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9:00am EDT
Building A Smart Region Welcome Speakers
Speakers
Co-founder and VP Policy, Venture Smarter
Rhonda Binda is VP Policy for Venture Smarter and Director of their Smart Regions Initiative. She has a distinguished history of public service, as Deputy Director for the U.S. Department of State’s Global Intergovernmental Affairs Division, and in the West Wing of the White House, under tw...
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City Manager, Cincinnati
Cincinnati City Manager
County Commissioner/VP Client Relations, Campbell County Fiscal Court/smartLINK
Tom has a strong record of developing relationships with both business clients and a wide range of community representatives. Tom is deeply involved in his own community, and is County Commissioner in Campbell County, Kentucky, and serves on the Board of Directors for the St. Elizabeth...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 9:00am - 9:10am EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
9:10am EDT
Building A Smart Region
Speakers
CEO, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI)
Mark Policinski is celebrating his 26th year as a CEO, the past fourteen years with the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI). Prior to OKI, Mr. Policinski held senior-level positions in the private sector, including CEO of the Brown Publishing Company and vice...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 9:10am - 9:20am EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
9:20am EDT
Building A Smart State
Speakers
Secretary of Technology, Commonwealth of Virginia
Karen Jackson serves as the Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth. Prior to her appointment, she served as the Commonwealth’s Deputy Secretary of Technology and Vice President of Broadband Programs for the Center for Innovative Technology.
Ms. Jackson serves as a senior...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 9:20am - 9:30am EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
9:30am EDT
University Cities
Speakers
Vice President for Research, University of Cincinnati
Wednesday October 25, 2017 9:30am - 9:35am EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
9:35am EDT
Business Community Call to Action
Speakers
Partner and VP of Enterprise Solutions, Centric Consulting
Andy is a founding member of Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub, and currently presides as Board President. Mr. Park is a Vice President and Partner at Centric Consulting, a Business Consulting and Technology Solutions Firm with over 20 years of Consulting experience. Mr. Park co-leads...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 9:35am - 9:40am EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
9:40am EDT
Building Innovation Communities
Speakers
CEO, Cintrifuse
Having delivered business solutions in 30 countries, Wendy brings a worldly point of view to digital innovation and a charming edge to her entrepreneurial pursuits. She’s a harmonious blend of San Francisco’s upstream edge, Boulder’s down to earth vibe and the Deep South’s...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 9:40am - 9:50am EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
9:50am EDT
10:00am EDT
Smart and Connected Communities Keynote
Speakers
Global President, Smart + Connected Communities, Cisco
Anil Menon is global president of the Cisco Smart+Connected Communities (S+CC) business unit, which provides the Cisco Smart+Connected Digital Platform and key solutions that transform the delivery of urban services in cities and facilitate data sharing across city agencies, with...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
10:30am EDT
10:30am EDT
Drone Racing and Exhibition
Speakers
CEO, Dayton Drones
I am the owner of Dayton Drones and Dayton FPV the first Drone retail store in Dayton Ohio.
Strategic Account Executive, Spectrum Enterprise
10:30am EDT
10:45am EDT
10:45am EDT
10:45am EDT
Defeating the Heroin and Opioid Epidemic
Moderators
President, Venture Smarter
Speakers
Business Service Representative, Brighton Center
Serve both employers and jobseekers in the Northern Kentucky Region; acting as a liaison to fit their needs. With an emphasis on employer outreach, community outreach, job development, developing jobseekers skills through training/supportive services and marketing qualified applicants...
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Attending, MedTech MD Inc
MedTech MD
AK
Nurse Manager, Edgewood Emergency Department Office
Chief of Police, Newtown Police Department
Mr. Synan’s wide experience has allowed him to have a unique look into the heroin crisis. Mr. Synan is a United States Marine Corps veteran and a 24-year police veteran with the Newtown Police Department. For the last 10 years as Police Chief and as a SWAT Team Leader veteran.In...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 10:45am - 11:30am EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
11:15am EDT
Smart Transportation and Infrastructure Featured Presentation
Speakers
Professor, University of Cincinnati
I am the advisor of University of Cincinnati Hyperloop. I am the inventor of hybrid Solar/Wind Turbine with aerodynamic brake.
Assistant Professor of Practice, Industrial Design, UC, College of DAAP
Antonio Islas is a Master of Design, class of 2013, from the University of Cincinnati. He received his bachelor in Industrial Design from Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi in Mexico in 2007, where he worked at Rigoletti Casa de Diseño, an industrial and automotive design school...
