Wilfred Pinfold is the Chief Executive Officer of urban.systems Inc, a company that builds vibrant communities using technology to facilitate civic engagement, deliver services and share resources. He is also President of OpenCommons a 501c6 membership non-profit working closely with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Smart City best practices and data standards. He is a Research Professor in Computer Science at Portland state University, has taught classes in business, innovation, aeronautics, ocean systems and has more than 30 years of experience in computational and data science.
Dr Pinfold is the co-chair of the NIST Global City Teams Challenge Transportation Supercluster, Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Smart Cities Emerging Interest Group, is the Mayor’s representative on the City of Portland Technology Oversight committee and Honorary Consul for the United Kingdom in Oregon.
Before leading urban.systems he had a 23 year career at Intel where he led research and development programs in Extreme Scale Computing, Internet of Things and Smart Cities. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and attended the Stanford Executive Program.
Wilfred Pinfold is the Chief Executive Officer of urban.systems Inc, a company that builds vibrant communities using technology to facilitate civic engagement, deliver services and share resources. He is also President of OpenCommons a 501c6 membership non-profit working closely with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Smart City best practices and data standards. He is a Research Professor in Computer Science at Portland state University, has taught classes in business, innovation, aeronautics, ocean systems and has more than 30 years of experience in computational and data science.
Dr Pinfold is the co-chair of the NIST Global City Teams Challenge Transportation Supercluster, Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Smart Cities Emerging Interest Group, is the Mayor’s representative on the City of Portland Technology Oversight committee and Honorary Consul for the United Kingdom in Oregon.
Before leading urban.systems he had a 23 year career at Intel where he led research and development programs in Extreme Scale Computing, Internet of Things and Smart Cities. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and attended the Stanford Executive Program.
