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Welcome! We’re excited you’re here in San making it possible to bring home the very best Francisco and that you and more than 300 of what’s being done by each and every inno- others are joining us for Meeting of the Minds vator joining us. 2012. A key component of Meeting 2012 is For the past six years, we have gathered in enabling innovation. We try to do that through different cities with a single purpose: to iden- various means. One of these sounds simple: tify tested and untested solutions that can help linking the private, nonprofit and public us build connected and sustainable cities and sectors to identify and share solutions. In its regions, and to share those solutions with each best moments, Meeting 2012 will connect you, other. the innovators, with two sometimes missing Since our last Meeting in September 2011 ingredients: living labs ready to become early in Boulder, the need for radical innovation adopters and partners willing to step up with has grown more intense, in part because of vitally needed support. economic hardship, extreme weather, and the If you’ve been wondering how and where hunger we all have for a dramatic shift in the we can move the needle, you’re in the right way our human systems perform and interact place. with natural systems. We’re looking forward to building part- There is some good news to report. At the nerships with all of you and we stand ready to same time as systemic stresses are becoming start creating powerful solutions together. more severe, significant technological advances are expanding opportunities for radical change. Best wishes, In our humble opinion, we can’t wait any longer to put into practice the best innovations, to apply them in new ways and achieve Gordon Feller Convenor and Co-Founder outcomes that foster a more creative, sustainable and resurgent economy. Every year our Meeting reveals a few inno- Jessie Feller vations with breakthrough potential, show- Managing Director, Meeting of the Minds cases some outstanding public policies that offer real hope and spotlights strategies that can move us closer to connectivity and sustainability goals. With this in mind, we’ve designed Meeting 2012 as a place where you can do more than share key lessons drawn from ‘what works today.’ You will also have time to focus on ‘what could work,’ presented by innovators who are hard at work putting their innovations through real world stress tests in cities. They are coming together here, in the spirit of ‘open source,’ to share results. That means we’ll get time together to adjust our tactics,

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Tuesday, October 9 Wednesday, October 10

11:30 AM 8:30 AM Registration opens Welcome 1 Ballroom 1 Ballroom Gordon Feller, Convenor of Meeting of the 12:30 PM Minds Tour 1: Arts, Innovation Jessie Feller, Managing Director, Meeting of and Sustainability Tour of the Minds Central San Francisco Tour 2: CA Academy of Sciences 8:40 AM Green Building and Living Roof Tour Panel: From Industrial Zones Tour 3: Affordable Housing & the to Innovation Zones Future of the Heart of the City 1 Ballroom Tour 4: San Francisco’s Downtown: Moderator Past, Present & Future Nicola Villa, Managing Director - Global Public 1 All tours meet at the Julia Morgan Ballroom. Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group, For more information on the tours, visit Cisco Systems www.meetingminds2012.org/tours Panelists Manel Sanromà, CIO of Barcelona, Barcelona 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM City Government Opening Reception Carolien Gehrels, Deputy Mayor of Amster- dam (via TelePresence from Amsterdam) ➜➜ Orrick Building, 405 Howard Street, San Francisco Chris Vein, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Of- ficer, Executive Office of the President Hosted and organized by WSP Group Amsterdam, Barcelona and the U.S. federal For those not comfortable walking 12 government are experimenting with new minutes from the conference venue in governance and economic models to create downtown San Francisco to the reception, sustainable urban neighborhood develop- there will be shuttles running continuously ments, bringing together partners focused between the Ballroom and the opening on reusing and transforming older industri- reception from 5:45 PM - 8:00 PM al zones, and creating smarter technologies that improve municipal service delivery. Innovators leading these bold initiatives in three countries will reveal some of the tools that are proving to be crucial when

6 launching, implementing and sustaining such Advances in wireless technologies such as projects. 3G, 4G and WiFi have enabled the prolifera- tion of connected devices at affordable price points. People now expect Internet con- 9:20 AM nectivity anywhere they go. The result is that Panel: Where Is the Urban mobile data traffic continues to grow at an astounding rate every year. How can wireless Mobility Revolution Headed? providers continue to increase network ca- 1 Ballroom pacity in urban cities? This presentation will look at innovative ways of deploying wireless Moderator capacity using a dense network of very small Bill Reinert, National Manager, Toyota’s Ad- cells, reducing energy consumption and vanced Technology Group urban space requirements for cell sites and antennas. Panelists Susan Zielinski, Director, SMART at the Univer- sity of Michigan Ann Arbor 10:30 AM Susan Shaheen, Director - Transportation Coffee Break Sustainability Research Center, University of 2 Ballroom Bar California, Berkeley Scott Samuelsen, Director - Professor and Di- rector, National Fuel Cell Research Center; and 11:00 AM Director, Advanced Power and Energy Program, Next Big Innovation: Future University of California, Irvine Cities Made Real – Efficient, Eric Cahill, Managing Director, Adaptiv LLC Sustainable, Liveable Where is the city mobility revolution 1 Ballroom headed? And what’s the future of the car (at a James Anderson, Vice President, Schneider moment when some are predicting its extinc- Electric Infrastructure Business – U.S., Schnei- tion)? What new technology innovations der Electric will change the way cities are planned while altering the many ways city dwellers travel Our future lies in cities that are efficient, within and between cities? How close are we sustainable and liveable. It is not only a chal- to realizing ‘personal mobility’ visions that lenge of relentless innovation in technology have been imagined for decades? What shifts and business models - it is also a need for in regulation, investment and policy need broad collaboration at a scale unprecedented to occur in order to mainstream the next gen- in human history. How can we make future eration of advanced technology? cities a reality? By balancing long-term sustainability vision and planning with short- term economics. In this presentation, we will 10:10 AM share our experience and the lessons learned as we make cities across the world smarter. Next Big Innovation: The Mobile Internet Transformation – Meeting Network Capacity Needs of Cities 1 Ballroom Matt Grob, Chief Technology Officer, Qualcomm Wireless connectivity is revolutionizing the way people live and interact with each other.

7 11:20 AM attract entrepreneurial talent to become one of the world’s leading tech hubs. Next Big Innovation: Smarter Cities San Francisco is expanding its reach beyond its borders by collaborating with other large 1 Ballroom U.S. cities in a new city-to-city tech network Dr. Colin Harrison, Distinguished Engineer and called the G7. The new network brings to- inventor of IBM’s Smarter Cities architecture gether CIOs from other large U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York For more than 100 years, IBM has been and Boston. Jon will share lessons learned working to make the world a better place by through the G7 and how this new city-to- enabling information to flow more easily and city peer learning exchange is leveraging the more rapidly. Twenty years ago the world best ideas and innovations on a national scale began to build a global platform for sharing for the first time. information. Today IBM is delivering an urban platform – the Intelligent Operations Center - to make cities safer, cleaner, less con- 11:50 AM gested, less wasteful, and far more interactive and flexible. IBM Smarter Cities solutions Next Big Innovation: Worldwide demonstrate the power of information -- the Networks of Smart Workers – power to transform the industrial methods of Connected and Collaborating centralized, siloed management and control Through Smart Work Centers into integrated, distributed and adaptive 1 Ballroom methods. Learn about the transformation in motion in both large and small cities around Bas Boorsma, Global Lead, Cisco’s Work-Life the world. Innovations Program (Geneva via TelePresence) IBM’s Intelligent Operations Center in Rio Gordon Feller, Director of Urban Innovation, Video: http://youtu.be/vuBBGYFonXM Cisco Work is changing. It is less a location and 11:35 AM increasingly something we do, free from the Industrial Revolution-era silos that had work Next Big Innovation: San fixed at one location, governed by central Francisco’s Tech Innovation control, performed within fixed time slots Journey: What’s Next? by fixed group of peers called colleagues. 1 Ballroom As people increasingly work networked, distributed, time and location independent, Jon Walton, Chief Technology Officer, City and a new culture of work is emerging, one that County of San Francisco reflects the network that enables it. A culture that allows for a seamless way of forming A few cities are moving fast to open up peer networks, sourcing and collaborating their buried troves of data, enabling higher - locally, regionally and globally. High end, levels of citizen engagement, embracing app video-enabled public-work environments development, and encouraging start-ups. San called Smart Work Centers typically help Francisco’s tech pioneer will fill in the details facilitate such a way of working. As a result, on how his city has built a fiber network to the next Steve Jobs is probably not operating link people and city agencies to each other. from a garage. He or she is probably building Jon will disclose how, through the city’s open his or her business in a Smart Work Center. data policy, San Francisco made it possible to Whether you are an independent worker, a

8 small business, an employer or a community air pollution? This workshop will delve into leader, what will a Smart Work strategy mean the potential for car sharing to transform the for you? mobility and pedestrian experience of cities as well as their carbon footprint. 12:05 PM Session B: Environmental Initiatives as Levers for Change: Outdoor Lunch Comparing the Initiatives of 3 Leidesdorff Alley Seattle and San Francisco Climb into 2 new Toyota cars designed for 4 One Leidesdorff – 2nd Floor urban living Moderator Nils Moe, City of Berkeley, Mayor’s Office 1:30 PM Resource Team Breakout Workshops Melanie Nutter, Director of San Francisco Four 60-minute sessions — Department of Environment running simultaneously Jill Simmons, Director of Seattle Department of Session A: The Successes Environment and Failures of Car San Francisco is now ranked first in the Sharing – What’s Next? Economist Intelligence Unit’s widely read 1 Ballroom ‘2011 U.S. Green City Index’ and Seattle is now ranked fourth. The directors from the Moderator department of environment from both cities Bill Reinert, National Manager of Advanced will compare their policies and systems that Technology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA have enabled their city to rise to the top five in the U.S. Which initiatives get the biggest Resource Team bang for the buck, providing the most impact Paul Hedtke, Senior Director, Business Devel- for the least funding? Which strategies opment, Qualcomm are unique to each city? Which of these strategies can be replicated and transferred to Rick Hutchinson, CEO, City CarShare other cities, whether in the U.S. or abroad? Robin Chase, Founder and CEO, Buzzcar (via Paris TelePresence) Session C: The Work- Life Revolution Mark Norman, President, Zipcar 6 One Leidesdorff – Basement What exactly do the practitioners — working on the front lines — think about the Moderator role of new technology, telematics, market Peter Miscovich, Managing Director, Corporate demands, shifting consumer preferences, and Solutions, Jones Lang LaSalle the viability of new options for car sharing? Is the traditional rental model of car Resource Team sharing the future or is peer-to-peer the next Alexa Arena, Senior Vice President, Forest City frontier? Does the EV revolution really fit Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director, SPUR into the car-sharing model? What challenges remain as the core obstacles to car sharing as Mark Gilbreath, Founder and CEO of Liquid- a solution to urban congestion and localized Space

