2016 Digital Cities Summit Hosted by Stanford University and PARC October 3 & 4, 2016 Stanford University Mackenzie Room Huang Engineering Center Welcome! The first annual Digital Cities Summit hosted by Stanford Global Projects Center, PARC, a Xerox company, and mediaX on October 3-4, 2016 brings together an elite group of ~200 global CEOs, SVPs, entrepreneurs, and policy makers at the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, California. Inside of front cover - blank The goal of the conference is to illustrate how disruptive technology is changing the way citizens, government, and commercial organizations interact with each other to create new social contracts, business models, and behaviors in a digital urban environment. The pioneering Summit provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity to join a seminal two-day event to hear visionary keynote presentations and interact in informative workshops, to better understand how the most innovative global smart cities are being developed today, and how emerging trends in technologies and lifestyles will shape the way digital cities are developed over the next few decades. 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. Digital Cities Summit Agenda Monday, October 3, 2016 continued Monday, October 3, 2016 MODULE CONTENT GOAL SPEAKER 1 Introduction: Setting the Stage 08:00-08:15 •Welcome, Introductions, and Summit Goals Setting the stage, and agenda highlights. Persis Drell, Dean, Stanford School of Engineering Michael Steep, Visiting Scholar, Stanford Ray Levitt, Stanford University 2 Rise of Urbanization & Digital 08:15-09:30 Technologies •Top Five Urban Trends •The Imperatives •The Disruptors Including Technology •The Commercial Opportunities & Market Size •Data Store Set awareness on key urban trends, disruptors (problems we are facing), imperatives (what we must do), and impact of technologies - as both a disruptor and enabler. Overview the commercial market size for digital urbanization. PANEL FACILITATOR: David Gann, Chairman, Smart London Board Andrew Collinge, Assistant Director at the Greater London Authority Nicholas Yang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR Government 09:30-09:45 Break 3 Imperatives: Urban Sustainability 09:45-10:30 •Financing Urban Sustainability •Using big data to enhance the sustainability of emerging mega-cities •Sustainable City “Eco-blocks” Experiment in China •Innovative Mobility •Disruptive Technologies Overview of the issues of sustainability. How do we develop our infrastructure and maintain city life with the massive migration of populations into the cities? How does one approach mobility? What is most imperative? Panel Discussion 4 The Disruptors: Digital Technology 10:30-11:00 •Top 5 Emerging Digital Technology Trends •Software Algorithms •Data & Predictive Analytics •Privacy •Convergence •Energy Overview of emerging software technologies impacting digital urbanization. Key topic: Implications inherent in crossing the chasm of data layers. Panel Discussion PANEL FACILITATOR: Rob Ruyak, VP for Disruptive Technologies, Booz Allen Hamilton Susan Athey, Prof Economics of Tech, GSB Stanford Ege Ertem, Director New Devices, Intel Elliott Katz, Attorney, DLA Piper 5 The Disruptors: Digital Technology 11:00-11:30 •DARPA Overview and discussion of DARPA insights on tech trends. Martha Russell, Executive Director, mediaX, Introductions Brian Pierce, Deputy Dir. Of Information Innovation, DARPA 6 Disruptors: Sensors, real time data 11:30-12:00 analytics, planning, and optimization •Sensor data analytics •Infrastructure health management •Urban mobility •Adaptive resource allocation and planning. Overview of the role of analytics in a sensor-rich environment for adaptive resource allocation and planning. PANEL FACILITATOR: Tolga Kurtoglu, VP, PARC Matt Klenk, Research Scientist, PARC Pierre Maillot, Senior Technological Advisor, Bosch Apu Kumar, CEO, Lotadata Anurag Ganguli, Research Scientst, PARC 7 Harnessing Meta-Materials for Digital Cities 12:00-12:30 Advanced materials science and its implications for urban living. Bernard Casse, Area Manager, MetaMaterials, PARC 8 Luncheon Speaker: Everyone & 12:30-01:30 Everything Connected What does this brave new world entail? Implications Crossing the Data Layer Chasm. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Michael Farber, SEA, Former EVP Booz Allen Hamilton PANEL FACILITATOR: Mike Lepech, Associate Professor, Research, Stanford Kevin Hsu, Research Scientist, Disney Imagineering Anne Kiremidjian, Professor, Stanford Ivan Stoianov, Prof. Imperial College Walter Fang, EVP of Corporate Marketing & Strategic Alliances, iSoftstone MODULE CONTENT GOAL SPEAKER 9 01:30-02:15 The Imperatives: Urban Resources & The Grid •Decentralized infrastructure for waste to energy, water, and materials •Decentralized Power Grids •Disruption caused by the IoT Urban infrastructure will be more decentralized —i.e., no “last mile” — and thus market driven. PANEL FACILITATOR: Ray Levitt, Professor, Stanford Craig Criddle, Professor, Stanford Mark Jacobson, Professor, Stanford Marco Pavone, Professor, Stanford Sameer Sharma, General Manager, Intel Rishee Jain, Assistant Professor, Stanford 10 02:15-03:00 Algorithms, Analytics, and Automation: Getting Smart •Smart Algorithms •Predictive and Adaptive Analytics •Contextual Intelligence – Deep Learning •Machine-to-Machine Communications •Conditioned Based Maintenance Overview automation and data analytics technologies discussing how they will change the urban experience crossing areas like transportation and healthcare. PANEL FACILITATOR: Tara Prakriya, Chief Product Officer, Maana, Inc. Jeff Dalgliesh, Oil and Gas Specialist, Manna, Inc. John Polak, Professor, Imperial College Adam Porter-Price, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton 11 03:00-03:45 Leveraging Digital City Data •Understanding Consumer Behavior •Demographic Variations •Monetization & The Role of Commerce •Changing Attitudes Toward Privacy •Transparency of Public Information How will emerging technologies for data collection and analytics enable new services and change the lives of urban citizens? This segment outlines the prospects and implications. PANEL FACILITATOR: Victoria Bellotti, Research Fellow, PARC Zac Bookman, CEO, OpenGov Walter Fang, EVP, President of Corporate Marketing & Strategic Alliance, iSoftstone Martha Russell, Executive Director, Stanford Media X 12 03:45-04:30 Privacy and Security: Keep Safe and Secure All Things Cyber •Threats, Warning, and Indicators •Monitoring, Detection, Response, and Remediation •Connected, Networked Prevention, Protection •Building an Intelligence Network in the City •Artificial Intelligence—the disruptor •Protecting The Privacy of the Individual Emerging technologies will have dramatic impact on the life of the city’s citizens. The conflict between convenience vs. privacy and security must be addressed. This segment outlines emerging technologies and their implications. INTRODUCTION: Ersin Uzun, VP, PARC Angie Messer, EVP, Booz Allen Hamilton Michael Pozmantier, Former Program Manager, DHS Elliot Katz, Lawyer, DLA Piper Jean Claude Beneventi, Director, Worldwide Business Development & Alliances at Symantec Corporation 13 04:30-05:00 Special Presentation Ford Motor Company •Disruption 14 05:00-05:30 Autonomous Vehicles Implications of autonomous vehicles as the network “glue” crossing urban data layers. Mark Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper Elliott Katz, Lawyer, DLA Piper Mike Short, Telefonica, London Driverless Cars 15 05:30-06:00 Venture and Early Stage Funding for Digital Cities Venture financing for startups in the digital cities space. Pedram Mokrian, Lecturer, Stanford James Tan, Managing Partner, Quest Ventures Raj Kapoor, Advisor at ClassPass, NFX Guild, and Mayfield Fund 16 06:00-07:30 2 Sessions, Q&A Digital Cities: The New Jerusalem Summit Keynote •A Day in the Life of a Digital City in 2050 Set a vision on how technology can change the way we think about urban living. Greg Kelly, CEO, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Andrew Wolstenholme, CEO, Crossrail 07:30-8:00 Cocktails, Small Buffet and Networking For all attendees. Stanford 1st Floor Patio, Near Huang and Y2E2 Adi Singh, Senior Scientist, Ford Palo Alto Reseach Tuesday, October 4, 2016 MODULE Tuesday, October 4, 2016 continued CONTENT GOAL SPEAKER 17 08:00-08:15 Introduction to Day 2 •What we learned from Day 1 •Agenda for Day 2 •What to think about as you participate Recap Day 1 highlights, review Day 2 agenda, and offer some thoughts on what attendees should take away. Ray Levitt, Stanford University Michael Steep, Visiting Scholar, Stanford 18 08:15-09:00 Keynote Speaker: Transforming The Urban Experience How cities of the future will be different when they become natively digital. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Steve Hoover, CEO, PARC 19 9:00-09:30 Financing the Digital City – Keynote Financing innovative products and KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ashby Monk, services in Digital Cities and other capital- Executive Director, Stanford Global intensive sectors with long term paybacks. Projects Center 09:30-09:45 Break 20 09:45-10:15 Urban Institutions and Sectors: Re-imagine •Governing the Smart City: Spotlight London •Health •Commerce Set awareness of how cities like London are setting up frameworks for managing digital cities. PANEL FACILITATOR: David Gann, Chairman, Smart London Board Andrew Collinge, London Data Store Mike Short, Telefonica, London Driverless Cars 21 10:15-11:30 Digital Cities, Communities and Urban Living •Connected WorkSpaces •Health Care/Wellness in the Connected City •Urban Economics and Sustainability •The Digital Divide and the Disconnected •Data-driven Stakeholder Decision-making Overview of interdependencies of digital urban technologies and humancommunity behavior. PANEL FACILITATOR: Martha Russell, Executive Director, Stanford mediaX Young Bang, SVP Booz Allen Hamilton Mike Lepech, Assoc. Prof., Research, Stanford Brooks Patrick, Account Executive, ESRI Spotlight on Digital Transportation •The Future of High Speed Rail •Vehicle Networks •Digital Airports •Convergence of Data Networks for Roads, Rail, Transit, Autonomous Vehicles •Data-Driven Marine Logistics •Data Store The convergance of road, rail, air, and sea transportation. (Ted Talk format) 23 12:15-12:45 Luncheon Keynote: Personal Experience in a Connected World Media influences on consumers’ adoption of digital cities innovations. 12:45-01:00 Break 22 11:30-12:15 PANEL FACILITATOR: Brian Sedar, Consulting Professor, Stanford; former Bechtel Partner Ricardo Sanchez, Technical Director North America, Cintra Mark Thomas, Client Director, Cisco Steve Riano, Global Airport Design Technical Expert, Bechtel Kim Wikström, Director, Rebus Program, Finland Byron Reeves, Professor, Stanford MODULE CONTENT GOAL SPEAKER BIM and The New Approaches to City Design 24 01:00-02:00 •Global Infrastructure and the Role of Embedded Technology and BIM How are we designing and implementing infrastructure? PANEL FACILITATOR: Jay Mezher, Director, VDC, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff to Assign Panelists Martin Fischer, Director at CIFE, Stanford James Tan, Managing Partner, Quest Ventures Sean Doolan, Senior Manager of VDC, Skanska USA Building Emma Stewart, Head of Sustainability Solutions, Autodesk Commercial Opportunities and Business 25 02:00-03:00 Models •Emerging Technology and New commercial opportunities •Digital Manufacturing •Case Examples: Predictive Analytics – Disrupting Insurance Business Models and Innovation; City of Aachen Create awareness of the role emerging technologies and big data can play in driving new market opportunities for commercialization. Showcase examples of new business models for digital cities. PANEL FACILITATOR: Maria Sendra, Shareholder, GreenbergTraurig, LLP David Wilson, Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, Bechtel Mark Goodman, Dir. Innovation, Beazley, Lloyd’s of London Peter Burggräf, University of Aachen, Germany Doug Davenport, CEO, ProspectSV Innovation: The Path to Digital 26 03:15-04:00 Transformation •Case Studies of new Digital Technologies in Transportation Industry •PARC Innovation Framework and Process The world is changing fast and there are proven methods of how we can innovate across industry. Markus Larsson, VP GBO, PARC Commercializing Digital Urbanization 27 04:00-04:30 How to we set upon a path to commercialize digital cities? Michael Steep, Visiting Scholar, Stanford Key learnings from the last two days. Next steps. Michael Steep, Visiting Scholar, Stanford Ray Levitt, Professor, Stanford University David Gann, Chairman, Smart London Board Michael Farber, SEA and Former EVP, Booz Allen Hamilton 03:00-03:15 Break 28 04:30-5:15 Conclusion & Adjournment Digital Cities Summit Speakers Susan Athey Susan Athey is the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Born in 1970, she received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her PhD from Stanford, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University. She previously taught at the economics departments at MIT, Stanford and Harvard. Her current research focuses on the economics of the internet, marketplace design, auction theory, the statistical analysis of auction data, and the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. She has focused on several applications, including timber auctions, internet search, online advertising, the news media, and virtual currency. She advises governments and businesses on the design of auction-based marketplaces. She has served as a long-term consultant for Microsoft Corporation since 2007, including a period as chief economist. She also serves as a long-term advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, helping to architect and implement their auction-based pricing system. Young Bang Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Young J. Bang is a leader in the firm’s NextGen Analytics business within the Strategic Innovation Group (SIG). In this role, he leads the NextGen Analytics initiative, focused on developing and scaling state of the art Data Science, Big Data solutions and Advanced/Predictive Analytics capabilities. Mr. Bang drives the vision, strategy, investments, and delivery of NextGen Analytics across Defense and Intelligence Markets. He also provided leadership to Epidemico a wholly owned subsidiary to Booz Allen. He is a recognized expert in Data Science, technology strategy, architecture and design, systems development and health information technology. Prior to assuming a leadership role in NextGen Analytics, Mr. Bang was a leader in the firm’s civil health business where he provided leadership support to drive the growth of the firm’s Health and IT business supporting clients including the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services (CDC, NIH, FDA and HHS HQ). Previously he provided IT leadership to clients in the MHS, Army, DLA, OSD and other DoD Agencies. Mr. Bang is on the Board of Directors for the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE). SASE is a nonprofit organization that promotes the influence of Asians in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields and helps scientific and engineering professionals of Asian heritage achieve their full potential. Additionally, he is a member of the Executive Steering Committee for Booz Allen’s Asian Agenda. He is also a Board Member for Jool Health and teaches an undergraduate course in Health IT at Georgetown. Victoria Bellotti Victoria Bellotti is a Research Fellow at PARC, a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, an adjunct professor in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC, and an occasional advisor to start-ups. She studies people in their natural habitats to understand their practices, problems, and requirements for future technology, and designs and analyzes human-centered systems, focusing on user experience. When PARC span out of Xerox, she developed PARC’s Opportunity Discovery research and strategic investment targeting program, to assist clients in identifying the best direction to move with new technology-centered business ventures. Best known for her research on personal information management and task management, Dr. Bellotti has more recently been focusing on user-centered design of context- and activity-aware computing systems, the gig economy, behavior change and persuasive computing. Her previous work at London University, United Kingdom, The British Government’s Department of Trade and Industry, EuroPARC, and Apple encompasses domains such as transportation, process control, computer-mediated communication, collaboration, and ubiquitous computing. Jean-Claude Beneventi Jean-Claude Beneventi has extensive technology experience in enterprise security and the mobile space. Previously with Symantec Corporation for 11 years as Director of Global Business Development & Strategic Alliances, Jean-Claude led various business expansion efforts to support numerous enterprise business units from backup to security as well as mobility/IoT solutions within the broader mobile ecosystem ((handset manufacturers, OSes, chipset vendors, carriers and ISVs) with focus on helping enterprises embrace mobility to drive productivity without compromising protection. Jean-Claude played a key role in helping Symantec’s enterprise mobility team define a cohesive strategy from the ground up resulting in the acquisitions of Odyssey Software (MDM), Nukona (MAM) and NitroDesk (Mobile Email