Erin is a Policy Analyst in the City of Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) where she focuses on community engagement and policy development for autonomous technology. In her role, Erin seeks to utilize feedback from governmental and community-based stakeholders to drive planning decisions and policy actions for autonomous technology in Pittsburgh.

Prior to joining the City of Pittsburgh, Erin worked as Deputy Counsel for the New Jersey Legislature where she focused on transportation and economic development issues. She holds a JD from the West Virginia University College of Law and a BS in Public Relations from West Virginia University.

Lilian Coral joined Knight Foundation in September 2017. Coral is Knight Foundation’s director of national strategy + technology innovation, where she manages the national portfolio and focuses on the development of the foundation’s citizen-centered Smart Cities strategy. The portfolio’s investments include a focus on data accessibility and trust, urban mobility, and technology in public spaces. Coral came to Knight from the City of Los Angeles, where she served as chief data officer for Mayor Eric Garcetti. In this role, she led the mayor’s directive on open data beyond the lens of transparency and towards his vision of a data-driven Los Angeles. She managed the growth of Los Angeles’ open data program to 1,100 public datasets, the expansion of the use of data science and analytics, and the development of more than 15 user-centered digital services. Of note, was her development of the GeoHub, a first-of-its kind data management solution for integrating geospatial information across the City of Los Angeles’ 41 departments.

Prior to joining Mayor Garcetti, Coral spent 15 years working on a wide range of policy and technology issues and has experience working with labor unions, NGOs, foundations and local, state and federal government to transform the way government uses data and technology to serve its citizens.

Coral has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of California, Irvine and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a native of Colombia, a place from where much of her inspiration for innovation and social justice emerged.

Beth Ferguson is the founding director of the Adapting City Lab and assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Design. She is an ecological designer whose practice blends industrial design with sustainable transportation, solar engineering, climate resiliency, and public engagement. Ferguson is the director of Sol Design Lab, a design/build studio that specializes in solar charging stations and was awarded the Austin Green Award in 2017 for the Austin Energy Electric Drive Solar Kiosk. She participated in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge with the interdisciplinary team Public Sediment, which won the Honor Award for Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2019. Her interdisciplinary work has been exhibited at the Exploratorium Museum, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, TEDx Presidio, Bay Area Maker Faire, and the Otago Museum in New Zealand. Her collaborative work has been featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, BBC and Texas Architect Magazine. She is a San Francisco Autodesk Technology Center Fellow and member of the Women in Design advisory council for the Industrial Designers Society of America.