9 Smart work enabled by emerging technolo- size. How have IBM and its customers and gies is changing the way we work and live. partners used systems that are Instrumented, Companies of all shapes and sizes are increas- Interconnected, and Intelligent to improve ingly moving away from the traditional the lives of citizens? How are leaders turning five-day office work week model; public existing data into coordinated and action- sector agencies are also making some room able information across departments? How for the shift. The big embrace of mobile work are they developing road-maps that align to behaviors is already boosting productivity, specific priorities? How are cities integrat- shrinking office space, and reducing harm- ing across service areas to drive sustainable ful environmental effects. But what happens economic growth while enhancing quality of once traditional work spaces begin to fade life for citizens and visitors? away? New kinds of mobile and digital work- spaces are emerging that offer more agile, flexible, collaborative and entrepreneurial 2:30 PM work environments. This session will present Coffee Break some of these examples — and then ask the larger question: How will smart work change our cities? 3:00 PM Session D: Smarter Cities Breakout Workshops of Tomorrow – Integrated Four 60-minute sessions — running simulta- Operations across Service Areas neously to Meet the Needs of Citizens 5 One Leidesdorff – 1st Floor Session G: New Tools for Social Engagement – How to Moderator Better Engage the Public on Chris Clauss, Director of Architecture, Strategy Policy and Planning Issues and Partners, IBM Smarter Cities Software 5 One Leidesdorff – 1st Floor Resource Team Moderator Niels van Duinen, Director, Outdoor Lighting Tom Wright, Executive Director, Regional Plan Applications, Philips Lighting Association Jeff Frazier, Senior Director, Global Public Sec- Resource Team tor Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Ron Dembo, Founder and Chairman, Zerofoot- Story K. Bellows, Co-Director of the Mayor’s print Inc. Office of New Urban Mechanics, City of Phila- delphia Art Chang, CEO, Tipping Point Partners The infusion of digital intelligence into the Jennifer Pahlka, Founder and Executive Direc- world’s systems is changing the way people, tor, Code for America organizations and entire industries approach As Regional Plan Association considers everything that they do – how they inter- the scope, scale and ambition of a Fourth act, organize and create value. Nowhere is Regional Plan, it is exploring the potential the potential for transformation greater or of social media, crowd sourcing, gaming and more important than in our cities. Join IBM other new communication techniques to Smarter Cities leaders and esteemed col- reach the public in new ways. This workshop leagues and partners as we engage in critical will serve to source ideas to inform RPA thinking and consider the opportunity for and other organizations by hearing from transformation. Hear of lessons learned from workshop innovators, implementers and par- actual implementations in cities of varying ticipants on how best to engage the public in

10 future planning and policy advocacy. Media Session I: The Just City allows more outlets for distribution, but is 1 Ballroom the digital divide a hindrance to expanded reach? When and under what circumstances Moderator does it make sense to conduct traditional George McCarthy, Director, Metropolitan Op- charrettes or public meetings? How do we portunity Program, The Ford Foundation best engage the public to shape key decisions about large-scale metropolitan change? Resource Team: Leila Janah, Founder and CEO of SamaSource Session H: Building the Smart, Sustainable City – New Mikel Maron, Founder of Map Kibera Strategies for Law and Policy Victor d’Allant, Dallant Networks, Leading 6 One Leidesdorff – Basement Networks for Global Impact

Moderator Tim Campbell, Chairman, Urban Age Institute; Author; Consultant; former Head of Urban William Shutkin, President and CEO; Richard Programs, World Bank Institute M. Gray Fellow in Sustainability Practice, Presi- dio Graduate School As we add some two billion new residents to cities over the next generation, all nations Resource Team are confronting the challenge of keeping Nestor Davidson, Professor of Law, Fordham old development models from delaying the University transition to modernity. How can we deliver on the promise of cities to promote social Karen Chapple, Associate Professor of City & advancement? Can cities be prosperous and Regional Planning; Faculty Director, Center competitive if increasing proportions of for Community Innovation; Acting Director, inhabitants are locked into informal settle- Institute for Research on Labor & Employment; ment, informal employment, and persistent Associate Director, Institute for Urban and poverty? While some worry about rapid Regional Development, UC Berkeley urbanization, the growth of cities is an opportunity to extend economic possibilities, Hope Cohen, Associate Director of the Center enable access to jobs, gain social inclusion for Urban Innovation, Regional Plan Associa- and protect the environment. In this session, tion we will talk about how we work together Smart, sustainable urban development is to make our cities more just and prosper- about more than green buildings, electric ous -- by building pathways from poverty vehicles, smart grids and other technological and exclusion to the economic mainstream; innovations, as important as they are. It’s also connecting urban populations to all of the about legal and policy strategies that guide opportunities for advancement and offering our development decisions and scale sustain- New Cities ways to deploy all productive able solutions. What are the innovations resources. Just cities are a key to a more sus- in law and governance supporting smart, tainable future of the planet and to pathway sustainable development? What is the role to better lives for hundreds of millions of of smart codes, green building standards and people. other models in this evolution? What are the This workshop, designed in partnership with practical institutional and legal barriers im- the Ford Foundation, will explore issues the peding smart development? What cities, in ways that collaboration across sectors (civic, the U.S. and abroad, are successfully adopting private, and public) is working to make and implementing sustainable urban devel- cities more just, prosperous, equitable and opment laws and policies? sustainable. Civic leaders, urban designers and entrepreneurs will explore how fairness,

11 opportunity and equity can serve as the their lessons learned in a group discussion defining features of a new era of urbaniza- aimed at providing a new platform of under- tion. The workshop will look at real-world standing around water and energy resources examples and the ability of new advances and the smart city of the future. in technology, creative design, and practice can transform cities into safe, equitable and prosperous communities. The session will 4:15 PM be run in a modified “fishbowl”– a conver- Next Big Innovation: sational format with no prepared speeches. In addition to our four invited speakers, City Breakthroughs and audience members can ask to join the Lessons Learned – The conversation on stage by alerting one of the Vancouver Experience moderators. 1 Ballroom Session J: Clean Energy Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver, British and Water in the Smart Columbia-Canada Cities of the Future Vancouver’s leaders pioneered the develop- 4 One Leidesdorff – 2nd Floor ment of a smart and connected city. With a compelling vision and a practical pro- Moderator gram, this port city successfully engaged Jo Danko, Managing Director of Urban Pro- neighborhood-based community groups, grams, CH2M HILL universities, private enterprises and public agencies. Within fiscal constraints, the Resource Team city government has delivered significant Paul Reiter, Executive Director, International change, greater livability, and enhanced ur- Water Association ban sustainability. What are the key lessons that others can take away from Vancouver’s Dylan Hixon, President, Arden Road Invest- experience? ments Hari Sankaran, Vice Chairman, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited 4:45 PM Ellen Lou, Director of Urban Design and Plan- Next Big Innovation: The New ning, San Francisco, SOM Dutch Model for Economic Innovation Policy Clean energy and water are increasingly conjoining as a driving force for sustain- 1 Ballroom ability for municipalities, companies and the Bart van Bolhuis, Consul General of the urban environment. The nexus is now seen Netherlands as a business driver for urban communities and industry that can enable cost savings, re- The Netherlands government is partnering source conservation and global competitive- in new ways with Dutch private enterprises ness. International corporate filing require- and knowledge institutes, working collab- ments as well as access to capital are creating oratively through a series of unique initia- new public and private-sector partnerships tives in support of international economic that were previously nonexistent. Moving development. Although the primary focus is to a smart city model that enables core job on developing opportunities in the U.S., the creation, sustainable use of resources and in- partnerships will also identify, launch and clusion of all community members requires develop Dutch and European opportunities a new and complex system of stakeholders for U.S. partners. Targeting the fields of sus- and policy alignment. U.S. and international tainability, health care, and e-mobility, the leaders working on these issues will share “Golden Triangle” approach supports the

12 development of a range of projects, includ- in the streets hacking the infrastructure to ing eco-districts, clean power, technological create parklets, urban gardens, and popups. innovations, and infrastructure improve- These types of urban infrastructure hacks ments. Consul General Bart van Bolhuis have created new types of public space, busi- will discuss this new public-private approach ness markets, community participation, and and share examples of projects in develop- socio-cultural development. Simultaneous ment in the western U.S. to these two movements, San Francisco has continued to invest in large-scale infrastructure projects without having an opportunity 5:00 PM to test or compare the technology of com- Reception peting vendors before investing and scaling across the city. 1 Ballroom Bar & 3 Leidesdorff Alley Beer and cheese from Amsterdam sponsored by the Consul-General of the Netherlands. 9:05 AM Wines courtesy of Humanitas Wines Next Big Innovation: The City Protocol – Building the Internet of Cities Thursday, October 11 1 Ballroom Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect and Director 8:30 AM of Urban Habitat at the Barcelona City Council Welcome and Recap of Day 1 Can we all agree on criteria for the creation of the “City Protocol,” a certification system 1 Ballroom for smart cities? Can that “City Protocol” be Gordon Feller, Convenor, Meeting of the Minds put into practice by any city in the world? During the summer of 2012 more than 30 cities plus organizations and universities 8:45 AM took part in an international meeting or- Next Big Innovation: San ganized by Barcelona’s City Council, GDF Francisco’s Innovation Zone SUEZ and Cisco to launch an organized effort to build a City Protocol. It aims to 1 Ballroom define a global, cooperative framework Jay Nath, Chief Innovation Officer of San Fran- among cities, industries and institutions cisco, Mayor’s Office with the goal to address urban challenges in a systemic way -- and to do so in areas that The Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation is range from sustainability, self-sufficiency, looking at activating parts of San Francisco quality of life, competitiveness to citizen in ways that are similar to efforts aimed at participation. digitally hacking the city. These zones, for a specified amount of time, would be desig- nated for piloting technologies, architecture, design, art, partnerships and business models in a real environment. One of the most significant lessons learned from open data is that when a government asset is open, then applications are built, products are made, and businesses are started. While program- mers were hacking with open data, architects, artists, foodies, and gardeners were

13 9:20 AM Armando Carbonell, senior fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, which has Next Big Innovation: nurtured the field of planning support sys- What’s on the Minds of the tems in general and visualization and scenar- Leaders of the World’s Top io planning tools in particular, will address Mass Transit Agencies? evolving approaches to engage the broadest possible community in the planning process, 1 Ballroom including groups that often have been left Juliette Michaelson, Director of Strategic out or have chosen not to participate in the Initiatives, Regional Plan Association past. The presentation is based on the report In 2012, Regional Plan Association brought and initiative “Opening Access to Scenario together the chief executives of public- Planning Tools” launched in April 2012 transportation agencies from New York, Los and available here: http://www.lincolninst. Angeles, São Paulo, London, Hong Kong edu/pubs/2027_Opening-Access-to-Scenario- and seven other world cities for a candid, Planning-Tools. off-the-record dialogue. What strategies and technologies are transit executives adopting 10:20 AM – 10:45 AM to improve their systems? What obstacles do they face? Coffee Break 2 Ballroom Bar 9:40 AM Meeting of the Minds 2013 10:45 AM Special Announcement Next Big Innovation: From 1 Ballroom the Empire State Building Special guest joining from the host city to the Bay: The Energy Costs and Environmental Impacts of Smart Lighting 10:00 AM 1 Ballroom Next Big Innovation: Planning Bruno Biasiotta, CEO, Philips Lighting North Tools for Civic Engagement: America Is There an App for That? From the most recognized symbol of New 1 Ballroom York City, to the streets of Boston and San Armando Carbonell, Chairman of the Depart- Francisco, find out how cities are building ment of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln a sense of community, while lowering their Institute of Land Policy energy costs and environmental impact through smart LED lighting technologies. Developers of planning software are increas- Philips Lighting CEO Bruno Biasiotta will ingly turning to a collaborative ecosystem to talk about the digital revolution in lighting enhance the capabilities, and foster the use, and how it is helping cities to redefine them- of tools that can help communities plan for selves with practical examples from Boston, an uncertain future. An emerging network New York and San Francisco. of tool developers and city and regional planners has developed an action agenda to advance scenario planning concepts as they apply to contemporary challenges like climate change -- and to shift these tools, as much as possible, to an open-source format.

