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February 26 & 27, 2018Stanford University
2018 Digital Cities SummitGPC Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities
Welcome!The 2018 Digital Cities Summit hosted by Stanford Global Projects Center, and mediaX on February 26-27, 2018 brings together an elite group of 300 global CEOs, SVPs, entrepreneurs, and policymakers at the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, California.
The goal of the summit is to explore how disruptive technology is transforming commercial markets in urban centers. The advent of mobile networks and automobiles as scanning platforms changes the very nature of how we think about urban markets. Collection of data will begin to cross the data layers of cities and urban markets creating new business models and transforming entire industries. New visual modeling platforms will make it possible to view activity in an entire city in a way that allows us to forecast impact with a high degree of reliability thanks to advances in predictive analytics and computational power.
This year's Summit provides a unique opportunity to join a seminal two-day event to hear visionary keynote presentations and interact with other corporate executives to better understand how digitalization of urban markets have refined what we mean by the term digital cities, and how emerging trends in technologies will create new business opportunities for growth.
Executives will leave with new knowledge and insight about how to incorporate truly emerging technologies--already changing, disrupting and shaping today’s cities--into their own innovative products and services.
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Digital Cities Summit SpeakersSamuel BertramSam Bertram is the Co-Founder and CEO of OnePointOne (OPO). He possesses a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. Robotics from Santa Clara University. His company OPO is developing revolutionary cultivation techniques to address rising populations, urbanization and growing demand for nutritious food. Harnessing robotic automation, aeroponics and deep-
Craig Criddle Craig Criddle is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is also Director of the Stanford Codiga Resource Recovery Center and Senior Fellow (by Courtesy) in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford. His research interests are biotechnology for recovery of clean water, renewable energy, nutrients, and safe biomaterials. He
learning, OPO's production techniques surpass farms in almost every cultivation parameter. Urban food production allows for customizable delivery of nutritious, fresh foods to dense urban populations, seamlessly integrating into Digital Cities of the future and providing value that is unattainable for current farming methods.
Martin Fischer Martin is known globally for his work and leadership in developing virtual 4D modeling methods to improve project planning, enhance facility performance, increase the productivity of project teams, and further the sustainability of the built environment. His award winning research results have been used by many small and large industrial and government organizations around the world. He has lived, worked, consulted, and taught in Europe, South America, North America, the Middle East, Asia, and
Africa. At Stanford, he serves as the Director of the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. He received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and was named a top 25 Newsmaker by Engineering News Record in 1996, won best paper awards at the Artificial Intelligence in Design (AID) conference in 2000 and from the ASCE Journal on Computing in Civil Engineering in 2002 and the ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering in 2014. He is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2012.
Sean Doolan Sean Doolan is the Senior Manager of VDC Services in the Innovative Construction Solutions group at Skanska USA Building. In this role, Sean develops new technical capabilities and services combining Skanska’s core competencies in construction management with emerging technologies such as UAV’s, real-time location services (RTLS), laser-scanning, and building information modeling (BIM). He has worked in teams supporting large public and PPP transportation projects including the
World Trade Center Transportation Hub and a multi-billion dollar airport transformation. Most recently, Sean has been developing asset management solutions using a “BIM2FM” approach for facility operators. This work includes the planning of structured data collection during the design-construction phase to facilitate efficient turnover of asset data into facility operation to reduce overall TCO. Sean holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Stanford University.
Bernard Casse Dr. Casse is the CTO of Metawave Corporation. He is a seasoned technical leader and strategist with demonstrated track record of developing innovative technologies, leading world-class teams, and over delivering on complex multidisciplinary projects; 10+ years post-PhD experience in securing, leading and managing applied R&D contracts from both government
Stephen Hoover Stephen Hoover is CTO at Xerox Corporation. He is the former CEO of PARC, a Xerox company, which is in "the business of breakthroughs". Hoover joined PARC in 2011. Practicing open innovation since being incorporated in 2002, PARC today provides custom R&D services, technology, specialized expertise, best practices, and intellectual property to Fortune 500 and Global 1000
companies, startups, and government. Hoover oversees PARC’s work for clients in diverse focus areas and competenciesincluding networking, novel electronics, human-centered innovation services, cleantech, intelligent systems, contextual intelligence, and more. Dr. Hoover earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, B.S. from Cornell University, and 1 of 10 national fellowships at AT&T Bell Labs. He has 7 patents. Hoover has served on the Board of Directors for the Rochester Museum and Science Center, including leading its K-12 STEM Education Task Force; and is a regional Board Member of FIRST Robotics, an organization which inspires young science, technology, and engineering leaders through mentor-based programs.
