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Featured Speakers

Mayor Edwin Lee

City of San Francisco

Mayor Libby Schaaf

City of Oakland

Mayor

Jay Nath

San Francisco Mayor's Office

Chief Innovation Officer

Tilly Chang

San Francisco County Transportation Authority

Executive Director

Peter Marx

City of Los Angeles

Chief Technology Officer

Soichiro Takashima

City of Fukuoka, Japan

Mayor

Eduardo Bernis

City of Belo Horizonte

Municipal Secretary of Development

Jose Campos

Urban Planning Track

Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure

Mayor Kizō Hisamoto

City of Kobe, Japan

Mayor

Mayor Herbert Bautista

Quezon City, Philippines

Mayor

Story Bellows

City of Philadelphia

Director, New Urban Mechanics

Eric Gertler

New York Economic Development Corporation

Executive Vice President

Ian Kalin

U.S. Department of Commerce

Chief Data Officer

Jennifer Pahlka

Code For America

Founder and Executive Director

Dan'l Lewin

Microsoft

Corporate Vice President

John Seely Brown

Deloitte Center for the Edge

Co-Chairman

Melanie Nutter

Sustainability Track

Principal, Nutter Consulting

Mickey McManus

MAYA Design

Principal

Brad Templeton

Singularity University

Networks & Computing Chair

Tim Schaaf

Executive-in-Residence

Sony Corporation

Kiva Allgood

Qualcomm

Vice President of Global Market Development

Peter Schwartz

Salesforce.com

Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning

Dr. Ryan C.C. Chin

MIT Media Lab

Managing Director

Emily Castor

Lyft

Director of Transportation Policy

Michael Vole

City of Tel Aviv Yafo

Director of the Young Adults Unit

Maria MacGunigal

City of Sacramento

Chief Information Officer

Timothy Papandreou

SFMTA

Director Strategic Planning

Deborah Cullinan

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

CEO

Soren Kvist

The Copenhagen Solutions Lab

Chief Consultant

Mark Hatch

TechShop

CEO

Neil Hrushowy, PhD, MS

City and County of San Francisco

Manager Citywide Planning

Susan Shaheen

Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley

Co-Director

Arvind Satyam

Cisco

Managing Director, Global Business Development; Industry Solutions...

Khanh Russo

Office of Mayor, City of San Jose

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation

Matt Nichols

Office of the Mayor, City of Oakland

Policy Director, Infrastructure & Transportation

Bill Mitchell

Microsoft

Sr. Director, World Wide Public Sector

Mike Masserman

Lyft

Director, International Government Relations

Chris Luebkeman

ARUP

Director for Global Foresight and Innovation

Sergio Fernandez De Cordova

P3 Global Management

Chief Development Officer & Co-Founder

Bettina Warburg

Maker Cities Track

Public Foresight Strategist, Institute for the Future

Andreas Weigend

Social Data Lab

Former Chief Scientist, Amazon.com

Jill Ford

City of Detroit

Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Jim Dempsey

Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Executive Director

Mark Chandler

San Francisco Mayor’s Office

Director of International Trade and Commerce

Deborah Acosta

City of San Leandro

Chief Innovation Officer

Speakers

A

Ali

Dr. Antwi Akom

Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design

Executive Director/Co-Founder

DA

Darin Arcolino

City of Sacramento

IT Manager

Allison Arieff

SPUR

Editorial Director

Zach Barasz

KPCB

Senior Associate

Ben Bateman

Indiegogo

Director, Hardware

Andrew Beebe

Obvious Ventures

Managing Director

John Bela

Urban Designer, Gehl Studio; Artist, Rebar Group

Mark Belinsky

Birdi

CEO

Vas Bhandarkar

ScoreData Corporation

CEO

Tiffany Bohee

San Francisco Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure

Executive Director

Dr. Christine E. Boyle

Valor Water Analytics

Founder & President

Jordan Braun

IoTracks

Clara Brenner

Tumml

Co-Founder & CEO

Rose Broome

HandUp

Co-Founder & CEO

Marti Brown

North Franklin District Business Association former City Council member, City of Vallejo