14 11:00 AM In urban areas, automotive emissions are responsible for at least 50% of air pollution. Next Big Innovation: What’s Vehicles that run on cleaner-burning fuels Next in Real Estate? New derived from natural gas, and hybrid and all- Data Measuring Building electric vehicles, have the potential to reduce Performance – The Greenprint these emissions. But the relative abundance Performance Index and low cost of conventional gasoline means 1 Ballroom that alternative fuels are unlikely to be adopted more widely in the U.S. without Charles B. Leitner III, Chairman, SVP Real sweeping regulatory and tax policy changes. Estate; Chairman, ULI Greenprint Center for Peter Wells, Chairman, Neftex Petroleum Building Performance (via TelePresence in DC) Consultants, explains the hurdles toward moving toward a cleaner-burning fuel envi- Uwe S. Brandes, Senior Vice President, Initia- ronment. tives, Urban Land Institute Leading commercial real estate stakeholders have long staked out a leadership role in 11:45 AM exploring sustainable design and develop- Next Big Innovation: Resilience ment practices which voluntarily exceed and Communities – Adapting minimum legal requirements. But how can real estate investors and owners measure to Disruptive Change ongoing progress toward long-term sustain- 1 Ballroom ability goals while taking short-term and Charles Rutheiser, Center for Community incremental actions to achieve them? How and Economic Opportunity, Annie E. Casey can the globalized commercial real estate industry benchmark ongoing progress across Foundation international geographies, markets and Can we truly improve the ability of our hu- property types? man systems to adapt to disruptive change? The Greenprint Performance Report™ gaug- Attention is now focused on defining, es relative progress in reducing greenhouse fostering, and measuring ‘resilience.’ Yet a gas emissions associated with buildings. In widely shared understanding of the meaning only three years, the international scope of ‘resilience’ may be lacking. And it may be and size of the report have established it as especially so for the concept of ‘community.’ one of the real estate industry’s largest, most Failure to come to grips with the multi-lay- verifiable, transparent and comprehensive ered, cross-cutting, contested, and ambigu- energy benchmarking tools. It provides ous natures of community raises serious an open standard for real estate owners to challenges to promoting and achieving the measure and track energy usage and carbon improved ability of human systems to adapt emissions on a building and portfolio basis to disruptive change. across international property markets. 12:00 PM 11:15 AM Next Big Innovation: Public Next Big Innovation: The Lighting and the Internet Impact of Energy Supplies on of Things: Examples Global Urban Environments from Amsterdam 1 Ballroom 1 Ballroom Dr. Peter Wells, Chairman, Neftex Petroleum Christoph Herzig, Senior Marketing Director Consultants Outdoor Lighting, Philips

15 James Crowther, Customer Solutions Manager, 12:40 PM – 2:00 PM Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group Outdoor Closing Lunch Digital LED lighting systems are revolution- and Reception izing the lighting industry. These systems, 3 Leidesdorff Alley which combine energy-saving light-emitting diode bulbs with wireless technology, en- Wine courtesy of John De Luca able new ways of integrating lighting into public spaces and neighborhoods. Light- ing networks can be connected to other urban-systems applications as well, creating new efficiencies for increasingly intelligent cities. The session will provide valuable background knowledge on information and communications technology as well as LED. In addition, participants will take away practical ideas on how to integrate these ele- ments into public spaces.

12:15 PM Next Big Innovation: San Francisco’s Secret Sauce – Innovation Drives Livability and Sustainability 1 Ballroom Edwin Lee, Mayor - City and County of San Francisco Mayor Lee discusses the city’s initiatives and the drive to ramp up San Francisco’s competitiveness through urban innovation. With the help of the city’s new innovation office, Mayor Lee has built a special team working to break down city government silos, partner more effectively with both social entrepreneurs and the private sector, and create innovation zones and living labs – all in an era of fiscal constraint.

12:30 PM Next Steps 1 Ballroom Gordon Feller, Convenor, Meeting of the Minds Jessie Feller, Managing Director, Meeting of the Minds

16 Biographies

Listed alphabetically. Full biographies available on the Meeting of the Minds website. Biographies listed are reflective of most current experience.

James P. Anderson Story Bellows Vice President, Schneider Co-Director of the Electric Infrastructure Mayor’s Office of New Business – U.S. Urban Mechanics, City of Philadelphia Jim is currently the Vice Presi- dent, Infrastructure Business Story Bellows joined the City for Schneider Electric located in Nashville, TN. of Philadelphia in April of 2012 as Co-Director He is responsible for developing solutions for of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. Grid Automation and Demand Response in the The new office is a civic idea and innovation Smart Grid space focused on the Electric Utility incubator, which develops innovative approaches Segment. In addition he is leading the Smart and processes to solving complex problems in the Cities initiative in the U.S. to bring efficiency and public arena. Prior to coming to Philadelphia, sustainability solutions to cities. Story served as Director of the Mayors’ Institute Jim has over 33 years of experience in the on City Design, a leadership initiative of the Electrical Industry spending the last 20 years with National Endowment for the Arts in partnership Schneider Electric. Prior to his current role, Jim with the American Architectural Foundation and held an assignment in Grenoble France where he the US Conference of Mayors. An urban designer was Director for Low Voltage Power Devices and by training, Story spent four years in a private was responsible for global strategy and product design practice Chicago, where she founded a developments. Jim graduated from the Univer- research group and worked with leaders in the sity of Iowa with a Bachelor of Science degree in public, private and non-profit sectors on urban, Industrial Engineering. education, healthcare and environmental design projects and initiatives. She holds an under- Alexa Arena graduate degree from Colgate University and a Senior Vice President, Masters degree in City Design and Social Science Forest City from the London School of Economics and Polit- Alexa Arena leads Forest City’s ical Science. Northern California Team as Bruno Biasiotta head of the San Francisco CEO and President of Philips office. She was the developer on the recently Lighting North America completed Presidio Landmark, and is presently working on the redevelopment of approximately Bruno Biasiotta is currently four-acres in downtown SF in partnership with the CEO and President Hearst Corporation. Referred to as the 5M of Philips Lighting North Project, the Project is a pioneering model for America’s lighting operations. He is responsible both conceptualizing and fostering communi- for driving market share for Philips’ lighting ties that serve our innovation economy. Ms. businesses in North America, including Lamps, Arena is also leading the Pier 70 project, a 50+ Consumer Luminaires and Professional Lumi- acre waterfront revitalization at the edge of the naires. Mr. Biasiotta previously held the posi- dogpatch neighborhood that is a public-private tions of vice president and general manager of partnership with the Port of San Francisco. Ms. building efficiency at Johnson Controls and was Arena has a graduate degree from Harvard Busi- head of field operations of the company’s Energy ness School and the Public Policy School, and is Solutions business. He holds a degree in busi- a SPUR Board Member. ness from Cleveland State University, has dual U.S. and Italian citizenships, and sits on various professional boards.

17 Bas Boorsma team responsible for developing the electric Global Lead, Cisco’s drivetrain technology for the Fisker Karma Work-Life Innovations plug-in hybrid luxury sedan. He went on to direct Program (Amsterdam) the Automotive X PRIZE, a global competition that awarded $10 million to teams fielding the Bas Boorsma currently serves top production-capable cars achieving at least as an urban innovations 100 MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent). Mr. specialist and director of the Internet Business Cahill holds graduate degrees in Engineering Solutions Group, Cisco’s strategic global consul- & Management and in Technology & Policy tancy arm. Mr. Boorsma has coordinated and from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and overseen the implementation of Urban Innova- Engineering Systems Division, respectively. He tions projects and programs that address the ways is currently pursuing his PhD at the Institute of we work, live, consume, play, learn and deliver Transportation Studies at UC Davis where he is within an urban context – and how it can be exploring differences in the capability of firms changed for communities to become more resil- to introduce dramatically new technologies and ient – environmentally, socially and economi- business models that could significantly advance cally. Typical urban innovations delivered include clean vehicle markets. Smart Work Centers, Community Services Plat- forms, Ecomap and the Personal Travel Assistant. Tim Campbell Bas is the global team lead of Cisco’s WorkLife Chairman, Urban Innovations program, member of Cisco’s Urban Age Institute; Author; Innovation team and a member of the board of Consultant; former Head Amsterdam’s Double U Smartwork Foundation. of Urban Programs, World Bank Institute Uwe Brandes Senior Vice President, Tim Campbell retired from the World Bank in Initiatives at the Urban 2005 after more than 17 years working in various Land Institute (ULI) capacities in the urban sector. His most recent positions include head of the World Bank Insti- Uwe Brandes is Senior Vice tute urban team (from 2001) and head of the President of Initiatives at the Urban Partnership. Prior to his time at the World Urban Land Institute (ULI) in Washington, D.C. Bank, Dr. Cambell worked for more than 13 years He leads ULI’s initiatives on Climate Change, as a private consultant and university professor at Land Use and Energy (CLUE) and The City Stanford University and the University of Cali- in 2050, and most recently co-authored ULI’s fornia at Berkeley. He has authored several books, publication entitled What’s Next? Real Estate the most recent being Beyond Smart Cities in the New Economy. Prior to ULI, Mr. Brandes (Earthscan, 2012). He holds a B.A. in Political was Vice President of Capital Projects at the Science from U. C. Berkeley, a Masters in City Anacostia Waterfront Corporation in Wash- and Regional Planning from U.C. Berkeley, and a ington D.C and Associate Director of the D.C. Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from M.I.T. Office of Planning where he managed the award winning Anacostia Waterfront Initiative. He was Armando Carbonell a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University Chair, Department of Dortmund and a Paul Sun Fellow at Tsinghua Planning and Urban University in Beijing. He serves on the boards Form, Lincoln Institute of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and of Land Policy Bioregional North America. Armando Carbonell chairs Eric Cahill the Department of Planning and Urban Form Founder and Managing at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think Director, Adaptiv Consulting tank in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the policy and practice editor of the British journal Eric Cahill is founder and Town Planning Review and an honorary member managing director of Adaptiv of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Prior to Consulting, an independent the Lincoln Institute, Mr. Carbonell had been consultancy engaged in bringing cutting edge founding Executive Director of the Cape Cod personal mobility solutions to market. Prior to Commission, a regional planning and land-use founding Adaptiv, Mr. Cahill led the engineering