Herman Donner Herman Donner is a PhD student in Real Estate Economics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has researched various aspects of housing markets, with a primary focus on sales of foreclosed homes and household debt. Herman has also done research on informational asymmetries on the market for cooperative apartments, and the distributional effects of rent control. Herman holds MSc and BSc Degrees in real estate economics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in addition
Oussama KhatibOussama Khatib received his Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from Sup’Aero, Toulouse, France, in 1980. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His work on advanced robotics focuses on methodologies and technologies in human-centered robotics including humanoid control architectures, human motion synthesis, interactive dynamic simulation, haptics, and human- friendly robot design. He is Co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics series, and has served on the Editorial
Boards of several journals as well as the Chair or Co-chair of numerous international conferences. He co-edited the Springer Handbook of Robotics, which received the PROSE Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer. He is the President of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR). Professor Khatib is a recipient of the Japan Robot Association (JARA) Award in Research and Development. In 2010 he received the IEEE RAS Pioneer Award in Robotics and Automation for his fundamental pioneering contributions in robotics research, visionary leadership, and life-long commitment to the field. Professor Khatib received the 2013 IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his vision and leadership for the Robotics and Automation Society, in establishing and sustaining conferences in robotics and related areas, publishing influential monographs and handbooks and training and mentoring the next generation of leaders in robotics education and research. In 2014, Professor Khatib received the 2014 IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation.
Bruce Cahan Bruce Cahan is a Lecturer in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford. Bruce Cahan has advised Fortune 1000 corporations and federal technology investors, negotiated billions in finance, merger and reorganization transactions, innovated investment strategies for sharing smarter open data, and now is redesigning banking, its impacts and safety. Bruce graduated The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. Economics & International Business 1976) and
Temple Law School (J.D. 1979), and was admitted to practice law, passing the bar examinations, in California (2006), New York (1980) and Pennsylvania (1980).
agencies and the private sector. Bernard’s current role is to establish Metawave's technical vision, recruit talent, and lead all aspects of the company’s technological development. His current duty also involves directing the company’s strategic direction, development and future growth. Prior to co-founding Metawave, Bernard was an Area Manager at PARC, a Xerox company.
to having taken courses in law at Stockholm University. Prior to arriving at Stanford, he was a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University. His stay at Stanford is supported by a scholarship from the Sweden-America Foundation.
received his BS,BA, and MS at Utah State University, and PhD at Stanford. He began his academic career in 1989 as a faculty member at Michigan State University, returning to Stanford in 1998. Prof. Criddle has mentored 36 doctoral students and advised 15 postdoctoral researchers. He has >140 peer-reviewed publications and 12 inventions, including new methods for energy recovery from organics, nitrogen removal/energy production from wastewater; and production/recycling of bioplastics. He teaches courses in aquatic chemistry and biology, environmental biotechnology, and pathogens and disinfection.
General George W. Casey, Jr. General George W. Casey, Jr. served 41-years as an American soldier following his commission as a second lieutenant of Infantry from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1970. He is an accomplished leader and an authority on strategic leadership. As the 36th Chief of Staff of the US Army from April 2007 to 2011, General Casey led what is arguably the world’s largest and most complex organization — 1.1 million people strong, with a $200+ billion annual budget — during one of the
most extraordinary periods in military and global political history. Prior to this, from July 2004 to February 2007, he commanded the Multi-National Force – Iraq, a coalition of more than 30 countries. General Casey guided the Iraq mission through its toughest days, driving significant change in the US Armed Forces and building the Iraqi security institutions while battling a difficult insurgency and sectarian violence. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Leadership at the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University and lectures on leadership internationally at business schools and to the leadership of numerous organizations, most notably, Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola Bottling, Africa, the National Australian Bank, the states of Victoria and New South Wales, Australia, Amazon, TDAmeritrade, Pentagon Federal Credit Union and General Electric. He also teaches international relations at the Korbel School, University.
