meeting of the minds event program

MEETING OF THE MINDS 2012 OCTOBER 9 - 12 2012

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9–12SAN FRANCISCO

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HELLO!


For the past six years, the Meeting of the Minds Conference has gathered in different cities with a single purpose: to identify tested and untested solutions that can help us build connected and sustainable cities and regions, and to share those solutions with each other.

WELCOME


MOTM HISTORY


Over the course of 6 years, Meeting of the Minds has become the premier leadership summit for sustainable cities.

An invitation-only conference, Meeting of the Minds brings together more than 250+ opinion-shapers, policy-makers, lead-ing thinkers and innovators from every sector. The conference is two-plus days of intensive exchange for leaders creating more sustainable cities using smarter design tools, sounder environ-mental practices, and cleaner energy systems.

Among the dozens of international leaders who speak at Meeting of the Minds are innovators scaling-up practical urban innovation in infrastructure, design, technology, energy, trans-port, water, finance; all are building more livable cities. At Meet-ing of the Minds, leaders from multiple sectors and diverse ge-ographies share ideas and shape a common agenda.

Meeting of the Minds was conceived by Gordon Feller of Ur-ban Age Institute in San Rafael, California.

WHAT DO WE DO?


SCHEDULESDAILY


Throughout your four days in San Francisco, Meeting of the Minds will be sure to boggle your brain each day with a combination of lectures and interactive activites. Each day you will be exposed to new and interesting ideas as well as some of society’s great-est challenges through group interaction and development. The schedule for each day varies depending on the subject matter, however you can expect a combination of various session for-mats consisting of: Expert Panels, Keynote Speakers, Workshops & Next Big Innovation lectures.

WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE?


11:30 - 5:30PM

1:30 - 5:30PM

6:30 - 8:30PMThe Julia Morgan Ballroom 465 California Street, 15th FloorSan Francisco

Meet in the Julia Morgan Ballroom and depart at 1pm465 California Street, 15th FloorSan Francisco

The Orrick Building405 Howard StreetSan Francisco

REGISTRATION OPENS

PRE-CONFERENCEON THE GROUND TOURS

OPENING RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS: HOSTED AND ORGANIZED BY WSP GROUP

OCTOBER 09

12:30 - 1:30PM

5:30 - 6:30PM

NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK


8:30AM

1:30 - 3:00PM

3:00 - 4:30PM

8:30 - 9:30AM

9:30 - 10:30AM

4:30 - 5:00PM10:30 - 11:15AM

11:15 - 1:30PM

Gordon Feller Convener of Meeting of the MindsJessie FellerDirector of Meeting of the Minds

Chris VeinDeputy Chief Officer for GovernmentInnovation at the White House Officeof Science and Technology

Paul HedtkeSenior Director, Business Development,Qualcomm IncorporatedRick HutchinsonCEO, City CarShare Mark NormanPresident, Zipcar

Melanie Nutter Director of San Francisco Department of Environment Jill SimmonsDirector of Seattle Department ofEnvironment

Manel SanromàCIO of City of BarcelonaCarolien GehrelsVice Mayor of Amsterdam

Matt GrobChief Technology Officer, Qualcomm

Light SnacksBeer, wine and cheese reception courtesy of The Consul General ofNetherlands and Humanitas WinesJames Anderson

Vice President, Schneider Electric Infrastructure Business – U.S.

WELCOME & CHECK IN

WORKSHOPSESSION A: THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF CAR SHARING – WHAT’S NEXT?

WORKSHOPSESSION B: ENVIRON-MENTAL INITIATIVES AS LEVERS FOR CHANGE

DISCUSSION PANEL FROM INDUSTRIAL ZONES TO INNOVATION ZONES

NEXT BIG INNOVATION THE MOBILE INTERNET TRANSFORMATION

NETWORKING RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS NEXT BIG INNOVATION

FUTURE CITIES MADE REAL,EFFICIENT, SUSTAINABLE AND LIVEABLE


OCTOBER 10


8:30AM

3:00 - 4:30PM

8:30 - 9:30AM

4:30 - 5:00PM

11:15 - 1:30PM

Gordon Feller Convener of Meeting of the MindsJessie FellerDirector of Meeting of the Minds