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Director, The Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design at DAAP, University of Cincinnati
Dr Gjoko Muratovski is the Director of The Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design at DAAP, University of Cincinnati - a top-ranked design school as recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Business Insider and Design Intelligence. He is also the Chair of the US$10 million Endowment Fund...
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CEO, Transit X
Transit X is developing a personal mass transit network to supplant cars and roads in cities and suburbs.
Wednesday October 25, 2017 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room Two
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
11:15am EDT
Urban Impact Featured Presentations
Speakers
Associate, Ice Miller
Lindsay Miller is an attorney with the Public Affairs and Government Law Group. With nearly ten years of experience in technology initiatives, Lindsay has a reputation in the broadband and technology arena of being a strong advocate with a successful track record in building relationships...
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Macquarie Capital - National Broadband Strategies
Research Director, Smart Cities & Transportation, IDC
Wednesday October 25, 2017 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room Three
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
11:30am EDT
12:00pm EDT
1:00pm EDT
Advanced and Autonomous Transportation in Smart Regions
Moderators
Co Founder, Venture Smarter
Speakers
Professor, University of Cincinnati
I am the advisor of University of Cincinnati Hyperloop. I am the inventor of hybrid Solar/Wind Turbine with aerodynamic brake.
Executive Director, Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission
Randy Cole serves as Executive Director of the Ohio Turnpike. He previouslyserved as Controlling Board President and Policy Advisor to the Office of Budgetand Management (OBM) in the administration of Gov. John Kasich. He currentlyserves on the Advisory Board of DriveOhio, a multi-agency...
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CEO, Transit X
Transit X is developing a personal mass transit network to supplant cars and roads in cities and suburbs.
Research Director, Smart Cities & Transportation, IDC
Wednesday October 25, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room Three
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
1:00pm EDT
Innovation, Inclusion, and the Workforce of the Future
Moderators
Co-founder and VP Policy, Venture Smarter
Rhonda Binda is VP Policy for Venture Smarter and Director of their Smart Regions Initiative. She has a distinguished history of public service, as Deputy Director for the U.S. Department of State’s Global Intergovernmental Affairs Division, and in the West Wing of the White House, under tw...
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Speakers
Founder, Code For Kids
Michael Beck holds MBA in Int'l Business from Vienna University of Economics in Austria and in MIS/Int'l Marketing from Kent State University in Ohio. He spent 11 years working for NCR Corp. in Dayton, OH in various international assignments.
Graduate of Leadership Cincinnati...
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Centric Consulting
Parag Joshi (
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paragcjoshi) is a Co-Lead for Digital, Mobile, Portal, and Outsourcing for Cincinnati Business Unit of Centric Consulting LLC and has over 19 years software development experience working on various technologies. He is co-director of CINNUG, a technical group in Cincinnati and also director o...
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Associate Professor, Northern Kentucky University
I received my B.A. in Communication from Seoul National University, and my M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from Michigan State University.I study how emerging information communication technology—including robots, computer agents, video games, and Web 2.0—influences human attitudes...
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LaGuarida Community College
Co-Founder, Wyzerr
Community Catalyst for StartupCincy. It's my job to build an ecosystem of innovation enabled by entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship should be diverse and inclusive and I'm setting out to build communities that provide access to success through innovation for everyone!
1:00pm EDT
Resilient Infrastructure and IoT for Smart Cities and Disaster Relief
Moderators
Chairman, The Hamilton Mill
PowerIT Solutions provides strategic business, technology and web-development consulting services to a wide range of businesses across industries. I am also the Chairman of The Hamilton Mill, an incubator focused on clean-tech and advanced manufacturing, and Chairman of Pipeline...
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Speakers
Assistant Professor, UC School of IT
Jess Kropczynski, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests are primarily in the design and evaluation of civic technology to support collective action in community networks ranging from city planning...
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President, Global Quality Corp./HydroTrek
Director of System Engineering State, Local Government and Education, Cisco Systems, Inc
Mark Moffett leads System Engineering for State, Local Government, and Education for the Eastern United States. He and his team of 130+ Systems Engineering Managers, Systems Engineers and Architects are responsible for the design and deployment of Cisco solutions built on integrated...
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ContextLABS
Chris is the Chief Business Officer at ContextLABS, Spherical|Analytics and is the Founder of ImpactLABS. Chris and his teams are bringing digital trust platforms -- combining IoT, cybersecurity tools, proofing services, blockchain and machine learning -- to resilient infrastructure...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room Two
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
1:00pm EDT
The Business Case for Smart Cities
Moderators
President, Venture Smarter
Speakers
Vice President, Network Solutions, CNX
Terry serves as the VP, Network Solutions for CNX, where he has been at the forefront of connectivity infrastructure for Smart Cities. Terry is also responsible for working with government jurisdictions on asset management strategies and long-term telecommunications planning that...
