Brian Kane is the Director of Policy, Performance Management & Process Re-Engineering at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. In this role, he works on the development of the MBTA's annual $1.6 billion operating budget and works with MBTA department heads to develop and evaluate management plans and practices.

Kane works directly with start-up companies to bring innovative tools, techniques, and products to the MBTA's customers. A major component of this collaboration is navigating how start-ups must comply with government rules. A significant technology collaboration underway at the MBTA is to bring real-time tracking to the Green Line, the largest light rail system in the nation, and also the oldest.

Kane is a committed public administrator with over 10 years of experience in Massachusetts politics and government. He has been a local elected official and holds a Masters of Public Administration from Northeastern University and a BA in History from Boston College.

Joan DiMicco is a strategic innovator in the design and use of new technologies for social networking, visual analysis, and group collaboration. Her driving desire is to make communication and collaboration easier and more intuitive.

She joined Forrester Research, Inc. in 2013 as the VP of Digital Customer Experience to lead the company's digital strategy, defining the web and mobile experiences of their customers. Previously DiMicco was a Research Scientist at IBM where she led the Visualization & Behavior Group, at the IBM Watson Research Center, building social, collaboration applications and tools for visual analytics.

She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and has been written about in press such as the New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Discover Magazine. She speaks at conferences and academic venues such as Enterprise 2.0 and ACM's CHI conference.

DiMicco has a BS in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a PhD and MS from the MIT Media Lab.