SESSION I: VISION

• Exploring the New Economic Model

  The challenges communities are facing have no physical boundaries. Session I will explore the stakeholders who need to be at the table to accelerate smart city development and how you foster collaboration within and across regions.

• 8:45 am Opening Keynote Address

  Fast Tracking the Development of Smart Cities – Announcing the Next Phase in Statewide Collaboration

  Cities and regions throughout Colorado and across the world are individually experimenting with smart city technologies and solutions. The Colorado Smart Cities Alliance brings cities and regions across the state together to collaborate on sharing best practices and resolving challenges. This resilient collaborative foundation enables the next evolutionary stage in Smart City leadership to fast track development of Smart Cities not only within the Colorado but also for cities and regions throughout North America and globally.

  • Matthew Bailey, Smart Cities Global Practice Leader, Arrow Electronics; Co-founder, CO Smart Cities Alliance
  • Aiden Mitchell, VP & GM, IoT Global Solutions, Arrow Electronics
• 9:05 am Bringing Smart Regions To Life

  Challenges facing our cities today–mobility, affordable housing, public health and public safety, resilience and sustainability–don’t respect jurisdictional boundaries and are too complex for any one city or company to solve on their own. Tackling these issues requires collaboration between the public, private, academic and research sectors; which is the impetus in forming the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance. Hear from founders and members of the Alliance to hear how Colorado is leading the nation in the formation of not just smart projects or even cities, but “smart regions.”

  • Moderated by Jake Rishavy, Denver South EDP, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance
  • Nolbert Chavez, University of Colorado Denver
  • Seth Hoffman, City of Lone Tree
  • Aleta Jeffress, City of Aurora
  • Stephanie Piko, City of Centennial
• 9:50 am Smart, Beyond City Limits

  Building smart cities requires interdisciplinary, interagency and multi-jurisdictional coordination. It also requires smart public-private-partnerships, new business and procurement models and collaborative co-creation through applied research and innovation. Learn about active efforts related to pilot projects, non-traditional procurement, technology standards, planning blueprints, federal policies and funding or financing allocations that are accelerating the development of smart cities and regions across North America – creating better places to live, work and visit.

  • Moderated by Zack Huhn, Venture Smarter, IEEE Smart Cities Standards Committee
  • Flo Raitano, DRCOG
  • Andrew Spurgeon, BroadbandUSA

SESSION III: INSIGHTS

• Turning Big Data into Citizen Benefits

  How do we tackle the challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s communities, including mobility, public health, public safety, infrastructure and limited environmental and economic resources? Session III will dive deep into these challenges and how the citizen will ultimately benefit.

• 1:45 pm  Keynote Address

  Building Smart Communities: From Smart Cities to Smart Citizens
  
  Cities are always looking for new ways to maintain high standards of living and better ways to connect with citizens all while serving growing populations. As part of their efforts to become smarter, more and more cities are turning to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies to improve municipal services and create additional sources of revenue. As cities look toward the future, these technologies will be important for establishing new levels of connectivity between critical infrastructure, municipal agencies and city residents, workers and visitors. By working closely with leading technology vendors through public-private partnerships, smart cities of the future can improve their services, budget better, identify ways to share revenue and promote collaboration to better serve and protect the community.
  

  • Sean Harrington, Verizon Wireless
• 2:05 pm The Power of Collaboration

  Innovation starts at the local level. Colorado is home to several living labs working to solve cities’ most challenging issues. Hear from two public-private partnerships that are streamlining and sharing data and insights and integrating technology to move their regions forward.

  • Moderated by David McCurdy, State of Colorado
  • Mariano Delle Donne, Adventos
  • John Jackson, City of Greenwood Village
  • Gabe Klein, CityFi
  • Steve Skadron, City of Aspen
• 2:45 pm Emerging Tech Lightning Presentations

  These tech leaders will share how they are leading the way in smart city development and describe the impact they are having on the ultimate citizen experience – all in five minutes!

  Companies include:

  • AvePoint
  • DISH
  • GTRI now Zivaro
  • LGS Innovations
  • Pivot3
  • Ubicquia

• BIO

  Richard joined NREL in 2011 and draws on his 20 plus years of international experience with small, medium, and large corporations across a broad range of industry sectors. He is recognized as proven driver of organizational performance and is the author of Results Ladder—a model for successful strategic planning and execution.

  Prior to joining NREL, Richard was the CEO/President of Warralong Group, a management consulting firm focused on organizational performance with a specific emphasis on how to grow successfully. Richard is a graduate of the University of New England (Australia), with a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics, and holds a Graduate Diploma of Business from the Phillip Institute of Technology (Australia).

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  Chelsea is a connector across tech, government and social impact sectors. She does this by publishing articles and hosting events though her platform Digi.City, as the Editor-At-Large for Smart Cities Connect and as a Co-Founder of Impact Hub Austin. Her work has also been featured in Inc.com, Venture Beat, the Chicago Tribune and dozens of other publications.
  
  Chelsea is a 2018 Marshall Memorial Fellow and a 2016 Eisenhower Fellow. Her research focuses on smart city policy and global best practices. She serves on the advisory boards of the Austin Forum, the Austin Technology Alliance and is active with Austin CityUP., the city’s smart city nonprofit.
  