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VP Sales, Powernet
John has been with Powernet for over 5 years, all of that time in the sales department. Having spent the previous 20 years in sales and sales management in the Information Technology sector, he has a strong solution-selling background and was involved in the development and initial...
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Co-founder and CEO, smartLINK, nexigen
Jon Salisbury is the Co-founder and CEO at
smartLINK, as well as the Co-founder & CEO at nexigen. Jon has led over 1000 technology projects to successful implementation. Jon has also helped create the IEEE smart city (Technical) framework. Jon is a strong advocate for social good projects and innovative technologies which solve problem...
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Senior Director, Ruckus Wireless
Mr Wimsatt is Sr Director of Strategic Alliances for Ruckus Wireless. He leads Smart and Connected City initiatives including go to market activities and ecosystem partnerships with key partners providing streetlights, digital kiosks, IP video analytics, and IoT solutions. He...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
2:00pm EDT
Big Data and IoT in Smart Cities
Moderators JC
Sr Security Researcher, Fortinet
Fortinet
Speakers BC
Chief Data Officer, City of Cincinnati
Chief Data Officer, City of Cincinnati
Secretary of Technology, Commonwealth of Virginia
Karen Jackson serves as the Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth. Prior to her appointment, she served as the Commonwealth’s Deputy Secretary of Technology and Vice President of Broadband Programs for the Center for Innovative Technology.
Ms. Jackson serves as a senior...
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Asst. Professor, Dept of Computer Science, Northern Kentucky University
Rasib Khan, Ph.D., is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity in the Department of Computer Science at Northern Kentucky University, USA. Dr. Khan completed his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, in 2016. He completed his dual-MS degrees from Royal...
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Co-founder and Partner, Differential
Tim Metzner is co-founder and Partner of Differential, a leading digital innovation studio. Tim is also a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors for OCEAN Accelerator and Unpolished, a not-profit organization with a mission to increase the presence of God in the marketplace...
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CIO and VP for Information Technology, University of Cincinnati
Nelson Vincent leads the university’s enterprise technology organization and works with the university’s distributed IT organizations to achieve an optimal balance of standard and unique technologies and services. Vincent oversees the design and delivery of eLearning and research...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room Two
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
2:00pm EDT
Public Safety in Smart Cities
Moderators
Centric Consulting
Parag Joshi (
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paragcjoshi) is a Co-Lead for Digital, Mobile, Portal, and Outsourcing for Cincinnati Business Unit of Centric Consulting LLC and has over 19 years software development experience working on various technologies. He is co-director of CINNUG, a technical group in Cincinnati and also director o...
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Speakers MH
Lieutenant, Cincinnati Police Department
Analytics & Innovation Manager, City of Cincinnati, OH
Nicollette Staton is the Analytics & Innovation Manager for the City of Cincinnati’s Office of Performance & Data Analytics (OPDA) working to embed the office’s mission to use data analytics to deliver better, faster, and smarter services throughout city operations. Staton manages...
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Chief of Police, Newtown Police Department
Mr. Synan’s wide experience has allowed him to have a unique look into the heroin crisis. Mr. Synan is a United States Marine Corps veteran and a 24-year police veteran with the Newtown Police Department. For the last 10 years as Police Chief and as a SWAT Team Leader veteran.In...
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Chief of Police, City of Alexandria KY Police Department
Chief of Police
2:00pm EDT
Smart Cities are Connected Cities
Moderators
President, Venture Smarter
Speakers
Partner, Ice Miller LLP
Greg Dunn has represented telecommunication clients for more than 33 years, providing legal and strategic assistance to a variety of private and public clients.Greg has a comprehensive knowledge of both public utility and broadband issues. His clients include municipalities, The Ohio...
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Director of Wireless Solutions, Cincinnati Bell
Digital Infrastructure Lead, AT&T
I am focused on digital infrastructure, 5G and FirstNet as drivers for how cities will be smart. Sensor overlay networks for data analytics and organization will be critical to cities in order to succeed to enable citizens and drive economic growth.
MT
Macquarie Capital - National Broadband Strategies
Wednesday October 25, 2017 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
2:00pm EDT
Smart Cities are Healthy Cities
Moderators
Director, Digital Services, Centric Consulting
Ask me about Digital Strategy, Customer Experience and Design, Marketing Automation and Digital InnovationJason leads the
Digital consulting practice, one of Centric’s fastest growing service offerings. Jason is passionate about re-imagining the customer experience around digital touch points, accelerating digital transformation and helping clients understand and respond to digital disruption.Jason has...
