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9:15am PDT
Energizing a City for Today and Tomorrow
Moderators
Principal, Nutter Consuting
Melanie Nutter is the Principal of Nutter Consulting that provides sustainability and smart cities strategy development and implementation for cities, foundations and companies. In July of 2010, Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Melanie Nutter as the Director of the San Francisco Department...
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Speakers
Founder & CEO, Prospect Silicon Valley
Over a 25-year career, Doug has served in leadership roles to bring future context to conventional practice. Prior to founding ProspectSV, Doug forged a new approach to industry partnerships at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division where...
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Energy Program Manager, Department of the Environment, City and County of San Francisco
Jessie Denver is the San Francisco Department of the Environment’s Energy Program Manager where she leads a diverse team working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and zero emission vehicle programs. Prior to joining the City, Jessie served as Program Director at the nations...
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COO, Co-founder, Joule Assets
Mr. Quinn is currently COO and co-founder of Joule Assets responsible for market development, development of web-based customer engagement platform and company sales.Previously, Mr. Quinn was a founding member and CEO of Celerity Energy LLC, one of the first demand response companies...
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Energy Program Manager, Office of Energy and Sustainable Development City of Berkeley Planning Department
Neal has 30 years of experience in energy policy, including 21 years in management. He currently manages the Office of Energy and Sustainable Development (OESD) at the City of Berkeley Planning and Development Department. OESD is responsible for providing strategic direction the...
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11:05am PDT
Cities for People and Planet: The New Urban Paradigm
Moderators
Professor and Chair or Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley
Louise Mozingo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. She is a member of the Graduate Group in Urban Design of the College of Environmental Design and Director of the American Studies program of the College of Letters and Sciences...
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Speakers
Project Manager, Gehl
Mayra is an Urban Planner with ten years of expertise addressing the socio-cultural dimension of urban revitalization projects in the US and Latin America. She is interested in how people experience the public realm, how they are impacted by changes in the built environment, and how...
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Associate Principal, Energy & Resource Sustainability, Arup
Cole Roberts leads the energy and resource sustainability business in Arup’s San Francisco office. Specializing in design, planning, and consultation in the new and existing built environment, Cole has led dozens of projects to successful LEED® certification and ZNE achievement...
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International Smart City Business Development Mana, Gate 21
International Smart City Business Development Manager at Gate 21, Copenhagen, helping Danish and Swedish companies, municipalities and their respective governments develop Living Labs and Smart City solutions and creating opportunities abroad.Previously Thomas was Head of development...
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1:45pm PDT
Resiliency from the Ground Up: How Community Engagement Makes Us Stronger.
Moderators
Co-founder & CEO, CivicMakers
Lawrence Grodeska is a maker, communicator and civic geek who uses technology to help civic leaders in the public and private sector engage key audiences. Over 15 years, Lawrence has built programs and products to transform how citizens interact with their communities and governments...
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Resilience & Recovery Manager, San Francisco Emergency Managament
A natural-born problem solver with a super power for getting it done, Alicia Johnson has a penchant for civic innovation. An Emergency Manager by trade, Alicia can count Hurricane Sandy, Super Bowl 50 and an earthquake or two in her portfolio of responses. She has changed the culture...
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Director, Microsoft
Scott Mauvais is the Director of Technology and Civic Innovation at Microsoft where he works with local leaders to infuse technology into existing real-world systems to make cities better places to live, learn, work, and innovate.
Scott has been at Microsoft 16 years. Most recently...
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Chief Resilience Officer, City and County of San Francisco
Patrick Otellini is the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) for the City and County of San Francisco. Mr. Otellini was originally appointed by Mayor Ed Lee in October 2012 as the Director of San Francisco’s Earthquake Safety Implementation Program. This public policy driven group has...
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CEO and Co-Founder, Appallicious, Inc.
Yo Yoshida is the CEO and Founder of Appallicious, a Civic Startup based in San Francisco that creates products to help government better serve its citizens. He is a seasoned innovator, entrepreneur, industry writer, and start-up adviser with a passion for government and technology.Yo...
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3:35pm PDT
A Systems Approach to Resilient Cities
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COO and General Counsel, Replica
As Chief Resilience Officer, Kiran works at the intersection of critical issues in Oakland--access to housing and jobs, community safety, reliable public infrastructure and the city's ability to recover quickly from adversity.Kiran served on the founding team of Neighborly, a financial...
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Speakers
Chief Resilience Officer, City of Berkeley
Timothy Burroughs is an Assistant to the City Manager and serves as the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) for the City of Berkeley. In this role he is the City’s lead staff for advancing community readiness for a range of hazards, such as natural disasters and the impacts of climate...
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Director of Business Development, Neighborly
Pitichoke Chulapamornsri serves as the Director of Business Development at Neighborly, a mission-driven financial technology company that empowers community members to directly invest in local public projects they care about. Concurrently, he is a research fellow at the Harvard Ash...
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Global Lead, Sustainable Customer Solutions Senior Consultant, Economics & Country Risk, IHS Markit
Drawing on the experience and expertise of IHS experts across the globe, Elizabeth Redman Cleveland leads IHS’ corporate‐wide initiative to help customers make sustainable decisions that take into account long‐term social, environmental, and economic objectives. Utilizing her stakeholder engagement...
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Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Palo Alto
Founder and Chairman, Natural Logic Inc.Author, The Truth About Green Business.Inaugural member, Sustainability Hall of Fame.Lifelong social entrepreneur and sustainability geek.Gil is widely considered one of the founders of the sustainable business movement, and was named an inaugural...
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