  Chelsea is an Austin Under 40 Award recipient in Science & Technology (2015), a graduate of the Leadership Austin and has masters and bachelor degrees in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin.

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  Dr. Sue Ellen Haupt is a Senior Scientist and Deputy Director of the Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). She was previously Director of the Weather Systems and Assessment Program in RAL. She also serves as Director of Education for the World Energy and Meteorology Council, Adjunct Professor of Meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University, and a Councilor for the American Meteorological Society. She earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, M.S. in Engineering Management from Western New England College, B.S. in Meteorology from Penn State, and did a postdoctoral fellowship with the Advanced Study Program of NCAR. She has also been on the faculty of the University of Colorado/Boulder; the U.S. Air Force Academy (visiting); University of Nevada, Reno; and Utah State University and previously worked for the New England Electric System and GCA Corporation. She is an expert in meteorology applied to renewable energy, boundary layer meteorology, large scale atmospheric dynamics, dynamical systems, numerical methods, artificial intelligence methods, and computational fluid dynamics. Dr. Haupt has authored and edited several books and published numerous journal articles on these topics.

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  City Manager John Jackson was born and raised in Northeastern Iowa. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa and his Master’s Degree in Administration of Criminal Justice from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy’s Session #236, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, the Police Executive Research Forum Senior Management Institute for Policing Session #60 class, the International Association of Chiefs of Police Leading Police Organizations class, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Northwestern University’s Advanced Supervision classes, and Situational Leadership for Law Enforcement class.

  John Jackson has 30 years of police service. This experience in multiple municipal police departments includes being in positions and ranks up to and including serving as the Chief of Police in both rural and urban cities in the State of Colorado.

  John’s last assignment in law enforcement was serving as the Chief of Police for the City of Greenwood Village, which is a southern suburb contiguous to Denver. As a Chief, John valued external leadership opportunities as evidenced by him being a past President of the Executive Board for the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP). During his time with the CACP he served as chair on the Legislative and Marijuana Committees. John also served as the State of Colorado liaison for marijuana process for several years.

  In October of 2017, John was promoted to the position of City Manager for the City of Greenwood Village, where he currently leads city operations of seven departments and a staff of 273 people.

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  Dennis has over 20 years of leadership experience in Technology and Communications related industries and currently serves as SVP, Fiber Solutions Rocky Mountain Region at Zayo where he is responsible for Zayo’s fiber business across 11 states and Western Canada. In this role, Dennis has full purview over the P&L for one of Zayo’s core products inclusive of Revenue, Operations and Service. Previous roles at Zayo include Sales and Marketing positions where he had global responsibility for Zayo’s growth objectives across several sectors such as Healthcare and Education as well as with key Content and Media customers.

   

  Prior to rejoining Zayo in 2015, Dennis held leadership positions at two successful Silicon Valley funded startups in the IoT and Connected Devices space. Over the years he and has held numerous senior leadership positions at companies such as McCaw Cellular, Nextlink Interactive, XO Communications, Level 3 Communications as well as a previous stint at Zayo Group where he ran one of Zayo’s business units. Dennis has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University as well as MBA and MA in “Development Economics” from Stanford University.

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  Bob is a Certified Master IT Architect and serves as an Enterprise Solution Architect focused on data, analytics and the Internet of Things. As a member of HPE’s North America IoT and Data Analytics team Bob works across customers, industries, partners, and HPE product and services teams to drive opportunities, activities and initiatives around data analytics and IoT.
  Bob joined HPE in 2010 after 20 years with IBM as a Systems Engineer, Consultant, IT Specialist, Certified Senior IT Architect and member of the Global Technology Services Architecture Board responsible for the design, development, and implementation of reference architectures and global solutions. At HPE Bob has focused on big data, analytics and IoT developing and executing strategies, delivering field and partner enablement, supporting the Americas sales force and presenting on behalf of HPE at industry conferences and conventions.
  
  Bob has two patents in cloud implementation and holds additional certifications in ITIL and HPE’s ExpertOne Planning and Design of Business Critical Systems. He guest lectures for the School of Engineering at Robert Morris University and volunteers for several non-profit organizations. Bob has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and MS degrees in Computer Information Systems and Telecommunications from the University of Denver.

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  Steven Skadron has been the Mayor of the City of Aspen since June 2013. He is committed to sustainable land use practices that support a healthy year-round community and a vibrant visitor-based economy. Under his leadership Aspen has achieved its goal of reaching 100% renewable energy in its municipal utility and tightened building codes that threatened small town character. He is currently spearheading an effort to bring next generation mobility options into Aspen to reduce people’s reliance on single occupancy vehicles in the form of a 3-month mobility experiment transforming how people move in to, out of, and around Aspen.
  
  Mayor Skadron previously served six years as a member of the Aspen City Council and is the principal of SpoonerSkadron LLC, a marketing communications firm he founded in 2003. He serves as an adjunct professor of E-Commerce at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School, and as a board member and past President of the Colorado Association of Ski Towns focusing on policies to benefit and sustain mountain communities. He is a graduate of University of Minnesota and has a MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.