My guests on Wednesday are Mark Cleverley of IBM, Mayor Roy Buol, David Lyons of Dubuque, IA and guest panelist John Berenyi. Our subject will be the IBM “Smarter Cities Initiative” and how it will be instituted in Dubuque, and is it a model for cities all over the United States? (From Reuters. IBM and Dubuque) http://www03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28420.wss . We will also be hearing from the Hon.Richard Swett, former Ambassador to Denmark and Member of the House of Represntatives.

Mark Cleverley helps governments with technology-enabled transformation. He advises IBM’s public sector customers and IBM teams on potentials, challenges and best practices in the evolving use of new technologies. He has consulted widely on government projects, and has written and spoken publicly extensively in the USA and abroad. Currently Director of Strategy for IBM’s Global Government Industry, working with governments in many nations and many areas of information systems. Previously he was responsible for IBM’s Public Safety, Justice, and related clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Earlier he led technology-enabled innovation projects in the oil, aviation and financial services industries, in Western Europe, the USA and Russia. These ranged from consolidating European data centers, through implementing core airline systems, and included one of the earliest (pre-web) public access kiosk developments. He has a joint honors degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Oxford University. A British citizen now living in America, his speaking engagements have included many briefings on strategic issues to individual government clients around the world, and to multiple stakeholder/media events such as: California Franchise Tax Board Symposium, California CIO Academy, Delaware Technology Conference, DMAW New Media Marketing Conference, Frontiers in Service Conference, G-CON (Gartner Government Conference), and many, many others. His publications have included a forthcoming article in Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery on how “smarter planet” technology can aid the developing world.

Roy Buol is the Mayor of Dubuque, IA. He is a Dubuque-native and  was elected to a four-year term as Mayor in November 2005. He was previously elected as Second Ward Representative to the City Council in 1995, was re-elected in 1999 and again in 2003. Before entering public life he had a long association with the John Deere Company and is the Director of the Landscaping and Grounds Department at the University of Dubuque. Mayor Buol holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a double-major in Business and Marketing from the University of Dubuque, where he also completed graduate coursework toward a Master of Arts in Communication. He is currently enrolled in the National League of Cities Certificate of Achievement in Leadership Program and represents Dubuque in the U.S. Conference of Mayors.  Recently Business Week the published the following piece discussing this program:       http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/sep2009/id20090918_187656.htm on Dubuque.

David Lyons serves as the Project Manager for the public sector components of the IBM “Smarter Cities Initiative and Partnership.” A graduate of Loras College and the University of Iowa Law School, he most recently served as the Chief Business Development Officer for the Iowa Farm Bureau, before leaving to form a non-profit research institute. Prior to that, David was the Director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development (appointed by Governor Tom Vilsack), State of Iowa Insurance Commissioner (appointed by Governor Terry Branstad) and Legal Counsel to the Iowa Legislature.

John Berenyi currently he advises governments, corporations and non profit organizations from Mt. Vernon, NY to South Carolina and cities in South Florida on sustainability, risk management and strategic planning related to alternative energy. Internationally, he is an advisor on these matters to companies and public entities in Israel, New Zealand, Hungary and other areas. He has over 25 years of experience as financial advisor, technology and economic consultant and investment banker.  His work has been at the intersection of engineering, business law, urban planning, management, economics and finance.

   Left: Mayor Roy Buol of Dubuque, IA                                                                                     
   Right: Mark Cleverley, Director of IBM's Global Government Industry

  
                                                                        
David Lyons, Dubuque's Director
of IBM Smarter Cities Program                 John Berenyi, Senior Advisor  
                                                                    
      

                                                                                      

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