Dr. Carlo Ratti
Executive Director, SENSEable City Lab at MIT

An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Dr. Martin Fleming
IBM’s Chief Economist and Vice President
of Business Performance Services

In leading the Business Performance Services team, Martin leads an analytics center of competency focused on improving IBM’s business performance and achieving IBM’s 2015 financial goals. The Business Performance Services team creates new data sources, applies advanced analytic techniques, deploys new business processes, and drives resource reallocation to achieve increased revenue growth and improved organizational leverage.

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Dr. Anthony Townsend
Research Director of the Institute for the Future

Dr. Anthony Townsend’s research focus is on the impact of new technology on cities and public institutions, and the role of technology in economic development. Recent forecasts he has developed at the Institute for the Future address several inter-related topics: the impact of urban data on the poor, national innovation strategy for a major emerging economy, technology and restructuring of large public organizations, and the role of science and technology parks in economic development.

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Mr. Cy Smith
Founder & CEO, AirSage

Cy is an experienced entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to launching AirSage in 2000, Cy was Founder, President and CEO of Advance Technology Corporation (ATC), a pioneer and leader in GIS and GPS‐based solutions for wireless and wireline telecommunications companies. He began his career with BellSouth Corporation, holding positions in network engineering, quality assurance and management. A graduate of The Georgia Institute of Technology, Cy earned a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He has been recognized as one of Georgia Tech’s “Outstanding Young Engineers” by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association and has received awards from the American Electronics Association for leadership and innovation in technology.

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Dr. Norman Jacknis
Director, IBSG Public Sector Group
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Dr. Norman Jacknis, Director, Cisco’s IBSG Public Sector Group (the company’s open innovation and strategic advisory group), is a globally recognized expert in government innovation and transformation.

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Dr. David E. Bernier-Rivera
Designated Puerto Rico Secretary of State

Dr. David Enrique Bernier Rivera, who hails from the municipality of Patillas, was educated in the public education system of Puerto Rico and is a product of the Specialized School of Sports of the Albergue Olimpico in Salinas.

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Cyril L. Meduña
President, Advent-Morro Equity

Cyril Meduña is the Founder and Managing Partner of Advent-Morro Equity Partners, Puerto Rico’s first and largest private equity and venture capital firm, managing three private equity funds with combined capital of $120 million.

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Arch. Alberto Lastra
President, Puerto Rico Association of Architects and Landscape Architects

Architect Alberto Lastra Power graduated from the School of Architecture at Cornell University in 1993, currently Chairs the current Governing Board of the College of Architects and Landscape Architects of Puerto Rico.

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CPA Isabel Hernández
Tax Manager
Kevane Grant Thornton LLP

Mrs. Hernández has experience in the areas of individual and corporate taxation, as well as partnerships, corporations of individuals and limited liability companies. She has served clients in the manufacturing, wholesale, retail, service, real estate/low income housing and hospitality industries.

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