A Personal Cities roadmap is often the first step. We are continually driven to build a vision for the future and then support the doing.
A Personal Cities roadmap is often the first step. We are continually driven to build a vision for the future and then support the doing.
Worldwide economic, social and environmental changes affect every aspect of our work—our global experience is a core competency and a source of inspiration.
Happy to challenge conventional wisdom and the “way things are done.” Known for seeing the opportunity and seizing it.
A holistic strategy is the foundation for smart decisions. “Big Picture” goals and objectives help leaders implement and measure smart city ideas. Without strategic guidance, “innovations” are often fragmented, failing the test of true smart city development.
We operate based on high quality, trusted relationships. With that foundation, we will help you secure new business—in the public or private sector. Our relationships are at the heart of our success.
Skilled as storytellers and media trainers, we provide simple, transformational coaching to help you tell your story. We are also narrative-driven, analytical speechwriters and dynamic speakers, and will speak on your behalf anywhere on the planet.
Personal Cities and its partners are strategists and implementers. Equal parts entrepreneur, technologist and political scientist, our focus is on knowing and doing.
Co-Founders, CEO and President, Joel Makower and Pete May, Santa Clara, California.
Produced by the GreenBiz Group, VERGE is a global event series focusing on the technologies and systems that accelerate sustainability solutions across sectors in an interconnected world. VERGE emphasizes transformative, practical, scalable, solutions-oriented exchanges that open doors and accelerate buyer-seller transactions.
greenbiz.comCEO and founder, Shadi Banna, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Potential develops STARS, by providing practical life-long learning programs to graduates, executives and entrepreneurs. A pioneer in educational technology and a leading provider of innovative learning solutions across emerging markets, Potential.com empowers millions of individuals, and companies to perform at their very best.based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
potential.comChairman and CEO, Michael Jansen, Chicago, Illinois
Cityzenith is provides the world’s leading data visualization platform software and applications for IoT and Smart Cities. Based in Chicago the core platform product, 5D Smart City, makes the massive amounts of open data, machine-to-machine, IoT, social media data produced by cities usable and useful to local governments, businesses, and citizens. Barcelona, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Chicago, London, and Singapore are among the early adopters of 5D Smart City.
cityzenith.comCEO, Adolfo Borerro, Seville, Spain
A national and international Smart Cities consultancy, built on start-up firms, Cactus and Bolt, Aalto Consultores will leverage important relationships at AMETIC and RECI in Spain.
aaltoconsultores.comAaron Sherinian, VP Global Marketing and Communications, Washington, DC
The Foundation is convening the Global Bureau, a coalition of supporters and brand partners who share a global perspective, aimed at creating a storytelling environment for the implementation and success of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
unfoundation.orgChris McGoff, CEO, Washington, DC
The Clearing offers a nontraditional approach to complex problem solving, empowering groups to take on transformation, adopt a shared perspective and a shared intent. This unique approach leads to coordinated action to achieve desired outcomes.
theclearing.comBen Levine, Interim Executive Director, Washington, DC
A group of 34 city-university partnerships focused on bringing data, analytics and innovation to city government. The Network’s mission is to pair university researchers with city policymakers to undertake research, development and deployment of projects that improve our infrastructure, public services and environmental sustainability.
metrolab.heinz.cmu.eduExecutive Director & CEO, Antwi Akom, Oakland, California
Streetwyze is a new community engagement tool that revolutionizes the flow of information between people, places, policies and technology systems in ways that democratize data and combat discrimination and inequality. As a disruptive technology it helps us re-imagine the connection to communities.
streetwyze.orgPrincipal, David Heyman, Washington, DC
A new business accelerator that brings to live the most promising business ideas and companies to catalyze and rethink civil infrastructure innovation, and help meet the needs of the 21st century cities and their growing populations.
smartcityworks.comBoard Co-President, Gordon Feller, San Francisco, California
Meeting of the Minds is a global knowledge sharing platform. Meeting of the Minds is dedicated to a singular proposition: bring together a carefully chosen set of key urban sustainability and technology stakeholders and gather them around a common platform in ways that help build lasting alliances. Their platform is a vital ingredient for smart, sustainable and equitable urban development strategies.
cityminded.orgDirector, Sandy Burgoyne and Advisory Board Chair, Professor Edward Blakely, Sydney, Australia
The Future City Collaborative is an initiative of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney with the primary role of promoting sustainable urban development by supporting city leaders with leadership and strategic management tools; creating a forum in which mayors can share ideas and information; and developing skills and knowledge in building sustainable cities.The Future Cities Collaborative brings together policy, practice and research to inform our city leaders into inspired action to build great cities.
futurecities.org.auManaging Partner & Co-Founder, Allan S Horlick, Washington, DC
Vote And Video is unique engagement software that enables instant video communications. City officials, company executives, trade association leaders can quickly communicate their issues to a select audience and get immediate voice and video feedback as well as quantifiable data. Better than print or texting, VoteandVideo is the cutting edge of stakeholder engagement. The state-of-the-art technology builds true social inclusion and enables leaders to “see” the honest feedback from their constituents from their smart phone, all delivered to a private dashboard in real time.