Egon TerplanRegional Planning Director, SPUR

Mark GilbreathFounder and CEO, LiquidSpace

Niels Van DuinenDirector of Architecture, Stategy and Part-ner, IBM Smarter Cities SoftwareJeff FrazierSenior Director, Global Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco

Susan Zielinski, Director, SMART at the University of MichiganSusan Shaheen, Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California at BerkeleyScott SamuelsenProfessor and Director, National Fuel Cell Research Center; and Di-rector, Advanced Energy Program, University of California at Irvine

Bas BoorsmaGlobal Lead, Cisco’s Work-Life Innovations Program (Amsterdam via TelePresence)

Light SnacksBeer, wine and cheese reception courtesy of The Consul-General of Netherlands and Humanitas Wines

Dr. Colin HarrisonDistinguished Engineer and inventor of IBM’s Smarter Cities architecture

WELCOME & CHECK IN

WORKSHOPSESSION C: THE WORK LIFE REVOLUTION

WORKSHOPSESSION D: SMARTER CITIES OF TOMORROW: INTEGRATED OPERATIONS ACROSS SERVICE AREAS

DISCUSSION PANEL WHERE IS THE URBAN MOBILITY REVOLUTION HEADED?

NEXT BIG INNOVATION WORLDWIDE NETWORKS OF SMART WORKERS

NETWORKING RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS

NEXT BIG INNOVATION SMARTER CITIES


9:30 - 10:30AM

10:30 - 11:15AM

Alexa ArenaSenior Vice President, Forest City

1:30 - 3:00PM

OCTOBER 11


8:30AM

9:30 - 11:00PM

3:00 - 4:30PM

8:30 - 9:30AM

1:15 - 2:00AM

2:00 - 3:00PM

4:30 - 5:00PM

Gordon Feller Convener of Meeting of the MindsJessie FellerDirector of Meeting of the Minds Dr. Peter Wells

Chairman, Netflex Petroleum Consultants

Dr. Peter WellsChairman, Netflex Petroleum Consultants

Juliette MichaelsonDirector of Strategic Initiatives, Regional Plan Association

Light SnacksBeer, wine and cheese reception courtesy of The Consul General ofNetherlands and Humanitas Wines

WELCOME & CHECK IN

WORKSHOPSESSION E: BUILDING THE SMART, SUSTAINABLE CITY - NEW STRATEGIES FOR LAW AND POLICY

WORKSHOPSESSION F: THE JUST CITY

NEXT BIG INNOVATIONWHATS ON THE MINDS OF THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD’S TOP MASS TRANSIT AGENCIES?

NEXT BIG INNOVATION THE IMPACT OF ENERGY SUPPLIES ON GLOBAL URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

NEXT BIG INNOVATION RESILIENCE AND COMMUNITIES

NETWORKING RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS

11:00 - 1:15PMNETWORKING LUNCH BREAK

Karen ChappleAssociate Professor of City & Regional Plannng, Faculty Director, Center for Community InnovationHope CohenAssociate Director, Center for Urban Innovation, Regional Plan Association

Tim CampbellConsultant, Former Head of Urban Programs at the World Bank

Nestor DavidsonProfessor of Law at Fordham University

Victor d’AllantDallant Networks, Leading Networks for Global ImpactLeila JanahFounder and CEO of SamaSourceMikel MaronFounder of Map Kibera

OCTOBER 12


THE SPEAKERSMEET


Meeting of the Minds aims to bring together thought leaders from the world’s most innovative organizations to discuss new solutions for urban connectivity and sustainability. Guests and speakers are chosen based on their contributions in their field(s) of experience. Furthermore, Meeting of the Minds strives to bring together thought leaders from around the nation with a variety of diverse backgrounds; in order to best promote innova-tion, transformation and development.

WHO ARE THEY?


Jim has over 33 years of experience in the Electrical Industry, with his last 20 years spent working at Schneider Electric. Prior to his current role, Jim held a project in Grenoble

Story Bellows joined the City of Philadel-phia in April of 2012 as Co-Director of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Me-chanics. The new office is a civic idea

Bas Boorsma cur-rently serves as an urban innovations specialist and direc-tor of the Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco’s stra-tegic global consul-

Alexa Arena leads Forest City’s North-ern California Team as the head of the SF office. Ms. Arena was the developer on the recently completed Presidio Landmark.