Container) forming the basis behind Symantec’s enterprise mobility offering. Prior to Symantec, Jean-Claude held leadership roles at Peregrine Systems (acquired by HP), Gateway Computers, ENCAD (acquired by Kodak) as well as Pilkington Group (acquired by Novartis). Zachary Bookman Before co-founding OpenGov, Zac served as Advisor to U.S. Army General H.R. McMaster on the Transparency task force at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. He previously practiced trial litigation at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. As a Fulbright Fellow, he also studied corruption in Mexico. Zac holds a JD. from the Yale Law School, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from the University of Maryland. Peter Burggräf Peter Burggräf is chief engineer of the department for production management at the WZL of Aachen University. Aachen University is one of the most renowned universities on the field of engineering and the WZL has a worldwide reputation for its successful and trend-setting research and innovation on the field of production engineering. In his research Peter focuses on factory design, organizational configuration and the factory of the future. His consulting focus lies on the development and realization of production systems, green and brown filed factories as well as the integrative development of products and manufacturing. On top of his university duties Peter is also CEO of the StreetScooter Research Corporation since 2012 and since 2015 also member of the advisory board of the e.Go Mobile AG (two young electric car manufacturers that emerged from cooperation between the university and the industry). Furthermore, Peter is in charge of for a very close and successful cooperation with China. Bernard Casse Bernard Casse is the Area Manager of the Metamaterial Devices and Applications (MDA) group in the Hardware Systems Laboratory. The charter of the MDA group is to develop and commercialize advanced metamaterial prototypes for a wide variety of applications including cleantech, communications, medical, sensing, and defense applications. The MDA group leverages PARC’s core competencies and culture of innovation to provide need-driven solutions for Government and commercial clients. At PARC, Bernard is responsible for managing a portfolio of technologies and investments, supporting applied R&D operations, defining the strategic agenda for emerging technologies, and nurturing core competencies. He brings extensive experience in program management, technology risk assessment, proposal writing, technology transition, and engaging all major branches of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Bernard holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the National University of Singapore and was a member of the Technical Staff at the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS). He has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications (h-index of 10), in the areas of micro-/nanofabrication, metamaterials, tissue engineering, nanomedicine and photonics in high-impact factor journals. He is also an official ad hoc referee for a dozen reputable journals. His latest awards include being listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Engineering (2011-2012) and Who’s Who in America (2010). Andrew Collinge Andrew is a member of the Senior Management Team of the GLA. He is the Greater London Authority’s lead officer on the Smart Cities Agenda, supporting the work of the Smart London Board and driving a range of partnerships with business, academia and other cities. He is Director of “Sharing Cities”, a €25m European Commission Smart Cities and Communities demonstrator programme being run across the cities of London, Lisbon and Milan. Andrew is passionate about how data and supporting technologies can be used to drive public service improvement and city life. He is responsible for the delivery of “Data for London”, a world first strategy designed to ensure the capabilities and talents of the city data ecosystem in London have the maximum impact on the city’s social, economic and service-based challenges. He is responsible for the London Datastore, recently recognised internationally as a winner in the Open Data Institute’s annual awards, and is working with Nesta to trial a data science approach to public service modernisation (London Office of Data Analytics). Interested in new models of financing city services, he recently played a key role in organising a collective effort across 6 Boroughs and attracting Big Lottery funding to support the development of a Social Impact Bond for children on the edge of care. Andrew holds a number of external posts. He is a board member of Funding London, an organisation which through loan and equity finance supports small businesses in the capital. He is also an Honorary Fellow at University College London (CASA), a member of the external advisory board of the University of Warwick’s Institute of Science in Cities, and he sits on the Global City Leaders Advisory Board for the World Council on City Data (WCCD). 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 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. Jeff Dalgliesh As Maana’s Oil and Gas Specialist, Jeff works with Oil and Gas clients to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to optimize their wide range of assets. Prior to Maana, Jeff worked for Chevron for 18 years most recently as Drilling and Completions Technology Manager and previously was the Drilling and Completions Technology Architect both at the Chevron Engineering Technology Company. As a thought leader in the emerging technology space, Jeff managed many different technology developments focused on making oil rigs, oil wells, and Upstream assets smarter, more connected, and efficient. Jeff holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science from University of British Colombia in Canada. 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. Persis S. Drell Persis S. Drell is the Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering and professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at Stanford University. Prior to assuming the post of dean in September 2014, Drell was the director of U.S. Department of Energy SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory from 2007 to 2012. Drell received her B.A. in mathematics and physics from Wellesley College in 1977. She received her Ph.D. in atomic physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983. She joined the faculty of the Physics Department at Cornell University in 1988. In 2002, Dr. Drell accepted a position as Professor and Associate Director, Research Division at SLAC. In 2007 she was named Director at SLAC. She stepped down from the SLAC Directorship in 2012 and returned to the Stanford faculty focusing her research on technology development for free electron lasers and particle astrophysics. Drell has served on the board of directors of NVIDIA Corporation since March 2015. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Ege Ertem Ege Ertem is the Senior Business Development Director of New Devices Group – Intel, responsible from establishing Intel’s SOC, software, cloud and SAAS business in wearable’s category globally. Ege joined Intel in year 2000 and kept various roles at Intel including Sales and Marketing Director for Middle East Turkey Africa in 67 countries for 6 years. Managing Intel’s server, PC, tablet, and phone business and driving all the government programs in those emerging markets, Ege brings a deep understanding of the dynamics of the region which is the hub of many smart city transformational projects. Ege holds EE degree from Middle East Technical University and an MBA from Bilgi University. Prior to joining Intel, Ege worked at Schneider Electric Factory as a product manager for energy distribution systems. Michael A. Farber Michael A. Farber, a Senior Executive Advisor, and recently retired Executive Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, provides in-depth analysis and strategies to business executives and program leaders seeking to rationalize, maximize, and protect the business return on their investments in innovation and information technology; drive enterprise innovation; control technologyrelated capital and operating expenses; gain market share; and increase shareholder and stakeholder value. Michael formerly led Booz Allen’s Strategic Ventures Group and Alliances Program, establishing and managing the Firm’s relationships with market and technology leading industry partners, venture capital organizations, academic institutions, and start-up incubators and accelerators. He and his team created the Booz Allen Innovation Hub (iHub) network designed to help their clients and business partners to accelerate the identification, creation, adoption, and enablement of advanced, edge, emerging, disruptive and transformational technologies. During the past several years he formulated and drove Booz Allen’s investments and related business strategies and services in cloud, social collaboration/ network, and mobile computing and communications, IoT, I-P-A micro-services, devops, and containerization. He is now focused on helping organizations to advance, integrate, and leverage the convergence of distributed sensor networks, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, unmanned/autonomous systems and vehicles, chatbots and automated analytics to advance human-machine and machine-human interactions. Michael is an avid reader, music fan, and presently struggles with training his recently rescued dog Finn, and a life quest to simply play the guitar – mastery of the instrument has long been out of his grasp. 