Our 2020 Bike Walk Montana Summit – Connected Communities Summit was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bike Walk Montana has partnered with the Montana Healthy Communities to present a FREE mini summit on October 8th, running from 9:30 am till 5:00 pm. This follows up on an introductory session on September 10th – Healthy Design for the Triple Bottom Line with Dan Burden and Mark Fenton. Mark and Dan have agreed be the featured speakers on this session as well – if you don’t know about these nationally known transportation pioneers click on their names above to find out more about each of them.
Following a general keynote by Dan at 9:30 am, we will have a chance to dive deeper in three focus sessions. The focus sessions will last an hour and a half starting with a presentation by Mark and Dan as well as lightning rounds (see below), discussion, and question and answers from Mark and Dan and participants. There will be breaks between each session and participants are welcome to stay online and visit – as you would in the hallways during a real Summit – or take a break for the rest room or to refill your coffee. We love seeing you in person but this is our best option these days!!
The sessions will be:
Being an Effective Change Agent – intended for citizens – Bicyclists, walkers, trail users, parents, advocates, non-profits, NGO’s. 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Leading for Change – intended for elected and appointed officials and boards, mayors, clerks, Chambers. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Best Practices in Cost Efficient Design and Implementation – intended for engineers, planners, developers, public works, realtors. 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
We invite you to participate in the “lightning” rounds which will be very quick (2 minutes) presentations by both experts and citizen advocates relating to each of the focus areas. Consider sharing a success, challenge, idea, or inspirational message. We will allow 4 slides or 1 video, again, the sessions will be limited to two minutes. Please email doug@bikewalkmontana.org by noon on October 6 if you are interested with a short description, which focus session you prefer to be a part of and whether you will have any slides or a video – we be limiting the lightning rounds to 10 per focus session. We would like a wide variety of ideas within the general focus topic and we’d like to fill these up soon! If you know anyone that might want to participate, please have them contact us at doug@bikewalkmontana.org.
Please consider attending some or all of these sessions – they will be free and you can register and get more information on “A Virtual Journey to Bridge the Gap Between Economic Vitality and Growth” at http://healthinfo.montana.edu/mt-healthy-communities/index.html . You register for the whole series but can attend any. Past sessions are archived there as well which have been both informative and inspiring.
This will be a great session, full of information and inspiration with nationally known presenters and hopefully – you!