The City Innovate Summit

Margarita is a member of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab and Co-Director of the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab which create insights into how technology can be designed to inspire people and create a better society. She brings a beginner's mind to everything she does.

Antwi A. Akom, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology, Public Health, and STEM Education at San Francisco State University and is a Co-Founder of the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design (I-SEEED), which focuses on building... Read More →

Andrew brings to Obvious Ventures a lifelong passion for building companies around sustainable systems and people power.  For over a decade, Andrew has focused on clean technology and clean energy solutions. He started down the clean tech path with Energy Innovations in 2003, which... Read More →

Cynthia Comerford Cynthia Comerford, MA is the Planning and Fiscal Policy Manager for the Environmental Health Section. Her work focuses on planning and developing programs to incorporate public health considerations into federal, state and local planning decisions. She directs the... Read More →

Dr. Valérie Issarny (https://mimove.inria.fr/members/valerie-issarny/) holds a Directrice de recherche position at Inria, the French institute for research in Information and Communication Science and Technologies, where she led the ARLES research team until 2013, investigating distributed software systems leveraging wirelessly networked devices... Read More →