35 p.m. Closing Plenary: Concurrent groups report-on on how inclusion allies and resources can help states with their priority digital divide and economic inclusion concerns, moderated by Jenelle Leonard, NCDE
4:05 p.m. Wrap-up, thanks and next steps: Angie Bennett, digital equity program officer, NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce, and Bob McLaughlin, NCDE