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. Anurag Ganguli Anurag Ganguli’s research interests are in the areas of control systems, robotics, and optimization. At PARC, he is currently working on developing device health management solutions for intelligent transportation systems. Prior to joining PARC, Anurag was involved in developing the next-generation advanced driver assistance systems for cars and commercial vehicles at Delphi Corporation in Malibu, CA. Anurag also has had significant start-up experience with Utopia Compression Corporation in Los Angeles where he led the research and development efforts pertaining to the integration of unmanned aircraft into the National Airspace. He was instrumental in making key technological breakthroughs in the area of vision enabled collision avoidance for unmanned aircraft, and in successfully building a portfolio of AFRL and DARPA funded programs. Anurag’s other research and development experiences are in the areas of mobile health and context-aware wireless networking. Dr. Ganguli obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. His doctoral research was at the intersection of control theory, robotics and computational geometry where he developed cooperative control algorithms to enable groups of simple robots with limited sensing and communication capabilities perform complex tasks in unison. He has two patents pending and has published more than 25 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and conferences. Anurag has been a finalist and the winner of the Student Best Paper Award competition at the American Control Conference for two years in a row, and was a Carver Research Fellow at the University of Illinois. David Gann David Gann is Imperial College’s Vice President, leading Innovation. He is a member of the College’s Executive Board. David is an accomplished university leader, strategist and advocate, renowned for his work on innovation, entrepreneurship and technology management. His academic research spans strategy, management science and systems engineering. His distinctive strength is in building relationships proactively and internationally, to connect ideas, research and solutions with susbtantial funding between academia, business and government. In 2015 he led a review of Imperial’s Technology, Transfer, Translation and Collaboration activities, Pathways to Societal Impact. David was previously Deputy Principal, Imperial College Business School. David is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Imperial College Business School and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London. He has a PhD in Industrial Economics, is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the City & Guilds Institute. Mark Goodman Mark Goodman is Head of Beazley’s Corporate Development team. Beazley plc is the parent company of specialist insurance businesses with operations in US, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Middle East and Australia. Beazley manages six Lloyd’s of London insurance syndicates and, in 2015, underwrote gross premiums worldwide of over $2billion. We partner with brokers and reinsurers to develop and distribute innovative products that meet the changing needs of clients, who range from Global 1,000 companies through to mid-sized and small companies and individuals. The Corporate Development team leads Beazley’s innovation and product development activity, as well as working with the Executive directors to research and set strategy and business plans. Our internal Bhive app helps employees identify and refine ideas to create new products or improve our processes. One of the innovations that Beazley is well known for is our Beazley Breach Response product that protects companies from the risks associated with data breach. Mark has over 20 years’ experience in strategy development and change management. Mark joined Beazley in 2008 and had previously consulted to the insurance and banking industries, and the not for profit sector. Stephen Hoover Stephen Hoover is 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 competencies including 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. Kevin Fan Hsu Kevin Fan Hsu is a scientist with Disney Research and Lecturer in Urban Studies at Stanford University. He explores the interplay of urban infrastructure and the environment to support livable, low-carbon cities, and to promote heritage protection and cultural continuity. At Disney’s sustainable infrastructure lab in Shanghai, he spearheads efforts to integrate urban planning practice with clean energy systems, mobility options and human-centered design of communities.Kevin holds degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Earth Systems, and International Relations from Stanford, where he co-founded the interdisciplinary Human Cities Initiative. He teaches courses in Urban Studies and the d.school (Design School), including “Civic Dreams, Human Spaces,” “Defining Smart Cities” and”International Urbanization,” a long-term collaboration with Tsinghua University. Mark Z. Jacobson Mark Z. Jacobson is Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment and of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering, an A.B. in Economics, and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Stanford in 1988. He received an M.S. and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences in 1991 and 1994, respectively, from UCLA and joined the faculty at Stanford in 1994. He has published two textbooks of two editions each and ~150 peer-reviewed journal articles. He received the 2005 AMS Henry G. Houghton Award and the 2013 AGU Ascent Award for his work on black carbon climate impacts and the 2013 Global Green Policy Design Award for developing state and country energy plans. In 2015, he received a Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for his work on the grid integration of 100% wind, water and solar energy systems. He has served on an advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, appeared in a TED talk, appeared on the David Letterman Show to discuss converting the world to clean energy, and cofounded The Solutions Project (www.thesolutionsproject.org). Rishee Jain Professor Jain’s research focuses on the development of data-driven and socio-technical solutions to sustainability problems facing the urban built environment. His work lies at the intersection of civil engineering, data analytics and social science. Recently, his research has focused on understanding the socio-spatial dynamics of commercial building energy usage, conducting data-driven benchmarking and sustainability planning of urban buildings and characterizing the coupled dynamics of urban systems using data science and micro-experimentation. For more information, see the active projects on his lab (Stanford Urban Informatics Lab) website. Raj Kapoor Raj is a serial entrepreneur, recovering Managing Partner VC, Internet industry vet, and late night singer in a techie rockband called Coverflow. He is now splitting his time as an advisor to ClassPass, NFX Guild, and Mayfield Fund while also exploring the intersection of urbanization and technology from a venture capital and startup perspective. Most recently in 2013, Raj created and was cofounder/CEO of fitmob - the vision was to bring the on demand economy to fitness and create the worlds largest network of pop up exercise centered around the top fitness trainers vs real estate. In may 2015, he combined fitmob with ClassPass to create the world’s largest fitness marketplace - 4 countries, 39 cities, and over $150M annual revenue run rate. ClassPass/fitmob have redefined fitness connecting consumers with the best studios and gyms in their area. From 2005 to 2012, he was a Managing Director at venture capital fund Mayfield where he invested in 14 companies across marketplaces, online advertising, e-commerce, mobile, consumer