VICE PRESIDENTSCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INFRA-STRUCTURE BUSINESSES ETC.

CO-DIRECTOR OF THE MAY-ORS OFFICE: NEW URBAN MECHANICSCITY OF PHILADELPHIA

GLOBAL LEADCISCO’S WORK LIFEINNOVATIONS PROGRAM

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENTFOREST CITY

JAMES ANDERSON STORY BELLOWS

BAS BOORSMAALEXA ARENA

France where he was Director for Low Volt-age Power Devices and was responsible for global strategy and product developments. In addition Jim has held many different positions in product management with in-creasing levels of responsibility across the field. Jim began his career prior to joining Schneider Electric, with General Electric Co on the Technical Marketing Program.

Presently Ms. Arena is working on the re-development of approximately 4-acres in downtown San Francisco in partnership with the land owner, the Hearst Corpora-tion. Referred to as the 5M Project, the Proj-ect is a pioneering model for both concep-tualizing and fostering communities that serve our innovation economy. It reframes real estate as a tool for the creative process and uses a series of unique techniques to instigate demand and establish place as a platform for innovation.

and innovation incubator, which develops innovative approaches to solving complex problems in the public arena. Prior to com-ing to Philadelphia, Story served as Direc-tor of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, a leadership initiative of the National En-dowment for the Arts in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the US Conference of Mayors.

tancy arm. Bas has coordinated the imple-mentation of Urban Innovations projects that address the ways we work, live, con-sume learn and deliver – and how it can be changed for communities to become more resilient – environmentally, socially and economically. Typical urban innovations de-livered include Smart Work Centers, Com-munity Services Platforms, Ecomap and the Personal Travel Assistant.

BIOGRAPHIES


Tim Cambell has worked 35+ years in urban development with experience in scores of countries and hundreds of cit-ies in Latin America, South and East Asia,

Before coming to RPA, Cohen was Deputy Di-rector of the Manhat-tan Institute’s Center for Rethinking Devel-opment, where she focused on issues of zoning, development,

Victor has previously served as CEO/Man-aging Director in both the private sec-tor and the non-profit space, and has con-sulted for the World Health Ode4

Ms. Chapple special-izes in housing, com-munity and economic development. Karen has recently published numerous studies on regional economic re-silience (in Cambridge

EXPERTOVER 35 YEARS IN THE FIELD OF URBAN CITIES

DIRECTOR REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIA-TIONS NEW YORK PROGRAM

CEODALLANT.NETWORKS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF REGIONAL PLANNINGUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

TIM CAMBELL HOPE COHEN

VICTOR D’ALLANT

KAREN CHAPPELE

East Europe, and Africa. His areas of exper-tise include strategic urban planning, city development strategies, decentralization, urban policy and social policy and povery impact of urban development. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from U. C. Berke-ley (1966), a Masters in City and Regional Planning from U.C. Berkeley (1970), and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from M.I.T. (1980).

Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society), in-novation in the green economy (in Economic Development Quarterly), and the failure of poverty dispersal policies (in Housing Policy Debate). Her current book project is on inte-grating economic development into regional sustainability planning.

transportation, and urban environment and infrastructure, publishing Rethinking Environ-mental Reviewand, The Neighborly Substation, in which she analyzed New York’s zoning restric-tions along with international examples of siting and urban design of electrical substations.

rganization (WHO), the World Bank, News-week, Bloomberg and Wired. Victor started his career as a photojournalist and his photo-graphs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. The video blog he produced for Social Edge, the Skoll Founda-tion’s online community, received an Honor-ee Mention at the Webby Awards (Webbies). Victor holds an MA in social anthropology from the Sorbonne and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. His mot-to: “Right brain? Left brain? Why choose!”

BIOGRAPHIES


Davidson served as Deputy General Coun-sel at the U.S. Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Development, and practiced in the real estate and finance department at the firm

Cisco’s IBSG is a rec-ognized advisor to many of the world’s leading companies and governments on strategy, technology innovation and mar-keting development.