18 regulatory agency in Massachusetts. He was Studies from Columbia University, an M.S.C.R.P a lecturer and design critic in urban planning from the Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. from UC and design at Harvard University, taught plan- Berkeley. ning studios at the University of Pennsylvania, and held a 1992-1993 Loeb Fellowship in the Robin Chase Graduate School of Design at Harvard Univer- Founder & CEO, Buzzcar sity as well as chaired the National Academy of Robin Chase is founder and Sciences panel on groundwater vulnerability from CEO of Buzzcar, a service that 1991-1992. brings together car owners and Art Chang drivers in a carsharing market- CEO, Tipping Point Partners place. Buzzcar.com empowers individuals to take control of their mobility, without looking Art Chang is a New York to governments or big businesses for solutions. tech startup veteran and is Robin is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar, CEO of Tipping Point Part- the largest carsharing company in the world, and ners a technology invest- GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. ment company that believes that great software, Robin lectures widely, has been frequently applied intelligently, can result in positive social featured in the major media, and has received and economic change. He currently serves as the many awards in the areas of innovation, design, CEO of two of Tipping Point’s portfolio compa- and environment, including Time 100 Most nies, AppOrchard and Cookstr. Mr. Chang has Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Inno- been a serial entrepreneur, investor and advisor to vators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers. many NYC tech startups. He is an appointee of Robin graduated from Wellesley College and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the New York City MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and was a Campaign Finance Board, and currently serves Harvard University Loeb Fellow. as Chair of the NYC Voter Assistance Advisory Committee. Mr. Chang is also a co-creator, along Christian Clauss with CUNY and NYC Council Speak Christine Director of Architecture, Quinn, of a software apprenticeship program Strategy, and Partners - IBM based at CUNY schools. Smarter Cities Software Karen Chapple Christian Clauss has collabo- Associate Professor of rated with customers, partners, City & Regional Planning, and IBMers to create the Intelligent Operations University of California, Center software and related products to enable Berkeley;Associate Director, Smarter Cities. The IOC solutions enable cities to Institute for Urban & utilize IBM’s Instrumented, Integrated, and Intel- Regional Development ligent approach to convert sensor and related data into key performance indicators and coordinated Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor action. Mr. Clauss has dedicated the past decade of City and Regional Planning at the Univer- of his career to dealing with the issues of Sensor sity of California, Berkeley, and serves also as Information Management at massive scale. He led Associate Director of the Institute for Urban & the creation of IBM’s Radio Frequency IDenti- Regional Development. Chapple specializes in fication and Supply Chain Traceability software housing, community and economic development, products and related global standards. Prior to as well as regional sustainability planning. She has joining IBM, Mr. Clauss held Sales and Technical most recently published on regional economic roles at Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, and resilience (in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, General Electric. Economy, and Society), innovation in the green economy (in Economic Development Quarterly), Hope Cohen and the failure of poverty dispersal policies (in Associate Director, Center Housing Policy Debate). Most recently, she has for Urban Innovation, led a national contest sponsored by the Annie Regional Plan Association E. Casey Foundation to generate ideas for local Hope Cohen is director of and state job creation targeting disadvantaged RPA’s New York Program and communities. Chapple holds a B.A. in Urban associate director of RPA’s Center for Urban

19 Innovation. Before coming to RPA, Cohen was Museum of Modern Art, Paris. Mr. d’Allant holds deputy director of the Manhattan Institute’s an MA in social anthropology from the Sorbonne Center for Rethinking Development, where she and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School focused principally on issues of urban environ- of Business. ment and infrastructure, publishing Rethinking Environmental Review and The Neighborly Joseph Danko Substation. Cohen worked many years in New Managing Director of Urban York City’s public sector, in areas ranging from Programs, CH2M HILL urban planning to capital budgeting to strategic Joseph Danko is CH2M information technology. She was at MTA New HILL’s Managing Director of York City Transit for more than a decade, concen- Urban Programs and brings trating on bringing the technology used for the more than 25 years of experience to his role. city’s subway and bus systems into the twenty-first He oversees urban development programs and century. Cohen holds a BA from Harvard and an strategic master planning for cities and commu- MA from the University of Chicago. nities around the world. He has participated in James Crowther sustainable projects from master planning and Customer Solutions financing through design, construction, and oper- Manager, Cisco’s Internet ations, including development of environmental Business Solutions Group management systems, sustainable communities and agriculture, renewable energy applications, James Crowther is responsible climate change assessment, and waste-to-energy for The Netherlands region systems. Mr. Danko’s extensive experience within Cisco’s IBSG. James is responsible for includes creating a Nondestructive Evaluation/ driving strategic engagements with multinational Nondestructive Testing company with Bristol Bay service provider and enterprise accounts primarily Native Corporation in Alaska; providing senior in The Netherlands and Northern Regions within leadership for our total water management busi- Cisco’s European Markets. Crowther joined ness in Alberta, Canada; Project Director of an Cisco in 2000, leading the global transformation $800 million infrastructure utilities project and of Cisco’s customer service function, building one leading an industrial “zero waste” initiative. of the world’s first global IP Contact Centers/ support models. Presently, James is leading Cisco’s Nestor Davidson support of Philips Lighting’s transformation. Professor of Law at Formerly a consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Fordham University (NY) Young in Holland, Crowther has industry expe- Nestor Davidson’s work as rience applying new technology to marketing, a teacher and scholar has advertising, and media. James is an Honours focused on land use, local graduate of The University of Leicester and has government law, affordable housing law and a Masters from The University Cambridge and policy, and sustainability. Davidson served as MBA from The University of East Anglia. Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Depart- Victor d’Allant ment of Housing and Urban Development, and CEO of dallant.networks practiced in the real estate and finance department at the firm of Latham & Watkins. Davidson Victor d’Allant is CEO of earned his A.B. from Harvard College and his dallant.networks, a commu- J.D. from Columbia Law School. After law nications group building and school, he clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the managing online networks United States Court of Appeals for the District of for global impact. Some of his clients include Columbia Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the World Bank and the Gates, Ford and Skoll the Supreme Court of the United States. foundations. Mr. d’Allant previously served as CEO & Managing Director in both the private Ron Dembo and non-profit sectors, and has consulted for Founder and CEO, the World Health Organization, the World Zerofootprint Bank, and Bloomberg among others. Previous to Ron Dembo is the Founder dallant.networks, he pursued a career in photo- and CEO of Zerofootprint, a journalism and has had his work exhibited at the cleantech software and services

20 company that makes environmental impact business community with a background in measurable, visible and manageable for busi- international business, global public policy and nesses, governments, institutions and individuals. innovation focus on the public markets. He is a Dr. Dembo is also the Founder and former CEO six-time speaker at the Public Services Summit of Algorithmics Incorporated, growing it from at Nobel, and holds positions on the Boards of a start-up to the world’s largest enterprise risk- Director for the International Affairs Council management software company. In May 2007, (IAC) and Communities in Schools, North Dr. Dembo was made a lifetime Fields Institute Carolina (CISNC), as a Councilmember to the Fellow, a fellowship which honors individuals NC Governor’s Innovation Council and NC who have made outstanding contributions to Governor’s China Advisory Council. He is an the Fields Institute, its programs, and to the appointed member of the United Nations Inter- Canadian mathematical community. Currently, national Police Advisory Council (UN-IPAC) he sits on a number of boards and is a member and a National Governors Association (NGA) of the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Fellow. Committee Canada and UN HABITAT World Urban Campaign Steering Committee. Deputy Mayor Carolien Gehrels Gordon Feller Deputy Mayor, City Convenor, Meeting of the of Amsterdam Minds + Director of Urban Innovation, Public Sector Carolien Gehrels was sworn Practice, Internet Business in a second term as deputy Solutions Group, Cisco mayor of the city of Amsterdam on May 27th 2010. After serving a first term (April 2006 – Gordon Feller is the Director of Urban Inno- March 2010), she took the lead in forming a new vation at Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Amsterdam administration after the 2010 munic- Group’s Urban Innovations team within the ipal elections. She is responsible for Economic Public Sector Practice. He works with corporate Affairs, Art & Culture, Water Management, and city leaders worldwide supporting Cisco’s Monuments, Local Media and Public Companies. numerous China initiatives while simultane- She also supports Art & Culture and is hosting ously leading Cisco’s new City Leader Program Amsterdam’s celebrations of 400-year canals, the for Chinese mayors and city-based party secre- re-opening of the Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum, taries. Prior to joining Cisco IBSG, Feller was and the international Waterweek in 2013. Prior CEO of the Urban Age Institute, an international to working for the Amsterdam administration, research organization. For nearly 30 years, Mr. deputy mayor Gehrels was Managing Director at Feller has advised on urban development issues Berenschot Citymarketing & Communications, with leaders of multinational companies, cities, an independent organizational consulting firm NGOs, and national governments. His clients with 500 employees in the Benelux. have included World Bank, United Nations, The Rockefeller Foundation, and IBM among others. Mark Gilbreath He is the Co-Founder and Master of Ceremonies Founder and CEO, & Convenor of Meeting of the Minds. Mr. Feller LiquidSpace received his Bachelor’s in political science and a Mark Gilbreath is the Founder Master’s in international affairs from Columbia and CEO of LiquidSpace, the University. dominant realtime work- Jeff C. Frazier space and meeting space network. LiquidSpace Senior Director, Global supports corporations of all sizes, seeking to Public Sector, Internet improve the productivity of their mobile work- Business Solutions Group, force, increase the efficiency of their real estate Cisco Systems, Inc. portfolio, and bring measurability to their sustainability initiatives. He is an experienced Jeff Frazier is a Senior Director serial entrepreneur and one of the new voices of the Global Public Sector for Cisco’s Internet in real estate technology , supporting a vision of Business Solutions Group’s (IBSG), Cisco’s sustainable, mobile business practices. strategic consulting arm. He is a technology executive with 20+ years in the international