Bill BeyerBill Beyer is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP with more than 30 years of private and public sector experience. He has been a leader in Shared Services and Business Transformation in public and private sector. At Deloitte, Bill is a senior leader in the Federal practice which generates revenues of approximately $2 billion. He is responsible for 20 of the most strategic accounts in the Federal practice and leads Shared Services for the Civilian Sector.
Peter Burggräf Peter Burggräf is Professor and Chair Holder for International Production Engineering and Management at the University of Siegen, Germany and Joint Manager of the Department of Factory Planning at the Laboratory of Machine Tools and Production Engineering of RWTH Aachen University.i s research focuses on International Factory Planning, Industry 4.0 for Horizontal Networking of Production Facilities, Urban Production and Cyber Production Management Systems. Consulting fo
cuses on business processes and ERP systems, development and implementation of production systems, factory planning as well as general lean consulting and lean training. On top on his university duties, Peter also is initiator and board member of e.GO Mobile AG (e-mobility pioneer, building fun, practical and affordable electric cars) and CEO of StreetScooter Research Corporation, a consultancy firm that emerged from a cooperation between the university and the industry developing electric vehicles. He is initiator of different congresses, industrial working groups and research clusters as well as founder of the Smart Demonstration Factory at the University of Siegen. Furthermore, Peter is in charge of a very close and successful cooperation with China.
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Peter Marcotullio With more than 20 years of business development experience, Peter Marcotullio directs commercial sector business development for SRI International. Focusing on strategic, long-term partnerships with clients, he directs market research and analysis, intellectual property management, commercialization and business strategy development, new venture creation, and marketing. His prior management experience includes various venture, business development, and merger-and-acquisition positions with
Thermo Electron's Ventures Group, Primex Technologies and Olin Corporation. Marcotullio holds five patents, and he led the creation of several SRI venture companies. Before joining SRI, Marcotullio was a venture manager with Thermo Technology Ventures based in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he participated in the founding and financing of more than a dozen new companies.
Jay Mezher As Chair of McGuireWood’s Connected and Automated Vehicle practice, Elliot counsels automakers, global tech companies, and municipalities on legal and policy issues pertaining to these types of vehicles, and the greater mobility ecosystem. A staunch believer in the power of autonomous vehicles to have an incredible net positive impact on society as a whole, Elliot regularly speaks on emerging issues in the space, and has recently discussed his views with media outlets such as The
Marco PavoneDr. Marco Pavone is an Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he is the Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory. Before joining Stanford, he was a Research Technologist within the Robotics Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design,
and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on autonomous aerospace vehicles and large-scale robotic networks. He is a recipient of a PECASE Award, an ONR YIP Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award, a Hellman Faculty Scholar Award, and was named NASA NIAC Fellow in 2011. His work has been recognized with best paper nominations or awards at the Field and Service Robotics Conference (2015), at the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (2014), and at NASA symposia (2015).
Carl PivaCarl is Vice President of Strategic Programs at TM Forum and Managing Director for its Smart City Forum. He is passionate about market and technology disruptions and about helping the TM Forum membership transform to successful actors in the emerging digital economy. He is now leading the Smart City Forum with the vision to provide the business and technology blueprint for a scalable and sustainable Smart City, underpinning the top 100 Smart Cities by 2020. As a member of the White
House’s Smart Cities Council Readiness Grants Selection Committee, he awarded Smart Cities Council challenge grants to help five American cities apply smart technologies to improve urban livability, workability and sustainability. Carl has been working 20 years in the IT and communications industries and has a background from consultancy and global software organisations. Carl holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University and is an Honorary Research Fellow at Shanghai Academy. He is also Advisor to several smart cities around the world.