LiquidSpace sup-ports corporations of all sizes, seeking to improve the produc-tivity of their mobile workforce, increase the efficiency of their real estate portfolio,

Niels came to the United States in 2008 with Philips’ acquisi-tion of the company, Genlyte. Niels started in the role of Post-Merger and Integration Marketing Manager

PROFESSOR OF LAWFORDHAM UNIVERSITY

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL PUBLIC SECTOR INTERNET SOLUTIONSCISCO

FOUNDER AND CEOLIQUIDSPACE

DIRECTOR OF OUTDOOR LIGHTINGPHILLIPS LIGHTING

NESTOR DAVIDSON JEFF FRAZIER

MARK GILBREATHNIELS VAN DUINEN

of Latham & Watkins. Davidson earned his A.B. from Harvard College and his J.D. from Colum-bia Law School. After law school, he clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States.

with a focus on connecting and enabling a multi-cultural and interregional marketing network while realizing post-merger business objectives. As chairman of Philips’ Global (LED) Portfolio Team, he drives the LED tech-nology transition within an international net-work of Philips Professional Luminaires com-panies. Before his assignments in the US, Niels held the position of Philips’ National Director of Marketing Professional Lighting in Paris, France, implementing a customer value driven marketing process around busi-ness segments and customer clusters.

Specifically, Mr. Frazier is a technology ex-ecutive with 20+ years in the international business community with a background in international business, distinguished public service, global public policy and innovation focus on the public markets.

and bring measurability to their sustainabil-ity initiatives. He is an experienced serial entrepreneur and one of the new voices in real estate technology , supporting a vision of sustainable, mobile business practices. Mark has spent 25+ years in the technol-ogy industry with Wyle Electronics, Trin-ity Technologies, Altera, Toolwire in roles ranging from design engineer to startup CEO. For the past 6 years Mark has been focused on the massive opportunityfacing the commercial real estate industry and the planet as a whole – the consumerization of real estate.

BIOGRAPHIES


In his role at Qual-comm, Matt is re-sponsible for the oversight of the com-pany’s technical path, the coordination of R&D activities across the company and

At Qualcomm, Paul has served as project leader on numerous product and business development proj-ects including estab-lishing Qualcomm’s first business opera-

With an emphasis on the development of market-directed and purpose-based or-ganizations, Rick has led three companies and consulted in a range of industries

Dr. Harrison spent 1972 - 1977 at CERN developing the SPS accelerator and its distributed, realtime controller system. In 1977 at EMI Central Research Laborato-

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICERQUALCOMM INC.,

SENIOR DIRECTORQUALCOMM INC.,

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERCITY CARSHARE

ENGINEER & INVENTOR IBM’S SMARTER CITIES ARCHI-TECHTURE

MATT GROB PAUL HEDTKE

RICK HUTCHINSON

DR. COLIN HARRISON

the development of next-generation wire-less technologies. Grob also leads Corporate R&D and provides oversight to Qualcomm Corporate Engineering Services.

ries he led development of the first clini-cal MRI system. At IBM since 1979 he has worked on micromagnetics, medical imag-ing, parallel computing, mobile computing, intelligent agents, telecommunications, knowledge management, and Smarter Cities. He studied at Imperial College and University of Munich, earning a PhD in Ma-terials Science. He is Fellow of the Institu-tion of Engineering and Technology, Senior Member of the Institution of Electronic and Electrical Engineers and Founder Member of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He is Expert Advisor to the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences and has been Visiting Scientist at MIT, Harvard Med-ical School, and Lawrence Berkeley Labora-tory. He has published some 60 articles.

tions in Europe providing fleet management services to the transportation industry, the development and deployment of the first application of Qualcomm’s wireless technol-ogy in the healthcare industry, and numerous projects that have helped to establish the Company’s business within the automobile industry where Qualcomm is now the lead-ing supplier of wireless modem chipsets for telematics and connnected car services.

and specialties. Currently, Rick is respon-sible for all aspects of the City CarShare organization, including strategic direction, operational functions and organizational development. He also serves on the Board of Directors of City CarShare. Under Rick’s direction, City CarShare has enhanced operations and expanded the range and scope of the organization, achieving op-erational sustainability and solidifying its position as the largest nonprofit carsharing organization in North America.

