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John Hogan

Veolia

John has over 25 years of experience helping businesses and governments transform with new technology.

John has over 25 years of experience helping businesses and governments transform with new technology. By background a technologist, he was formerly the CTO of IBM’s government software business with his flagship project being the development of IBM’s Smart City software solutions. In this capacity, John conceived and developed the first prototype, pilots, and MVP with IBM’s development, R&D and sales organizations.

Because of his reputation developing new solutions, John took a leading role in IBM’s new AI division, the Watson Group in 2016. It was here that he added data science and ML platform development to his portfolio of skills. For the past 5 years, John has focused almost exclusively on water related
technology development with IOT and AI at his own company and at Veolia. The water industry is underserved by technology and is due to be transformed. A natural evolution of IOT and AI is digital twins. John is currently developing the next generation of twins for the industrial water and waste
water industries.

John holds two patents and has several published articles. He is a member of the Ocean Exchange non-profit technology incubator and adviser to several startups in the water and sustainability space. A native of Connecticut and Arizona, he has lived in New York since 2000 where he enjoys the abundance of water but misses the crisp, dry Sonoran Desert of Tucson.

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