21 Mark has spent 25+ years in the technology urban connectivity. Altogether, this includes industry with Wyle Electronics, Trinity Tech- more than 60 concrete projects. nologies, Altera, Toolwire in roles ranging from design engineer to startup CEO. For the past Dr. Colin Harrison 6 years Mark has been focused on the massive Distinguished Engineer and opportunity facing the commercial real estate inventor of IBM’s Smarter industry and the planet as a whole – the consum- Cities architecture erization of real estate. Dr. Colin Harrison is a Distin- Matt Grob guished Engineer and inventor Executive Vice President of IBM’s Smarter Cities architecture. He was and Chief Technology Officer, previously Director of Strategic Innovation in Qualcomm Incorporated IBM Europe and Director of Global Services Research, and currently holds the title of Master Matt Grob is the executive Inventor and Member of the IBM Academy of vice president and chief tech- Technology. Prior to working at IBM Smarter nology officer for Qualcomm Incorporated. He Cities, he held a leadership development position is responsible for the oversight of Qualcomm’s at CERN as well as at the EMI Central Research technical path, the coordination of R&D activi- Laboratories. He earned a PhD in Materials ties across the company and the development Science studied from the Imperial College and of next-generation wireless technologies. Mr. University of Munich, and is a Fellow of the Grob also leads Corporate R&D and provides Institution of Engineering & Technology, Senior oversight to Qualcomm Corporate Engineering Member of the Institution of Electronic & Elec- Services. Since joining Qualcomm in 1991, his trical Engineers, and Founder Member of the contributions have included: system design, stan- Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He dardization, and project leadership for programs is Expert Advisor to the Swiss Academy of Tech- including the early CDMA data services; the nical Sciences and has been a Visiting Scientist Globalstar satellite based mobile voice and data at MIT, Harvard Medical School, and Lawrence system; and the 1x EV-DO high-speed wireless Berkeley Laboratory. Internet access technology. He holds a number of patents in the area of wireless data services Paul Hedtke and technology, and holds a BSEE from Bradley Senior Director, Business University, Peoria, Illinois as well as an MSEE Development, Qualcomm Inc. from Stanford University. Paul Hedtke spent 17 years Vicente Guallart in the aerospace industry in Chief Architect & Director various positions in engi- of Urban Habitat, neering, project & product management, and Barcelona City Council business development prior to joining Qual- comm in 1998. At Qualcomm Mr. Hedtke has Vicente Guallart is Chief served as project leader on numerous product and Architect and Director of business development projects including estab- Urban Habitat at the Barcelona City Council. lishing Qualcomm’s first business operations in He is responsible for bringing together the areas Europe providing fleet management services to of Urbanism, Environment, Infrastructure and the transportation industry, the development ICT. Current projects include the development and deployment of the first application of Qual- and promotion of a ‘city protocol’ to enable cities comm’s wireless technology in the healthcare to become Smart Cities. Its aim is to define the industry, and numerous projects that have helped standards which cities need for the 21st Century to establish the Company’s business within the and promote the alliance between cities to move automobile industry where Qualcomm is now towards a self-sufficient and connected model. He the leading supplier of wireless modem chipsets developed the vision for the City Council and for telematics and connected car services. He is Barcelona urban areas: “Many slow cities inside currently leading Qualcomm’s QCT Division a Smart City.” His aim is the re-naturalization business development activities in the automo- of the city, the definition and promotion of tive sector. self-sufficient blocks, and guaranteeing the city’s

22 Christoph Herzig nonprofit, Rick Hutchinson brings over thirty Global Marketing Manager, years of leadership experience to the sustainable Systems & Services transportation marketplace. Emphasizing the in Business Group, development of market-directed and purpose- Professional Lighting based organizations, he has led three companies Solutions, Philips Lighting and consulted in a range of industries and special- ties. Currently, Rick is responsible for all aspects Christoph Herzig is Global Marketing Manager of the City CarShare organization, including Systems and Services in Business Group Profes- strategic direction, operational functions and sional Lighting Solutions at Philips Lighting. organizational development. Under Rick’s direc- Mr. Herzog is responsible for the global devel- tion, City CarShare has enhanced operations and opment and marketing of innovative service expanded the range and scope of the organiza- and solution offerings for outdoor lighting, tion, achieving operational sustainability and addressing advanced needs of cities, municipali- solidifying its position as the largest nonprofit ties and dedicated service providers in the public carsharing organization in North America. He space. Before joining Philips Lighting in 2010, attended the University of California at Berkeley Mr. Herzig spent 12 years at Philips Healthcare receiving degrees in economics and journalism, holding various managerial positions, in the field and received his MBA from Columbia University of Professional Services, IT and “Connected Busi- with an emphasis in marketing and finance. ness” strategies. He was responsible for global processes and service automation, post-merger Leila Chirayath Janah integration and the development and imple- Founder, Samasource mentation of a service enablement platform for emerging business. He holds an engineering Leila Chirayath Janah is the degree in Applied Physics/Medical Engineering founder of Samasource, an from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. award-winning social business that connects people living in Dylan Hixon poverty to microwork, or small, computer-based President, Arden tasks that build skills and generate life-changing Road Investments income. She serves on the boards of OneLeap and TechSoup Globaland as an advisor to mobile Dylan Hixon manages a shopping app RevelTouch. Prior to Samasource, diversified portfolio of public Ms. Janah was a Visiting Scholar with the Stan- and private investments at ford Program on Global Justice and Austra- Arden Road and serves as a Director of Hixon lian National University’s Center for Applied Properties Inc., a real estate development firm Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding in San Antonio, Texas, and sits on the Boards Director of Incentives for Global Health, has of several other private companies in indus- worked at the World Bank, and has been a travel tries ranging from Technology to Agriculture. writer for Let’s GO in Mozambique, Brazil, and Previously, he worked as a mechanical engineer Borneo. Ms. Janah’s work has been profiled by in areas including applied research on combus- CBS, CNN, NPR, the BBC, The New York tion systems and motion picture visual effects Times, and The New Scientist. technology. Mr. Hixon serves on the advisory boards of Caltech’s Resnick Institute for energy Mayor Edwin Lee research, and the Yale School of Forestry & Envi- Mayor, City and County ronmental Studies. He is a Trustee of Harvey of San Francisco Mudd College in Claremont, California, and the Calhoun School in New York City. He holds Edwin M. Lee is the 43rd a Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University, and a Mayor of the City and County Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from of San Francisco and the first the California Institute of Technology. Asian-American mayor in San Francisco history. Mayor Lee first began working for the City Rick Hutchinson and County of San Francisco in 1989 as the Chief Executive Officer, Investigator for the City’s first Whistle Blower City CarShare Ordinance and has since served as the Executive Director of the Human Rights Commission, As the Chief Executive Officer Director of City Purchasing, and Director of the of City CarShare, a Bay Area

23 Department of Public Works before he was first Mikel Maron appointed as City Administrator in 2005. Prior Co-Founder of Ground to his employment with the City and County Truth Initiative and the of San Francisco, Mayor Lee was the Managing Map Kibera Project Attorney for the San Francisco Asian Law Caucus. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Mikel Maron is a programmer Bowdoin College and from Boalt Hall School of and geographer working for Law, University of California at Berkeley. impactful community and humanitarian uses of open source and open data. He is co-founder of Charles B. Leitner III Ground Truth Initiative, and of the Map Kibera Chairman, SVP Real project. He is also on the Board of the Open- Estate and Chairman, ULI StreetMap Foundation and holds the position of Greenprint Center for President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Building Performance Team. He has travelled widely and has organized projects in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, Mr. Charles B. Leitner III and elsewhere. Prior to his role at Ground Truth is Chief Executive Officer for the Greenprint Initiative and Map Kibera, he co-founded Mapu- Foundation, a non-profit organization created facture and worked on collaborative platforms, by a global alliance of leading real estate inves- geoweb standards, and various applications with tors to spearhead the industry’s drive to reduce a wide spectrum of organizations from UN and greenhouse gas emissions while creating value government agencies to anarchist hacker collec- in property portfolios. In addition, Mr. Leitner tives. is Chairman of RREEF and a member of Deutsche Asset Management’s Global Oper- George McCarthy ating Committee. He is a Trustee of the Urban Director, Metropolitan Land Institute, on the Board of Directors of Opportunity Program, the Pension Real Estate Association, a member The Ford Foundation of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks, and a member of the Real Estate George (“Mac”) McCarthy Roundtable. directs the Ford Foundation’s Metropolitan Opportunity work. His team Ellen Lou focuses on providing low-income people better Director of Urban Design and access to jobs and opportunities. In 2008, Mac Planning, SOM San Francisco administered a program that focused on using homeownership to build assets for low-income Ellen Lou heads the Urban families and their communities. Prior to joining Design and Planning team in the Ford Foundation in 2000, he was a senior Skidmore Owings and Merrill research associate at the Center for Urban and (SOM) San Francisco office, one of the largest Regional Studies at the University of North architectural and engineering practices in the Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked as world. Among the firm’s numerous accolades is professor, scholar, and research associate at many the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is currently the other Academic Institutions throughout the world’s tallest building. Ever since joining SOM, world. Mac earned a Ph.D. in economics from Lou has directed many recognized urban design the University of North Carolina at Chapel projects in the U.S. and areas in the Pacific Rim Hill, a master’s degree in economics from Duke nations. Her expertise lies in the urban domain University and a bachelor’s degree in economics. – including master planning new communities and town layouts – and brown field reuse for Juliette Michaelson the public benefit. Ms. Lou has also served as a Director of Strategic board member for the San Francisco Urban Plan- Initiatives, Regional ning and Research, and has lectured at a series of Plan Association universities which include Stanford and Berkeley. Juliette is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and is currently focused on a large-scale effort to build an active network of transit agency chief executives from around the world. Juliette is the author of a landmark RPA report that quantified how

24 much home values near train stations benefit Jay Nath from improved transit service. She worked on Chief Innovation Officer, RPA’s advocacy efforts on the Far West Side of City of San Francisco, Manhattan. Mayor’s Office Prior to joining RPA, Juliette was a Project Manager at Project for Public Spaces. She man- As the City’s first Chief Inno- aged outreach, education and training programs vation Officer, Jay Nath is to help municipalities and state DOTs make con- focused on bringing new ideas and approaches cordant land use and transportation decisions. to solving long-standing government challenges. Juliette received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Recognizing the potential of San Francisco’s Science from Princeton University and a Master innovation community, Mr. Nath is harnessing in Urban Planning from Columbia University. their passion, creativity and intelligence to help solve civic problems. With the Mayor, he Peter Miscovich announced the 2012 Innovation Portfolio which Managing Director, establishes three strategic focus areas: economic Jones Lang LaSalle development, citizen engagement, and government efficiency. Peter Miscovich is Managing Director at Jones Lang LaSalle Mark Norman which develops integrated President, Zipcar corporate solutions focusing upon Emerging Technologies, Workplace Innovation and Sustain- Mark is our “car guy.” From able Urbanization. A management consultant Vancouver to Chicago to with more than 20 years of experience, he has London, Mark Norman is developed, executed, and managed comprehen- responsible for the world- sive workforce and workplace solutions for global wide operations of Zipcar. Mark joined Zipcar Fortune 500 companies involving corporate real following its merger with Flexcar in the fall of estate, human resources, finance, technology, 2007. He came to Zipcar with more than 20 operations, sourcing and strategic planning years of executive experience in the automotive functions. Peter Miscovich has been a partner industry, including roles as CEO of Flexcar, at PricewaterhouseCoopers and is recognized as and Chairman, President and CEO of Daim- an industry thought leader by The Conference lerChrysler, Canada. At Zipcar, Mark works with Board, CORENET Global, the Urban Land the executive leadership team to ensure optimal Institute and WORKTECH technology consor- member experiences in every Zipcar market. His tium. He has Executive management credentials career has been defined by leveraging operational from the M.I.T. Executive Leadership Develop- best practices to ensure customer satisfaction and ment and Transformational Change Programs revenue growth. Mark holds an undergraduate and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engi- degree in Economics from Rice University in neering from the University of Arizona. Texas as well as a Masters in Business Adminis- tration from Harvard Business School. Nils Moe Mayor’s Sustainability Melanie Nutter Advisor, City of Berkeley Director, Department of the Environment City Nils Moe currently serves as of San Francisco the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisor for the City of Melanie Nutter serves as the Berkeley. In this role, he is helping to implement director for the San Francisco Berkeley’s Climate Action Plan and working with Government’s Department of the Environment. the city staff and the community to reduce their She joined SFE after working as the deputy GHG emissions. During the last ten years he has district director for Congresswoman Nancy been working as a professor of Organizational Pelosi, Speaker of the House. Prior to this posi- Psychology at San Francisco State University tion, she was the executive director of the San and a faculty member of the MPA and MBA Francisco Democratic Party and was the prin- in Sustainable Management programs at the cipal of Nutter Consulting, a San Francisco based Presidio Graduate School. consulting firm that helps nonprofits and political organizations to raise funds, organize events, manage campaigns and recruit new supporters.

