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
Chuck Bean
Executive Director, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Adam Beck
Chairman, Smart Cities Week
Zach Birmingham
Senior Environmental Specialist, Port of San Diego
Scott Boggs
Managing Director, Homeland Security and Public Safety, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Jeanne Milliken Bonds
Senior Manager, Regional Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Jean Case
CEO, Case Foundation
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
Chungha Cha
Co-founder & Chair, Re-Imagining Cities Foundation
Greg Jordan-Detamore
Open Cities Product Lead, Sunlight Foundation
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 Policy 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
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 Director, 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
John P. Holden
Director of Economic Development and Tourism, Stafford County, VA
Karima Holmes
Director, Office of Unified Communications, Washington DC
Victor Hoskins
Director, Arlington Economic Development, Arlington County, VA
Petra Hurtado
Research Director, American Planning Association
David Ihrie
Chief Technology Officer, Center for Innovative Technology
Debbi Jarvis
Senior Vice President, Howard University
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)
Derek Konofalski
Data and Technology Analyst, Office of Digital Government, City of Gilbert, AZ
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
Alda Licis
Landmark Dividend
Audrey Louison
Member / Chair, Project Development & Finance Practice, Mintz
Jet Lu
Director, Digital DevOps, City of Baltimore
Torri Martin
Interim-Deputy Commissioner and Chief of Innovation, Department of Watershed Management, City of Atlanta
Cory Mason
Mayor, Racine, WI
Jack McDougle
President & CEO, Greater Washington Board of Trade
Sarah Miller
Vice President, Economic Development Corporation, Montgomery County, MD
Calvin Chu Yee Ming
Partner, Eden Strategy Institute
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
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
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
Faun Rice
Research and Policy Analyst, Information and Communications Technology Council of Canada
Fatma Şahin
Mayor, Gaziantep, Gaziantep Province, Turkey
Sol Salinas
Managing Director, Accenture Digital and Global Lead, Accenture Smart Cities
Jill Sciarappo
Strategic Marketing Director, Intel
David Soares
President and CEO, Lexden Capital
Merrick Spain
Founder and CEO, Civic Analytica
Todd Shurn
Smart & Healthy Cities Consultant, Howard University
Lindsey Parker
Chief Technology Officer, District of Columbia
Charles Penny
Transit and Sustainable Transportation Bureau Chief, Department of Transportation, City of Baltimore
Lisa Ragain
Principal Water Resource Planner, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Maryam Rahmani
Principal, Maryam Rahmani LLC
Eric Reese
Director, GovEx Academy
Matthew Ries
Director, Sustainability and Watershed Management, DC Water
Carlos Rivero
Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia
Evie Monnington-Taylor
Senior Advisor, Behavioral Insights Team
Rhonda Toohey, P.Eng.
Director, Policy Development, City Planning, City of Edmonton
Hilari Varnadore
Director, LEED for Cities & Communities, US Green Building Council
Clarence Wardell
Director, City Solutions, Results for America
Pete Westlake
Manager, Strategic Customer Programs, Orlando Utility Commission
Jerry Bien-Willner
Mayor, Town of Paradise Valley, AZ
Dan Wu
Privacy Counsel & Legal Engineer, Immuta
Meg Young
Shared Mobility Coordinator, Department of Transportation, City of Baltimore
Rashad Young
City Administrator, Washington, District of Columbia
Thilo Zelt
Partner, Roland Berger GmbH and Stadt.Land.Digital