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Mayors Automation Task Force Hosts First Meeting In South Bend

Samantha Horton
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Indiana Public Broadcasting

The bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors Automation Task Force met today in South Bend to discuss the effects of automation in cities around the country.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg says while automation is the future, there’s a lot of questions of what changes that could bring to cities. Buttigieg says the focus of the meeting in South Bend is to brainstorm some of those questions with other mayors and industry leaders.

“We believe mayors have a very important role to play in preparing our communities for that,” Buttigieg said, “South Bend is a community that has already gone through a tremendous amount of change because of what happens in the economy.”

West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon says other cities have a lot to learn from South Bend when it comes to adaptability.

“And to see some of the direct public policies around the deployment of technology,” Cabaldon said, “The revitalization of some of the workforce strategies has been really instructive for me and mayors from throughout the United States.”

Buttigieg says the Mayor Conference will meet again later this year. He says the conversation on automation and workforce adaptability is far from over.  

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