25 Ms. Nutter has over 16 years’ experience in Bill Reinert nonprofit fundraising, events management, National Manager of grassroots organizing and media relations. She Advanced Technology for was a grassroots political organizer with Green- Toyota Motor Sales, USA belt Alliance, the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG) and Green Corps. She holds a B.S. degree Bill Reinert is National in communications and environmental studies Manager of Advanced Tech- from Northwestern University. nology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA. His primary function is to coordinate Toyota’s various Manuel Oomen development and marketing activities related to Senior Director Innovation alternative-fueled vehicles and emerging technol- Alliances, Philips Lighting ogies. He is currently working on several advanced hybrid electric products, direct hydrogen fuel cell Manuel Oomen has been with vehicles, reformed fuel approaches for hydrogen, Philips more than 20 years, of full-featured electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid which more than 15 years in concepts, advanced biofuels and sustainable trans- Philips Lighting. He held various technical and portation systems. Mr. Reinert has testified before management positions in Philips and has been the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee working and living in the Netherlands, Germany on Energy & Air Quality, The National Science and the U.S. Recently he became responsible Foundation, and is currently the Chair for the for Innovation Alliances at Philips Lighting. In Electricity sub-group of the National Petroleum this role he is defining and managing partner- Council’s Future Transportation Fuels study for ships with other companies and institutes with the Department of Energy. Mr. Reinert has a the objective to learn about and deliver inno- Masters of Energy Engineering from the Univer- vative integrated solutions to customers. Part- sity of Colorado, Boulder, and is a Distinguished nering with others is one important instrument Engineering Alumni. for Philips Lighting to become a full lighting solutions provider. Dr. Oomen holds a PhD in Paul Reiter Chemistry and Physics from the State University Executive Director, of Utrecht, the Netherlands. International Water Association (Netherlands) Jennifer Pahlka Founder and Executive Paul Reiter is the Executive Director, Code for America Director of the International Water Association, an organization that serves as Jennifer Pahlka is the founder the global network for water professional with and executive director of Code approximately 10,000 members in 120 countries. for America which works with He is a leading figure in international and regional talented web professionals and cities around the water issues with nearly 30 years of experience in country to promote public service and reboot utility project innovation and utility manage- government. Government Technology named ment in the areas of water, electricity and solid her one of 2011’s Doers, Dreamers and Drivers waste. Through this period he has worked as a in Public Sector Innovation, and the Huffington utility leader, private consultant and as an asso- Post named her the top Game Changer in Busi- ciation director. Mr. Reiter’s experience in water ness and Technology. She is known for her TED has focused on sustainable urban water manage- Talk, “Coding a Better Government”, and is a ment including water resources optimization for frequent speaker at a wide range of events. She human and environmental needs, water efficiency spent 8-years at CMP Media where she ran the and reuse, urban drainage, and water-sensitive Game Developers Conference, Game Developer urban design. He has co-authored two books and magazine Gamasutra.com and the Independent speaks globally on the leading challenges facing Games Festival. Jennifer’s early career was spent the water sector. in the non-profit sector. She is a graduate of Yale University. Mayor Gregor Robertson Mayor, Vancouver, British Columbia Gregor Robertson was elected Mayor of Vancouver in

26 November 2008 and was re-elected in 2011 to co-Chairs the California Stationary Fuel Cell continue his campaign to end street homelessness, Collaborative with the Chair of the California Air address housing affordability, improve public Resources Board. He directs the Advanced Power transit, and make Vancouver the greenest city in and Energy Program (APEP) at the University of the world. Mayor Robertson is a national advo- California Irvine, is a Professor of Mechanical, cate for urban issues as Chair of the Federation Aerospace, and Environmental Engineering, and of Canadian Municipalities’ Big City Mayors’ a Henry Samueli Endowed Chair. Some of his Caucus. He spearheaded the creation of the city’s research focuses include building integration and first comprehensive Economic Action Strategy utilization of distributed generation, renewable and has established Vancouver internation- production of electricity and transportation fuels, ally as the Green Capital—a City where going shared-use transportation systems, gas turbine green is good for business. He has also overseen combustion systems for propulsion and power the award-winning Greenest City 2020 Action generation, and fuel cell systems for stationary Plan. Prior to entering politics, Mayor Robertson applications. He is a graduate of the University co-founded Happy Planet, a Vancouver-based of California, Berkeley. socially responsible company that produces organic juices and promotes health and nutrition. Hari Sankaran Vice Chairman, Charles Rutheiser Infrastructure Leasing & Senior Associate, Center for Financial Services Limited Community and Economic (IL&FS), Mumbai, India Opportunity, Annie E. Casey Foundation Mr. Hari Sankaran is the Vice Chairman of Infrastructure Leasing & Finan- Charles Rutheiser is currently cial Services Limited (IL&FS) in Mumbai, a Senior Associate in the Center for Commu- India. Prior to this position, Mr. Sankaran held nity & Economic Opportunity at the Annie a number of positions within the organiza- E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland. tion including Chief Economist, Head for the He is also an active member of the Urban Land Northern Region and Executive Director for Institute Inner City Council and the Anchor Infrastructure. Mr. Sankaran has been closely Institution Task Force. Prior to working with associated with initiatives that have established the Casey Foundation, he directed the Graduate IL&FS as India’s leading Infrastructure and Program in Applied Anthropology at Georgia Financing Institution. The Institution has spear- State University and taught Cultural Anthro- headed the concept of Public Private Partnerships pology and Urban Studies at the Johns Hopkins across a range of sectors in India including: roads, University, Bryn Mawr College, and Western power, telecom, water, seaports, education, skill Michigan University. He is the author of Imagi- training and e-Governance. Upon completing his neering Atlanta: the politics of place in the city Masters at the London School of Economics, Mr. of dreams (Verso, 1996). A former Fulbright and Sankaran returned to India to work with ICICI Inter-American Foundation Fellow, Mr. Rutheiser as a Project Finance Specialist prior to joining received a M.A. and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthro- IL&FS. pology from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. in Anthropology from New College of Manel Sanromà Florida. Chief Information Officer, Barcelona City Council Scott Samuelsen Professor and Director, Manel Sanromà is currently National Fuel Cell the Chief Information Officer Research Center; Director, of Barcelona City Council and Advanced Power and a Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Energy Program, University Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He has occupied of California at Irvine several positions in research and management in different Catalan Universities and Local and Professor Scott Samuelsen is Director of the Regional Administrations. He holds a Ph.D. in National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC) Physics, a Masters degree in IT and a Bachelors on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy degree in Humanities. and the California Energy Commission, and

27 Susanna M. See is also the Richard M. Gray Fellow in Sustain- Executive Vice President, ability Practice. He furthermore holds positions Managing Director, as Director of Aravaipa Ventures and a founding WSP Flack + Kurtz Partner of Urban Sustainability Associates. Prior to his position at Presidio, he was Execu- As the Managing Director of tive Director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use WSP Flack + Kurtz’ San Fran- Institute and led several community development cisco office, Susanna M. See directs over 100 engi- and sustainability organizations including Alter- neers in designing with interest and flexibility. natives for Community & Environment and New Elected to the company’s Board of Directors in Ecology, Inc. among others. He is the author of 2009, she plays an integral role in firm manage- the award-winning book, The Land That Could ment. She is the engineer-of-record on many of Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the WSP Flack + Kurtz’s largest and most challenging Twenty-First Century, and A Republic of Trees: projects, establishing engineering concepts, Field Notes on People, Place, and the Planet. selecting systems, and ensuring quality as the He received a law degree and master’s degree projects move through the design and produc- in history from the University of Virginia, and tion phases. Some of her recent projects include: a doctorate from the University of California 50 U.N. Plaza; 350 Mission Street; Foundry Berkeley. Square Buildings I-IV; University of California, San Francisco Neurosciences Laboratory and Jill Simmons Clinical Research Facility; Letterman Digital Director, Seattle Office Arts Center; Walt Disney Family Museum; 560 of Sustainability and Mission Street; Westfield San Francisco Centre; Environment and the Millennium Tower. Jill Simmons is the Director Susan A. Shaheen, Ph.D. of the Seattle Office of Co-Director of the Institute Sustainability and Environment (OSE). Prior to of Transportation Studies’ becoming director, Ms. Simmons served as OSE’s Transportation Sustainability climate protection program manager, working to Research Center,University implement the Seattle Climate Protection Initia- of California, Berkeley tive and overseeing completion of the City’s greenhouse gas inventories. Before coming to Susan Shaheen is a Co-Director of the Institute of OSE, she worked in the City’s Finance Depart- Transportation Studies’ Transportation Sustain- ment as a fiscal and policy analyst. She has also ability Research Center (TSRC) at the University worked on community development and sustain- of California at Berkeley. She was honored as the ability initiatives as an associate program officer first Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transporta- at the Northwest Area Foundation. Ms. Simmons tion at the Institute of Transportation Studies at holds a Law Degree and Master’s Degree in UC Davis, and served as the Policy and Behav- Public Administration from the University of ioral Research Program Leader at California Part- Washington. ners for Advanced Transit and Highways and as a special assistant to the Director’s Office of the Egon Terplan California Department of Transportation. Dr. Regional Planning Shaheen is an internationally recognized leader Director, SPUR in shared-use vehicle research and has 17 years of experience on this topic. She has a Ph.D. in Egon Terplan is SPUR’s ecology focusing on the energy and environ- regional planning director. mental aspects of transportation from UC Davis, A regional planner and and an M.S. in public policy analysis from the economic development specialist with more University of Rochester. than 14 year of experience, he has authored or co-authored numerous reports and policy studies, William Shutkin including the first-ever report on the Northern President and CEO, California megaregion and a 2011 report on land Presidio Graduate School use planning and high-speed rail in California. Prior to joining SPUR, Egon spent more than five William Shutkin is the Presi- years with ICF International advising cities and dent and CEO of the Presidio regions throughout the world on economic devel- Graduate School where he

