U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert L. Santos will return to his hometown of San Antonio to provide the keynote deal with on the San Antonio Report’s 2023 CityFest luncheon on Nov. 7.
CityFest 2023 shall be held Nov. 6-9, with a number of occasions per day centered on the theme “Meet the Second,” exploring what San Antonio needs to be doing to capitalize on important regional progress.
“Our theme, ‘Meet the Meet the Second,’ grew out of a sit-down interview with Mayor Ron Nirenberg this summer season throughout which he advised that our metropolis is having a second in 2023, from our demographic progress to the joy over the Spurs’ No. 1 draft choose, Victor Wembanyama,” San Antonio Report Writer and CEO Angie Mock stated. “We needed to dig deeper on what it might take for San Antonio to rise to the event in quite a lot of areas — from native governance to transportation, schooling and fairness.
“This yr’s CityFest 2023 luncheon that includes Census Director Santos shall be one of many highlights of our yr as a corporation, and we couldn’t be extra excited concerning the week’s lineup.”
The week-long occasion of programming will kick off with a sit-down interview with Metropolis Supervisor Erik Walsh on Monday, Nov. 6, moderated by San Antonio Report Editor in Chief Leigh Munsil.
Throughout the “Dialog with the Metropolis Supervisor,” which shall be hosted at KLRN’s downtown studio and streamed stay, Walsh will clarify how San Antonio is getting ready for document progress. Later Monday, the nonprofit information group will host a contented hour celebrating small enterprise on the South Aspect.
Tuesday’s programming will characteristic the annual CityFest luncheon, with Santos’ keynote deal with. As a San Antonio native now main the company tasked with monitoring our nation’s modifications by knowledge, Santos’ speech is completely timed with current demographic progress and traits in San Antonio and Bexar County.
Tickets and sponsorships at the moment are out there for the CityFest keynote luncheon.
Texas is the one state with greater than three cities on the Census Bureau record of fastest-growing cities by numeric change and % change in 2022, and San Antonio had the third-largest numeric inhabitants acquire. In his keynote speech, Santos will assist attendees perceive the significance and relevance of Census Bureau knowledge to communities.
Santos, whose profession spans over 40 years in survey analysis, statistical design and evaluation and executive-level administration, turned the twenty sixth director of the U.S. Census Bureau in January 2022.
Tuesday’s luncheon is a ticketed occasion, and Santos’ remarks shall be recorded and made out there following the luncheon.
At midday Wednesday, the San Antonio Report will host a livestreamed panel on the way forward for transportation in Bexar County, moderated by Authorities and Politics Reporter Andrea Drusch. A panel of consultants — together with VIA Metropolitan Transit President and CEO Jeff Arndt and the Metropolis of San Antonio’s Director of Airports Jesus Saenz — will focus on how Bexar County is getting ready to regulate for sprawl and a progress in freeway journey, plus the enlargement of the footprint and routes out there from the San Antonio airport.
At 4 p.m. Wednesday, Managing Editor Wendy Lane Cook dinner will reasonable a panel titled, “A Pivotal Second in San Antonio Sports activities,” that includes Bobby Perez of the Spurs, UTSA Athletics Director Lisa Campos, Bob Cohen, who’s a part of the native possession of the San Antonio Missions baseball membership; and Jenny Carnes, president and CEO of San Antonio Sports activities.
The panel can have a restricted in-person viewers and in addition be livestreamed. RSVP to obtain the livestream hyperlink upfront.
Thursday morning will characteristic a digital panel hosted by Senior Reporter Iris Dimmick exploring the subject, “How Does San Antonio ‘Meet the Second’ Inclusively?” The panel will dig in on how an inflow of recent and infrequently higher-earning residents in Bexar County has elevated the pressure on out there inexpensive housing inventory, faculties, property tax charges and metropolis providers, and what people can do to ensure San Antonio’s gaps don’t proceed to widen as town grows.
The panel options SA2020 CEO Kiran Kaur Bains, Prosper West Government Director Ramiro Gonzales, Household Service Director of Social and Group Engagement Fabiola Avila, SAMMinistries CEO Nikisha Baker and Each Texan Director of Fairness and Studying Jonathan Malagon. Register on-line to obtain the livestream hyperlink upfront.
At midday Thursday, Training Reporter Isaac Windes will host the ultimate panel of CityFest 2023, “Rise and Fall: Mapping San Antonio’s Shifting Instructional Panorama,” serving to residents higher perceive how demographic fluctuations, progress and contraction have an effect on native faculties.
The panel will happen nearly and be livestreamed.
To see the complete schedule of occasions and RSVP for livestreamed or in-person conversations, or to sponsor a desk for the luncheon, go to the CityFest web site.