Richard G. LuthyProfessor Luthy is the Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Re-inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt), a four-university consortium that seeks more sustainable solutions to urban water challenges in the arid west. His area of teaching and research is environmental engineering and water quality with applications to water reuse, stormwater use, and systems-level analysis of our urban water challenges. His research addresses management of persistent organic contaminants and
contaminants of emerging concern in natural systems that are engineered to improve water quality and protect the environment and human health. Professor Luthy is a past chair of the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board and a former President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. He chaired the NRC's Committee on the Beneficial Use of Stormwater and Graywater. He is a registered professional engineer, a board certified environmental engineer, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
to optimize the execution of complex, fast-track, projects and programs. His current research focuses on governance of private-public partnerships for development and delivery of infrastructure services. In 1988, he co-founded and was the initial Director of Stanford's Center for Integrated Facility Engineering. He founded, and serves as Academic Director of, Stanford's Advanced Project Management Executive Program and The Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects. The SAPM program now has more than 2500 alumni and is recognized internationally as the premier executive program for strategic project and portfolio management. Ray has supervised dozens of dissertations, written more than 100 scholarly papers, launched two major research centers and three software companies. He was elected to the rank of Distinguished Member of ASCE in 2008. In 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Dr. Levitt as one of the initial commissioners for the State of California's Private Infrastructure Advisory Commission.
Angela M. Messer Angie Messer leads Booz Allen’s Cyber Futures business as the Innovation Service Officer (ISO) as well as the Cyber Functional Service Officer (FSO) in Booz Allen’s Strategic Innovation Group. As the Cyber Futures ISO, she leads teams of cyber malware, incident response and cyber forensics experts, engineers, data scientists, SIGINT/TECHINT and threat intelligence experts as
well as digital, dev ops, secure cloud and SDN technology professionals, delivering on engagements across commercial, government and international clients driving next generation cyber innovations and solutions. Key areas include Next Generation Enterprise Cyber Security to include Cyber Operations Solutions, Cyber and Entity/User Behavior Analytics, Threat Intelligence and TECHCraft, Encryption, Open Source Social Media Analysis as well as emerging secure IoT Industrial Cyber Solutions for Telematics, ICS/SCADA, PNT/GPS, Space, Weapons System Platforms and hardware/chip security. Ms. Messer’s role as a Cyber Functional Officer is to drive talent management against key Cyber opportunities, place quality staff and deliver Cyber opportunities and capabilities/intellectual capital to meet market demand globally. Ms. Messer also champions the talent development, strategic mobility and associated innovative people model solutions for the Firm-wide Cyber business. She implements and fosters certification and process requirements to manage risk mitigation on complex cyber security engagements across the enterprise.
Azita MartinAzita is Chief Marketing Officer of Maana, the Knowledge Platform that accelerates enterprise profitability. Azita brings a combination of big data expertise, combined with extensive marketing leadership experience at high-growth start-ups and category-creating public companies like Salesforce and Siebel. Azita has global responsibility for scaling all aspects of Maana’s product and corporate marketing, including defining go-to-market strategy, driving thought leadership, increasing brand awareness and customer acquisition. Prior to joining Maana, Azita was Chief Marketing Officer of Datameer a big data analytics
company. Azita has built and led marketing teams for both fast-growing start-ups and major public companies, including Moxie Software, LiveOps, Salesforce, Siebel and SGI. Azita has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from University of Southern California.Michael Lepech
Professor Lepech's research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design, ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management. Such sustainability indicators include a comprehensive set of environmental, economic, and social costs. Recently his research has focused on the design of sustainable high performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs) and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), the impacts of
Jure LeskovecJure Leskovec is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Chief Scientist at Pinterest. Computation over massive data is at the heart of his research and has applications in computer science, social sciences, economics, marketing, and healthcare. This research has won several awards including a Lagrange Prize, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and numerous best paper awards. Leskovec received his bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and his PhD in in machine learning from the Carnegie Mellon University
and postdoctoral training at Cornell University.
New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Miami Herald, WIRED, Forbes, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Inc. Magazine, The National Law Journal, TU Automotive, and Law360. The following is an interview Elliot recently did with Forbes regarding automated vehicles: “Autonomous Vehicles: ‘Zero Human Intervention Is Still Several Years Away’”. Elliot received his J. D. from Cornell Law School, and his B.S., summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.