BIOGRAPHIES


Leila Janah is the main founder of Sa-masource, an award-winning social busi-ness center that connects many peo-ple living in poverty to microwork: small,

She is currently fo-cused on a large-scale effort to build an active network of transit agency chief executives from all around the world. The goal is to pro-

He is co-founder of Ground Truth Ini-tiative, and of the Map Kibera project. He’s on the Board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation and the President of the Hu-

From Vancouver to Chicago to London, Mark Norman is re-sponsible for the ma-jor worldwide opera-tions of Zipcar. Mark joined Zipcar follow-ing its merger with

FOUNDER & CEO SAMASOURCE

DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVESREGIONAL PLAN ASSC.

PRESIDENTZIPCAR

FOUNDERMAP KIBERA

LEILA JANAH JULIETTE MICHAELSON

MARK NORMAN

MIKEL MARON

computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. She serves on the boards of OneLeap and TechSoup Globaland as an advisor to mobile shop-ping app RevelTouch. Prior to Samasource, Janah was a Visiting Scholar with the Stan-ford Program on Global Justice and Aus-tralian National University’s Center for Ap-plied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

manitarian OpenStreetMap Team, having helped to facilitate the OSM response to the Haiti earthquake. He’s travelled widely, organizing projects in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, and elsewhere. Previ-ously to this, he co-founded Mapufacture and worked on collaborative platforms, ge-oweb standards, and various applications, with a wide spectrum of organizations from UN and government agencies to anarchist hacker collectives.

vide these executives with the opportunity to discuss shared challenges and opportu-nities, both in person at annual Summits and on an on-going basis via other com-munication methods. Juliette is the author of a landmark RPA report that quantified how much home values near train stations benefit from improved transit service. The report is still quoted to make the case for building dense nodes of development around train stations.

Flexcar in the fall of 2007. He came to us with more than 20 years of executive experience in the automotive industry, including roles as CEO of Flexcar, and Chairman, President and CEO of DaimlerChrysler, Canada.

BIOGRAPHIES


Nutter serves as the director for the San Francisco Govern-ment’s Department of the Environment. She joined SFE after working as the dep-uty district director

Scott Samuelson di-rects the Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP) at the University of Cali-fornia Irvine, is a Pro-fessor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and En-

Susan is an interna-tionally recognized leader in shared-use vehicle research and has 17+ years of experience on this topic. Her main work in this area includes

Manel Sanromà (Tarra-gona 1956) is currently the Chief Information Officer of Barcelona City Council and a Full Professor of Ap-plied Mathematics at the Universitat Rovira

DIRECTORSAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT

DIRECTORNATIONAL FUEL CELL RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF IRVINE

DIRECTORTRANSPORTATION SUSTAIN-ABILITY RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENTFOREST CITY

MELANIE NUTTER SCOTT SAMUELSON

SUSAN SHAHEEN

MANEL SANROMA

for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. Prior to this position, she was the executive director of the San Francisco Democratic Party from 2003-2005 and was the principal of Nutter Consulting, a San Francisco based consulting firm that helps nonprofits and political organizations to raise funds, organize events, manage cam-paigns and recruit new supporters. Nutter has over sixteen years experience in non-profit fundraising, events management, grassroots organizing and media relations. As a principal for Nutter Consulting, she consulted for many organizations including Music for America and SEIU Local 250.

i Virgili. He has occupied several positions in research and management in different Cata-lan Universities and both Local and Regional Administrations. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics, a Masters degree in IT and a Bachelors degree in Humanities.

vironmental Engineering, and a Henry Sam-ueli Endowed Chair. He teaches courses in thermodynamics and in the energy and thermal sciences at the undergraduate and graduate levels, advises or co-advises the research of thirty graduate students and ten undergraduate student researchers, and is responsible for twenty professional admin-istrative and research staff.

carsharing, personal vehicle sharing, public bikesharing, ridesharing, and smart parking management. She has a Ph.D. in ecology, focusing on the energy and environmental aspects of transportation, from UC Davis and an M.S. in public policy analysis from the University of Rochester.

