@LICPartnership @LICQNS #LICSummit Innovating Community June 20, 2017 On behalf of the Long Island • How do we ensure we build the right City Partnership, and our co- retail mix, connect people to our cultural hosts Modern Spaces and the resources, facilitate job growth and Queens Courier, we welcome you encourage healthy living? to the fourth annual LIC Summit: We have assembled a distinguished roster Innovating Community. of thought leaders from across the borough, city and state to discuss our community’s Long Island City is an authentic mixed-use current and future landscape. Many more are neighborhood, with an exceptional blend in the audience, and we look forward to an of industrial, commercial, residential, tech important discourse throughout the day. and cultural sectors. Each year we have the challenge of covering this dynamism We wish to thank all of our elected officials, within the confines of one Summit. In the sponsors, partners, and civic and business past three years we’ve covered everything leaders who have together driven the from Residential & Commercial Real Estate, monumental change in LIC. We also thank Workforce, Transportation, Arts & Culture, our stellar Summit Planning Committee and TV & Film, and LIC as a Fashion District. Board for helping us put together such a high quality program, and the Museum of the Today, we are focusing on how we knit the Moving Image for hosting us. community together through innovating at every level – from the Streets to the Cloud. Thank you for attending today and being part Key questions for discussion will include: of the conversation. We hope that you will participate actively both today and beyond. • How will LIC knit its growing population and expanding businesses together to foster place and community? • H ow can LIC accommodate more space for innovation, tech and biosciences? Elizabeth Lusskin Gary Kesner President Chair Thank you to all our Elected Officials for their continued support Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Mayor Bill de Blasio US Senator Charles E. Schumer US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand US Congresswoman New York State Senator Carolyn B. Maloney Michael Gianaris New York State Assemblywoman Queens Borough President Catherine Nolan Melinda Katz New York City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer LIC Summit is hosted by Long Island City Partnership’s mission is to advocate for economic development that benefits Long Island City’s industrial, commercial, cultural, and residential sectors. The goal is to attract new businesses to LIC, retain those already here, welcome new residents and visitors, and promote a vibrant and authentic mixed- use community. The LIC Partnership operates the Long Island City Business Improvement District and the LIC Industrial Business Zone, among other programs. Long Island City, located directly across the East River from Midtown Manhattan, is a vibrant mixed-use community. Home to Fortune 500 companies, world-renowned arts and cultural institutions, prominent film and television studios, a large industrial base, and over 70,000 residents, Long Island City is a diverse and authentic NYC neighborhood in the borough of Queens - America’s most diverse county. To learn more and become a member visit licqns.com Event Co-Hosts Modern Spaces is an independently-owned real estate brokerage company that specializes in residential and commercial sales and leasing as well as project development and marketing in New York City. Founded by Eric Benaim on the principles of customer service, community involvement and dedicated industry expertise, Modern Spaces’ agents are trained to provide their clients with absolute support, guidance and commitment from beginning to end of every real estate transaction. Learn more at modernspacesnyc.com. The Queens Courier and QNS.com are the #1 source of local news in Queens. As part of Schneps Communications, our media properties dominate local with award-winning content across community newspapers, magazines, digital assets and the most powerful group of events in New York City and Long Island. Learn more about us at SchnepsCommunications.com. Thank you to our Sponsors and Partners Premiere Sponsors Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors Bronze Sponsors Media Sponsors Location Map Redstone Theater Welcoming Remarks Keynote Panel Keynote Discussion Conference Wrap-up Cafe Breakfast COURTYARD SUMNER M. REDSTONE THEATER GEORGE S. KAUFMAN COURTYARD WILLIAM FOX AMPHITHEATER Fox Amphitheater Bartos Screening Room Learning Suite Sponsor Pavilion and Lunch Catering by Bartleby and Sage Schedule 8:00AM - Registration and Networking Breakfast 8:30AM Coffee service and snacks available throughout the morning 8:30AM - Welcoming Remarks 9:00AM Gary Kesner, Carl Goodman, Eric Beniam, Joshua Schneps, Elizabeth Lusskin 9:00AM - Keynote Panel – Coordinating Investment in the LIC Community 9:45AM Elizabeth Lusskin, James Patchett, Seth Pinsky, Carlo Scissura, Kathryn Wylde Bringing Life, Culture & Connectivity 10:00AM - Retail as Placemaking to our Streets and Spaces Patricia Dunphy, Melissa Burch, Donna Drimer, 11:00AM David Brause, David Burney, Ebony Conely-Young, Aaron Fishbein, Amber Jacobsen, Natalia Macias Katie Denny Horowitz, Neil Gagliardi, Tracy Hadden Loh LIC’s Innovation, High Tech & 11:15AM - LIC’s Residential Evolution Alan Suna, Zachary Adler, Eric Benaim, Advanced Manufacturing Economy 12:15PM L. Stephen Hill, Aaron Shirian, John Young Melva Miller, Ron Brachman, Paula Kirby, Jeff Merritt, Peter Weijmarshausen, Kate Wittels 12:15PM - Lunch and Exhibits Café and Sponsor Pavilion 1:00PM Fox Amphitheater 12:45PM - Keynote Panel – Returning to the Regional Context 1:45PM Jonathan Bowles, Winston Fisher, Gail Mellow, Angela Sung-Pinsky 1:45PM - Conference Wrap-Up 2:00PM Welcoming Remarks Redstone Theater 8:30AM Gary Kesner Executive Vice President Silvercup Studios Carl Goodman Executive Director Museum of the Moving Image Eric Benaim Founder and CEO Modern Spaces Joshua Schneps Co-publisher/Founder and President Schneps Communications/LIC Flea & Food Elizabeth Lusskin President Long Island City Partnership Keynote Panel: Coordinating Investment in the LIC Community Redstone Theater 9:00AM - 9:45AM Long Island City, with its mix of unique businesses, explosive residential growth, cultural destinations, and extensive transportation infrastructure, is experiencing unprecedented investment from the public and private sector. How do we ensure the multitude of planning and development initiatives underway build on LIC’s success as a truly mixed-use community and innovation district without threatening the very mix of uses that helped attract investment in the first place? Elizabeth Lusskin (Moderator) James Patchett LIC Partnership NYC Economic Development Elizabeth Lusskin is President of LIC Partnership and Corporation Executive Director of the LIC BID. She joined LIC Partnership after serving as Chief of Staff/VP Strategic A proponent of affordable housing and a principal Initiatives at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, driver of Mayor de Blasio’s effort to create 100,000 expanding its incubator and entrepreneurship efforts. jobs, James Patchett became President and CEO of Previously, she served as Deputy Commissioner, NYCEDC in February 2017 after serving as Chief of Staff NYC SBS, General Counsel, Downtown Alliance, and to Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen. Before his transition to Legislative Counsel, NYS Office of Federal Affairs. NYCEDC, Mr. Patchett was pivotal in securing many of the Mayor’s signature affordable housing achievements and was one of the de Blasio administration’s chief negotiators on major land use matters. Mr. Patchett holds a BA in Economics from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford University. He lives in Brooklyn with Seth Pinsky his wife and young son. RXR Seth Pinsky is an Executive Vice President at RXR Realty, where he leads RXR’s efforts in “emerging sub- markets” in the New York region. He focuses on areas Carlo A. Scissura, Esq. with significant growth potential, particularly in the New York Building Congress Outer Boroughs and suburban downtowns. Carlo A. Scissura is President & CEO of the New Prior to RXR, Pinsky was Director of Mayor Bloomberg’s York Building Congress, a broad-based membership Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, which association committed to promoting the growth and developed a $20 billion climate change resiliency plan. success of the construction industry in New York City Pinsky also served at NYCEDC, where he was President and its environs. from 2008 to 2013. Carlo was previously President & CEO of the Brooklyn Previously, Pinsky was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb Chamber of Commerce, prior to which he was Chief and a financial analyst at James D. Wolfensohn Inc. He of Staff and General Counsel to Brooklyn Borough graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law. President Marty Markowitz. He also owned a thriving solo practice law firm and served on the staffs of State Senator Vincent Gentile and Assemblyman Peter Abbate. Carlo is a lifelong Brooklyn resident. He currently lives in Kathryn S. Wylde Dyker Heights with his daughter Teresa Rose. Partnership for NYC Kathryn Wylde is President and CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City. Ms. Wylde was responsible for developing and managing affordable housing and economic development programs that contributed to the renaissance of blighted urban neighborhoods across the five boroughs. An internationally recognized expert on urban policy, Ms. Wylde has been awarded honorary degrees from Fordham University