FEATURED SPEAKERS
FEATURED
SPEAKERS
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Zach Iscol
Commissioner, New York City Emergency Management Department
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Dana Chermesh-Reshef
Founder & CEO, InCitu
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Sam Schwartz
Chair of Transportation Research Program, Roosevelt House at Hunter College
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Wendy Ju
Associate Professor, Cornell Tech
SPEAKERS
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Murat Aktihanoglu
Managing Partner, Remarkable Ventures
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Stephen Albonesi
Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
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Sharon Ayalon, PhD
Founder & CEO, UrbanMix
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Nitsan Bartov
PhD Candidate, Henning Larsen
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Alex Bell
Partnerships Manager, CIV:LAB
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Andrew Blum
Author, Electric Earth, The Weather Machine & Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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Bryan Boyer
Faculty Director of Urban Technology Degree Program, University of Michigan
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Leigh-Ann Buchanan
President & CEO, Miami-Dade Innovation Authority
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Thomas J. Campanella
Professor of Urban Studies & City Planning, Cornell University
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Bill Campbell
Senior Vice President of Americas & Global Public Safety, Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division
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Mark Chambers
Executive Director, Terreform ONE
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Jiahao Chen, PhD
Director of AI & Machine Learning, New York City Office of Technology & Innovation
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Dana Chermesh-Reshef
Founder & CEO, inCitu
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Ashwini Chhabra
Director of the Urban Innovation Fellowship, Cornell Tech
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Israel Cidon
Director, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute
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Tom Conboy
Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech & NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services
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Catrina Cuadra
Urban Tech Fellow, Cornell Tech
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Alexandra Donovan
Director of Design & Innovation, Assembly OSM; Senior Research Fellow, Center for Offsite Construction
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Cara Eckholm
Managing Director, Pitchfest; Founder, AKA Urban
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Jamil Ellis
CEO, Unified Ground
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Arielle Etienne
Climate Justice Fellow, The New York Climate Exchange
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Eyal Feder-Levy
CEO & Co-Founder, ZenCity
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Laura Fox
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Streetlife Ventures
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Nikhil Garg
Assistant Professor of Operations Research & Information Engineering, Cornell Tech
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Rick Geddes
Professor, Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy
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Jonas Geier
Strategic Partnerships, COMCODE
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David Gilford
Head of Policy & Strategic Partnerships, Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP)
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Stephen Goldsmith
Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Director of Data-Smart City Solutions, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University
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Jerry Hultin
Chairman & Co-Founder, Global Futures Group, LLC
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Zach Iscol
Commissioner, New York City Emergency Management
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Mitchell Joachim
Professor, NYU; Co-Founder, Terreform ONE
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Wil Jones
Co-Founder, GROUND3D
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Wendy Ju
Associate Professor of Information Science & Design Tech, Cornell Tech
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Sarah Kaufman
Executive Director, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation
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Raphael Kay
Co-Founder, Mireta Urban Dynamics
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Andel Koester
Director of Community Initiatives, The New York Climate Exchange
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Meera Kumar
Urban Innovation Fellow, NYC Economic Development Corporation
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Cecilia Kushner
Chief Strategy Officer, NYCEDC
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Zoe Voss Lee
Co-Founder, GROUND3D
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Sarah Lemonick
Product Manager, Atomic Canyon
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Xiaofan Liang
Assistant Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Michigan
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Greg Lindsay
2022-2023 Urban Tech Fellow, Cornell Tech
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Nick Lombardi
Senior Vice President of Development & Construction, NineDot Energy
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Jacqueline Lu
CEO & Founder, Helpful Places
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Sergio Marrero
Managing Director, Blue Ridge Labs at Robin Hood
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Stacey Matlen
Senior Vice President of Innovation, Partnership for NYC
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Heather McGeory
VP of Sustainability, CoreWeave
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Joley Michaelson
Founder & CEO, The Sun Company
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Alex Mitchell
SVP BATWorks, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
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Greg Morrisett
Dean & Vice Provost, Cornell Tech
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Vijayta Narang
Program Director & Fund Manager, CIV:LAB
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Anh Nguyen
Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech & NYC Department of Environmental Protection
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Ariel Noyman, PhD
Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
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Nick Nyhan
Founder, The City Sponge
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Brandon Owens
VP of Innovation, NYSERDA
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Jean-Baptiste Poljak
Founder & CEO, Upciti
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Beth Porter
Head of Venture Studio, C10 Labs
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Daniele Quercia
Director of Responsible AI, Nokia Bell Labs
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Eliyahu Rapaport
CEO, Global Construction Tech.
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Jenny E. Sabin
Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture, Chair of Department of Design Tech, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art & Planning; Principal, Jenny Sabin Studio
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Radu Sabo
Head of Product, ClearRoad
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Michael Samuelian
Founding Director, Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech
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Sam Schwartz
Chair of Transportation Research Program, Roosevelt House at Hunter College
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Sebastian Sheng
Founder & CEO, Brick
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Daria Siegel
Senior Vice President, NYC Economic Development Corporation
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Uri Sivan
President, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Patrick Smith
Senior Director of Policy & Programs, NYC Department of Transportation
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Josh Sorin
Global Director of Climate Action, Centre for Public Impact
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Jonathan Spooner
Co-Founder & CTO, Stacks + Joules
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Lakshmi Subramaniam
Manager of Innovation, New York Power Authority
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Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri
Executive Director, CIV:LAB
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Anthony Townsend
Senior Research Associate, Cornell Tech
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Val Tzvetkov
Director, Emerging Technology, Skanska
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Juan-Pablo Velez
Executive Director, Switchbox
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Ryan White, AICP
Transportation Planning Lead, Jacobs
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Joel Wish
Founder & CEO, Bright Harbor
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Yang Yang
Ignite Fellow, Cornell University
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Matt Yarri
Data Science Manager, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Robert Yori
Digital Solutions Studio Leader, AECOM
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K. Max Zhang
Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering, Cornell University