Fiber, Technology and Tempe, Arizona
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This is Tempe Councilmember Onnie Shekerjian's presentation to the Fiber to the Home Council. It was given at the Arizona Biltmore on Dec. 8, 2010.
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Fiber, Technology and Tempe, Arizona
- 1. Fiber, Technology & Tempe, Arizona By Councilmember Onnie Shekerjian
- 9. End Global Warming! School of Sustainability doing research to save the planet
- 10. Interplanetary Impacts: Mars rovers partially developed through ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- 11. Save a Life. Research spins from university to new products and new companies. Recover from strokes faster, thanks to technology. Spin off companies abound in Tempe.
- 12. Manufacturing and Research Medtronic and other Tempe manufacturing firms rely on technology to develop, improve and produce products that save lives.
- 14. ASU Research Park Saves Soldiers Companies within the ASU Research Park are working on products such as flexible display technology, which would allow bendable and wearable ‘monitors,’ solar energy products and the like.
- 17. Reach Tempe: Web: www.tempe.gov Latest news: www.tempe.gov /newsroom Contact Me Directly: Councilmember Onnie Shekerjian 480-350-8819 [email_address] Tempe Economic Development: 480 858-2059 Facebook: Facebook.com/cityoftempe Twitter: @tempegov Blog: blogwithonnie.blogspot.com Video: http://www.youtube.com/Tempe11Video
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- Hi – I’m Onnie Shekerjian, a city council member at the City of Tempe. I am also Chair of the Technology, Economic and Community Development Committee for the city. Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. Technology is very important to my city. I believe that for any city to prosper, the community must find what it is good at, know who it is, and embrace that. In Tempe, we know exactly who we are. We are a smart community – more than 40 percent of our residents have a Bachelor’s degree or better and more than 16 percent have a Masters or Doctorate. We have more than a dozen colleges and universities. As a result of this, we have a really unique community that likes to learn, to share, and to experience new things.
- Another unique element of Tempe is this – we are a small city of 175,000 residents. We also have a workforce of nearly the same number. At least 150,000 people go to some sort of college or university here, most of those living somewhere else. And we have 4 million tourists a year. Tempe really is a large community whose residents only make up about a quarter of the population. Our workforce is smart. And about 20 percent of our employees work in the field of technology. That is a larger percentage than most other Arizona cities.
- We are the center of technology This is a map of a portion of Maricopa County and the technology employment density. You can see exactly where Tempe is located based on the large red hot dot within our borders. We are the center of technology for our area, with companies like First Solar, Go Daddy, Medtronic and Monster Worldwide. Our community teams the vibrancy and curiosity of education with the problem solving tech companies to become a community of innovators and researchers.
- We believe that it is important to serve all the people within our community. To help provide the kind of service that our residents, workforce and visitors need, we partnered with a private company to be the first city in the nation to provide wifi from border to border. The company failed, but Tempe still has a high number of hot spots and we still have the equipment in place.
- Beyond just a high density of technology companies, we have quite a few companies that are heavy tech users –web design, social media and marketing companies, like Terralever, Sitewire and others. Terralever does the marketing for Red Bull worldwide, a huge endeavor that requires a lot of bandwidth. We have a creative corridor in our Downtown of more than 20 creative class firms – each of them has high demands for speed.
- We value education in Tempe. Ensuring the next generation has every advantage is important to us. Our Tempe Elementary School District recently underwent a huge upgrade with Cox Communication that replaced a very slow copper network with 1G fiber. This also for much better access to students and those who work in the administrative offices.
- On that same vein, Tempe has more than 100,000 students enrolled in more than a dozen colleges and trade schools. We have two graphic design schools that create video and a couple tech schools that compute all day. We have the nation’s largest online university in Tempe with more than 300,000 students. These students could benefit from more bandwidth and higher computing speeds.
- ASU has its own needs. It is the nation’s largest university with more than 65,000 students and 12,000 employees just on its Tempe campus. There are five buildings dedicated to nothing but research. There are many schools, like the College of Engineering, where huge research projects are underway. Breaks in the research are forced when modeling computing is finished and long hours and even days of processing have to happen.
- Tempe hosts the School of Sustainability, dedicated to curbing global warming and the like. Decision Theater is a 3D modeling building where the impacts of buildings and development are explored in the round with 3D glasses and the like. By exploring the impact of development and planning in advance, communities can make decisions to guide their policies. Tempe has modeled most of its downtown area.
- Tempe does research with communities around the globe – and in space. This requires great skill in languages, science, math and yes, a need for massive bandwidth. Tempe was part of the effort to build the Mars Rover.
- Many of the scientists and researchers on campus create spinoff companies with products that help the world. One of these companies is Kinetic Muscle, which has developed a device that retrains the brain and muscles after a stroke to regain function. The device is now being used across the country and is in the process of getting FDA approval.
- Tempe has many companies dedicated to manufacturing, like Medtronic, which has a large campus in Tempe. Not only do they have hundreds of employees and machines relying on internet, they also continue to do research for the next generation of products, like their implanted heart defibrillators.
- There is a huge amount of partnership between companies like Medtronic and our colleges and universities. ASU has set up a research park for companies that want to explore products and technologies with the school and independently. This 320 acre campus is home to more than 50 companies that are actively involved with research and ASU interns and scientists. This campus is a prime example of a location with huge bandwidth needs.
- These companies are teaming together to work on defense issues and solar energy products, fertility and more. One device, the flexible display panel, is being developed to assist soldiers in the field. The panel is a monitor that could eventually be incorporated into clothing, monitoring vital signs on soldiers or displaying maps, plans and more.
- We have a lot to be proud of, for sure, but we want to do more. We know we need to keep our community’s atmosphere tech friendly and provide everything we can to allow these smart people to keep doing the jobs that improve our world. We’re looking at more incubator space, smart grids, and microloans for small businesses, among other things.
- But we want even more. We know our residents, our workforce, our researchers, our students and our visitors can do so much more if they had the bandwidth to dream bigger. The technological boundaries that constrain them can stifle new ideas, new inventions, new cures and new hopes. By breaking these boundaries, we can create what we can’t even imagine. We are working with Cox Communications to see if Tempe might be first yet again – we want to be the first city in America to be able to offer high speed fiber access to every building in our city. That doesn’t mean everyone would be able to afford it, or that everyone would want it, but to have the ability to offer it could change our world. I hope that I’ve been able to show you a little about our community and how much we value the future. I’d like to take some questions if you have them.
- Call me!