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Who is with us today, mayor . [applause] thank you, maryland drew, president landrieu. For the opportunity to lead our new Automation Task force and for your leadership of the conference. We had a great meeting with the task force on automation, talking about different ways that automation will change our work as employers and enterprises, as pollymaking bodies, as economies and as communities. Were looking forward to convening again as a task force this spring and would welcome any mayors or partners who would like to be part of that conversation but before we do that we have an opportunity r...

Thank you so much for joining us today. As mayors, we often say that our number one issue is jobs. Jobs, jobs, and jobs. Creating jobs. Supporting entrepreneurship and making sure the Jobs Available line up with the skills of our work force. So the entirety of this morning is going to be about what we as mayors can do and can be doing to support job creation and entrepreneurship in our communities, and for this session, we are going to begin with a conversation about the future of work and the dramatic changes in the ways that our residents relate to their jobs and to their physical work space...

It jee legal to discriminate and it was legal to discriminate on grounds of race, 50 years ago the samejobs could grounds of race, 50 years ago the same jobs could be advertised with different wages for men and women, 50 yea rs different wages for men and women, 50 years ago there was no legal compunction to provide facilities for the disabled, today there are more openly gay people in prominent positions in public life than ever. More people from black, minority and asian ethnic backgrounds are in parliament, in media, in business and disabled people play a more active role in society than th...

Thank you for the opportunity to elude our new Automation Task force for the conference. Meetinghad a great talking about the different ways that automation will change our work as employers and enterprises, as policymaking bodies, as economies, and as communities. We are looking forward to convening again as a task force this spring and would welcome any mayors or partners who would like to be part of the conversation. Before we do that, we have an opportunity right here to talk about one of the most interesting and important questions not unrelated to automation that affects our work is mayo...

, the National Constitution Center Hosted a discussion on how the bill of rights applies to todays debates on freedom of speech, the right to privacy and other issues. Speakers include the constitution center, also, the American Enterprise institute, and also the Aspen Institute. Welcome to the greatest assembly of the defenders of freedom ever. We have peter goettler, arthur brooks, Walter Isaacson, neera tanden, and Anthony Romero of the aclu. A big round of applause. [applause] jeffrey the National Constitution center is indeed a convening space of the greatest thinkers on freedom and calle...