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