28 opment and competitiveness. His work included Chris Vein managing and writing collaborative regional strat- Deputy U.S. Chief Technology egies throughout the United States and Canada. Officer, Executive Office His international work included designing and of the President implementing competitiveness programs. Egon earned a Master’s degree in city and regional Recently described by FedIn- planning from UC Berkeley’s College of Envi- sider as “innovating innova- ronmental Design. tion itself,” Chris Vein is the Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Government Innovation Bart van Bolhuis in the White House Office of Science and Tech- Consul General of nology Policy. In this role, Chris is focused on the Netherlands making government more open, entrepreneurial, and lean; creating new and innovative oppor- Bart van Bolhuis is the Consul tunities for delivering government products, General for the Kingdom services and processes; and incubating innova- of the Netherlands and is tion capacity in the civic, technology and civic based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. His society arenas. Over the past two award-winning focus is on mutual investments in innovation, decades, Chris has had the honor of serving four water & energy, food & nutrition, life science Presidents of the United States, thousands of & health, and creative industries. Prior to his professional association practitioners around position as Consul General, he was Director for the world, for-profit consulting organizations, Foreign Trade and Investment at the Ministry and local government organizations. Chris is a of Economic Affairs and Secretary of the Dutch sought-after commentator and speaker, quoted in Trade Board. He is at the forefront of private- a wide range of news sources from the Economist public cooperation designed to increase Dutch to Inc. Magazine. competitiveness in globalizing markets. In this regard, he took the initiative for the creation of Nicola Villa the Dutch Design Fashion and Architectural Managing Director - Global cooperation. Bart van Bolhuis holds a Master’s Public Sector, Internet Degree in International Law from the University Business Solutions of Amsterdam. Group, Cisco Systems Niels Van Duinen Nicola Villa is IBSG’s Global Marketing Director, Managing Director who leads a worldwide team Professional Outdoor focused on innovative strategies and solutions for Lighting, Philips Lighting public sector. Prior to taking on this role, Nicola managed Cisco’s urban innovation team and Niels Van Duinen is currently developed the Connected Urban Development the Global Marketing program. CUD was part of the commitment Director of Professional Outdoor Lighting, Cisco provided to the Clinton Global Initia- Philips Lighting. Prior to this position, he was tive, and it aimed at developing innovative ICT Post-Merger Integration Marketing Manager & Broadband solutions in large metropolitan and focused on connecting and enabling a multi- areas. Mr. Villa is an Italian national who has cultural and interregional marketing network been living in the UK and in the Netherlands while realizing post-merger business objectives. for several years. He studied Business Economics Now as chairman of Philips’ Global (LED) Port- at the Universita’ Cattolica in Milan and at the folio Team, he drives the LED technology transi- Brighton University in the UK. He wrote his tion within an international network of Philips thesis on Industrial Economics, analyzing the Professional Luminaires companies. Before effects of Technical standardization policies on his assignments in the U.S., he held the posi- the Internet and on the GSM telephony markets. tion of Philips’ National Director of Marketing Professional Lighting in Paris, France where he Jon Walton implemented a customer value driven marketing Chief Information Officer, process around business segments and customer City of San Francisco clusters. Jon Walton is the Chief Infor- mation Officer (CIO) for the City & County of San

29 Francisco and Chairman of the Committee on Princeton. Tom Wright received a Bachelor of Information Technology (COIT). As CIO, Arts in history and a certificate in American Mr. Walton oversees the delivery of technology Studies from Princeton University and a Master services to the citizens of San Francisco and of Science in Urban Planning as well as a Kinne internal support to 23,000 City employees. As Fellowship and AICP Award from Columbia Chairman of COIT, Mr. Walton is responsible University. for citywide Information and Communications Technology strategy plan, multi-year fiscal plan- Susan Zielinski ning, enterprise wide performance oversight, Managing Director of and citywide technology enterprise architecture. SMART, University Prior to working for the City of San Francisco, of Michigan he served as the CIO for the City of San Jose Susan Zielinski is Managing and Sr. Practice Manager for Unisys Govern- Director of SMART at the ment Service. He has been a speaker at the Nikkei University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. SMART Internet Awards, VMWorld, Government Tech- is a multi-disciplinary, university-wide initiative nology Conferences, and Forbes Technology of UMTRI and the Taubman College of Archi- Forum. tecture and Urban Planning. It takes a systems Dr. Peter Wells approach to addressing the emerging challenges Chairman, Neftex and opportunities of integrated and sustainable Petroleum Consultants transportation in a rapidly urbanizing world, undertaking implementation-focused research, Dr. Peter Wells is an interna- Living Labs in India, South Africa, Europe, Brazil, tional oil and gas expert with and the U.S., education, and global learning over 30 years technical and exchange on a range of issues related to the future business experience, including at senior levels of transportation. Before joining SMART, Ms. with major oil companies such as Shell and BP, Zielinski spent a year as a Harvard Loeb Fellow in the Middle East, Caspian region and West focusing on New Mobility innovation and leader- Africa. He has led negotiations in several major ship. She worked for over 15 years in the Planning oil and gas deals in the Middle East and Caspian Department at the City of Toronto, developing regions, most notably in Azerbaijan in the 1990s and leading transportation and livability policies for BP and in Iran. Dr. Wells is Chairman of the and initiatives. UK-based geological consulting company Neftex Petroleum Consultants. He is also an advisor to Toyota Motor Company on world oil and gas supply and Middle East affairs. Tom Wright Executive Director, Regional Plan Association As Executive Director, Tom Wright has directed dozens of projects and manages a staff of 35 urban planners and designers, oversees budgeting and fiscal planning for a $6 million organization, and coordinates a 60-member Board of Directors. Previously, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the New Jersey Office of State Planning where he coordinated adoption of the New Jersey State Development and Redevel- opment Plan (2001). He is a Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is a member of the Forum for Urban Design and the Board of Directors of the Riverside South Planning Corporation and the Arts Council of

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34 part of their business. SVB Financial Group’s The Annie E. Casey Foundation Wine Division understands the industry’s vola- tility and is well-known among the premium wineries in California, Oregon and Wash- ington for its on-staff expertise, financial The Annie E. Casey Foundation is one of the resourcefulness and ability to manage risk largest private foundations in the nation, with effectively.www.svb.com total assets (fair market value) at the end of 2010 at more than $2.7 billion. The Founda- SOM tion provides about $122 million in grants each year and is ranked among the top philan- thropies for charitable giving. The Founda- tion’s primary mission is to foster public policies, human services, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of vulner- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is able children and families. Headquartered in one of the leading architecture, interior design, Baltimore, Maryland, the Annie E. Casey engineering, and urban-planning firms in the Foundation has been working to promote world, with a reputation for design excellence the well-being of our nation’s most vulnerable and a portfolio that includes some of the most children for more than 60 years. Established important architectural accomplishments of in 1948 by UPS co-founder Jim Casey and his the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its incep- siblings in honor of their mother, the Founda- tion, SOM has been a leader in the research tion’s first grants supported a camp for disad- and development of specialized technologies, vantaged children near the Casey family home new processes and innovative ideas, many of in Seattle. Later, Jim Casey steered the Foun- which have had a palpable and lasting impact dation’s efforts toward finding more stable, on the design profession and the physical envi- permanent homes for children—reflecting his ronment. belief that the future chances of kids depend Since SOM’s beginnings, the firm’s work largely on what their parents and families are has ranged from the architectural design and able to provide emotionally and financially. engineering of individual buildings of all In pursuit of that goal, Jim Casey established typologies to the master planning and design programs throughout New England that of entire communities. The resulting portfolio later became Casey Family Services. Oper- includes more than 15,000 projects located ating today as the Foundation’s direct services in 50 countries around the world. Architect agency, Casey Family Services works directly Magazine named SOM the number one archi- with families and child welfare professionals tecture firm in the United States, calling the to ensure that every child has a safe, nurturing, firm “for 75 years the bluest chip in the Amer- and permanent family. The agency has divi- ican design portfolio.” SOM is the first firm sions in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, ever to be awarded the Gold Medal in Archi- Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, tecture from the National Arts Club. and Vermont. The Casey Foundation supports SOM has received more than 1500 design a diverse range of efforts designed to build awards including the first Firm of the Year better futures for millions of children at risk of Award, awarded in 1961 by the American poor educational, economic, social, and health Institute of Architects for design excellence. outcomes. These investment areas include: Honored again in 1996, SOM is the only firm • designing and delivering services to secure to have won this prestigious award twice. www. and sustain lifelong family connections for som.com children and youth;

35 • advocating for reforms in public human commitment to local business development service systems to ensure that they operate and sustainability in all of the countries where effectively and efficiently to strengthen we operate. families; With a proven track record of major project • expanding social and economic security for delivery for our clients, WSP has established a families in poor communities; world-class client base and enjoys a high level of repeat business. • gathering and promoting the use of data as Clients include government departments a tool for change; and and agencies, leading private and public sector • transforming tough and isolated communi- organisations and major multi and bilateral ties into family-supporting environments. international financial institutions. WSP Group has extensive international The Annie E. Casey Foundation makes experience in America, UK, Europe, Africa, grants that help states, cities, and neighbor- Asia, India, Asia Pacific and the Middle East hoods create more innovative, cost-effective gained through working all over the world. responses to these needs. Grant making is We currently have around 200 offices in 30 limited to initiatives in the United States countries. that have significant potential to demonstrate Working in partnership with our clients, we innovative policy, service delivery, and commu- are able to bring knowledge, expertise, inno- nity supports—especially investments that vation and enthusiasm to any project. www. encourage long-term strategies and partner- wspgroup.com ships to strengthen families and communities. www.aecf.org Consul General of the Netherlands

WSP Group

WSP is a global design engineering and management consultancy specialising in Prop- Consul General Bart van Bolhuis erty, Transport & Infrastructure, Industry and Bart van Bolhuis was appointed as representa- Environment projects. We work with clients tive for the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the worldwide to create built and natural environ- 13 westernmost United States in August 2009. ments for the future. He and his team, based in San Francisco and Established in the UK in the ’70s and listed Los Angeles, focus on mutual investments in on the London Stock Exchange since 1987, the innovation: water and energy, food and nutri- company has grown through strategic devel- tion, life science and health, and creative indus- opment into one of the largest international tries. consultancy groups in the world employing From 2003 to 2009, Bart van Bolhuis was around 9,000 staff worldwide. Director for Foreign Trade and Investment at WSP operates as a specialist in the prop- the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Secre- erty, transportation and infrastructure, envi- tary of the Dutch Trade Board. Bart has been ronment and energy and management and and continues to be an advocate for private- industrial sectors providing a full range of public cooperation designed to increase Dutch services from planning through to design, competitiveness in globalizing markets. In this implementation and maintenance. regard, he took the initiative for the creation of Thanks to its multi-disciplinary capability, the Dutch Design Fashion and Architecture WSP can offer fully-integrated delivery teams cooperation. to local and global clients. We have a strong Bart began his career in the UN Depart- ment at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Afterwards, at the Ministry of