VoteAndVideo.comDirector, Diego Teloni, Rome, Italy
Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini is a private, not-for-profit foundation developing, applying and disseminating evidence based policy design, delivery and evaluation at all governance levels. FGB promotes dialogue and a continuous knowledge exchange bridging the academic and policymaking communities, governments, civil society and private sector.
FGB is an active player providing technical support and services to foster economic development, social cohesion, employment and innovation. FGB promotes local development at an urban and rural level by setting up innovation hubs, enterprise accelerators, startup incubators.
www.fondazionebrodolini.it/enCEO, Pete O’Dell
Swan Island Networks’ mission is to build agile, intelligent, high-trust information services to aid in the protection of people, assets, information and critical infrastructure. Swan Island Networks was founded in 2002 by experienced entrepreneurs, and has participated in contracts with numerous government agencies: the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, among others. In 2009, Swan Island Networks took its technologies, methodologies and extensive R&D to the private sector, launching TIES, the Trusted Information Exchange Services, used by over 250 large enterprises, 20% of Fortune 100 companies.
www.swanislandnetworks.comCEO, Gerry Burns, Milford, Massachusetts
CIVIQ Smartscapes designs and deploys high-performance public structures that integrate WiFi, mobile LTE and smart sensor technologies. Designed to work together, the structures create a seamless WiFi hotspot that spans large corridors of a city, while the built-in sensors provide valuable date cities need for monitoring traffic, weather, and air pollution. Charging stations let pedestrians power devices on the go. Together with our partners, we manage all aspects of the solution, including hardware and the seamless integration of software, advertising media and broadband internet.
civiqsmartscapes.comCEO, Ivan Caballero
Inspire and reward action in your community.
Social coin is the currency that inspires people to take action in resolving society’s most pressing problems. Social coins give governments and organizations the power to design and promote community initiatives with more impact. Our technology at Citibeats uses artificial intelligence to identify society’s most relevant concerns and motivates communities to solve these issues by rewarding those who take action.
thesocialcoin.comFounder, Joe Dignan
Kintechi is focused on delivering the ‘Smart to Future Cities’ market which the UK Government has sized at $400 billion. It is the largest market opportunity for vendors and equally the largest transformational opportunity for city regions to improve their competitiveness at a national and international level.
Smart cities have passed the inflection point from visioning to implementation, but there are still three major challenges. The first is an identifiable client; the second is the smart policies needed to drive smart delivery; and the third is that the vendor community needs to work more closely together to develop the market by agreeing a scalable, open, interoperable platform on which city solutions can work.
www.kintechi.comSandra has the best "rolodex" I have ever encountered. She has an unmatched ability to create and maintain long-term relationships with our country's most important civic leaders. She has a special talent for listening, for assessing needs, and for communicating with those leaders in terms they understand.Jesse Berst, Chairman, Smart Cities Council
From my work with Sandra, first at Nextel Communications and later at Bloomberg Government, it was always clear that she understood how to cultivate and nurture positive relationships with decision makers across all industries. From Mayors to Governors to C-level executives, I could count on her to make the right introductions to the right people with the right message.Leon Frazier, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, PDV Wireless
Sandra knows cities. Even more she knows how to help cities and companies around the world make smart decisions to solve problems. Her genuine passion to get to the heart of an issue shines through her work. I have had the pleasure of working with Sandra over the past 4 years and I have observed her skill in creating new collaborations between company executives and city leaders—all toward smarter, more sustainable communities. I am confident that Sandra and her partners at Personal Cities will continue to point cities toward a more sustainable future.Dr. Lawrence Jones, Vice President of International Programs, Edison Electric Institute
Sandra is a gifted moderator and public speaker. She is skilled at building rapport and communicating key messages. Her passion shines through -- she has the ability and energy to lift an audience to another level of engagement and enthusiasm (I've seen her do it many times).Jesse Berst, Chairman, Smart Cities Council