Currently Technology Director for the Smart City focused Urban Technology Alliance (UTA), Dr. Rodger Lea is responsible for coordinating technical activities across UTA's worldwide membership spanning Asia, North America and Europe. With over 30 years of experience in the technology space, he has held senior positions in academia, large corporations and startups and currently is CEO of the IoT startup Sense Tecnic. For the last 15 years, he has started or helped start 4 new companies while managing an active research program (University of British Columbia, Canada and Lancaster University, UK) into distributed and ubiquitous computing with a focus on Smart Cities. Prior to his startups, Dr. Lea spent over 15 years in industrial research in France, Japan and the USA, most recently as Vice President and Director of Sony’s Distributed System lab, located in Silicon Valley, CA.