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Peter Hirshberg

The City Innovate Foundation
Chairman

Peter Hirshberg has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 25 years. As chairman of Re:Imagine Group, Peter shapes strategies at the confluence of people, places, brands and cities. He has led the development of Urban Prototyping, a global movement that engages citizens in the co-creation and co-planning of their cities. Hirshberg is an advisor the Department of Labor’s Makership workforce development initiative. He has contributed to the United Nations Global Pulse where he addressed the General Assembly on their initiative for real-time data for international development.  Peter is an editor of the related publication, “Taking the Global Pulse.”

Hirshberg works with executive teams at organizations such as Time Warner, Best Buy, Hertz, Sony, Unilever, Thomson Reuters, IBM, Verizon, GE, Estee Lauder, Telefonica and many others on digital and growth strategies.

He is the former Chairman of Technorati, the pioneering social media search engine and  ad network. During a nine year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute. 

Peter is a frequent technology and media industry speaker, having presented at TED, the World Economic Forum, DLD, EG the Entertainment Gathering, and The Aspen Ideas Festival. Peter Hirshberg earned his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.