MEET OUR 2018 SPEAKERS
Deborah Acosta
CIO, City of San Leandro, CA
Michael Boehm
Mayor, City of Lenexa, KS
Alison Brooks
Director, Smart Cities & Public Safety, IDC
Deb Socia
Executive Director, Next Century Cities
Jeffrey Beeson
Product Marketing Manager, KCP&L
Elizabeth Reynoso
Associate Director, Living Cities
John Fitzpatrick
Consultant and Community Health Strategist, KC Digital Drive
David Young
Fiber Infrastructure Manager, City of Lincoln, NE
Jeffrey Gavlinksi
CEO, Mountain Connect & Great Lakes Connect
Ken Hays
President, The Enterprise Center
Tianca Crocker
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte, NC
Matthew Marcus
Director of Engagement, Kansas City Startup Foundation
Janice Wait
Portfolio Manager, Mozilla Foundation
Kate Bender
Senior Management Analyst, Office of Performance Management, City of Kansas City, MO
Josh Gonzalez
Director, Connected Car Optimization, Innovation, Avis Budget Group
Dennis Leonard
President, AL-VITA LLC
Paul Pishal
Sales Director - Connected Communities, Black & Veatch
Scott Turnbull
National Technology Leader, US Ignite
Tim Stock
Partner, scenarioDNA
Sly James
Mayor, City of Kansas City, MO
Bill Wallace
CEO, US Ignite
Bob Bennett
CIO, City of Kansas City, MO
John Horrigan
Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
Brent Schondelmeyer
Deputy Director of Community Engagement, Local Investment Commission
Doug Hohulin
Head of Strategic Sales, Nokia
Jerome Williams
Research Analyst, Kansas City Public Schools
John Vandewalle
CEO, Lumen Touch
Leslie Scott
Founder, Do Good Do Well, LLC
Mitsi Herrera
Cable Communications Administrator, Montgomery County Office of Cable and Communication Services
Tim Sylvester
President, Integrated Roadways
Nick Edwards
Assistant City Manager, City of Lee's Summit
Chris Brown
Founder, Attorney, Venture Legal
Stephen Hardy
CEO, mySidewalk
Mike Mainthow
CMO, Smart City Media
Art Smith
Teacher and Lead Designer, Liberty Academy
Jonathan Wagner
Founder & CEO, Big Bang
Daniel Friesen
Mayor, City of Buhler, KS
David Alvey
Mayor & CEO, Unified Government of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, KS
Chelsea Collier
Founder & Editor at Large, Digi.City | Smart Cities Connect
Alan Howze
Chief Knowledge Officer, Unified Government of Kansas City, KS
Dorothy Baunach
Chief Executive, DigitalC
Dennis Murphey
Chief Environmental, City of Kansas City, MO
Jim Hubbell
Principal Planner, Mid-America Regional Council
Tyler Means
Innovative Services Manager, Kansas City Area Transportation Authority
Phil Glynn
President, Travois
Mike Burke
Principal, KC Hotel Developers
Kari Keefe
Executive Director, KC Social Innovation Center
Blake Miller
CEO, Homebase
Aaron Deacon
Managing Director, KC Digital Drive
Michael Faloon
Chief Strategy Officer, Neighborly
Kate Hodel
Special Projects, KCSourceLink
Sarah Martin
Deputy Director, Kansas City, Missouri Health Departmen
Herb Sih
Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Think Big Partners
Blair Levin
Fellow, Brookings Institute Metropolitan Policy Project
Pauline Cutter
Mayor, City of San Leandro, CA
Susan Norris
Senior Consultant & Practice Lead, ECCO Select
Nick Bowden
Model Lab, Sidewalk Labs
Alan Tilles
General Counsel, Government Wireless Technology & Communications Association
Christopher Mitchell
Director, Community Broadband Networks, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Dominique Davison
CEO, PlanIT Impact
Evan Absher
Senior Program Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Joe Colistra
Associate Professor, University of Kansas
Julie Leach
Technology & Curriculum Instructional Coach, Kansas City KS Public Schools
Mark Erickson
City Administrator, Economic Developer,
Cities of Lakefield and Winthrop, MN
Stanley Adams
Director of Broadband Development, Kansas Department of Commerce
Matt Delcambre
Director, Center for Business and Information Technologies (CBIT), Informatics Research Institute (IRI) University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Phil Glynn
President, Travois
Neil Kleiman
MS Program Director, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress
Luke Norris
Managing Director, OpenCities
Bobby Thompson
Head of Project Engineering, Xaqt