Speaker Bios
Mike Drow - Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, T2 Systems
Mike Drow is the Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at T2 Systems, one of the largest parking technology providers in North America. In his role, Mike establishes and manages technology partnerships and acquisitions to align with long-term strategic goals of T2 Systems. He has led the development of mobility services, remote management operations, mobile payments and interactive marketing services and has worked with municipalities, universities, airports and urban garages. He is the Co-chair of IPI Technology Committee and is certified as a Project Management Professional and CAPP.
I-Ping Li - Strategy and Delivery Executive, Deloitte Consulting
I-Ping is an innovation and technology evangelist. He is a strategy and delivery executive at Deloitte Consulting and a seasoned technology practice leader focused in the areas of enterprise business transformation, technology strategy, analytics and the Internet of Things. He can be found advising and leading global clients on how to manage change through the adoption of disruptive technologies within their organizations. He is a member of the OMG Retail Domain Task Force (RDTF) and holds an Information and Decision Systems degree from Carnegie Mellon University. You can follow him on twitter @ipingli.
Josh Lieberman Ph.D. - Senior Researcher, Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, and Architect and Initiative Manager, Open Geospacial Consortium (OSG)
Josh Lieberman is a system architect and interoperability engineer focusing on geospatial computing and spatial data science. He is a senior researcher at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis working on semantic applications, high performance computing, and spatial analysis as part of the new Spatiotemporal Innovation Center. Josh also serves as an architect and initiative manager for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) coordinating activities around IoT, water resources, and Smart Safe City innovation. He chairs the OGC Geosemantics and Agriculture groups, and serves on the OGC Architecture Board. Josh has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, M.S. from the University of Oregon, and A.B. from Dartmouth College, as well as many years of experience in earth and environmental sciences and geospatial modeling.
Andy Mattice- Solutions Enablement and Senior Architect, Lexmark International, Inc.
Andy Mattice focuses on implementing the future of retail shelf-edge marketing as Solution Enablement and Senior Architect at Lexmark. Andy joined Lexmark the acquisition of Seattle-based AccessVia. Before that Andy worked for Barcode Systems with a focus on RFID, labeling, Auto-ID and inventory tracking solutions. Prior to focusing on the Retail Industry, Andy had an extensive career in offshore marine oilfield support and international submarine telecom. Andy served as chairman for the Price Service Interface work team that expanded the ARTS/RDTF schema to support a greater number of retail promotion models and complex retail systems interactions, including mobile, in a standardized way allowing retailers to reduce costs, implement quickly and execute efficiently. More recently Andy chaired the effort to define the impact IoT is having, and will have, on retail operations including extensions to the ARTS schema.
Steve Rowen - Managing Partner, Retail Systems Research
Steve Rowen is a Managing Partner at Retail Systems Research, an industry market intelligence firm that helps retailers make more strategic decisions about the role of information technology in their enterprise. He focuses on areas of emerging impact on retail and is widely regarded as one of the most informed and objective voices in the industry today.
Steve began his career in retail, entering the tech space as a project manager at a software development company in New York City during the dot com era. After a number of years working as a retail specific journalist, he made the transition to retail industry analyst in 2006. He co-founded RSR in 2007.