internet/digital media and b2b internet segments including Lyft, Rubicon Project, Qunar, Red Beacon, Five Stars, Moat, and others. His VC track record is currently over 5x net return of invested capital. Prior to joining Mayfield, Raj was co-founder and CEO of Snapfish, a leading global online photo service which at peak reached over 100M users and exceeded $300M in revenue. Raj orchestrated the successful sale of Snapfish to Hewlett-Packard in March 2005 for $300M. Elliot Katz Elliot Katz is Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper’s Connected and Self-Driving Car Practice. In that role, Elliot advises automakers, tech companies, and municipalities on the following: compliance with state, federal, and international privacy laws and guidelines; privacy strategy; analysis of proposed legislation; and business and policy strategy. In addition to his work surrounding connected and self-driving vehicles, Elliot also works on privacy and policy issues related to other Internet-connected devices and systems, such as issues surrounding the use of mobile location analytics. Elliot regularly speaks and writes on emerging privacy and policy issues in the connected and self-driving car space, and is often approached by the media to discuss these issues. Recently, Elliot has been quoted in articles on this topic by media outlets such as Yahoo Finance, Law360, and eSecurity Planet. Elliot received his J. D. from Cornell Law School, and his B.S., summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University. Gregory A. Kelly Gregory A. Kelly is one of eight members of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff’s Senior Executive Team responsible for global operations, policy and direction for an engineering and professional services organization of 34,500 employees in more than 500 offices in 40 countries. As president and chief executive officer of the U.S., Central and South America region of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, Mr. Kelly directs the operations of the firm in the United States, Central and South America, overseeing a workforce of 7,500 employees and nearly $1.8 billion in annual revenue. The firm is active on hundreds of projects in the region, across the transportation & infrastructure, buildings, industrial & energy, and environment sectors. Active in the infrastructure services industry, Mr. Kelly frequently speaks on engineering and construction issues and participates on the executive boards of many leading industry organizations. He testified before Congressional committees on public-private partnerships in 2013 and 2014, gave the keynote address at a 2014 conference on American infrastructure at the Brookings Institution, and participated in a National League of Cities conference at the White House in March 2015, where he took part in a discussion of increasing investment in U.S. infrastructure. Additionally, he was elected to the National Academy of Construction in 2014 and is a member of The Moles, a prestigious organization in the heavy construction industry. He is on the executive committee of the Design Professionals Coalition and is a Board Member of the Association for the Improvement of Americas Infrastructure (AIAI). Anne Kiremidjian Anne Kiremidjian is a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Her current research focuses on the design and implementation of wireless sensor networks for structural damage and health monitoring and the development of robust algorithms for structural damage diagnosis that can be embedded in wireless sensing units. She works on structural component and systems reliability methods; structural damage evaluation models; and regional damage, loss and casualty estimation methods utilizing geographic information and database management systems for portfolios of buildings or spatially distributed lifeline systems assessment with ground motion and structure correlations. Matthew Klenk Matthew Klenk leads the Urban Mobility project in PARC’s System Sciences Lab. In this role, Matt defines key technical challenges and provides a bridge between emerging transportation trends and technologies and Xerox’s transportation business. Matt is the Principle Investigator of PARC’s ARPA-e funded TRANSNET project that seeks to reduce city wide energy use through personalized messaging and detailed energy modeling. With over 10 years of Artificial Intelligence experience, Matt’s contributions include new methods for collaboration between autonomous agents, generating human-like behavior in training simulations, spatial cognition, design tools, and computational models of analogical reasoning. Matt holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Computer Science from Emory University. Apu Kumar Apu has extensive technology experience in mobile analytics and cloud services. As the founder and CEO of LotaData, an alternative data company focused on location insights, machine learning, and deep data science, Apu is bringing “people intelligence” to the public and private sectors. Prior to LotaData, Apu was SVP at BlueStacks, the #1 platform for cloud gaming. Apu has also held senior leadership roles at iconic technology brands like Hewlett Packard, Phoenix Technologies (acquired by HP), CNET.com and mySimon (acquired by CNET). Apu has a Master’s degree in Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Tolga Kurtoglu Tolga Kurtoglu is Vice President and Director of the System Sciences Lab (SSL) at PARC. Research in SSL focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, control, planning, optimization, and high performance analytics for a variety of cyber-physical system applications serving Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), CAD/CAM, Transportation, Energy, and Aerospace and Defense sectors.Tolga leads the SSL team to create innovation and enterprise level business impact by applying leading edge scientific and technical solutions to solve complex real-world problems. He has served in various leadership roles at PARC focusing on product strategy and technology commercialization to manage transition of new technologies from an R&D output to production quality software systems and services. Prior to his work with PARC, he worked as a researcher at NASA Ames Research Center and as a mechanical design engineer and group lead at Dell Corporation. Tolga’s own research focuses on computation and AI applied to design and manufacturing of complex systems, and application of preventive and predictive analytics techniques to engineered systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University -- both in Mechanical Engineering. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and papers in leading journals and conferences in his field, and regularly serves in organizational leadership roles for the ASME, AIAA, AAAI, Design Society, and Prognostics and Health Management Society professional communities. He is the recipient of the IEEE Best Professional Paper Award at the Prognostics and Health Management Conference (2008), NASA Ames Technical Excellence Award (2009), PARC Excellence Award (2011), and the Best Design Award in “Dexterous Robot Hand” Design Competition (1999). Markus Larsson Markus Larsson is Vice President, Global Business Operations, and is responsible for the development, integration and implementation of the Company’s commercial growth strategies. He combines his understanding of technology, innovation practices, IP, and licensing, with PARC’s unique business model to meet individual client needs in the private sector. PARC’s extensive commercial, government and academic portfolio shows the Company’s ability to partner with a variety of organizations to help advance their offerings by implementing breakthrough technologies, including data analytics, sensors, AI, machine learning, security, manufacturing, energy, and more. Markus and his team are responsible for the management and development of complex business relationships, and of the commercialization of PARC’s technology and IP portfolios, to continue growing PARC’s innovation and R&D center. Prior to PARC, Markus worked as an intellectual capital management business analyst. He joined PARC’s Intellectual Capital Management team through a partnership with Chalmers University, which specializes in the intersection of technology, business, and law for commercializing technological breakthroughs. Markus earned his M.S. in Intellectual Capital Management and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. 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 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. Raymond Levitt Dr. 