Carol L. Stimmel, MA: Keynotes and Media Support
With Julián Castro, US Secretary of HUD (2015)
Carol L. Stimmel, MA is an author, and the founder and chief analyst at Manifest Mind. She has over 25 years in emerging technology markets including operations, research and analysis, engineering, and product design.
Cleantech | Future Tech | Smart Cities | Innovation | Sustainability
Carol enjoys speaking as the featured keynote, is a professional interviewer, and subject matter expert for documentary and online media. She naturally creates an engaging environment with ease and technical depth. Her deep background allows her to motivate and inspire, especially drawing on her experiences in Nepal and sub-Saharan Africa, her work as a professional penetration tester for critical infrastructure sites, and as a software engineer for various high-value government and private projects.
Cleantech | Future Tech | Smart Cities | Innovation | Sustainability
Carol enjoys speaking as the featured keynote, is a professional interviewer, and subject matter expert for documentary and online media. She naturally creates an engaging environment with ease and technical depth. Her deep background allows her to motivate and inspire, especially drawing on her experiences in Nepal and sub-Saharan Africa, her work as a professional penetration tester for critical infrastructure sites, and as a software engineer for various high-value government and private projects.
Summary Background
Carol L. Stimmel, MA has been working in advanced technology since the early 1990s, including working on aviation-related technology at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), followed by a stint at NASA working with experimental datasets, and then for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where she participated in the design and engineering of a next-generation hurricane forecasting system. Before finally finding her way to cleantech and sustainability in 2004, she also worked in telecommunications, digital forensics, new ventures, technology investment advising, and real-time search technologies for social media.
Since then, Carol has been exclusively developing, researching, writing, and speaking on energy and cleantech topics, including consumer behaviors, efficiency, home energy management, the smart grid, home orchestration, microgrids, data analytics, sustainability, small-scale generation, and smart cities. She has participated in many presentations and panels for private industry, international conferences, government interests, and public interest groups. She has also written for, provided background, been interviewed by and quoted by major media outlets as a subject matter expert, including the Washington Post and the BBC.
She is best known for her two recent books Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT and Design Thinking and Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid, and is working on a practical manual for open innovation (due in 2017), holds several key technology patents, publishes long-form pieces, and contributes to primary and secondary research topics regularly. Her clients include governments, both established and growth companies, syndicated research firms, and non-profits.
Carol is known for her optimism, integrity, years of experience, personal scholarship, independent spirit, and ability to provide coherent and trusted insight into developing human economies, the built environment, and natural ecosystems.
Since then, Carol has been exclusively developing, researching, writing, and speaking on energy and cleantech topics, including consumer behaviors, efficiency, home energy management, the smart grid, home orchestration, microgrids, data analytics, sustainability, small-scale generation, and smart cities. She has participated in many presentations and panels for private industry, international conferences, government interests, and public interest groups. She has also written for, provided background, been interviewed by and quoted by major media outlets as a subject matter expert, including the Washington Post and the BBC.
She is best known for her two recent books Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT and Design Thinking and Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid, and is working on a practical manual for open innovation (due in 2017), holds several key technology patents, publishes long-form pieces, and contributes to primary and secondary research topics regularly. Her clients include governments, both established and growth companies, syndicated research firms, and non-profits.
Carol is known for her optimism, integrity, years of experience, personal scholarship, independent spirit, and ability to provide coherent and trusted insight into developing human economies, the built environment, and natural ecosystems.
A Longer Biography
Carol L. Stimmel, MA is the author of several books, including 3 standard texts (with another due in 2016), syndicated research producer, analyst, and frequent speaker. She founded Manifest Mind to ensure that companies and investors have the information they need to make enduring investment decisions in the complex world of cleantech and sustainability. She is recognized chiefly for her two most recent publications Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT and Design Thinking and Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid,
Since 2004, she has been exclusively developing, researching and speaking on energy and cleantech topics, as a subject matter expert on behavioral home energy management, the smart grid, home orchestration, data analytics, sustainability, and smart cities. She has participated in new ventures for the majority of her career, including engineering, designing new products, and providing market intelligence and analysis to new media and energy industry stakeholders. Years before "big data analytics” ever became buzzword compliant, Stimmel began working with massive streams of experimental flight data, hacking code and modeling 3D systems for meteorological and aviation research—in 1991 .
She has owned and operated a digital forensics company, worked with cutting-edge entrepreneurial teams, and authored many industry publications. Among other positions, she serves as an advisor to Engerati, was the Vice President of New Ventures at Gartner; Vice President of Research at E Source; software and hardware product designer at Tendril; and Director of the Smart Utilities Practice at Navigant Research.
Carol is currently completing her doctorate in Technology and Social Change (expected 2020), holds an MA in International Development and Social Change from Clark University, and a BA in Philosophy from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Along the way, she has satiated her curiosity by continuing coursework in various disciplines, including anthropology at the University of Virginia, data analytics at Stanford, and earned a leadership certificate at the Daniels School of Business.
She has participated in many presentations and panels for private industry, international conferences, government interests, and public interest groups. She has also written for, provided background, been interviewed by, and often-quoted by major media and industry outlets.
Carol is known for her optimism, sense of humor, integrity, years of experience, independent spirit, and personal scholarship, but most appreciated for her ability to provide coherent and trusted insight into developing human economies, the built environment, and natural ecosystems.
Since 2004, she has been exclusively developing, researching and speaking on energy and cleantech topics, as a subject matter expert on behavioral home energy management, the smart grid, home orchestration, data analytics, sustainability, and smart cities. She has participated in new ventures for the majority of her career, including engineering, designing new products, and providing market intelligence and analysis to new media and energy industry stakeholders. Years before "big data analytics” ever became buzzword compliant, Stimmel began working with massive streams of experimental flight data, hacking code and modeling 3D systems for meteorological and aviation research—in 1991 .
She has owned and operated a digital forensics company, worked with cutting-edge entrepreneurial teams, and authored many industry publications. Among other positions, she serves as an advisor to Engerati, was the Vice President of New Ventures at Gartner; Vice President of Research at E Source; software and hardware product designer at Tendril; and Director of the Smart Utilities Practice at Navigant Research.
Carol is currently completing her doctorate in Technology and Social Change (expected 2020), holds an MA in International Development and Social Change from Clark University, and a BA in Philosophy from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Along the way, she has satiated her curiosity by continuing coursework in various disciplines, including anthropology at the University of Virginia, data analytics at Stanford, and earned a leadership certificate at the Daniels School of Business.
She has participated in many presentations and panels for private industry, international conferences, government interests, and public interest groups. She has also written for, provided background, been interviewed by, and often-quoted by major media and industry outlets.
Carol is known for her optimism, sense of humor, integrity, years of experience, independent spirit, and personal scholarship, but most appreciated for her ability to provide coherent and trusted insight into developing human economies, the built environment, and natural ecosystems.
Curriculum Vitae
Last Update: December 2015
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