Phillip Levis Phillip is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments of Stanford University. He heads the Stanford Information Networking Group (SING), co-directs the Secure Internet of Things Project, and holds the Fletcher Jones Faculty Development Chair. His research focuses on the design and implementation of efficient software systems for embedded wireless sensor networks; embedded network sensor architecture and design; systems programming and software engineering.
Raymond LevittDr. Raymond Levitt earned his BSCE at Witwatersrand University and his MSCE and Ph.D. at Stanford University. He served on the MIT CE faculty from 1975-80 before moving to Stanford in 1980. Ray teaches undergraduate, graduate and executive education classes in strategy, organization design and governance for development of capital facilities and other project-based endeavors.Ray's Virtual Design Team (VDT) research group has developed new organization theory and computer simulation tools
sustainable materials on building and infrastructure design and operation, and the development of new life cycle assessment (LCA) applications for building systems, transportation systems, water systems, consumer products. Along with this he is studying the effects that slowly diffusing sustainable civil engineering innovations, and the social networks they diffuse through, can have on achieving long term sustainability goals.
Martha G. Russell Martha G. Russell is Senior Research Scholar in Stanford's Human Sciences and Technology Advanced Research (H*STAR) Institute and Executive Director of mediaX at Stanford University. With a focus on shared vision from interdisciplinary insights, Martha has developed technology-based consortia programs and planning/evaluation systems for ecosystem transformation – in the US and abroad. Using data-driven visualizations, her recent studies have taken innovation’s pulse and
Robert Wilhelm Siegfried Ruhlandt Robert is a Ph.D. candidate in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University, advised by Professor Ray Levitt. Robert’s research focuses on big urban data and digital technologies in cities. He is passionate about innovative ways to address organizational, strategic and technical challenges in the urban environment. Prior to pursuing a Ph.D., Robert worked as a consultant at Bain & Company. Robert is a Fondahl Stanford Graduate Student Fellow and holds an M.S. in
Brian Sedar Brian recently joined Stanford’s faculty from Bechtel, bringing 35 years of industry experience in EPC project controls, procurement, project development, construction, project management and operations. As a Bechtel Partner, he was Project Director for three of its signature international transport infrastructure projects: Led project and construction management of the new $15bil Hamad International Airport in Qatar with a construction workforce that peaked at over 47,000. Headed the JV
Mike Steep Michael Steep is Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Stanford Global Projects Center's Digital Cities Program. Michael is also former Senior Vice President of Global Business Operations for the PARC innovation center in Palo Alto, California. He has over two decades of operating experience managing global P&L's, sales, digital marketing, strategy, business development, and strategic alliances for Microsoft, Lexmark (IBM), Apple, and HP. Mr. Steep’s team at Apple
launched the first digital camera. Today, he works with commercial clients on transforming their industry and company business models by leveraging emerging technologies - big data, predictive analytics, cloud, mobile, and privacy. He also serves on the Smart City London Board and is Contributing Editor for Forbes writing articles on digital cities, disruptive technologies, and executive leadership. Mr. Steep’s passion is corporate transformation through effective leadership and practical approaches to innovation. He has worked extensively at Microsoft and PARC with executives from companies crossing multiple industries including Aerospace, Healthcare, Pharma, and Automotive. He works with the top Innovation and R&D executives from companies including Airbus, BMW, Google, Merck, BP, and Booz Allen. Mr. Steep’s MBA is from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and he has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Digital Business at Imperial College London.
management science and engineering from Stanford, as well as an M.S. and B.S. in industrial engineering and management from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Susan SalkindSusan works at the intersection of innovation and regulation to help diverse collaborators spur adoption of best-in-class technology and delivery models to improve the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of the legal system. She is recognized for her visionary approach to moving legal and risk management service delivery up the maturity curve and engaging leadership of trusted practitioner communities with emerging models such as market-networks. Her interests include defining QoS standards
for computational law technologies as they are developed, deployed, and scaled within the IoT/Smart Cities global buildout, and the mainstreaming of computational-based legal service delivery systems to improve citizen access and engagement.
