Ms. Debra Lam is the Managing Director of Smart Cities and Inclusive innovation for Georgia Tech, a newly created role to drive smart cities and urban innovation work across the university and beyond.

Prior to this, she served as Pittsburgh’s first ever Chief of Innovation & Performance where she oversaw all technology, sustainability, performance and innovation functions of city government. She crafted the city’s first strategic plan for innovation, Inclusive Innovation Roadmap. She has been a receipt of various awards, including one of the top 50 Women in Technology nationally. She has worked and lived in New York, the United Kingdom, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

She is a graduate of Georgetown University and University of California, Berkeley.

Kathryn Cleary is Senior Vice President, U.S. Market Development.  In this role, she leads Mastercard’s US Business Development efforts across cobrand, prepaid and public sector including smart cities and transit. Prior to this, Kathryn was Vice President, U.S. Acceptance growing emerging verticals within the U.S. Market Development team. Kathryn worked directly with merchants, acquirers and third party processors to gain acceptance and to increase Mastercard market share within the key verticals.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Kathryn was with First Data Corporation for ten years in various leadership roles including Vice President of Sales in First Data’s largest sales channel.  In that capacity, Kathryn led an organization of over 400 professionals responsible for selling products and solutions to small and mid-size business (SMB) clients including merchant acquiring.  She was responsible for working with over 25 large strategic partners such as Citi, Huntington Bank and Santander. 

At Mastercard, Kathryn was selected to be a member of Women in America and received the 2016 Sales Leader of the Year award.  While at First Data she was a multi-year President’s Club winner.   Kathryn received her MBA from Hofstra University and earned a Bachelor of Science from Le Moyne College.  She resides in New York with her husband and three children.

 Miguel Sangalang serves as the Deputy Mayor for Budget & Innovation for Mayor Eric Garcetti. In this role, he is a senior advisor to the Mayor on the management operations of the city, and helps transform Los Angeles by bridging core functions of government with new ideas and innovative practices. His portfolio is shaped by two major responsibilities: the effective and efficient use of city resources on behalf of its residents; and, leading the adoption of new tools, values, and practices to ensure the city meets the needs of its residents well into the future. 

Miguel directly oversees the annual city budget, performance management, personnel, risk management, procurement reform, technology infrastructure, as well as sustainability, equity in service, gender equity, data, emerging technologies and the local implementation of Census 2020. Six city departments with over 3,000 personnel directly report to his office. Selected as the Local Government Fellow by Results For America, Miguel continues to instill evidence-based decision making at all levels of government to solve today’s most pressing issues. 

Miguel has been instrumental in shepherding key mayoral initiatives, including CleanStat, which changed the approach to illegal dumping cleaning from a reactive, request-driven process, to a proactive, data-driven model, and MyVoiceLA, the city’s first centralized reporting tool for harassment and discrimination. He led the creation of the city’s open data portal early on in the administration and helped lead the City to certification as Platinum for ISO37120 (Indicators for a sustainable city and quality of life), Gold certification for What Works Cities, and three recognitions as the #1 digital city by Govtech. Miguel was also integral to the creation of CENTCOM, the Mayor’s management forum broad city issues (e.g.: homelessness), and the Unified Homelessness Response Center. 

Miguel is a ten year veteran of LA city government, having previously served as Executive Officer for Budget & Innovation and as former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Director of Performance Management. Born in the Philippines and raised Southern California, he graduated UCLA with a degree in Japanese and public policy and was active on the Men’s Sabre Team. Miguel currently resides in downtown and happily walks a 15-minute commute in this amazing neighborhood of the great city of Los Angeles. 

Michael Zeto is Vice President of AT&T IoT and General Manager of AT&T Smart Cities. Michael is responsible for the teams that drive the overall strategy, business development and go-to-market strategy for AT&T’s global smart cities business, drones, IoT/FirstNet, and public-private partnerships.

Michael previously served as a Director of Strategy in AT&T’s Mobile & Business Solutions organization, focusing on M&A and emerging growth opportunities in the areas of IoT, Big Data, Consumer Engagement and Cloud technologies.

Prior to joining AT&T, Michael was the co-founder and CEO of Proximus Mobility, a location-based consumer engagement software company. Throughout his career, he has successfully served in various general management, corporate development, and enterprise sales roles with various technology companies.

Michael is an Industry Fellow with the Georgia Research Alliance, an organization that makes investments in university professor-led research projects that generate IP for commercialization. He is also an active participant in the Atlanta-based technology startup community, serving as a mentor and advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs. To this end, Michael regularly speaks at events throughout the country to promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship. Michael is also a Corporate Advisor for Forte Ventures LP and serves on the Advisory Board of Lab Atlanta in partnership with the Lovett School.

Currently, Michael serves on the Board of Directors and Chairs the IOT.ATL Executive Leadership Committee for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. He also is very active in supporting local and national charities, including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, The Boys and Girls Club of America, the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society.