Tumml is a San Francisco based startup hub for urban innovation. It empowers entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. A nonprofit, Tumml’s goal is to support the next generation of Zipcars and Revolution Foods. We will chat with May Samali , Director , Tumml on a wide range of issues on entreprenership for urban innovation.
May Samali : May serves as Director of Tumml, running the accelerator program and working closely with the organization’s portfolio companies. Prior to Tumml, she worked as a strategy consultant at Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique venture firm, and as an attorney at Herbert Smith Freehills. May earned her MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and her economics and law degrees from the University of Sydney. She is a John Monash Scholar and a delegate at the Australian American Young Leadership Dialogue. May’s work in urban innovation has been featured in a wide range of outlets, including TechCrunch, SSIR, and Philanthropy News Digest.

About: Community PlanIt is an online engagement platform for local planning efforts. Bringing together the interactivity of social networks and the incentives of online games, Community PlanIt transforms participatory planning into a fun, engaging activity for all ages.
Bio: Eric Gordon, PhD, Director of Engagement Game Lab, studies civic media, location-based media, and urban design. He is an associate professor in the department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College where he focuses on the design and research of digital games and social software that foster local civic engagement. He is the co-author of a new book about location-based media called Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World (Blackwell Publishing, 2011) and the author of The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities From Kodak to Google(Dartmouth, 2010). Download latest CV here. Visit him at placeofsocialmedia.com.