Kris Smith

Organization:Maryland Sports / TEAM Maryland

Sessions:Using the State of the Industry Report in Your Community

Kris's passion to teach urban planning and development turned into a hand's on career when he transitioned his love for community outreach into a compelling role with the Hampton Virginia Visitors Bureau, forging his craft in tourism and hospitality, heading up Sports Hampton. He accelerated that passion in Detroit where he spent the better part of a decade in leadership roles with the. Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau, most recently as the Director of the Detroit Sports Commission. He led the efforts to secure and host national championships for the DMCVB with USA Volleyball, USA Fencing, and USA Taekwondo, and hosted the National Association of Sports Commissioners, where he has also served in various board capacities, and advisory roles with Pure Michigan Sports and AAU. Smith cemented his ability to recruit world-class events when he led Detroit's bid to secure the 2019 U.S. National Figure Skating Championship, an event not seen in Detroit since the infamous Nancy Kerrigan attack at Cobo Arena in 1994. He founded KBS Sports Strategies to augment his efforts in bid planning, feasibility studies, audits, human resources, and his ever-burgeoning desire to build and grow urban communities.

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Kris Smith

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