36 Economic Affairs, he was involved in the media. By bringing together scholars, practi- creation of the European Market and the tioners, public officials, policy makers, journal- Economic and Monetarian Union. In 1992, ists, and involved citizens, the Lincoln Institute with the agency of the Ministry of Economic integrates theory and practice and provides Affairs, he established the PSO Programme, a nonpartisan forum for multidisciplinary which assisted new European Union members perspectives on public policy concerning to adapt to EU requirements and helped to land, both in the U.S. and internationally. www. position Dutch business in developing markets lincolninst.edu in Eastern Europe. From 1998 to 2002, Bart van Bolhuis led Presidio Graduate School the ‘Euroteam’ at the Ministry of Finance, which was responsible for the successful intro- duction of the Euro currency in the Nether- lands. Bart van Bolhuis holds a Master’s Degree in International Law from the University of Amsterdam. Presidio Graduate School educates and Key Partners inspires a new generation of skilled, visionary and enterprising leaders to transform business San Francisco Mayor’s Office and public policy and create a more just, pros- of Civic Innovation perous and sustainable world. Through innovative MBA, MPA, Dual Degree and Executive Certificate programs in Sustainable Manage- ment, Presidio activates students and professionals across a range of disciplines, industries and sectors to bridge the gap between commerce and the common good. The Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation works Driven by our mission, Presidio has become to solve emerging or long-standing challenges a top-ranked graduate school transforming the through new approaches and ideas. Their 2012 way students and graduates think about, and Innovation Portfolio can be found at: http:// apply solutions to, the world’s most pressing innovation.sfgov.org sustainability challenges. Through our affili- ation with Alliant International University, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Presidio is accredited by the Western Associa- tion of Schools and Colleges. In 2003, Presidio pioneered the field of sustainable management education with 22 students, a handful of faculty and an educa- The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a tional philosophy grounded in pragmatic leading resource for key issues concerning the concepts that integrate systems thinking and use, regulation, and taxation of land. Providing sustainability throughout all our programs. high-quality education and research, the Insti- Today, Presidio has an accomplished team of tute strives to improve public dialogue and over 45 faculty and staff, an outstanding board decisions about land policy. As a private oper- of directors, 250 students, over 500 alumni at ating foundation whose origins date to 1946, the forefront of the sustainability field and a the Institute seeks to inform decision making global reputation. through education, research, policy evaluation, During the next decade, we seek nothing demonstration projects, and the dissemina- short of becoming the world’s premier training tion of information, policy analysis, and data ground, research center and convener for through our publications, Web site, and other sustainable management, located in the heart

37 of the field, the San Francisco Bay Area, and earthquake and fire. That group, the San Fran- in a remarkable place, Presidio National Park, cisco Housing Association, authored a hard- which gives shape and meaning to so much of hitting report which led to the State Tenement what we believe in – the union of business and House Act of 1911. policy, of community and ecology. In the 1930s, SFHA continued to advocate As the key developer of the next genera- for housing concerns. In the 1940s, SFHA tion of leaders, we believe higher education merged with Telesis, a group of graduates has the responsibility to provide graduates from UC Berkeley’s city planning program, with the tools and knowledge to create a more to become the San Francisco Planning and just, prosperous and sustainable world. Over Housing Association in 1942. In the same year, time, Presidio will leverage its core asset—our the Association landed another major success unique educational model—to help guide with the creation of San Francisco’s Depart- academic and educational institutions world- ment of City Planning. wide to adopt our approach. Our vision is In the 1950s, SFPHA pushed for the revi- that every graduate program will integrate talization of San Francisco as the Bay Area’s sustainability in content and delivery, and central city, in an effort to curb suburban that Presidio, already looked to as a leader in sprawl and channel growth back into the urban sustainability education, will guide this evolu- core. In 1959, the San Francisco Planning and tion. www.presidioedu.org Housing Association was reorganized into the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal The Ford Foundation - Metropolitan Association—and later, the San Francisco Opportunity Program Planning and Urban Research Association—to be the citizens’ voice for good planning. Over the next five decades, SPUR built support for land use, transportation and investment strategies to support center-oriented The Ford Foundation is an independent, growth and urban economic vitality. Since nonprofit grant-making organization. For 75 then, SPUR has been involved with virtually years it has worked with courageous people every major planning decision in the city. on the frontlines of social change worldwide, In May 2009, the opening of the 14,500 guided by its mission to strengthen democratic square-foot SPUR Urban Center opened a values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote major new chapter in the life of the organiza- international cooperation, and advance human tion and in civic planning in San Francisco. achievement. With headquarters in New York, Located in the heart of the Yerba Buena the foundation has offices in Latin America, cultural district, the Urban Center provides a Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. common ground for citizens to come together www.fordfoundation.org/issues/metropolitan- in fruitful, forward-thinking conversation. opportunity In a city dominated by single-interest politics, SPUR plays the crucial role of uniting citi- SPUR zens to jointly craft solutions to our common problems. SPUR is a member-supported, nonprofit organization. www.spur.org

Through research, education and advocacy, SPUR promotes good planning and good government in the San Francisco Bay Area. SPUR’s history dates back to 1910, when a group of young city leaders came together to improve the quality of housing after the 1906

38 Friends of Meeting of the Minds USGBC Northern California

International Water Association

The U.S. Green Building Council - Northern California Chapter (USGBC-NCC) is a The International Water Association (IWA) 501(c)(3) California public benefit corpo- is the global network of 10,000 water profes- ration that educates, inspires, and provides sionals spanning the continuum between resources for industry transformation to build research and practice and covering all facets of and maintain sustainable communities. the water cycle. USGBC-NCC is part of a network The IWA network is structured to promote of approximately 65 USGBC Chapters multi-level collaboration among its diverse throughout the United States which represent membership groups to create innovative, prag- USGBC in their respective regions. Located matic and sustainable solutions to challenging in a region which is equivalent to the 10th global water needs. www.iwahq.org largest economy of the world*, NCC is one of the largest USGBC Chapters in the country, Greenprint Foundation a recipient of several USGBC Excellence Awards, and the leading green building organization in Northern California. The Chapter is headquartered in San Francisco, and has branches in the Mount Diablo region of the East Bay, Monterey Bay, Sacramento, San Fran- cisco Bay Area , and Silicon Valley. The leadership team consists of the Board Greenprint Foundation is a worldwide alli- of Directors who oversee chapter policy, an ance of real estate owners, investors, financial executive director who manages operations institutions and other industry stakeholders and staff, and several volunteer committees committed to reducing carbon emissions that contribute to the development and opera- across the global property industry. Green- tion of the chapter’s activities. www.usgbc-ncc. print Foundation is a catalyst for change, org taking meaningful, immediate and measurable actions to generate solutions that improve Bay Area Council Economic Institute the environment through energy efficiency while demonstrating the correlation with increased property values. Greenprint focuses on reducing the carbon footprint of the built environment, which currently represents one third of all carbon emissions. Greenpint works to achieve its carbon reduction goals through The Bay Area Council Economic Institute is education and action. a partnership of business with labor, govern- The Greenprint Foundation has recently ment, higher education, and philanthropy, become the ULI Greenprint Center for that works to support the economic vitality Building Performance, a dedicated center of and competitiveness of the Bay Area and research and programming at the Urban Land California. Its work builds on the twenty-year Institute. www.greenprintfoundation.org record of fact-based economic analysis and policy leadership of the Bay Area Economic

39 Forum, which merged with the Bay Area Council in January 2008. www.bayareaeco- nomy.org

CEOs for Cities

CEOs for Cities is a global learning community and partnership network that connects urban leaders to each other and to smart ideas and practices for making cities successful. We connect across sectors, borders, levels and generations in more than 40 North American cities. Participation in CEOs for Cities is an investment in making cities smarter and our nation successful. www.ceosforcities.org

Urban Land Institute

Urban Land Institute’s mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land, and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. In ULI’s New York District Council, the Sustainable Building Council, comprised of a select group of large New York City landlords, investors, managers and sustainable development consultants, has as its primary purpose the “greening” of New York’s existing building inventory. The Coun- cil’s focus is to share sustainable best practices, explore ways to reduce our carbon footprint and engage industry and governmental groups with the goal of creating useful and practical sustainable programs and goals. www.uli.org

40 Meeting of the Minds Staff

Jessie Feller Dave Hahn Managing Director, Director of Communications Meeting of the Minds and Content, Meeting of the Minds Jessie has been the Director of Meeting of the Minds since Dave Hahn is the Director 2010. She is also a Senior of Communications and Planner at Regional Plan Association where she Content for Meeting of the Minds. He leads the launched the regional energy policy program in organization’s digital communications strategy, 2010. She specializes in urban-regional policy and social media presence, and serves as the editor of planning, with a particular focus on sustainability the new Meeting of the Minds website - City- and clean energy. She has written numerous arti- Minded.org. cles which have been featured in RPA’s Spotlight Prior to joining Meeting of the Minds, Hahn on the Region, The Hartford Courant, Urban enjoyed a successful career as a Broadway conduc- Age Magazine, The Record, NPR, among others. tor in New York City. He served as the Associate Previous to RPA, she worked as a cluster spe- Conductor for both Priscilla Queen of the Des- cialist at Economic Competitiveness Group, as ert and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever a Sustainability Fellow at the Portland Devel- (starring Harry Connick, Jr.). Hahn co-founded opment Commission, and started her career at MusicianWages.com - the largest website for SMWM (now Perkins + Will). working musicians - where he oversaw the cura- Jessie holds a BA from Vassar College in tion of articles, the optimization of content and Urban Studies and Hispanic Studies (Phi Beta the acquisition of advertising. Kappa) and a Masters in Environment and Dave studied jazz piano in Chicago, marine Development Studies (honors) from the London biology in the South Pacific, and earned his BA School of Economics and Political Science. in Germanic Studies from Indiana University.

41 Thank You

Enormous thanks to our dedicated Meeting of the Minds 2012 team:

Michael Adams Wendy Pollack Kristi Audette Steven Salzgeber Bill Burch Shannon Spanhake Jaycie Chitwood Alicia Swanson Jeff Ferzoco Petra Todorovich Diane Fischer Virgil Vidal David Flashner Hally Wax Haley Gallant Eric Wee Dave Hahn John Williamson Jana Hartline Tom Wright Kristin Johnson Jessica Kennedy Executive Events Cindy Knight Jill Schneider Photography Robert Moriarty MixPr Matthew Mors SF Mayor’s Office of Innovation Jay Nath Text 100 Kathy O’Connell Ben Oldenburg And a special thanks to all of the generous speakers, sponsors and partners.

42 OCtOber 11-12 • 2012 • SA n F rAnCiSCO

The San Francisco Bay area is home to many of the world’s most innovative companies, from early web pioneers like Wired and Yahoo to relative newcomers like Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Square, and Salesforce. com. Each year, hundreds of new startups are born in the city and beyond, many of which are destined to grow into the next generation of world- changing institutions that will alter the course of technology, media, finance, commerce, transportation, energy, health and more.

What drives this unprecedented level of innovation? In a phrase, we think it’s the spirit of open collaboration that has always been the hallmark of San Francisco.

It’s in that spirit that a diverse group of organizations has launched OpenCo San Francisco (OpenCoSF), a new kind of conference-as-festival where innovative companies open their doors to host conversation-based salons. They’ll share their business vision, outline their founding principles and values, and discuss what it means to be part of the collaborative ecosystem that is the San Francisco Bay area.

OpenCoSF will invite attendees to tour San Francisco’s diverse neighborhoods and businesses, from the Mission to the Embarcadero, mid-Market to South Park and beyond. In its pilot year, OpenCoSF will feature more than 75 extraordinary companies, from airbnb to Zynga.

We welcome delegates from Meeting of the Minds. To learn more, please contact [email protected] or visit openco.us.

Attendees of Meeting of the Minds are welcome to register for free of charge for OpenCoSF at openco.us

OpenCoSF is produced by Battellemedia, LLC in partnership with the Office of the Mayor of San Francisco, InnovateSF, sfBIG, sf:citi, The Interpublic Group, Golightly Productions, Federated Media Publishing, and founding sponsors Silicon Valley Bank, IPG Mediabrands and Universal McCann. Presented by

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