TED SMITH

April 11, 2014 – Ted Smith moderated a Kentucky to the World event in which featured guest Ellen Miller shared her journey from Kentucky to one of the leading forces creating government transparency through technology.

Ted Smith was appointed by Mayor Greg Fischer as the Director of Louisville Metro Government’s Department of Economic Growth and Innovation. Ted’s efforts include the 2012 IBM Smarter City Challenge-winning adoption of Asthmapolis sensor inhalers across Louisville to develop a new understanding of asthma. Ted also serves on the business faculty of the University of Louisville where he leads the Health Sector Management MBA. Prior to city government, he was appointed Senior Innovation Advisor in the HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) of Health IT. He founded chronic disease news service MedTrackAlert which was acquired by Health Central in 2008. He holds a B.S. from Allegheny College and M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Miami University (OH) and a post-doc at MIT. He was a co-investigator for the Neurolab shuttle mission. He was named 2013 Government Technology’s “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers.”