2016 SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
2015 SPEAKERS:
Will Barkis
Gigabit Developer Evangelist
Orange Telecom
Boyd Cohen
Researcher and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Smart Cities
Universidad del Desarollo, Santiago, Chile
Bill Wallace
Executive Director
US Ignite
Drew Solomon
Coordinator, Entrepreneurship & Industry Initiatives
Economic Development Council of Kansas City, MO / LaunchKC
Sly James
Mayor
Kansas City, MO
Michael Liimatta
President
Connecting for Good
David Warm
Executive Director
Mid-America Regional Council
Herb Sih
Managing Partner
Think Big Ventures
Alan Fitzpatrick
Co-founder
Charlotte Hearts Gigabit
Jessica Thesing
Economic Development
Division
Salt Lake City Utah
Erin Mote
Co-founder
Brooklyn Lab School
Catherine Bracy
Director, Community Organizing
Code for America
Rick Usher
Assistant City Manager
Kansas City, Missouri
Lev Gonick
Co-founder and CEO
OneCommunity
Mark Holland
Mayor
Kansas City, KS
Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner
Deputy Director
Kansas City (MO) Public Library
Jase Wilson
CEO
Neighbor.ly
Deb Socia
Executive Director
Next Century Cities
Joe Reardon
Former Mayor of Kansas CIty, KS and Attorney
McAnany VanCleave & Phillips
Daniel X. O'Neil
Executive Director
Smart Chicago Collaborative
Craig Settles
Industry Analyst, Broadband
Strategist
Heather Burnett Gold
President and CEO
Fiber to the Home Council
Mike Brown
Founder
The Brainzooming Group
Ray Daniels
Mayors' Bistate Innovations Team
Kansas City, KS
Rondella Hawkins
Telecommunication & Regulatory Affairs Officer
City of Austin, TX
Bradley Holt
Developer Advocate
IBM Cloudant
Chris Lawrence
Senior Director of Mentor Community
Mozilla
Margaret May
Executive Director
Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council
Yiawey Yeh
Chief Innovation Officer
Nashville, TN
David Sandel
President
Sandel & Associates
Jill Szuchmacher
Director of Expansion
Google Fiber
Jim Baller
Attorney
Baller Herbst
Mike Burke
Mayors' Bistate Innovations Team
Kansas City, MO
Aaron Deacon
Managing Director
KC Digital Drive
Ken Hays
President and CEO
Chattanooga Enterprise Center
Andy Huckaba
President
Huckaba & Assoc
Blair Levin
Metropolitan Policy Program Fellow
The Brookings Institute
Susan Crawford
Author of The Responsive City and Professor
Harvard Law School
Richard Culatta
Director of Ed Tech
US Dept. of Education
Michael Curri
Founder
Strategic Networks Group
Michael Grover
Executive Director,
Government Affairs
Cox Communications