Advisory Board

The role of the Advisory Board is to provide thought leadership and commentaries on wireless networking, applications and services for state and local government. Several board members served as past conference co-chairs for W2i's Digital Cities conference series.

Advisory Board Members

• Anthony Abell, CEO, LastMile Communications
• Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
• Phil Belanger, Principal, Novarum
• Ken Boley, Director of Wireless and Public Safety Programs, Office of the CTO, District of Columbia*
  
• Thera Bradshaw, Principal, TKC Consulting; Former Director, Los Angeles Information Technology Agency*
• Stephen Dodson, Director, U.K. Digital Challenge and Inclusion Network*
• James Farstad, President, rClient
• K. Anne-Rivers Forcke, Human Ability and Accessibility Center, IBM Research
• Matthew Guilford, Wireless Project Lead, Chicago*
• David Heck, Deputy CIO, Tempe (AZ)*
• Robert Horvitz, Founding Director, Stichting Open Spectrum
  
• Rizwan Khaliq, Wireless Global Solutions Executive, Public Sector, IBM
• Nancy Liu, HP Taiwan
• Bo Larsson, CEO, Firetide
• Richard Lewis, CIO, Houston (TX)*
• Ryan McCaigue, Principal, Ivy League Consulting
• Michael Paddock, CEO, Grants Office
• Bob Panoff, Principal, RPM Consulting
  
• Steve Reneker, CIO, Riverside (CA)*
• Sonja Reece, Mayor Pro-tem, Normal, Illinois; National League of Cities (NLC) ITC Steering Committee
• Costis Toregas, President Emeritus, Public Technology Institute
• Chris Vein, Executive Director, DTIS, San Francisco (CA)*
  
• Roberta Wiggins, Research Fellow, Yankee Group
• Sheila Burpee-Duncan, Vice President, Marketing, BelAir Networks
• Brian Jenkins, CTO, SkyPilot Networks