Speakers Announced
Smart Cities Week San Diego 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.
Rick Azer
Chair, Cleantech San Diego
Adam Beck
Chairman, Smart Cities Week
Jonathan Behnke
Chief Information Officer City of San Diego
Zach Birmingham
Senior Environmental Specialist at Port of San Diego
Shannon Bresnahan
Vice President, Cleantech San Diego
Erik Caldwell
Deputy Chief Operating Officer, City of San Diego
André Corrêa d’Almeida
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, and Founder ARCx
Serge Dedina
Mayor, Imperial Beach, CA
Laura Engeman
Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Kevin L. Faulconer
Mayor, City of San Diego
Dennis Gakunga
Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Chula Vista, CA
Eric Michael Garcetti (Invited)
Mayor of Los Angeles
Matt Gardner
Chief Executive Officer , California Technology Council
Philip Gibbons
Environmental Specialist, Port of San Diego
Todd Gloria
California State Assembly Member
David Graham
Chief Innovation Officer at City of Carlsbad
Gary Hall
Chair of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB)
Larry Head
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona
Emma Hendry
CEO, Hendry
Cody Hooven
Chief Sustainability Officer, City of San Diego
Bahija Humphrey
Director, Performance and Analytics, City of San Diego
Jennifer James
Global Readiness Program Director, Smart Cities Council
Jeffrey Jordon
Lieutenant at San Diego Police Department
Maria Kachadoorian
Assistant City Manager at City of Chula Vista
Danielle Kochman
Senior Regional Planner, San Diego Association of Governments
Benjamin Lucha
Environmental & Technology Division Manager, City of Palmdale, CA
Luke Lucas
Senior Manager of Engineering Business Development
Daniel Obodovski
Co-Founder, SCALE SD
Marisa Mangan
Associate Regional Planner, SANDAG
Lee Ann Mangin
Associate Director, Intelligence, IBI
Christie Marcella
Economic Development Manager, City of Carlsbad, CA
John Minto
Mayor, City of Santee
Garth Nagel
Senior Facilities Planner with Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Wynn Newingham
Head of Innovation and Economic Development, City of Palm Coast
Melanie Nutter
Principal of Nutter Consulting
Dominic Papa
Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Institute for Digital Progress
Bruno Peters
Global Director, Smart Cities, IBI
Girish Ramachandran
Chief Technology Officer, City of Dallas
Chris Richardson
Deputy CIO, Arizona State University
Oscar J. Romo
Founder and Director, Alter Terra
Kristina Peralta
Director of Purchasing & Contracting, City of San Diego
Mary Salas
Mayor of Chula Vista
Zaira Y. Pérez Salinas
General Director, Center for Connectivity and Telecommunications Infrastructure, Mexico City
Laurie Scott
Captain, Civil Engineer Corps, United States Navy Public Works Officer, Naval Base Coronado
Jeff Sheffield
Executive Director, Florida Transportation Planning Organization
Reshma Singh
Program Director, DOE IMPEL Tech-to-Market program Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Darrell Steinberg, (invited)
Mayor, City of Sacramento
Ray Traynor
Director of Operation, SANDAG
Marisa Walker
Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Infrastructure at Arizona Commerce Authority
Jana Vargas
Director of Procurement and Contract Services San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
Raj Vaswani
Vice Chairman, Wi-SUN Alliance
Byron Washom
Director, Strategic Energy Initiatives, University of California San Diego
Renée Yarmy
LEED AP O+M, Program Manager, Energy & Sustainability, Energy, Port of San Diego
Chuck Burkhart
IT Director, City of Palm Coast
Bob Borzillo
Principal, Smart & Connected Communities Consulting
Deepak Darda
Global Director of Innovation, IBI
Joshua Gamez
Commander, Civil Engineer Corps, Naval Base San Diego
Melissa Kozakiewicz
Director, Office of Innovation, City of Jersey City
Paul Lavallee
U.S. Director, Intelligence, IBI