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Speakers
CEO, The Health Collaborative
PC
Attending, MedTech MD Inc
MedTech MD
AK
Nurse Manager, Edgewood Emergency Department Office
CEO and Founder, Face2Face Health
LT
Chief Performance Officer, City of Cincinnati
Chief Performance Officer, City of Cincinnati
Wednesday October 25, 2017 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room Three
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
3:00pm EDT
Blockchain and Tech Disrupting Financial Markets
Moderators
Speakers
Founder CEO, Wunderfund
Marvin is an entrepreneur, public speaker, & advisor to many companies. He is the CEO of Wunderfund, an equity crowdfunding portal in Silicon Prairie that helps startups from breweries to tech raise capital. He also founded Thrivera, a brand agency that helps companies tell great...
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Founder CEO, Apicista
I have a passio for revitalizing communities through the demoncratization of private capital. Through my sftware company I have been part of over 160 deployment of digitl platforms which solict, sell and service privte and exempt securities. This whitelabeled paltform is expanding...
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Partner, The digit Group inc & Harbinger Alpha Capital Partners
Director, 10XTS
Michael Hiles (aka “HilesFiles”) is CEO/Founder 10XTS. He is a digital 10native with 25+ years of software engineering, data, and information architecture experience with enterprise systems. As a senior exec with cross-over experience in multiple subsectors and industry segments...
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3:00pm EDT
Cyber Security in Smart Cities
Moderators
Co Founder, Venture Smarter
Speakers
CTO for Cisco Systems Security and Trust Organization, Cisco Security and Trust
Greg Akers is the Senior Vice President of Advanced Security Initiatives and Chief Technology Officer within the Security and Trust Organization (STO) at Cisco. With more than two decades of executive experience, Akers brings a wide range of technical and security knowledge to his...
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Head, Dept. of Political Science, University of Cincinnati
Professor Harknett has been publishing on national cyber security strategy for over 20 years. He recently returned to Cincinnati after 6 months at Oxford University serving as Fulbright Professor in Cyber Studies and a prior 8 months as scholar-in-residence at US Cyber Command. He...
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Senior Manager, Centric Consulting
Mark is a Senior Manager with Centric Consulting in our Cincinnati office. He has over 25 years of experience spanning multiple industries utilizing various disciplines. Mark’s experience includes infrastructure, security, Smart Grid, application architecture, and project management.
Highlights
Infrastructure...
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Professor and Director, Center for Information Security at NKU
I am Professor of Computer Science and Director of NKU's Center for Information Security. As Director, I am responsible for NKU's cybersecurity curriculum and outreach efforts. I enjoy teaching a variety of cybersecurity courses, including Securing Computer Systems and Advanced Cybersecurity...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room One
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
3:00pm EDT
Smart Cities are Mobile Cities
Moderators
President, Venture Smarter
Speakers MD
IOT /Transportation Specialist, Cisco
WJ
Green Umbrella Foundation
Data Manager and Board Member, The Better Bus Coalition
Mark Samaan is the Data Manager and an executive board member of the Better Bus Coalition and handles all analysis, data collection, and planning related to the improvement of transit in Greater Cincinnati. He is a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati in the Masters...
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Wednesday October 25, 2017 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room Two
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
3:00pm EDT
Smart Cities are Sustainable Cities
Moderators
Vice President, Centric Consulting
Mike is a Vice President with Centric Consulting, LLC and serves as a co-lead for Centric’s Energy & Utilities national practice. Mike has been a management and information technology consultant to the utility industry for over 25 years. In recent years, he’s worked with utilities...
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Speakers
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Interior Design at UC
Dr. Pravin Bhiwapurkar is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati. His research lies at the intersection of urban climate change, urban morphology and urban building energy use. In particular, he investigates how urban...
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Sustainability Coordinator, City of Hamilton
The City of Hamilton
Interim Director, Office of Environment & Sustainability, City of Cincinnati
Oliver Kroner’s work focuses on climate science, energy, transportation, waste, and food systems. He leads collaboration of government and community partners to advance and track the sustainability, equity, and resilience strategies of the Green Cincinnati Plan.Oliver is a published...
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Recycling Manager/City of Cincinnati, City of Cincinnati
Director of Engineering, JadeTrack
Tim Raffio is the Director of Engineering at JadeTrack. Leveraging his experience in energy auditing, and alternative energy technologies, Tim now works with customers to empower their sustainability programs through data driven decision making.
Wednesday October 25, 2017 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
BB&T Arena Room Three
500 Louie B Nunn Dr Newport KY 41099
4:00pm EDT
4:30pm EDT