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Featured Keynote Speakers

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Gordon Feller
Executive Advisor on smart-cities to corporates, local governments

For four decades Gordon Feller has been a leader on smart-cities, working to ensure that all of the key urban stakeholders --  public agencies, non-profits, private companies -- fully utilize emerging technologies. In the 1990s Gordon founded the non-profit Meeting of the Minds. It’s recognized as one of the world’s most effective global leadership network and knowledge-sharing platform focused on urban innovation. As a veteran tech-industry executive he’s served for many years in executive roles at IBM, Apple, Cisco. Today he serves on the Boards of several successful non-profits which aim to improve the availability and reduce the costs of innovative technologies and services.He serves as a consultant to executives who run some of the world’s leading organizations: national and city governments; non-profits; start-ups; grown-ups. 

​LinkedIn
@MeetoftheMinds 
@GordonFeller​

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Dr. David S. Ricketts
Harvard University
​Dr. David S. Ricketts is an award-winning innovator and global thought leader in the theory and practice of innovation. He has helped boost creative thinking and bring cutting edge ideas to reality in top companies such as Mastercard, Disney, and General Motors. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he is an Innovation Fellow researching how organizations transform ideas into innovation. His breakthrough research and innovations have been featured in worldwide news outlets such as Popular Science, Smithsonian, NBC, CBS, and Fox News. His teaching and insights leverage his over 20 years of corporate R&D and academic research. Dr. Ricketts helps organizations drive success through innovation with his dynamic keynotes, executive consulting, and innovation masterclasses.  

@drdavidricketts
linkedin.com/in/drdavidricketts  ​
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Ruthbea Yesner
IDC 
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Ruthbea Yesner is the Vice President of Government Insights at IDC.  In this practice, Ms. Yesner manages the US Federal Government, Education, and the Worldwide Smart Cities and Communities Global practices. Ms. Yesner's research discusses the strategies and execution of relevant technologies and best practice areas, such as governance, innovation, partnerships and business models, essential for government and education transformation.  Ms. Yesner's research includes  analytics, artificial intelligence, Open data and data exchanges, digital twins, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and mobile solutions in the areas of economic development and civic engagement, urban planning  and administration, smart campus, transportation, and energy and infrastructure. 


Conference Speakers

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Laila Alequresh
Chief Innovation Officer
 City of Dallas | DallasCityNews.net
Jay Boisseau
Executive Director & Founder
Austin Smart City Alliance
LinkedIn
@JayBoisseau
@AustinCityUP
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Jesse Bounds
Director of Innovation
​City of Houston
LinkedIn

@HoustonBounds
@HoustonTX
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Reed Clay
Founder & CEO
Crestline Solutions

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Chelsea Collier
Founder 
​Digi.City
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@ChelseaMcC
@digi_city 
Brian Dillard
Chief Innovation Officer
​City of San Antonio
LinkedIn 

@COSAGOV
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Christine Galib
Director
Ion Smart and Resilient Cities Accelerator
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Michael Pegues
Chief Innovation Officer
​Aurora, Illinois
Charles Purma III
IT Project Manager
​City of Austin

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​Jennifer Sanders
Executive Director
Dallas Innovation Alliance and North Texas Innovation Alliance

​LinkedIn
@jensanders212
@DallasSmartCity
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Rob Silverberg
CTO Digital Communities
Dell EMC
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Andrew Watkins
President and COO
Marketplace.City

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Michael Mazur
VP of Business Development
Colu
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Samantha Snabes
Co-​Founder & Catalyst
re3D
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Junfeng Jiao, PhD
Director, Urban Information Lab, 
Associate Professor, School of Architecture  
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Tanya Acevedo
Chief Technology Officer
Houston Airport System
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Steve Steinberg
CEO
​Responsum
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Mark Masongsong
CEO & Co-Founder
Urbanlogiq

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