BIOGRAPHIES


Prior to becom-ing director, Jill served as OSE’s climate protection program manager, working to imple-ment the Seattle Climate Protec-

Dr. Peter Wells is an acclaimed interna-tional oil and gas expert with over 30 years of technical aswell as business experience, includ-ing at senior levels

SMART is a multi-disciplinary, univer-sity-wide initiative of UMTRI and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Plan-ning. SMART takes

A regional planner and economic de-velopment special-ist with more than 14 year of experi-ence, he has au-thored numerous reports and policy

DIRECTORSEATTLE OFFICE OF SUSTAIN-ABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT

CHAIRMANNETFLEX PETROLEUM CONSULTANTS

DIRECTORSMART, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

REGIONAL PLANNINGSPUR

JILL SIMMONS DR. PETER WELLS

SUSAN ZIELINSKI

EGON TERPLAN

studies related to regional planning, eco-nomic development, transportation and government reform, including the first-ever report on the Northern California megare-gion and a 2011 report on land use plan-ning and high-speed rail in California. Prior to joining SPUR, Egon spent more than five years with ICF International advising cities and regions throughout the world on eco-nomic development and competitiveness.

tion Initiative and overseeing completion of the City’s greenhouse gas inventories. Before coming to OSE, Jill worked in the City’s Finance Department as a fiscal and policy analyst. Jill has also worked on community development and sustainabil-ity initiatives as an associate program offi-cer at the Northwest Area Foundation. Jill holds a Law Degree and Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Univer-sity of Washington.

with major oil companies such as Shell and BP. Dr. Wells is Chairman of the UK-based geological consulting company Neftex Pe-troleum Consultants. He is also an advisor to Toyota Motor Company on world oil and gas supply and Middle East affairs.

a systems approach to addressing the emerging challenges and opportunities of integrated and sustainable transporta-tion in a rapidly urbanizing world, under-taking implementation-focused research. Before joining SMART, Susan spent a year as a Harvard Loeb Fellow focusing on New Mobility innovation and leadership. Before 2004, while at the City of Toronto she co-founded and directed Moving the Econo-my, a Toronto-based link tank developed to catalyze and support sustainable urban transportation innovation and New Mobil-ity industry development.

BIOGRAPHIES


Gordon Feller is the Co-founder and Convenor of Meet-ing of the Minds and Director of Urban Innovation within Cisco’s Inter-net Business Solu-

Jessie has been the Director of Meeting of the Minds since 2010. She is also a Senior Planner at Regional Plan As-sociation where she launched the re-

CO FOUNDER AND CONVENERMEETING OF THE MINDS

MANAGING DIRECTORMEETING OF THE MINDS

GORDON FELLER JESSIE FELLER

tions Group in the Public Sector Practice. Feller works with corporate and city lead-ers worldwide. In this capacity, he supports Cisco’s numerous China initiatives, while simultaneously leading Cisco’s new City Leader Program for Chinese mayors and city-based party secretaries. Feller is also a regular contributor to Cisco’s blog. Prior to joining Cisco IBSG, Feller was CEO of the Urban Age Institute, an international research organization which began as a magazine inside the World Bank and was spun off ten years later, in 2001. For nearly 30 years, Feller has advised on urban devel-opment issues with leaders of multinational companies, cities, NGOs / foundations, and national governments. His clients have included the World Bank, the United Na-tions, German and Canadian national gov-ernments, The Rockefeller Foundation, IBM, Reuters, Metropolis, and United Cit-ies; Local Governments.

gional energy policy program in 2010. She specializes in urban-regional policy and planning, with a particular focus on sustain-ability and clean energy. She has written numerous articles which have been fea-tured in RPA’s Spotlight on the Region, The Hartford Courant, Urban Age Magazine, The Record, NPR, among others. Previous to RPA, she worked as a cluster specialist at Economic Competitiveness Group, as a Sustainability Fellow at the Portland De-velopment Commission, and started her career at SMWM (now Perkins + Will). Jes-sie holds a BA from Vassar College in Ur-ban Studies and Hispanic Studies (Phi Beta Kappa) and a Masters in Environment and Development Studies (honors) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

BIOGRAPHIES


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