Executive Director

Eden Brukman

Concenter Solutions

Principal

Efrem Bycer

Code for America

Director of Economic Development

Michael Rios, University of California, Davis

UC Davis

Professor

Cyndy Comerford

Environmental Health Section

Planning and Fiscal Policy Manager

Andrew Coy

Digital Harbor Foundation

CEO & President

Doug Davenport

Prospect Silicon Valley

Executive Director

Stephen DeBerry

Bronze Investments

Chief Investment Officer

Tom DeCaigny

San Francisco Arts Commission

Director of Cultural Affairs

Alex Demisch

SFMTA

Senior Planner

Lyzi Diamond

Mapbox

Education Lead

Dr. Lori Dorfman

Berkeley Media Studies Group

Director

John Duhring

Cogswell Polytechnical College

Director of Strategic Alliances and Alumni Relations

Gordon Feller

Digital Infrastructure Track

Dir. Office of the EVP, Cisco

Nicole Ferrara

Walk San Francisco

Executive Director

Paige Fitzgerald

Waze

Program Manager

Adam Fogel

Memeni Ltd

Co-Founder & CEO

Nicole Freedman

City of Seattle

Chief of Active Transportation

Karen Trapenberg Frick

UC Berkeley

Co-Director Transportation Center

Gil Friend

Chief Sustainability Officer at City of Palo Alto

Bill Fulton

Rice University

Director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Matt George

Bridj

CEO

Matt Golden

Open Energy Efficiency

CEO

Kristen Koh Goldstein

Scalus & Chairman, Backops

CEO

David Graham

City of San Diego

Deputy Chief Operating Officer Neighborhood Services

Benjamin Grant

Spur

Urban Design Policy Director

Amar Hanspal

Autodesk

Senior Vice President

James Hanusa

UIX

Chief Innovation Artist

Peter Hirshberg

The City Innovate Foundation

Chairman

David Overton Chabre Holm

Technical University of Denmark

Senior Business Developer

Walter Hood

Hood Design

Principal

Barry Hooper

San Francisco Department of Environment

Green Building Coordinator

Kilton Hopkins

IoTracks

Co-founder and CTO

Dr. Valérie Issarny

Inria

Senior Research Scientist

Søren Juul Jørgensen

Innovation Center Denmark

Executive Director

Dorka Keehn

Artist & San Francisco Arts Commissioner

Marcio Lacerda

City of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Mayor

Mette Søs Lassesen

Ramboll Group

Group Director, Market Development

David Law

UC Berkeley

Program Manager

Julie Lein

Tumml

Co-Founder and President

Cathy Lewis Long

The Sprout Fund

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Joel Mahoney

OpenCounter

Co-Founder

Eve Maler

ForgeRock

VP Innovation & Emerging Technology

Joshua Marinacci

IoTracks

Developer

Scott Mauvais

Microsoft

Director

Josette Melchor

Gray Area Foundation For The Arts

Executive Director and Founder

Julie Menter

Manager, Investor Relations

New Media Ventures

Sabrina Merlo

Maker Faire

Program Director

Gabriel Metcalf

SPUR

President & CEO

Scott Nazarian

Executive Creative Director

Frog

Timothy J Nichols

Impact Hub SF

Managing Director

Lauro Nogueira

Probadel, Belo Horizonte

CEO

Luke Norris

Director of Government Relations

Code for America

Colin O'Donnell

Founding Partner

Control Group

Jason Oliveira

Product Manager

Synthicity

Hila Oren

Tel Aviv Global

Founder & CEO

Christine Outram

Deutsch LA

VP, Invention Director

Niamh O’Connell

Technical University of Denmark

Tim O’Reilly

O’Reilly Media

Founder

Nitzan Pelman

LightSail

Chief Strategy Officer

Ann Pendleton-Jullian

Ohio State University

Professor of Architecture

David Pescovitz

Boing Boing, Co-editor & Medium, Outreach

Nick Pinkston

Plethora

Founder

Margarita Quihuis

Stanford Peace Innovation Lab

Co-Director

Tom Radulovich

CEO, Livable City, San Francisco

John Rahaim

City and County of San Francisco

Planning Director

Deborah Rappaport

Minnesota Street Project

Co-founder

Graham Richard

Advanced Energy Economy

CEO

Eric Rodenbeck

Stamen Design

Founder, CEO, Creative Director

Musab Saleh

Paypal

Sr. Director – Payments, Quality Infrastructure & Release...

Tejal Shah

KidAdmit

CEO

Leah Shahum

Vision Zero Network (U.S.A)

Director

Ken Singer

Digital Infrastructure Track

MD, Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at UC Berkeley

Param Singh

Open Data Privacy & Security

Founder and CEO, IoTracks

Espen Sivertsen

Type A Machines

CEO

MS

Mikkel Skovborg

Brooke Ray Smith

Build Public

Executive Director

Kate Sofis

SFMade

Founding Executive Director

Emma Stewart

Autodesk

Head of Sustainability Solutions

Dorjee Sun

Home Group

Director

Sean Tippett

Silver Spring Networks

Director of Business Development, Smart Cities

Shelley Trott

Kenneth Rainin Foundation

Director of Arts Strategy and Ventures

Annie Tsai

DoubleDutch

Chief Customer Officer

Molly Turner

Airbnb

Director of Public Policy and Civic Partnerships

Ali Vahabzadeh

Chariot

Founder & CEO

Sameer Verma

College of Business at San Francisco State University

Professor of Information Systems

Chrystine Villarreal

BUILD

Managing Director, Partnerships and Investment,

John Webb

Google

Senior User Experience Researcher

Fran Weld

San Francisco Giants

Vice President, Strategy & Development

Megan Wier

San Francisco Department of Public Health

Director, Program on Health, Equity & Sustainability

Jase Wilson

Neighborly

CEO

Michael Yarne

Build Public

Board Chair & Strategic Advisor