Smart Cities - Rhetoric or Reality - Building the City of Tomorrow. By 2040, the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area is projected to add 2.1 million people and 660,000 homes, for a total of 9.3 million people and 3.4 million homes. As the bay area population increases so does the pressure on cities and city services. The question is how do we prepare our cities and its people for the future? Many experts believe that we can we tackle these pressures by making cities smarter. Is this rhetoric or reality?

Hear Mike Fitzgerald of Net Feasa, Naomi Kelly of San Francisco’s City Hall, Jonathan Richental CIO of the City of Palo Alto and Michael Styer of Google in discussion on Smart Cities and what that means to us all.

Panelists:
Mike Fitzgerald, Chairman Net Feasa

Naomi Kelly, City Administrator
San Francisco City and County Government

Jonathan Reichental, Chief Information Officer
City of Palo Alto

Michael Styer, Strategic Partnerships
Google

Moderator:
Máire Sogabe, Vice President Irish Network
Principal Cybersecurity Risk Advisor
Pacific Gas & Electric