Data and Technology's Impact on Water Management: The Corporate Innovation Take

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Join us to discuss the current state of Corporate Innovation from the Smart Cities angle. This meetup will focus on Water Technology and will be held in the format of a moderated panel.

Panelists include Kristin Bell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-bell-75788b34/), Senior Project Manager at NYCEDC, Frank Zammataro (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-zammataro-605508b/), President of Rentricity, and Ed Hackney, Director, Solutions Architecture at SUEZ.

The panel will discuss how different parties and sectors are concerned with Data and Water Infrastructure and how they are addressing the matter and collaborating.

Each will present their take on the subject as well as share their experience and knowledge. There will be time for Q&A and the panel will be ready and willing to answer all your questions, so come prepared.

The event will be moderated by TV personality, Ari Zoldan (http://arizoldan.com/), who has appeared in Mashable (https://www.facebook.com/mashable/), The Wall Street Journal (https://www.facebook.com/wsj/), CNN (https://www.facebook.com/cnn/), Fox News (https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/) and more and all while leading Quantum Networks (https://www.facebook.com/quantumnetworks/) as their CEO.

Agenda

6:30pm - Arrive, Food, Networking

7:00pm - Welcome & Introduction - prooV/Numa

7:10pm - Moderated Panel

7:55pm - Networking

8:45pm - End of Event

The Panelists

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Kristin Bell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-bell-75788b34/) - Senior Project Manager, NYCEDC

Kristin is a Senior Project Manager at the New York City Economic Development Corporation. NYCEDC'Ss mission is to encourage economic growth in each of the five boroughs of New York City by strengthening the City's competitive position and facilitating investments that build capacity, generate prosperity and catalyze the economic vibrancy of City life as a whole. As part of her role Kristin develops and manages ecosystem-building programs to support urban innovation in CleanTech, waste systems, and water management.

Kristin holds an MS in Urban Environmental Systems Management from the Praff Institute as well as a BA in Environmental Studies and Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Frank Zammataro (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-zammataro-605508b/) - President, Rentricity (http://www.rentricity.com/)

Frank is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Rentricity Inc., a renewable energy company innovating technology at the water-energy nexus. By focusing on the generation of clean electricity from excess pressure within water infrastructure, Rentricity provides safer drinking water systems and new forms of energy for public and private water operators, agricultural applications and those serving the pharmaceutical, food and beverage industries. Prior to founding the company, Mr. Zammataro spent more than 21 years in various leadership roles at Merrill Lynch where he served as First Vice President and Director of Investments and Alliances in the financial institution’s Private Client Group. During his tenure, Mr. Zammataro was responsible for key technology-related research, development, strategic alliances and investments. Under his leadership, the firm launched a number of landmark programs including Merrill Lynch Online and the Company's first strategic technology investment fund. Mr. Zammataro has been a contributing columnist and speaker at leading industry events. He has chaired numerous cross-functional committees and participates in various industry, municipal, and academic organizations. After graduating from St. John’s University with a B.A. in Political Science and Communications Arts, Mr. Zammataro attended New York University pursuing a Master’s in New Media. Mr. Zammataro also completed an Executive Leadership Development Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ed Hackney (https://www.linkedin.com/in/edhackney/) - Director & Solutions Architecture, SUEZ

Edward Hackney is the Director of Strategy and Architecture at SUEZ in North America. Ed is responsible for the company’s strategies regarding IT, Smart Networks, Analytics, Mobility and other operational technologies. He is a member of SUEZ’s global technical committee and works on R&D projects around the worldEd joined the company in 2002, running IT network operations, security and compliance. He then created a hybrid Engineering / IT group to focus on technical systems including Smart Metering's, GIS and modernizing and securing Industrial Control Systems.

Prior to SUEZ, he consulted for Fortune 500 clients while at KPMG and Arthur Andersen, co-founded a wireless ISP and was one of the first employees at a web advertising agency which was the first “dot.com” to IPO on the NASDAQ. He was recently selected to serve on the EPA’s Homeland Security Subcommittee advising on utility cyber security. He holds a B.A. in Marketing from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. from Fordham University