• APA Certified Planner and Licensed Landscape Architect (CA #4759) with 25 years of international experience in urban design, community engagement, and sustainable economic development

• UIX Global cofounder / CEO specializing innovation ecosystem design and public-private partnerships for Green, Clean, and Smart Cities

• Blue Frontiers founding team member, technology partnerships lead

• Professional B.Arch (U. Notre Dame); Professional Master of Landscape & Master of City Planning (UC Berkeley); Master of Sustainability & Local Economic Development (UNIFE, Italy)

• Postgraduate professor, researcher, and program coordinator

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Liam is an experienced business leader with over 25 years’ experience shaping and implementing transformative business solutions which deliver innovation and improved performance in both public and private sectors.

With a career spanning management consulting, government services, Public-Private Partnerships, and Silicon Valley software companies and start-ups, Liam brings a unique perspective to solution design with his breadth of experience in urban and civil engineering design, water & wastewater utilities and infrastructure, integrated transportation, land and environmental planning, and political and community engagement.

As an early practitioner of applying rapid prototyping with emerging technologies and methodologies to solve real-world problems and has been an early adopter in incorporating web, mobile, open source, business intelligence, data analytics, visualization, cloud, and blockchain technologies into enterprise solutions.

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• Systems Designer and Naturalist with 20 years of domestic and international experience team building and managing design/build infrastructure

• Specialist in applied ecology, water systems and organizational development

• Co-founder DIG.coop, California Center for Natural History, and place.community

• BAS in Ecological Design

• 10 years of experience as a Professor of Regenerative Design

• Certified Permaculture Teacher

Herman Gyr works with businesses and leaders to transform potential crises into opportunities for reinvention. Whether it is the impact from changes in the global economy, technological advancements or shifts in customer or employee expectations, his interventions help create new possibilities for enterprises and those invested in them.

For over 25 years, Herman has been instrumental in redesigning a significant number of enterprises. His clients have included Apple Computer Inc, the BBC, Canyon Ranch, Delta Airlines, Johnson and Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Lockheed Martin, Philips, Southern California Edison, Panera, Stanford University, Swisscom and Toyota, to name a few. From start-ups and family owned businesses to universities and multinational corporations, Herman coaches clients to shape moments of disruption into conditions for lasting success.

In her former role as the City of San Leandro's first Chief Innovation Officer and the third municipal CIO in the United States, Deborah Acosta became acutely aware that gender imbalance is impacting the ability of companies in tech-and-innovation driven industries to achieve sustainable growth, to create jobs and fill them with appropriate talent and to thrive. Businesses are struggling to find the talent they need in critical industries including "smart city" tech, biotech, clean tech, robotics, drone tech, AR and VR. Yet women, who represent 51% of the globe’s population, “remain underrepresented, at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for 30 years and counting….One of the most powerful reasons for lack of progress is a simple one: we have blind spots when it comes to diversity, and we can’t solve problems that we don’t see or clearly understand.” (www.McKinsey.com / Women in the Workplace 2017)