📍 Bloomberg CityLab 2026 is live right now — 1,000+ mayors and policymakers from 37 countries converging in Madrid to shape how cities respond to AI. OHUB's CPO Kieran Blanks is there. And he's facilitating Wednesday's critical breakout on AI disruption. ───── Hey Builders! OHUB's mission is simple: build pathways to multi-generational wealth in every city. Not in New York or San Francisco. Everywhere. That's why Madrid matters right now. Bloomberg CityLab — hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute — is the preeminent invite-only global cities summit. This year's event runs April 27–29, with over 1,000 mayors, deputy prime ministers, and urban innovators from 37 countries. The agenda is built around questions that will shape the next decade: how cities deploy AI, prepare workers, expand housing, and rebuild public trust. OHUB@Cities — our municipal partnership initiative — does exactly this: creates inclusive in-demand workforces and entrepreneurial ecosystems through public-private partnerships designed to disrupt income inequality and the racial wealth gap while increasing a region's economic mobility. Kieran Blanks, OHUB's Chief Product Officer, is on the ground in Madrid right now — embedded in conversations about urban innovation, AI governance, and economic opportunity. On Wednesday, he's listed as a scenario facilitator for the breakout session "How Would You Respond to an AI Interruption?" — a live simulation where city officials stress-test their institutional response to realistic AI disruption scenarios. When mayors go home and make decisions about AI deployment in their cities, they'll be carrying frameworks shaped in that room. ───── 🧱 For Builders This isn't about one conference. This is about OHUB's thesis playing out at scale. Every city that strengthens its workforce pipeline, supports its founders, and builds equitable access to opportunity becomes a magnet for talent and capital. The mayors at CityLab are wrestling with the same challenge you are: how do you prepare people for what's next? That conversation is happening now. Be part of shaping it in your city. ───── 🔧 Three moves to make this week 1️⃣ Know your city's AI and workforce strategy Every mayor at CityLab is going home with a plan. Go find out what your city or county is actually doing. Attend a council meeting. Read the budget. The gap between cities that deploy AI equitably and cities that don't will define opportunity for the next decade. 2️⃣ Build AI capability now The preparation for the future of work isn't coming as a government program on your timeline. The OHUBAI Competency Program exists for this exact moment — four weeks, live instruction, real capability built in real time. 3️⃣ Think like a municipal partner, not just a founder If you're building a company, you're building it in a city. That city's ecosystem — its talent pipeline, its capital access, its innovation infrastructure — determines your ceiling. Start thinking about how your business either builds or extracts from that ecosystem. ───── 💬 Quote of the Day "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ───── 🏁 Build New Skills With OHUB The OHUBAI Competency Program is a four-week intensive, hands-on training program designed to help you build real AI capability fast --- whether you're a founder, a working professional, or a career-switcher ready to future-proof your skill set. New cohorts open every four weeks. By the end of Week 1, you'll have built your first AI agent. For $399, here's what you walk away with: ▪️ 4 weeks of live, instructor-led curriculum --- not pre-recorded, not self-paced, real instruction with real accountability ▪️ Up to 1 year of access to the Mindstone Dashboard ▪️ Up to 1 year of updated education content ▪️ A seat in one of the fastest-growing AI communities globally Financing available through Affirm or Klarna --- get started for as low as $37/mo. 🚀 Visit opportunityhub.co/ai to learn more. ───── 🎬 Closing Thought When a thousand mayors gather to decide how AI gets built into their cities — and who gets trained, who gets opportunity, and who gets left out — that conversation doesn't stay in Madrid. It lands in every city where OHUB Builders are running companies, raising families, and building wealth. OHUB being in that room, shaping that conversation through OHUB@Cities, is proof of something simple: the future of work isn't being decided in Silicon Valley anymore. It's being decided in city halls. And the Builders who understand that — who think like municipal partners, not just founders — will build the most resilient, most connected, most opportunity-rich companies. That's the game that's changing. ───── ⚡️ OHUBNext Daily Brief --- investments, edge tech, and moves that matter. For 12+ years, OHUB has been building pathways and on-ramps to multi-generational wealth --- without reliance on pre-existing wealth. Through exposure, skills, entrepreneurship, capital markets, and inclusive ecosystems, we've helped people create new jobs, new companies, and new wealth. Learn more at opportunityhub.co/cities.