Building Better Bureaucracies: How Local Governments Are Meeting the Moment

James Anderson has spent more than a decade deep within the trenches of city halls worldwide, helping mayors and municipalities develop the engines they need to incubate and scale innovation tools, techniques, and systems to meet the pressing challenges they face and tangibly improve people’s lives. 

In this Impact Stage keynote, James will share the inner workings of these efforts, and how they are working now to help local governments meet the moment, across the globe and at scale. He will also discuss how audiences – from public officials to cross-sector innovators – can apply these insights to creatively and effectively deliver results that address the pressing challenges we face and show up in resident’s lives in ways they need. James leads the Government Innovation program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, one of the largest, most global philanthropic efforts to build the innovation and problem-solving capacity of localities worldwide.