2016 SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
2015 SPEAKERS:

Will Barkis
Gigabit Developer Evangelist
Orange Telecom

Boyd Cohen
Researcher and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Smart Cities
Universidad del Desarollo, Santiago, Chile

Bill Wallace
Executive Director
US Ignite

Drew Solomon
Coordinator, Entrepreneurship & Industry Initiatives
Economic Development Council of Kansas City, MO / LaunchKC

Sly James
Mayor
Kansas City, MO

Michael Liimatta
President
Connecting for Good

David Warm
Executive Director
Mid-America Regional Council

Herb Sih
Managing Partner
Think Big Ventures

Alan Fitzpatrick
Co-founder
Charlotte Hearts Gigabit
Jessica Thesing
Economic Development
Division
Salt Lake City Utah
Erin Mote
Co-founder
Brooklyn Lab School

Catherine Bracy
Director, Community Organizing
Code for America

Rick Usher
Assistant City Manager
Kansas City, Missouri

Lev Gonick
Co-founder and CEO
OneCommunity

Mark Holland
Mayor
Kansas City, KS

Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner
Deputy Director
Kansas City (MO) Public Library

Jase Wilson
CEO
Neighbor.ly

Deb Socia
Executive Director
Next Century Cities

Joe Reardon
Former Mayor of Kansas CIty, KS and Attorney
McAnany VanCleave & Phillips

Daniel X. O'Neil
Executive Director
Smart Chicago Collaborative
Craig Settles
Industry Analyst, Broadband
Strategist
Heather Burnett Gold
President and CEO
Fiber to the Home Council

Mike Brown
Founder
The Brainzooming Group

Ray Daniels
Mayors' Bistate Innovations Team
Kansas City, KS

Rondella Hawkins
Telecommunication & Regulatory Affairs Officer
City of Austin, TX

Bradley Holt
Developer Advocate
IBM Cloudant

Chris Lawrence
Senior Director of Mentor Community
Mozilla

Margaret May
Executive Director
Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council

Yiawey Yeh
Chief Innovation Officer
Nashville, TN

David Sandel
President
Sandel & Associates
Jill Szuchmacher
Director of Expansion
Google Fiber
Jim Baller
Attorney
Baller Herbst

Mike Burke
Mayors' Bistate Innovations Team
Kansas City, MO

Aaron Deacon
Managing Director
KC Digital Drive

Ken Hays
President and CEO
Chattanooga Enterprise Center

Andy Huckaba
President
Huckaba & Assoc

Blair Levin
Metropolitan Policy Program Fellow
The Brookings Institute

Susan Crawford
Author of The Responsive City and Professor
Harvard Law School
Glenn Ricart
Founder and CTO
U.S. Ignite
Richard Culatta
Director of Ed Tech
US Dept. of Education
Michael Curri
Founder
Strategic Networks Group
Michael Grover
Executive Director,
Government Affairs
Cox Communications