Dr. Glenn Ricart is the Founder and CTO of US Ignite, a nonprofit whose mission is applying academic and industry research in smart and connected communities. US Ignite is now working with 48 communities in three countries. He is also an organizer of MERIF - the US Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructure Forum which coordinates efforts at 8 of the U.S. research infrastructures sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Ricart is Adjunct Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, a Fellow of the ACM, and a Pioneer Inductee in the Internet Hall of Fame.