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Smart Cities, Vehicles and Transportation

How to reduce commute times and improve quality of life in the city with IoT and 5G technologies

Ted Lehr, IT Data Architect and Smart City Team Lead, City of Austin

Dr. Ted Lehr is a Data Architect with the City of Austin, Texas. He is part of Austin’s Smart City team, advising on technology, business partnerships and the use of data for better services, more open government, and  development of opportunities for entrepreneurs and other private sector entities.   Ted is also the staff member facilitating the Mayor’s Office’s White House TechHire workforce initiative. He is facilitating or participating in several university-industry-city research collaborations. Ted has published over 20 articles and often speaks on conference panels regarding open data entrepreneurship, research and smart cities.  Dr. Lehr is also an adjunct lecturer in Computer Science at Texas State University.  Texas State recognized him as Outstanding Part-Time Faculty in 2015 for the quality of his teaching and research outreach.  He has over 20 years of experience in the private sector in large and small companies.   Ted received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon-University.

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Juan Pedro Tomás
Juan Pedro Tomás
Juan Pedro covers Global Carriers and Global Enterprise IoT. Prior to RCR, Juan Pedro worked for Business News Americas, covering telecoms and IT news in the Latin American markets. He also worked for Telecompaper as their Regional Editor for Latin America and Asia/Pacific. Juan Pedro has also contributed to Latin Trade magazine as the publication's correspondent in Argentina and with political risk consultancy firm Exclusive Analysis, writing reports and providing political and economic information from certain Latin American markets. He has a degree in International Relations and a master in Journalism and is married with two kids.