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.

Katya Abazajian
Open Cities Director, Sunlight Foundation

Jason Anderson
President and CEO, Cleantech San Diego

Kenya Asli
Smart Cities Strategist, Baltimore City Office of Information and Technology

Philip Bane
Managing Director, Smart Cities Council

Brenda Bannan
Associate Professor, George Mason University

DeAngelo Baynes
Manager, Curbside Management Division, Department of Transportation Parking and Ground Transportation Division, District of Columbia

Chuck Bean
Executive Director, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Adam Beck
Chairman, Smart Cities Week

Zach Birmingham
Senior Environmental Specialist, Port of San Diego

Adam Bobrow
Founder & CEO Foresight Resilience Strategies, LLC

Scott Boggs
Managing Director, Homeland Security and Public Safety, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Kevin Bush
Chief Resilience Officer, District of Columbia

Jeanne Milliken Bonds
Senior Manager, Regional Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Greg Jordan-Detamore
Open Cities Product Lead, Sunlight Foundation

Jean Case
CEO, Case Foundation

Stephen Crout
Director, Policy & Resilience Programs, Smart Cities Council

Chris Conway
Director of Public Works, City of Montgomery, AL

Eric Coffman
Chief of the Office of Energy and Sustainability (OES), Montgomery County Department of General Services, Maryland

His Excellency Sidney S. Collie
Ambassador to the United States from the Bahamas & Permanent Representative to the OAS

Chungha Cha
Co-founder & Chair, Re-Imagining Cities Foundation

Charles Dayoub
Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Division, Cyber Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office

Karen Dettmer
Superintendent, Milwaukee Water Works

Savio Dias
IT Manager, City of Montgomery

Hector Dominguez
Open Data Coordinator, City of Portland, OR

Anne Draddy
Sustainability Coordinator, City of Baltimore

David Eckell
Emerging Technology National Market Manager, Graybar Electric

Marc Elrich
County Executive, Montgomery County, MD

Kelsey Finch
Senior Counsel, Future of Privacy Forum

Rachel O’Dwyer Flynn
Deputy County Executive, Fairfax County, VA

Biju George
Executive Vice President, Operations and Engineering, DC Water

Soumya Ghosh
Director of Digital Enablement, City of Edmonton

Sol Glasner
President and CEO, Tyson’s Partnership

Neil Glentworth
Founding Director, Community Data

Dave Gottesman
CountyStat Manager, Montgomery County, MD

Eugene Grant
Mayor, Seat Pleasant, MD

Albert Graves
Program Director, WeGO

Billy Grayson
Executive Director, Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance, ULI – the Urban Land Institute

Nikki Greenberg
Founder, Women in PropTech

Gayle Guilford
Chief Information Security Officer, City of Baltimore

Pamela Gupta
President, OutSecure, Inc.

Art Guzzetti
Vice President, Mobility Initiatives and Public Policy, American Public Transportation Association

Lucinda Hartley
CoFounder and Chief Innovation Officer, Neighbourlytics

Devon Haynie
Assistant Managing Editor, US News & World Report

Mike Hess
Smart City Project Director, City of Orlando, Florida

David F. Heyman
Founder, Smart City Works and Former Assistant Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security

Daniel Hiller
Head of Strategic Management, Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institute EMI, Germany

Meredith Hodgman
International Engagement Manager, City of Sydney

Victor Hoskins
Director, Arlington Economic Development, Arlington County, VA

Petra Hurtado
Research Director, American Planning Association

John P. Holden
Director of Economic Development and Tourism, Stafford County, VA

Karima Holmes
Director, Office of Unified Communications, Washington DC

Lou Ialacci
IT Director/CIO, City of Montgomery, AL

David Ihrie
Chief Technology Officer, Center for Innovative Technology

Debbi Jarvis
Senior Vice President, Howard University

Biju Kadapurath
Senior Manager, Government and Public Services (GPS), Infrastructure & Capital Projects, Deloitte

The Hon Marlene Kairouz, MP
Minister for Suburban Development, State Government of Victoria, Australia

Shyam Kannan
Vice President, Planning, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)

Rob Kerns
Development Division Chief, City of Alexandria, Virginia

Derek Konofalski
Data and Technology Analyst, Office of Digital Government, City of Gilbert, AZ

Barney Krucoff
Chief Data Officer, District of Columbia

Yon Lambert
Director, Department of Transportation & Environmental Services, City of Alexandria, VA

Alex Lawrence
Chief of Staff, City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology

George Laws
Principal at Mirsonia Group, LLC, Former Interim Director, Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration

Alda Licis
Landmark Dividend

David Lipscomb
Curbside Management Planner, Department of Transportation, City of Washington, DC

Jim Lockwood
Founder/CEO, Aero Wireless Group

Audrey Louison
Member / Chair, Project Development & Finance Practice, Mintz

Luke Lucas
Senior Manager Engineering Business Development, T-MobileMobile

Jet Lu
Director, Digital DevOps, City of Baltimore

Torri Martin
Interim-Deputy Commissioner and Chief of Innovation, Department of Watershed Management, City of Atlanta

Elias Martinson
GIS Coordinator, City of Manhattan, KS

Cory Mason
Mayor, Racine, WI

Jack McDougle
President & CEO, Greater Washington Board of Trade

Sarah Miller
Vice President, Economic Development Corporation, Montgomery County, MD

Danielle Miller Wagner
Program Director, Smart Cities Week, Smart Cities Council

Jason Mindte
CEO of Mint Controls

Calvin Chu Yee Ming
Partner, Eden Strategy Institute

Steven Mikulencak
Extension Program Specialist & TCWP Planning Programs Leader, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

Luis Montestruque
Vice President, Digital Solutions, Xylem

Darrell Mottley
Shareholder, Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

Dave Mulholland
Administrator, Arlington County (VA) Emergency Communications (911) Center

Peter Murray
Executive Director, Dense Networks

Kristin Musulin
Senior Editor, Smart Cities Dive

Eta Nahapetian
Economic Initiatives Coordinator, Fairfax County, VA

Sielen Namdar
Industry Solutions Executive, Smart & Connected Communities, Cisco

Darryl Neate
Director, Sustainability, Oxford Properties Group

Prof. Dirk Neumann
Chair for Information Systems Research, University of Freiburg, Germany

Adam Newman
Senior Manager, Government and Public Services (GPS), Supply Chain, Deloitte

Katye North
Division Chief, Mobility Services, City of Alexandria, VA

Jennifer Olzinger
Assistant Director-Procurement Manager, Office of Management and Budget, City of Pittsburgh

Hillary Orr
Deputy Director for Transportation, City of Alexandria, VA

Lindsey Parker
Chief Technology Officer, District of Columbia

Charles Penny
Transit and Sustainable Transportation Bureau Chief, Department of Transportation, City of Baltimore

Anthony Puzzo
Senior Account Executive and Team Lead, State & Local Government Practice, ESRI

Lisa Ragain
Principal Water Resource Planner, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Maryam Rahmani
Principal, Maryam Rahmani LLC

Eric Reese
Director, GovEx Academy

Faun Rice
Research and Policy Analyst, Information and Communications Technology Council of Canada

Jean Rice
Senior Broadband Specialist, National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Matthew Ries
Director, Sustainability and Watershed Management, DC Water

Carlos Rivero
Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia

Fatma Şahin
Mayor, Gaziantep, Gaziantep Province, Turkey

Jill Sciarappo
Strategic Marketing Director, Intel

Sol Salinas
Managing Director, Accenture Digital and Global Lead, Accenture Smart Cities

Indu Singh
Chief Scientist, OST, Inc.

Todd Shurn
Smart & Healthy Cities Consultant, Howard University

David Soares
President and CEO, Lexden Capital

Merrick Spain
Founder and CEO, Civic Analytica

Evie Monnington-Taylor
Senior Advisor, Behavioral Insights Team

Rhonda Toohey, P.Eng.
Director, Policy Development, City Planning, City of Edmonton

Alice Tornquist
Vice President, Spectrum and Technology Policy, Qualcomm, Inc

Hilari Varnadore
Director, LEED for Cities & Communities, US Green Building Council

Joseph Viscuso
Senior Vice President and Director of Strategic Growth, Pennoni

Cyrus Walker
Managing Principal, Data Defenders, LLC

Jared Wasinger
Assistant to the City Manager, City of Manhattan, KS

Pete Westlake
Manager, Strategic Customer Programs, Orlando Utility Commission

Clarence Wardell
Director, City Solutions, Results for America

Jerry Bien-Willner
Mayor, Town of Paradise Valley, Arizona

Steve Wray
Vice President and Director, Econsult Solutions, Inc.

Dan Wu
Privacy Counsel & Legal Engineer, Immuta

Rashad Young
City Administrator, Washington, District of Columbia

Thilo Zelt
Partner, Roland Berger GmbH and Stadt.Land.Digital