Lauren Marinaro

Lauren is Director of Smart Cities at an accelerator for IoT startups. She communicates a vision of how innovation shapes society, impacts humanity, and builds thriving communities and smarter cities. For Lauren, smart cities start with citizen engagement. By empowering citizens through technology to lead more sustainable, safe, and empathetic lives, we can ease the transition into a world run by robots. She builds Hackathons that bring local developers together with corporations and civic leaders to create solutions for smart cities and is the Director for the new IoT for Cities channel on ReadWrite, interviewing Chief Innovation Officers for cities around the world.