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 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. Pierre Maillot Pierre Maillot acts as Senior Technological Advisor, for the Bosch Group. Currently he is focused on strategizing and implementing Bosch technologies in a smart community development in San Francisco, managed by FivePoint - the largest developer of mixed-use communities in coastal California. For the last 4 years, Pierre has been a pioneer in the Bosch smart city initiative by leveraging the potential of “Internet of Things” in urban environments. Pierre holds a master degree in mechanical engineering, and a special degree in technology and international business development, which led him to take several management positions in Europe, Asia and now North America. 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. Jay Mezher Jay Mezher, AIA, serves as the Director of Virtual Design & Construction at WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff. A recognized expert in digital design technologies, he is frequently called upon to contribute as an expert on VDC/BIM by publishers like McGraw-Hill and his work is often showcased in keynote presentations at leading industry conferences. An advocate for including VDC/ BIM as much a part of the project development as any other project activity, Mr. Mezher has implemented all aspects of the 3D modeling lifecycle process from early planning through construction on a large number of infrastructure projects for the past 16 years, both nationally and internationally. His work encompasses 3D modeling , simulation, visualization, Reality Capture and LIDAR, BIM & model based design, 4D modeling and 5D modeling (4D plus cost and risk information). Mr. Mezher’s most significant projects include the SR 99 Deep Bored Tunnel, East Side Access, SR520 Floating Bridge, the Second Midtown Tunnel, and the Bayonne Bridge. Pedram Mokrian Pedram Mokrian is a recognized expert in innovation and strategy in high tech ventures and is drawn to disruptive opportunities in digital cities, data analytics, and the internet of things (IOT). He is a lecturer at Stanford University and the Haas School of business at UC Berkeley where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation strategy for graduate students and executive education programs for a wide range of national and international multi-billion dollar enterprises. He is a mentor to a number of start-up incubators and serves on the advisory boards of numerous private companies. He was previously a Principal at Mayfield, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital firms, where he was part of the investment team with over $3.5B assets under management. He has been part of the investment team in CPower (acquired by Constellation Energy), SolarCity (SCTY), RSI (acquired by HTW), and served as a board observer for enterprise SaaS companies SmartRecruiters and CloudPhysics. Pedram holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University with a focus on Operations Research and Energy Economics, and during his tenure was involved with the founding of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency. Ashby Monk Dr. Ashby Monk is the Executive and Research Director of the Stanford Global Projects Center. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford and a Senior Advisor to the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California. Dr. Monk has a strong track record of academic and industry publications. He was named by aiCIO magazine as one of the most influential academics in the institutional investing world. His research and writing has been featured in The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Reuters, Forbes, and on National Public Radio among a variety of other media. His current research focus is on the design and governance of institutional investors, with particular specialization on pension and sovereign wealth funds. He received his Doctorate in Economic Geography at Oxford University and holds a Master›s in International Economics from the Universite de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne and a Bachelor›s in Economics from Princeton University. Brooks Patrick Brooks Patrick is ESRI Account Executive. He is a landscape architect, 3D technology evangelist and GIS specialist at the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) helping individuals, teams, and organizations take advantage of 3D GIS and procedural modeling for City Planning, Urban Design, and Game Development. In this role, Brooks leads a highly collaborative team that develops innovative approaches that integrate Esri’s core competencies in real-time big data and geographic urban analysis with the design of the built environment. Most recently he has been involved in the implementation of city planning solutions that simulate the impacts of scenario planning, enabling decision makers to meet or exceed project goals. Brooks enjoys making powerful analytical tools easy to use and accessible for planning and design professionals who have little to no background in GIS. Marco Pavone Dr. 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 large-scale robotic networks and autonomous aerospace vehicles. He is a recipient of 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). He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. Brian Pierce Dr. Brian Pierce is the Deputy Director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O). This is Dr. Pierce’s second tour at the agency, having served as the deputy office director of the Strategic Technology Office from 2005 to 2010. Dr. Pierce has almost 30 years of experience developing advanced technologies in the aerospace/defense industry. Prior to joining DARPA, he was a technical director in Space and Airborne Systems at the Raytheon Company. From 2002-2005, he was executive director of the Electronics Division at Rockwell Scientific Company in Thousand Oaks, California. From 1983 to 2002, he held various engineering positions at Hughes Aircraft Company and Raytheon in southern California. Dr. Pierce earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in chemistry, a Master of Science degree in chemistry and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and mathematics from the University of California at Riverside. He has more than 20 U.S. patents. John Polak Professor John Polak is Professor of Transport Demand and Director of the Urban Systems Laboratory, Imperial College London and Honorary Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems at South East University in Nanjing, China. Prior to establishing the Urban Systems Laboratory, he was Director of the Centre for Transport Studies and Director of Research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial. Professor Polak is a mathematician by background with over 30 years experience in transport research, specialising in the areas of mathematical and statistical transport modelling and analysis. He is a member of the Mayor of London’s Smart London Board, a Member of the Department for Transport’s Strategic Roads Reform Expert Group and a member of the British Standards Institute Advisory Committee on Smart Cities Standards. He is a past President of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research and a past Council Member of the Association for European Transport and a member of a number of TRB Committees and serves on the editorial advisory boards of a number of leading international journals. He has served as an advisor to central and local government and industry on a wide range of transport issues, both in the UK and overseas. Professor Polak has been in the forefront of innovative transport model development in the UK for a number of years and has published extensively on a number of aspects of travel demand modelling, network performance estimation, network control and traffic management and intelligent transport systems. Much of his recent research has been concerned with the collection, analysis and interpretation of very large scale real-time datasets related to operational, behavioural, attitudinal and environmental aspects of urban infrastructure systems and services. Adam Porter-Price Adam Porter-Price leads the Futures function within Booz Allen’s Strategic Innovation Group. In this role, he provides a datadriven perspective on emerging political, economic, social, technological, demographic, and environmental trends that will have a profound impact on business, government, and society. In his prior consulting work, Adam led complex strategic engagements across the public, private, and social sectors with clients ranging from the US Internal Revenue Service to a leading chocolate company. Adam received a BA in International Relations from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from London Business School. He also serves on the board of directors of the International Model United Nations Association (IMUNA), a UN-affiliated global