Speakers Announced
Smart Cities Week will feature dynamic speakers from across the smart city ecosystem. Visionaries and thought leaders will inspire you. Trailblazing mayors, CIOs, CTOs, and urban planners will inspire you. Respected industry practitioners and solution providers will educate you. Additionally, the new, highly- interactive format of this year’s event will trigger more opportunity for networking, dialogue and opportunity creation between attendees and speakers.
Lindsey Parker
Chief Technology Officer, District of Columbia
Carlos Rivero
Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia
Eugene Grant
Mayor, Seat Pleasant, MD
Jean Case
CEO, Case Foundation
Biju George
Executive Vice President, Operations and Engineering, DC Water
Victor Hoskins
Director, Arlington Economic Development, Arlington County, VA
Kenya Asli
Smart Cities Strategist, Baltimore City Office of Information and Technology
Rachel O’Dwyer Flynn
Deputy County Executive, Fairfax County, VA
Evie Monnington-Taylor
Senior Advisor, Behavioral Insights Team
Billy Grayson
Executive Director, Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance, ULI – the Urban Land Institute
Hillary Orr
Deputy Director for Transportation, City of Alexandria, VA
Chuck Bean
Executive Director, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Adam Beck
Chairman, Smart Cities Week
Yon Lambert
Director, Department of Transportation & Environmental Services, City of Alexandria, VA
Lisa Ragain
Principal Water Resource Planner, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Daniel Hiller
Head of Strategic Management, Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institute EMI, Germany
Kelsey Finch
Senior Policy Counsel, Future of Privacy Forum
Jason Anderson
President and CEO, Clean Tech San Diego
Eric Reese
Director, GovEx Academy
Todd Shurn
Smart & Healthy Cities Consultant, Howard University
Dan Wu
Privacy Counsel & Legal Engineer, Immuta
Prof. Dirk Neumann
Chair for Information Systems Research, University of Freiburg, Germany
Kristin Musulin
Senior Editor, Smart Cities Dive
Darryl Neate
Director, Sustainability, Oxford Properties Group
Maryam Rahmani
Principal, Maryam Rahmani LLC
Cory Mason
Mayor, Racine, WI
Lydia Van Note
Clean Tech San Diego
Matthew Ries
Director, Sustainability and Watershed Management, DC Water
Merrick Spain
Founder and CEO, Civic Analytica
Katya Abazajian
Open Cities Director, Sunlight Foundation
Neil Glentworth
Founding Director, Community Data
Philip Bane
Managing Director, Smart Cities Council
Pamela Gupta
President, OutSecure, Inc.
Thilo Zelt
Partner, Roland Berger GmbH and Stadt.Land.Digital
Eric Coffman
Chief of the Office of Energy and Sustainability (OES), Montgomery County Department of General Services, Maryland
Savio Dias
IT Manager, City of Montgomery
Karen Dettmer
Superintendent, Milwaukee Water Works
Jeanne Milliken Bonds
Senior Manager, Regional Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Darrell Mottley
Shareholder, Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
David F. Heyman
Founder, Smart City Works and Former Assistant Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security
Jack McDougle
President & CEO, Greater Washington Board of Trade
Clarence Wardell
Director, City Solutions, Results for America
Brenda Bannan
Associate Professor, George Mason University
Nikki Greenberg
Founder, Women in PropTech
Jeanne Milliken Bonds
Senior Manager, Regional Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
John P. Holden
Director of Economic Development and Tourism, Stafford County, VA
Sarah Miller
Vice President, Economic Development Corporation, Montgomery County, MD
Soumya Ghosh
Director of Digital Enablement, City of Edmonton
