Kiva Allgood is Vice President of Business Development, Smart Cities and Industrial IoT, for Qualcomm Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
As the global business lead for Qualcomm’s Smart Cities initiative, Allgood helps strategic partners and cities build long term connectivity plans and strategies that help improve the livability, sustainability and connectivity fabric for its citizens. This includes providing critical insight into Qualcomm’s entire product, software and services portfolio.
Before joining Qualcomm, Allgood ran a startup focused on delivering high quality headphones and hearing devices to special needs children and adults. Prior to the startup Allgood held executive positions at Motorola and GE. Most recently she was the General Manager for NA Retail and MVNO Sales at Motorola’s Handset Division in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to this role she held executive management roles in Global Product Management and Operations.
Allgood holds board seats on CleanTech San Diego and Teen Volunteers in Action.
Allgood holds a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from Kellogg.
Citizenship and Companies in the Connected Social City
New York is diving into connectedness, with sidewalk WiFi, a raft of smart systems for traffic, energy, and health, and other civic innovations. But what does it mean for those that inhabit our city? How does it shift the role of business, people, and government?
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NYC 16
For four years, the impact of tech and increasing interconnection on the economy and urban revival has shaped the agenda for our annual one-day Techonomy Detroit conference.
