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.

Jonathan Adelstein
President and CEO, The Wireless Infrastructure Association

Stephanie Atkinson
Founder and CEO of Compass Intelligence

Rick Azer
Chair, Cleantech San Diego

Wolfgang Bauer
President, MSU Foundation and Associate Vice President for Administration, Michigan State University

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

Bob Borzillo
Principal, Smart & Connected Communities Consulting

Shannon Bresnahan
Vice President, Cleantech San Diego

Chuck Burkhart
IT Director, City of Palm Coast

Erik Caldwell
Deputy Chief Operating Officer, City of San Diego

Mark Carter
Vice President, RealTerm Energy

Vijitha Chekuri
Director of Strategy & Business Development, Automotive Industry Solutions, Microsoft Corp.

André Corrêa d’Almeida
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, and Founder ARCx

Steve Crout
Senior Policy Advisor, Smart Cities Council

Gregory Curtin
Smart & Sustainable Cities; Founder & CEO, CivicConnect

Itai Dadon
Director, Smart Cities & IoT Itron

Deepak Darda
Global Director of Innovation, IBI

Serge Dedina
Mayor, Imperial Beach, CA

Savio Dias
IT Manager, City of Montgomery

Anant Dinamani
Principal, US Mobility Solutions, Deloitte

Kevin Ebi
Director, North American Readiness Program, Smart Cities Council

Brian Elliott
Policy Advisor, Councilmember Chris Ward, City of San Diego

Laura Engeman
Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Kevin L. Faulconer
Mayor, City of San Diego

Hilary Firestone
Deputy Director, American Cities Climate Challenge

Dennis Gakunga
Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Chula Vista, CA

Joshua Gamez
Commander, Civil Engineer Corps, Naval Base San Diego

Matt Gardner
Chief Executive Officer , California Technology Council

Ari Gati
President, one6zero Ventures

Philip Gibbons
Environmental Specialist, Port of San Diego

Todd Gloria
California State Assembly Member

David Graham
Chief Innovation Officer at City of Carlsbad

Rahul Gupta
Managing Director and US Smart Infrastructure Leader, Deloitte Advisory

Gary Hall
Chair of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB)

Steve Hamilton
Senior Manager, Infrastructure & Capital Projects (I&CP) Practice, Deloitte Advisory

Katie Hayes
Project Manager for Technology Innovation and Smart City, City of Edmonton

Larry Head
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona

Elle Hempen
Chief Executive Officer, The Atlas

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

Rebecca Jones
Mayor, City of San Marcos

Jeffrey Jordon
Lieutenant at San Diego Police Department

Maria Kachadoorian
Assistant City Manager at City of Chula Vista

Otto Khera
Director of Rural Initiatives and Grants, Western New Mexico University

Jan Kleissl
Associate Director, Center for Energy Research, UCSD

Danielle Kochman
Senior Regional Planner, San Diego Association of Governments

Melissa Kozakiewicz
Director, Office of Innovation, City of Jersey City

Eric Kung
Director of Research & Network Planning, Volta

Lee Ann Mangin
Associate Director, Intelligence, IBI

Paul Lavallee
U.S. Director, Intelligence, IBI

Jet Lu
Director, Digital DevOps, City of Baltimore

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

Christie Marcella
Economic Development Manager, City of Carlsbad, CA

Heather Martin
Director, Readiness Program at Smart Cities Week

Cory Mason
Mayor, City of Racine

Kevin McLaughlin
VP Strategic Partnerships Free2Move

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

Jennifer Park
Director of Certification and Community, What Works Cities

Sanjeet Pandit
Global Head for Smart Cities, Qualcomm

Dominic Papa
Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Institute for Digital Progress

Bruno Peters
Global Director, Smart Cities, IBI

Brian Platt
Business Administrator, City of Jersey City

Girish Ramachandran
Chief Technology Officer, City of Dallas

Chris Richardson
Deputy CIO, Arizona State University

Stuart Robbins
Advisory CIO, California Technology Council

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, North Florida Transportation Planning Organization

Reshma Singh
Program Director, DOE IMPEL Tech-to-Market program Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Janna Smith
Transportation Technology Project Manager, Department of Transportation, City of Los Angeles

Scott Spagnola
Partnerships, Smart Cities, T-Mobile

Darrell Steinberg, (invited)
Mayor, City of Sacramento

Caroline Stevens
Associate Research Analyst, Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS)

Kyle Taylor
Head of Partner Management Americas at Elektrobit Automotive Americas Inc

Jeffery Torrance
Vice President, Qualcomm

Ray Traynor
Director of Operation, SANDAG

Michael Trimble
Executive Director, Gaslamp Quarter Association

Marisa Walker
Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Infrastructure at Arizona Commerce Authority

Shawn VanDiver
Senior Manager and Client Relationship Executive at Deloitte

Jana Vargas
Director of Procurement and Contract Services San Diego County Regional Airport Authority

Raj Vaswani
Vice Chairman, Wi-SUN Alliance

Frank Vernon
Research Geophysicist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego

Kate Wagoner
Director of Urban Mobility, Passport

Byron Washom
Director, Strategic Energy Initiatives, University of California San Diego

Jake H. Wise
Smart Cities Program Manager, Portland General Electric

Renée Yarmy
LEED AP O+M, Program Manager, Energy & Sustainability, Energy, Port of San Diego

Bret Beringer
Chief Engineering Officer, FYBR