education non-profit dedicated to teaching critical thinking, research, writing, and negotiation skills in secondary schools around the world. Michael Pozmantier Michael Pozmantier is an internationally recognized leader in cybersecurity and technology transfer. He helped establish the Transition to Practice (TTP) program at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), overseeing a portfolio of 32 technologies from ten government labs and universities and working with more than 80 researchers. As the program manager of TTP, responsible for the establishment of four startup companies and a number of other technology licenses, making it the most successful program of its kind in the government. He is now working on his next endeavor, focused on helping established entities harness emerging technology to drive revenue growth and cost reduction, and enhanced security. Prior to managing the Transition to Practice Program, Michael contracted with DHS for eight years and the Department of Veterans Affairs for two years, leading network development and deployment projects, software development projects, data center consolidations, cybersecurity deployments, and information sharing solutions. Michael graduated from University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Government. Tara Prakriya Tara Prakriya is Chief Product Officer at Maana. She spearheads product strategy and direction. Tara’s background includes 15 years at Microsoft, holding various roles, including: Partner General Manager of Technical Strategy reporting to the CTO; Product Unit Manager of the Tablet PC Group in Windows; and Product Unit Manager of the advertising and content management teams in MSN; and the Group Program Manager for iDSS, the first large scale data warehouse for consumer web activity for the worldwide MSN and MSNBC networks. Prior to Microsoft she worked in financial data warehousing at Merck. Post Microsoft she was Senior Vice President of Product Management at Scantron. Tara earned an M.B.A. in Finance and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Computer Science. She holds multiple patents related to web advertising, data, digital ink, and other technologies. 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. Byron Reeves Byron Reeves is the Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication at Stanford. He teaches courses in mass communication theory and research, with particular emphasis on psychological processing of interactive media. His research includes message processing, social cognition, and social and emotion responses to media, and has been published in books of collected studies as well as such journals as Human Communication Research, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Broadcasting, and Journalism Quarterly. He is co-author of The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (Cambridge University Press). His research has been the basis for a number of new media products for companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, in the areas of voice interfaces, automated dialogue systems and conversational agents. He is currently working on the applications of multi-player game technology to learning and the conduct of serious work. 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. 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 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. Rob Ruyak Rob leads Booz Allen’s Edge Technologies capability focused on partnering and investing in small and mid-sized companies, incubators, and accelerators that together can help solve the firm’s most difficult client problems. As part of the Strategic Innovation Group, his team focuses on creating new ways to engage the most innovative technologies and businesses for the firm’s core growth platforms around cybersecurity, engineering, data science, and systems development. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Rob spent five years at Booz & Company developing business and technology strategies for commercial clients in the Energy & Utilities, Consumer Media, and Health markets. Prior to consulting, he spent 7 years developing and designing software products at Sun Microsystems in Santa Clara, CA. Rob has an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University. 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. 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 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. Maria Sendra Maria Sendra is a Shareholder in the Corporate & Securities practice at GreenbergTraurig. She has built an emerging technologies practice which helps companies to scale innovation globally by leveraging capital markets, private equity, and technology relationships in key jurisdictions around the world. She has managed international teams of over 500 experts, in helping to globally scale start ups, as well as Fortune 500 company, venture capital, private equity and investment banking efforts in disrupting a wide variety of industries, including data analytics, IoT, energy, cleantech, biotechnology, digital healthcare, entertainment, consumer goods, retail and e-commerce sales and scaled revenue strategies. She has structured and managed domestic and international alliances and businesses linking California innovation to financial markets in NY, London, all over Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Maria Sendra is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Valenciano, and has studied German. She received a BA from Yale University (magna cum laude), an MA from Indiana University (with distinction), and her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, with an Award for Excellence in Written Advocacy. Her background is in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. She ran a research lab as a student at Yale University, and worked as a filmmaker at Harvard University. Sameer Sharma Sameer Sharma is the General Manager (New Market Development) for IOT Solutions at Intel. Sameer leads a global team that drives new growth categories for Intel in IOT such as Smart City Services, Connected Lighting and Environmental Monitoring. His team focuses on pursuing and incubating new revenue streams and establishing leadership across the IOT segment. Sameer is a thought leader in IOT and Mobile ecosystem and has driven multiple strategic initiatives over the past 17 years. At Intel, he has played leadership roles including Global Chief of Staff for Intel Mobile Communications Group, where he led strategy. During this time, he helped launch the first Intel Global LTE modem, first Intel-based smartphone in the US and helped grow Intel-based tablet volume by 3X. Sameer has an MBA from The Wharton School at UPenn, and a Masters in Computer Engineering from Rutgers. He holds 7 patents in the areas of IOT and Mobile. Mike Short Dr. Short has held positions in Electronics and telecommunications for over 40 years . He has had experience with 5 Generations of Mobile technology and mobile data services. including the establishment of a new 5G innovation centre based at Surrey University . He has been involved in mobile licence bids, network launches and in recent years Innovation for business development in areas as diverse as mobile messaging, mobile TV, digital health, connected cars, smart metering, smart cities and emergency services. He is a former elected Chairman of the global GSM Association, the UK Mobile Data Association, and a past President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET - 2011/2012) . He holds currently Visiting Professor positions at the Universities of Surrey, Coventry , Leeds and Lancaster , and was awarded a CBE by the Queen in 2012 as a national honour for services to the Mobile industry. Adi Singh Adi Singh is the chief architect of the software infrastructure that supports Ford’s Smart mobility experiments out of California. A product of Stanford University, Adi completed his graduate work in Aeronautics & Astronautics focusing on UAVs. At Ford’s Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto, Adi leads projects in drone applications, dynamic shuttles and scalable dataprocessing, while supporting an array of other projects in connected vehicles and data-driven healthcare. He is also the company’s primary liaison to Stanford’s Computer Forum and StartX Accelerator, and regularly speaks at conferences on Mobility, Connectivity and the Internet of Things (IoT). Adi’s interests lie in bringing the most cutting-edge technology solutions into the automotive industry, and in demonstrating how these technologies enable the industry to tackle the biggest challenges in mobility, sustainability and connectivity faced by the world today. Mike Steep Michael Steep is a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Global Projects