creative technologist focused on justice
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Adam Drue King is a technologist and creative whose work focuses on digital justice, broadband deployment, and community-led innovation as a means for community and economic development in Northeast Ohio, and beyond.
Adam has experience establishing broadband network solutions in close to fifty locations
nationwide. He has consulted on broadband solutions for municipalities, architected networks
for campuses, and deployed open and closed networks in commercial spaces since 2013.
These networks range from multi-million dollar county-wide broadband deployment for up to
750,000 users in a southern state, to an ultra-fast wireless mesh solution covering a 6-acre
corporate campus with over 1,000 on-site staff, to a wireless system over several floors at a
large church.
As Director of Neighborhood Partnerships & Equity at a Cleveland nonprofit, Adam drove the
mission of making Greater Cleveland’s digital future more equitable and helped shepherd in a
primary initiative delivering wireless internet to un- and underconnected communities in
Cleveland. Relationship building with organizations and individuals is an integral piece of his
approach work.
Adam’s ongoing projects and areas of interest include: pursuing the activation of public spaces
in nontraditional ways through his Jikoo initiative, continuing to help lower the bar for entry into
the digital age, promoting digital justice, and powering-with residents and neighborhoods to
ensure access to tools of technology and innovation. He is currently consulting on multiple
initiatives, including an international initiative to leverage virtual power plants as a means to
support a green economy, and a national movement to community ownership of broadband
networks and infrastructures.
Adam brings passion, commitment, and creativity to all of his efforts as he strives toward his
vision for a more activated, connected and just world. King holds technical certificates from
Microsoft and Google, is a nationally sought out expert and speaker on the topics of technology
and digital justice.
The following pitches will take place in each of the six Accelerate categories. A panel of judges drawn from community leaders will select one finalist in each category. The six finalists will pitch a second time to the full event audience which will vote on the winner. The overall winner will take home $5,000, the finalists from the remaining five categories will each get $2,000 to help bring their ideas to life.
For the Technovation competition, a panel of judges will select the Technovation winner who will receive $3,500.
Links:
[1] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/adamdruekingjpg
[2] https://adamdrueking.com/
[3] https://www.cleveleads.org/clc-events/accelerate/accelerate-2022-presenters/