Silvio Savarese Silvio Savarese is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Computer Science at Stanford University and director of the SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research at Stanford. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005 and was a Beckman Institute Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005–2008. He joined Stanford in 2013 after being Assistant and then Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 2008 to 2013. His research interests include computer vision, robotic perception and
machine learning. He is recipient of several awards including a Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 2016, the James R. Croes Medal in 2013, a TRW Automotive Endowed Research Award in 2012, an NSF Career Award in 2011 and Google Research Award in 2010. In 2002 he was awarded the Walker von Brimer Award for outstanding research initiative.
Ricardo Sanchez Gomez Ricardo Sanchez holds a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). He has over 15 years experience in transportation engineering focused on analyzing traffic and revenue for toll road projects. Since 2002 he has worked with Cintra initially as responsible for managing the preparation of traffic and revenue forecasts for existing and new projects pursued by the company worldwide. From March 2007 he has been leading Cintra’s North American Technical
Department. He manages a team of highly qualified professionals preparing feasibility analysis for new toll roads in the US and Canada, and provides support to Cintra Toll road projects in North America on Operations and Maintenance, Design and Construction, Pricing, Traffic and Revenue. He has been an integral part of the teams developing all of Cintra’s managed lanes projects from procurement to implementation to operations. He is married with 2 children and resides in Austin, Texas.
Mark Radcliffe Mark Radcliffe is a senior partner who practices corporate securities and intellectual property law at DLA Piper. DLA Piper has over 4200 lawyers in more than 30 countries and 80 cities. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. Radcliffe’s practice focuses on representing corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. He has worked with many companies on their IoT matters, from traditional
software companies to insurance companies and other non-technology companies. He is the Co-Chair of the IoT Group. DLA Piper’s global platform is particularly well suited to assist in developing and marketing IoT products and services because DLA Piper has the international reach and the different legal specialties needed in IoT. He has been at the forefront of new legal issues for over 20 years. He designed the domain dispute resolution system in 1994 for Network Solutions, Inc. which continues to be the basis for the current domain dispute resolution system. And he assisted Sun Microsystems in open sourcing the Solaris operating system and drafting the CDDL. He was the Chair of Committee C for the Free Software Foundation in reviewing GPLv3 and was the lead drafter for Project Harmony. And in 2012, he became outside general counsel of the Open Stack Foundation and drafted their corporate formation documents.
Ram RajagopalProfessor Ram Rajagopal is Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and by Courtesy, of Electric Engineering. Rajagopal's primary research focus is on advancing the design, optimization and data-driven modelling of electric power systems. His work involves creating novel sensing and control platforms, robust data processing algorithms and dynamical statistical decision methods. He has also extensively worked on sensing infrastructure systems and transportation networks.
Steve Riano Steve Riano is Bechtel’s Global Airport Design Technical Expert based in the company’s corporate headquarters in San Francisco, CA, USA. Mr. Riano previously served as Bechtel’s Aviation Practice Leader where he managed a technical support group of airport planners, architects and engineers. Mr. Riano has served as strategic planning manager for Gatwick Airport in London, UK and the New Tokyo International Airport in Narita, Japan; master plan manager for Sharjah International Airport in Sharjah, UAE and Perth International Airport in Perth, Australia; and passenger terminal concept design manager for Hamad International Airport in Doha,
Qatar, Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru and Curacao International Airport in Curacao, Kingdom of the Netherlands. Mr. Riano also worked with the Government of Brazil to develop a long-range development strategy for the nation’s aviation infrastructure.
tracked the evolution of innovation ecosystems in ICT, digital media, learning technologies, urban communities and after school programs, and green tech She has applied insights about relational capital and decision analytics to corporate, regional and national challenges. Martha has a doctoral degree in Policy Analysis focused on Technology Transfer from the University of Minnesota, and a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She serves on the advisory boards of the Journal of Technology Forecasting and Social Change and the Journal of Enterprise Transformation; she advises several startup companies.
team delivering the £3.5bil London section of High Speed 1 ahead of schedule and under budget, including its meticulously refurbished St Pancras station. Director of Projects for the successful Tubelines P3 upgrade of the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly Lines, which carry 45% of London Underground’s passengers. Brian served as GM of Bechtel’s Telecoms & Industrial business, Global Procurement Manager and launched its Global Water business. Passionate about how new transport infrastructure has improved the quality of life in cities internationally and lags in the US, he teaches 3 Stanford Masters courses in Construction Management specializing in large transport Infrastructure. He is director of Stanford’s industry-affiliated Construction Institute.
