Fireside Chat with Garlin Gilchrist, Candidate for Detroit City Clerk

Oct 12, 2017, 10:00 PM – Oct 13, 2017, 12:30 AM

Garlin Gilchrist II loves three things: his family, Detroit, and solving problems using technology. That’s why—after a successful career as a software engineer at Microsoft, technology entrepreneur, and political organizer with MoveOn.org and the Obama campaign—he returned home to Detroit.

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Garlin Gilchrist II loves three things: his family, Detroit, and solving problems using technology. That’s why—after a successful career as a software engineer at Microsoft, technology entrepreneur, and political organizer with MoveOn.org and the Obama campaign—he returned home to Detroit with his wife Ellen and then-ten-month-old twins Garlin III & Emily Grace to become the City of Detroit’s Director of Innovation & Emerging Technology.

There Gilchrist has made city services easier to use, city information easier to access and understand, and city departments more efficient. Garlin Gilchrist II is a problem solver and a fighter. He’s protected and expanded voting rights across the country. He’s fixed broken systems and that is the expertise that he’ll bring to the City Clerk’s office to open the doorway to democracy in Detroit.

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Speaker

  • Garlin Gilchrist

    City of Detroit

When

When

October 12 – 13, 2017
10:00 PM – 12:30 AM UTC

Agenda

10:00 PMNetworking & Food
11:00 PMFireside Chat
12:00 AMMore Networking!

Organizer

  • Faris Alami

    International Strategic Management

    Chapter Director

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Dell Technologies

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Bamboo Detroit

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Cellular EMT

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