Center and 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. Emma Stewart Emma Stewart, Ph.D., is Head of Sustainability Solutions at Autodesk, where she leads the design software company’s efforts to make sustainability a “no-brainer” for its millions of engineering and design customers. She serves on the Board of Directors of SPUR and Impact Infrastructure, the Advisory Boards of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the World Resources Institute’s “Science-Based Targets” Initiative. In 2015, she was elected to become an Advisor to the US Green Building Council, the global organization behind the LEED rating system. Emma is a member of the professional faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business where she teaches a self-created course on “Intrapreneurship for Sustainability”. In 2009, Emma founded Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Living Lab program, which uses Autodesk facilities as a testing ground for new software to rapidly green existing buildings. In 2008, she founded its Sustainable Operations program, which was named best-in-class by the Carbon Disclosure Project. She co-authored Autodesk’s C-FACT methodology (a Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-stabilizing Targets), an open-source, sciencedriven, business-friendly approach to greenhouse gas target-setting, which was named #1 of public company targets by Climate Counts. Prior to Autodesk, she founded and directed the Environmental R&D Division at Business for Social Responsibility, where her team designed corporate initiatives to analyze and adapt to horizon issues such as payments for ecosystem services, water footprinting, carbon offsets and trading, voluntary supply chain standards, and sustainable product design. James Tan James Tan is managing partner of Quest Ventures, a leading venture fund for technology companies. Prior to this, James was co-founder and COO of 55tuan (NASDAQ: WOWO), one of China’s largest e-commerce companies with an annual transaction volume near $1 billion. Quest Ventures was the first or one of the earliest investors in today’s trailblazers such as 99.co, Burpple, Carousell, EthisCrowd, Ihram.asia, KeyReply, Oddle.me, ShopBack, Spiking, Lenda, Vulcan Post, Watch Over Me and Xfers. He has held various engineering and product roles in two-sided markets at SCS (now NCS), JPMorgan Chase and Nets. James has also served as trustee or board director on many organisations and companies, including Action Community for Entrepreneurship, Beijing Software Industry Association, Applied Innovation Institute, and startups in China and Southeast Asia. James was recognised as an outstanding overseas Chinese by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China; and a finalist in the Australia China Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship. He has been guest speaker at China-centric and entrepreneurship events such as Global Entrepreneurship Week, ITB Berlin, TechinAsia, TDS Asia, and Web In Travel. He is a mentor at Chinaccelerator, Founder Institute, IBM SmartCamp, and SPH Plug and Play. He has lectured or is a regular guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, HKUST, IE, NUS and Tsinghua University. James is a graduate of University of South Australia and as a Beijing government scholarship and Singapore government fellowship recipient, received his MBA from Tsinghua University in partnership with MIT. He studied and dropped out of information systems and computer science at the National University of Singapore. Ersin Uzun Ersin Uzun is Vice President and Director of PARC’s Computing Science Laboratory. In this role, he leads research and development of new security and communication technologies as well as the innovation service offerings such as rapid prototyping, user needs research and innovation management consultancy. In his previous role at PARC, Ersin was the global director of technology solutions & strategy, leading its efforts in developing innovative and cutting-edge solutions to the industries’ most challenging problems. Prior to that, Ersin also directed PARC’s research efforts in Data Security and Privacy, leading some of its visionary research in Privacy Preserving Analytics, Content-Centric Networking and Named-Data Networking. Before joining PARC, Ersin worked at Nokia Research Center, HP Labs and Ericsson. His professional experience includes co-founding technology startups and working as a technology consultant. Ersin received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from UC Irvine, and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and issued/pending patents. 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 projectbased 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. David Wilson David Wilson is the deputy chief innovation officer for Bechtel, a global engineering, construction, and project management company with $37 billion in annual revenue and nearly 60,000 colleagues. Wilson manages Bechtel’s Future Fund, a program designed to encourage the company’s globally deployed employees to create, share, explore, and develop new ideas for enhancing performance and competitiveness. Wilson joined Bechtel in 2001 as a mechanical systems engineer at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project in Richland, Washington. Since then, he has held leadership positions of increasing responsibility, including Lean Six Sigma master black belt and project manager of a telecommunications project. His most recent role was as manager of Innovation and Virtual Project Delivery for Bechtel Infrastructure and Power business units. He is a certified professional engineer and certified Six Sigma master black belt. Wilson received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah and a master’s degree in Engineering and Technology Management from Washington State University. Andrew Wolstenholme Andrew graduated from Southampton University in 1981 with a first class honours degree in Civil Engineering. He served with the British Army for three years as a Queen’s Royal Irish Hussar before resigning his commission in 1984 to pursue a career in business and engineering. Andrew joined Arup, the international engineering consultants, as a bridge designer in 1987. He was later seconded to Schal Associates in Chicago where he worked on tall buildings along side some of the great American architects. Andrew moved to Hong Kong in 1992 to develop Arup’s project management capability on some of South East Asia’s major infrastructure projects at that time. Andrew joined the airport operator BAA plc in 1997 as Construction Director for the Heathrow Express rail link. He went on to lead the delivery of the £4.3bn Terminal 5 programme and became BAA’s Director of Capital projects running the £10bn development programme across seven UK airports. With a passion to improve the UK’s construction industry, Andrew was invited to lead an industry review in 2009. His report, ‘Never Waste a Good Crisis’, has helped steer government policy in this important area. Andrew joined the Balfour Beatty Group in 2009 as Director of Innovation and Strategic Capability. He was awarded an OBE for services to the construction industry in the same year. Andrew joined Crossrail as its Chief Executive Officer on 1 August 2011. Nicholas Yang Mr. Yang was appointed Secretary for Innovation and Technology of the fourth-term Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on 20 November 2015. The Innovation and Technology Bureau is responsible for policy matters on information technology, as well as innovation and technology. Mr. Yang graduated in 1977 from the California Institute of Technology in the United States with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He pursued further studies in Stanford University and obtained a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1978 and a Master of Business Administration degree in 1982. Mr. Yang worked as a senior design engineer for Intel Corporation in 1978 and subsequently as a strategic management consultant for Bain & Company. Returning to Hong Kong in 1983, he joined Shell Electric Mfg. (Holdings) Limited as its Executive Director and Deputy Group Managing Director. He was senior consultant and director of several venture capital and private equity investment firms in 2002. Mr. Yang was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited in 2003 and was an Executive Vice President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2010 to February 2015. In March 2015, he was appointed by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government as Advisor on Innovation and Technology, and a Non-official Member of the Executive Council which is the Chief Executive’s top advising body. 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