Aaron SchillSimply put, Aaron loves communities of all shapes and sizes. He is fascinated with the energy and opportunities created by people living and interacting with one another in urban places. Luckily, he’s been able to spend his career as a planner and researcher working with data to understand and improve communities. As the Director of Regional Data & Mapping at the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Aaron leads the agency’s work in data analytics and visualization, including GIS. His team supports the data and mapping needs of the rest of the agency, MORPC’s 60+ member governments, and the
broader Central Ohio region. Prior to joining MORPC, Aaron worked as the director of research at Foundation Center and at Community Research Partners; assistant development director for the City of Newark, Ohio; and as a planner with Stantec Consulting. Throughout all of these roles, he has advocated for open data access as a means for communities and residents to gain agency and affect change. He is a two-time graduate of The Ohio State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in city and regional planning.
James ZouDJames Zou is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is also an inaugural Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator. James' group develops machine learning algorithms and theory to tackle messy data, which is ubiquitous in practice and breaks the standard statistical models. He is especially interested in applying these approaches to enable precision health and medicine.
Grant Stevens Grant Stevens leads Prologis’ worldwide construction and development activities as well as the company’s Sustainability initiatives that include environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs. Grant is also responsible for the Global Energy and Development initiatives that include installation of over 180 MW of solar energy installments, 233 sustainability building certificates and the retrofit of LED light fixtures in operating buildings around the world. Prior to joining Prologis, Grant worked at Hines Development for over 30 years as a development executive in numerous cities around the world. During his tenure at Hines Grant managed the development of
over 22 million square feet of diverse real estate investments including commercial, retail, mixed use and residential. His professional experience includes cities across America, Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia and India. He has an exceptional record of recruiting, training and managing multi-national teams that cultivated collaboration and respect for the best of all cultures. Grant’s contributions to industry innovation started over 20 years ago when he participation with Ray Levitt at Stanford’s Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects. Grant earned his BA in Organizational Communications from the University of Utah and his Master of Science in Construction Engineering and Management from Stanford University.
Ivan Stoianov Dr. Ivan Stoianov is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Water Systems Engineering at Imperial College London, UK. His pioneering research is focused on the modelling, optimisation and control of a new generation of intelligent water supply networks which dynamically adapt their connectivity, operational conditions and application objectives. Dr Stoianov leads the InfraSense Labs research group at Imperial College London. He is also the founder and Chief Science Officer of a technology start-up,
Inflowmatix Ltd (www.inflowmatix.com). The research and technology transfer activities led by Dr Stoianov enable the water industry to significant improve leakage and pressure management, system resilience, resource utilisation, water quality and incident response. This is achieved through the development of novel technologies for unique spatial and temporal resolution monitoring and control, and mathematical optimisation methods. The work is currently supported by Bristol Water plc, Severn Trent Water, Anglian Water, Welsh Water, Cla-Val Ltd, Suez and NEC.
Kim Wikström Kim Wikström is professor (chair) in Industrial Management, with a specific focus on project business and industrial marketing at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University. He is also founder of PBI Research Institute. Before returning to academia 1992, he worked in engineering and construction companies responsible for developing and implementing project management and governance processes in large projects. He has been visiting professor at Stanford University, USA,
St. Petersburg State University, Russia and Tallinn Technical University, Estonia and visiting researcher at Norwegian University of Technology, Norway and Linköping University, Sweden. His and his research groups areas of research and expertise are: 1) value creation and industrial logic and business models (strategies, offering, modularization, integration mechanisms and services) in industrial investments and project-based firms and 2) organizational design (capabilities / competencies, risk and uncertainty, organizational structures) in large projects. His present focus is on boundary-spanning business models including collaboration mechanisms in industrial eco-systems within energy and transportation. He is involved in and manage several international research and development projects involving multinational project firms. He is board member in several companies and foundations and has published over 170 articles, reports and books.