NOTRE DAME, Ind. --- The University of Notre Dame kicked off it’s Idea Week 2018 on Saturday, with a one-on-one interview featuring the Truman National Security Project and Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Michael Breen, CEO of the Truman National Security Project, a national organization focused on tough and smart national security solutions, interview Buttigieg on topics from the automation of city departments to the city’s treatment of military veterans.

 “It was a really exciting discussion,” Connor Toohill, attended Saturday’s IDEA week event. “The part that stuck out to me was the discussion around automation and how city’s respond to that.”