Symposium Spotlight
Be Sure to Add these Keynotes to your MAGIC Schedule!
We know every one of you is interested in being a high performer and exploring professional approaches to continuous improvement on the job! Join us for lunch on Tuesday, April 24th, with Brian Elms, Author of “Peak Performance” and the former Director of Peak Academy and Analytics for the City and County of Denver. Brian started his career in public service after graduating from Regis University and joining the National School and Community Corps (AmeriCorps) as a team leader. Brian is a certified Lean Black Belt, a Six Sigma Green Belt and Change Management Professional. In his former role as Director of the Peak Academy, he developed curriculum, training and consulting services that focus on employee-led performance management and continuous improvement. Brian’s discussion will be lively and entertaining as well as inspirational. Ever wonder how you could make government services fun, innovative, and empowering to citizens and employees? As Brian says, “Innovation takes grit!” Come learn from one of the best in process improvement and you will come away from lunch with your head swimming with ideas to stretch your performance every day.
Just when you think you have tasted enough of the MAGIC Symposium smorgasbord, wrap up your experience over lunch yet again with our closing keynoter, Matthew Waite, on Thursday, April 26! Matt Waite is a professor of practice in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and founder of the Drone Journalism Lab. Since he joined the faculty in 2011, he and his students have used drones to report news in six countries on three continents. He regularly speaks about the legal and ethical complexities of using drones at conferences around the world and is regularly consulted by media organizations about their potential. He also teaches courses in data journalism, web development and the intersection of storytelling and technology. Come here Matt's Story about how he is on the ground floor of remaking the future of Journalism with drone technology!
