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Jodie Bare is a nationally recognized leader in AI-driven innovation, data strategy, and digital transformation for critical infrastructure organizations. As Vice President of Parsons X and a Parsons Fellow, she advises public-sector owners on how to modernize operations through the strategic use of data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise technology.

Her work spans transportation agencies, airports, transit systems, and smart cities, where she has led initiatives involving connected vehicle data, AI-enabled asset management, digital governance, operational analytics, and large-scale technology modernization. Most recently, she has helped organizations explore how emerging AI capabilities can transform infrastructure operations, maintenance workflows, and decision-making processes.

Jodie specializes in bridging strategy and execution, helping organizations move from vision to operational adoption while ensuring technology investments deliver measurable value.

Robert Suess leads Parsons Intelligent Infrastructure sector managing their Advanced Traffic Management, Transportation Safety Operations, and Vehicle Inspection Services businesses. Robert oversees over 70 intelligent transportations projects utilizing software, hardware, and AI technology to help improve the safety, mobility, and efficiency of our transportation network. Key projects include the deployment of predictive analysis to reduce pedestrian deaths and vehicle collisions as well as ML models for decision support and traffic flow optimization.

Robert joined Parsons in 2022 and has over 20 years of experience leading international technology businesses most recently at Microsoft, where he held various positions including General Manager of New Technology for Western Europe, General Manager of Developer & Platform for Latin America, and General Manager of Developer & Platform for US East Region.

Robert served in the United States Navy as a non-commissioned officer specializing in communications and is a Private Pilot and experimental aircraft builder.

Katelyn Magney-Miller is the Communications Director for Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE), a coalition of industry, nonprofit, and academic institutions working to educate the public about automated vehicles. In her role, Katelyn leads the development of communications and media strategies for PAVE's public education and outreach programs. She also serves on the Board of Directors and manages marketing for Women in Automotive Technology (WAT), a diverse group of female subject matter experts who are passionate about driving advances in the automotive and new mobility industries.

Katelyn holds a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has over 10 years of experience leading strategic communications for technology and mission-driven organizations.

Frank Martz is the City Manager of Altamonte Springs, Florida, and Chief Executive Officer of the Altamonte Global Innovation Lab (AGīL). He created one of the country’s first demand-response transportation algorithms and partnered with Uber on a community-wide mobility program now replicated in more than 70 communities across four continents. With FDOT and Beep Mobility, he launched CraneRIDES, Florida’s first mixed-traffic autonomous vehicle service and the nation’s first permanent AV deployment operated by a city. He chairs Congressional District 7’s Transportation Advisory Committee and serves on the ACES Mobility Coalition executive board and the American Public Transportation Association’s national Autonomous Vehicle Committee. Through AGīL, he brings public and private partners together to pilot and scale solutions in mobility, environment, and data-driven governance.

Dr. Douglas Brauer has over 30 years of global expertise in facilitating strategic solutions to maximize organizational leadership, sustainability, profitability, and return-on-investment. His experience uniquely encompasses global business and higher education for which he has advanced organizations through transformational innovation using: a) strategic planning, b) financial and investment analysis, and c) communication and relationship building.

Douglas has served as the Dean of Engineering & Industry for Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) since July 2018. Since joining FSCJ, the Engineering Department has increased enrollment more than 65% and has become a national leader in National Science Foundation grants for two-year schools. Overall, higher education grant and gift attainment is more than $55 million.

His scope of global business leadership activities involving technology transfer and manufacturing operations and engineering have engaged organizations in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Japan, North America, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, and Taiwan. His private business activities include founding and serving as President & Managing Partner of MudTurtle Industries, LLC, which includes the divisions of Design Assurance Sciences and MudTurtle Furniture.

Dr. Brauer has taught both higher education undergraduate and graduate courses. He has authored four engineering textbooks. His degrees include: a) B.S. in Industrial Technology from Illinois State University, b) M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, and c) Ph.D. in Education & Human Resource Studies from Colorado State University.

Joshua Schank is the Managing Partner at InfraStrategies, a transportation and financial advisory firm, where he leads a practice focused on innovation, strategic planning, and technology. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Autonomous, Connected, Electric, and Shared (ACES) Mobility Coalition, and is a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Research Associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute. His latest book is “New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Improving Public Policy Outcomes in the Public Sector”.

Prior to joining InfraStrategies and UCLA, Dr. Schank was the first-ever Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). Dr. Schank joined Metro in 2015 to establish the agency’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI), which fostered innovations to improve mobility, equity and environmental outcomes across LA County. Dr. Schank led an office that shaped Metro’s high-level strategic vision, serving as a liaison to the academic community, designing, piloting and implementing innovative programs and policies, and engaging entrepreneurs and businesses to develop public-private-partnerships. Dr. Schank helped create and lead numerous transformative Metro projects including the Vision 2028 Strategic Plan, Metro Micro, Mobility on Demand, Metro’s Traffic Reduction Study, Better Bus, two Pre-Development Agreements for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor, a Public-Private-Partnership for the West Santa Ana Branch, and an aerial tram from Union Station to Dodger Stadium.

Dr. Schank previously served as President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a leading national transportation policy think-tank based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that he led the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center and has worked as a consultant for Parsons Brinkerhoff (now WSP) and ICF International. Dr. Schank served as Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) during the authorization of SAFETEA-LU and is also the co-author of All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding. Dr. Schank holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University, and a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his career working on behalf of the riders of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City and has never lost that spirit. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.