MEET OUR 2016 SPEAKERS
Nigel Jacob
Co-founder, New Urban Mechanics
Blair Levin
Fellow, Brookings Institute
Angela Siefer
Director, National Digital Inclusion Alliance
Heather Burnett Gold
President and CEO, Fiber to the Home Council
Paul Barham
Captain, Code for KC
Tony Luppino
Law Professor, UMKC
Gary Williams
Interim City Manager, Carbonadale, IL
Michael Liimatta
ConnectHome
Bob Bennett
CIO, City of Kansas City, MO
Linda Jones
Community Tech Advocate, City of Raleigh
Sheri Gonzales Warren
KC Rising
Leana Mayzlina
Digital Inclusion Manager, NTEN
Clarence Tan
Co-Founder, Edcoda
Bill Hulterstrom
President & CEO, United Way of Utah County
Leigh Anne Taylor Knight
Founding Director, The Debruce Foundation
Sean Harrington
COO, Sensity
Jim Loter
Dir of Digital Engagement, City of Seattle
Kelly Carnago
City Manager, Google Fiber (KC)
Jason Harper
Barkley, Code for KC
Blake Miller
Think Big Partners
Eric Roche
Chief Data Officer, City of Kansas City, MO
Yinhai Wang
University of Washington
Matt Foreman
AT&T Smart Cities
Luis Rodriguez
Ultimaker
Peter Hirshberg
Co-founder and Chair, Gray Area Art and Technology Theater
Eric Freedman
Dean, James L. Knight School of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte
Colin Rhinesmith
Assistant Professor of Library & Information Science, University of Oklahoma
Mike Burke
Mayors' Bistate Innovation Team of Kansas City, MO
Aaron Deacon
Managing Director, KC Digital Drive
Jennifer Clark
Director of Urban Innovation, Georgia Tech
Nishal Mohan
Community Manager, US Ignite
Elizabeth Lindsey
ByteBack
Richard Culatta
CIO, State of Rhode Island
Rich Leadbetter
Global Manager, ESRI
Ben Levine
MetroLab Network
Kate Garman
Innovation Analyst, City of Kansas City, MO
Kami Griffiths
Co-Founder, Community Technology Network
Ted Smith
Chief Innovation Officer, City of Louisville
Bill Wallace
CEO, US Ignite
Carrie Coogan
Kansas City Public Library
Kari Keefe
Think Big Partners
Luke Norris
PayIt
Tony Singer
Sprint
John Thomson
PayIt
Rick Usher
Asst City Manager, City of Kansas City, Mo.
Evan Absher
Kauffman Foundation
Randi Mason
Invest Atlanta
Ryan Weber
President, KCnext
Kevin Honomichl
President, BHC RHODES
Deb Socia
Executive Director, Next Century Cities
Rick Freeman
GM of Intelligent Cities, GE
Craig Settles
Industry Analyst, Broadband
Strategist
Jim Baller
President, Baller Stokes & Lide PC
Maria Meyers
Executive Director, SourceLink
Connie Yowell
CEO, Collective Shift
Julia Pulidindi
Advantage Engineers
Michael Schirling
BTV Ignite
Matthew Marcus
KC Startup Village
Nole Walkingshaw
Office of Civic Engagement, Salt Lake City
James Epp
Board of Public Utilities, Kansas City, KS
Julie Lorenz
Strategist, Burns & McDonnell
Fred Ellermeier
VP of Smart Integrated Infrastructure, Black & Veatch
Brice Jensen
Physics Teacher, Winnetonka High School
Mike Brown
President, The Brainzooming Group
Jeanne Eicks
Vermont Law School
Sammy Lowdermilk
Tech Goes Home
Pam O'Connor
City Council, Santa Monica, CA
Alan Fitzpatrick
Co-founder, Charlotte Hearts Gigabit
DeAnna Soukup
Lee's Summit School District
John Vandewalle
LumenTouch
David Sandel
Sandel & Associates
Katie Boody
Founder, The Lean Lab
Cliff Thomas
Managing Director, Cisco
Lev Gonick
Co-founder and CEO, OneCommunity
Joe Reardon
President/CEO, KC Chamber of Commerce
Ken Hays
President and CEO, Chattanooga Enterprise Center
Anne Schwieger
Digital Equity Advocate, City of Boston
Daniel Green
Cloudera
Mary Beth Henry
City of Portland
Tom Esselman
CEO, Connecting for Good
Debbie Acosta
CIO, City of San Leandro
Michael Baskin
Policy Director, Mayor's Office, City of Chattanooga
Sonja Marziano
Smart Chicago Collaborative, CUTGroup Collective
Herb Sih
Think Big Partners
Brett Goldstein
Senior Fellow, Univesity of Chicago
Virgil Turner
Director of Innovation and Citizen Engagement, Montrose, CO
Rebecca Stavick
Executive Director, Do Space, Omaha
Brett Deichler
311 Director, Kansas City, KS
Anne Callenbach
Polsinelli
Lindsey Frost
Mozilla
Torri Martin
Fiber Services Team, City of Atlanta
Ellen Suni
Dean, UMKC Law School
Janice Wait
Mozilla
Kelly McCarthy
Tech Goes Homes Chattanooga
Yiaway Yeh
Google Fiber