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Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D. is President of the International Society for Urban Health (2017-9) and Clinical Professor of Global Public Health at the College of Global Public Health at New York University. She served as President of The New York Academy of Medicine (2007-2017) and Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public…

Beth Blauer is one of the nation’s leading experts on government performance programs. In March 2015, she was tapped to lead the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) at John Hopkins University. As GovEx’s first Executive Director, Blauer and her team help governments make decisions and create policies rooted in evidence, transparent accountability, and citizen engagement.…

Debra Arbec hosts CBC News Montreal at 6. The veteran reporter and anchor has been covering daily news in Montreal for more than 25 years. She started out her career in radio and made the switch to television news just in time for the 1998 Quebec ice storm. From the anchor desk and in the…

Becoming editor of eHealth at Politico marked Allen’s return to the newsroom after 18 years of solitude (apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez). As a freelancer beginning in 1996, he wrote for publications and websites such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, Slate.com, Landscape Architecture, Global Health Matters, Science and Mother…

Giuseppe Sala is currently the Mayor of the City of Milan. He has held various positions of responsibility, both in the private and public sector, gaining important professional managerial experience. From January 2009 until June 2010, he served as City Manager of the Municipality of Milan. He was then appointed CEO of the company managing…

Ms. Rubal Agarwal is presently holding position of Additional Municipal Commissioner at Pune Municipal Corporation & having additional charge Chief Executive Officer, Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi. She has been working in the State of Maharashtra since 2008 and has served across various cities of Maharashtra. She started her professional career as Assistant Collector in…

Marie Chantal Rwakazina is the Mayor the City of Kigali since May 2018.

In her role, Holly provides strategic advice and leadership across departments to ensure the successful delivery of work and alignment with NewCities’ overall vision and goals. She oversees operational processes, conceptualizes and manages projects, and builds strong relationships that support NewCities’ business development goals. Holly has worked cross functionally on the NewCities and CoMotion teams…

Cécile Maisonneuve is President of La Fabrique de la Cité, which she joined in 2015, and a member of the scientific committee of the AMS Institute (Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions). She previously headed the Energy Center of l’Institut français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), where she is now a consultant. From 2007 to 2012,…

Ben Hawes is an independent consultant on smart cities, AI and public policy, and an Associate Director at the Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation body for smarter places. He previously led UK Government policy on smart cities, and worked on the 2017 UK Review of Artificial Intelligence and the IoTUK internet of things development…

Chrsitian is a General Interest Entrepreneur with the Ministry of the Interior in France. He implements image recognition algorithms using deep learning for the french national automatic image processing agency. He is a Paris ambassador for City.AI and helps associations like Global SWAI. Prior to, he was a data scientist with Kernx.

Trent McConaghy has 20 years of deep technology experience with a focus on machine learning, data visualization, and user experience. In 2017, Trent founded Ocean Protocol, a decentralized substrate for AI data and services. He is an ambassador to AI XPRIZE, and advises Estonia, Germany, and other countries about blockchain & AI strategies. Trent was…