Recap: Xconomy’s Houston 2035 Conference, in Pictures

Healthcare and energy, edtech and urban design. Those were among the topics at hand at the inaugural Houston 2035 conference last Thursday, which brought together leaders from Houston and nationally to speak about how Houston can both leverage its assets and prepare for future challenges as an innovative city of the future in the decades to come.

For a more detailed look at the discussions, please see our story here. For a Storify-ed look at the proceedings, click here.

Once again, we’d like to extend special thanks to our sponsors who made this event possible, including our event host the Texas Medical Center; our platinum sponsors, GE, Gensler, Rice University, Shell, and Texas Medical Center; our gold sponsors, Luna Data Solutions and MD Anderson Cancer Center; our silver sponsor, DPR Construction; and our event supporters, BMC and Microsoft. Thanks as well to photographer Nick de la Torre.

 

Author: Angela Shah

Angela Shah was formerly the editor of Xconomy Texas. She has written about startups along a wide entrepreneurial spectrum, from Silicon Valley transplants to Austin transforming a once-sleepy university town in the '90s tech boom to 20-something women defying cultural norms as they seek to build vital IT infrastructure in a war-torn Afghanistan. As a foreign correspondent based in Dubai, her work appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek/Daily Beast and Forbes Asia. Before moving overseas, Shah was a staff writer and columnist with The Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. She has a Bachelor's of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and she is a 2007 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. With the launch of Xconomy Texas, she's returned to her hometown of Houston.