This is the kick off meeting for the Inland Empire Broadband Consortia funded through the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) in order to provide collaborative broadband planning for San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Primary goal is to extend high speed broadband to rural communities and to close the digital divide through innovative digital inclusion initiatives. All Riverside and San Bernardino County agencies are invited to attend.

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The City of Riverside's Long Night of Arts and Innovation will showcase the best of what makes Riverside so exceptional with individual exhibits, presentations, demonstrations and artistic performances in downtown venues. As one of the City's signature events, there will be participation from our universities, businesses and our performing and visual arts community. All are designed to entertain, inform and attract participants to the arts and sciences.

Smart Riverside and RUSD Present every 15 minutes:

1. Learn how Riverside was selected the most intelligent community for 2012 - presented by Steve Reneker, Executive Director of SmartRiverside
2. Participate in the Race to the Top Riverside Unified School District application - presented by David Haglund, Ed.D, Director, Educational Options

The Federal Department of Education has issued a Request for Proposals within the Race to the Top program. This program is designed to spur innovative practices and create learning environments that are designed to significantly improve learning and teaching through personalization of strategies, tools, and supports for students and teachers that are aligned with college- and career-ready standards. RUSD is inviting you to engage in a conversation about what schools might look like in 2020. Please watch the videos below and join us at the Grier Pavilion at City Hall (7th floor) to share your ideas. If you can't join us there, post your ideas on Twitter using the hash tag #RUSDlearns.

1. Digital Learning Now (3minutes)
2. Did You Know 3.0 (5minutes)
3. A Vision of K-12 Students Today (4minutes)
4. 21st Century Learning - MacArthur Foundation(4minutes)
5. What High School Students Want (2.5minutes)
6. Khan Academy Gates Notes (3minutes)
7. Khan Academy at Summit Prep (4.5minutes)
8. 3D Game Lab (3minutes)
9. Learning to Change, Changing to Learn (5.5minutes)

TriTech SBDC will be holding a special event during the Long Night of Arts and Innovation for entrepreneurs. It will include a fast pitch completion where 10 sixty second pitches will be judged, several short presentations on innovation and entrepreneurship, and a piranha pool where 3 of the winners of the fast pitch will be judged by investors to win a prize.

One of Riverside's longest running and most exciting annual events arrives with a whole new look as the Mayor's Ball for Arts and Innovation transforms the sixth floor of Downtown Riverside's elegant new Citrus Tower into a celebration unlike any other. The event highlights the City's finest artists and arts organizations, along with the technology, research and education that have helped make Riverside the Most Intelligent City in the World.

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Join us for this year's Citrus Classic Bike Ride. The event features five great routes to choose from! Riders and the community can enjoy dozens of vendor booths, local bands, food, and festivities during the event. Event proceeds will directly impact the student school experience, with the goals of engaging students and motivating them to attend and be successful in school and this, increase graduation rates.

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Please join us October 8, 2012 for the SmartRiverside Sixth Annual Charity Golf Tournament at the Victoria Country Club in Riverside. In 2007, SmartRiverside inaugurated the annual tournament as the key fund-raising event to continuously support and expand the umbrella of programs and services the non-profit organization offers. Last year's event, held on Columbus Day at the Victoria Country Club, had over 120 participants from all over the country. The event was also supported by over 100 corporate sponsors and contributors from the greater Riverside area.

MPS is promising significant cost reductions at a time in our history when budgets are being squeezed in both public and private sector enterprises. According to IDC, managed print is one of the last remaining areas of IT spending where substantial savings can be realized. Read More ...

SmartRiverside is proud to be a Particicating Stakeholder in the Innovation Economy Expo, the first step in creatign a global stakeholder-driven collaboration platform for commercializing innovation ideas. The Innovation Economy Expo is May 9, 2013. View the Save the Date Flyer