About This Virtual Event

Congresswoman Haley Stevens won a suburban House seat in 2018 to begin her Congressional career. During the Obama administration, the Congresswoman was part of the auto industry rescue plan and has private-sector experience in the technology industry.
Congresswoman Stevens, a native of Oakland County, got her bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in social policy and philosophy, both from American University in Washington D.C. She worked on both the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaigns, and then took over the auto task force overseeing General Motors and Chrysler rescue funds. She also served as a policy adviser on advanced manufacturing at the Economic Development Administration.
Outside government, Stevens developed an export-assistance program for Bloomberg Philanthropies in Louisville Kentucky. With the Chicago-based Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, she helped create an online certification program for digital manufacturing.
In the House, Stevens enacted her bipartisan bill to encourage more teaching of STEM (science, technology, education and math) topics, especially to young girls. As chairwoman of the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology panel, she also won committee approval of a bill to combat sexual harassment in science.
Congresswoman Stevens and her husband reside in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Congressman Rodney Davis was first elected in 2012. Since then, he has been an active and often bipartisan legislator.
Congressman Davis was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but moved to Taylorville, Illinois when he was 7 years old. His parents opened a McDonald’s franchise. He studied political science courses at Millikin University then went to work for Illinois Secretary of State George Ryan.
After successfully managing the first reelection bid of Congressman John Shimkus, the Congressman spent more than a decade on Shimkus’ district office staff. He was Shimkus’ project coordinator, securing local, federal and private funding for public works projects.
Congressman Davis has been busy on two committees: Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure. As a freshman in 2014, he helped shape two major pieces of legislation, getting into the water resources bill language that permits the Army Corps of Engineers to cooperate with private businesses on waterway improvement projects and getting into the farm bill requirements that the Environmental Protection Administration give farmers a seat at the table when the agency considered new regulations that affect their industry.
Since 2019, he has been the senior Republican on the influential Highways and Transit Subcommittee. In 2021, he picked up a new leadership assignment, as ranking Republican on the House Administration Committee.
He and his wife have 3 children and continue to live in Taylorville.

Allan leads the development of turnkey systems win and execution strategies for the North American transit market for Hitachi Rail. He works with financial, civil and engineering partners to deliver complex infrastructure solutions, proposals and commercial arrangements to the transit industry. These rail-based transportation projects may include financing, designing, building, operating, maintaining and delivering the project for the public transit authority. Allan and the team from Hitachi Rail specialize in signaling and systems integration, as well as rolling stock supply, resulting in the integration of train control, traction power, communications and vehicles into advanced transit solutions that Hitachi Rail can also maintain and operate for its global and US customers.
Allan is a Professional Engineer who holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master’s in Business Administration from Winthrop University, and is a certified Project Management Professional. Over the course of his 20 plus-year career with Hitachi Rail and its legacy businesses, Allan has held various positions of increasing leadership and responsibility, tapping into a deep understanding of public transit. During his Hitachi career, Allan has served as a bid manager, a project manager, and he created and led the Project Management Office for North America.
He is currently responsible for turnkey systems business development in North America.

In his 20+ years of industry experience, Arya Barirani has led marketing teams in some of the most well-known brands in the technology industry, including Symantec, Hewlett Packard, Veritas, Mercury Interactive, and Infoblox. His domain expertise spans multitudes of product and service categories such as DevOps, security, IT management software, storage management, and networking.

Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Arya was Vice President of Product Marketing at Infoblox, where he drove company and product positioning, as well as global go-to-market, content marketing. Before that, Arya was Senior Director of Global Campaigns / Product Marketing at Symantec, where he created global promotional campaigns for Symantec’s security and storage software portfolio.

Using a highly customer-centric approach, Arya specializes in creating differentiated messaging and connecting the dots between brands and buyers. His work integrates the entire spectrum of marketing disciplines and communications channels, including digital, social, web, and traditional media and advertising.

Arya lives in Northern California with his wife and two children, and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Marketing from the University of Iowa.

John Nunneley is the Senior Vice President of Technology Management and IT for Hitachi Astemo Americas, Inc and General Manager of the facility in Farmington Hills Michigan. He has worked in the design engineering group for Hitachi Automotive Systems in Michigan from 1995 to 2011 on projects ranging from electronic throttle body to engine control units to HEV inverters.

From 2012 – 2016 John worked for Hitachi Automotive Systems in Japan as the Deputy General Manager of the Brake System Design Group and the Electronic Control Unit Design Group. He returned from Japan in July 2016 to take his current position.

Harsha Badarinarayan is the Vice President of Research and Development at Hitachi America, Ltd. He has been with Hitachi for over 18 years. In his current role, Harsha is involved in Technology Strategy & Planning for automotive business expansion in the U.S., specifically related to the Autonomous Vehicles & Connected Mobility.

His work focuses on developing automated driving technology and identifying potential go-to-market (GTM) opportunities for automotive-related use cases. Harsha holds 15 U.S. patents and has authored or co-authored over 30 technical publications.

Mitchell is an entrepreneur, innovator, and trusted leader at the intersection of technology, cities, and investment. Mitchell is currently a Director at the Consumer Technology Association, where he leads policy and government affairs on autonomous vehicles, transportation, smart cities, and facial recognition issues.
Mitchell recently served as an Executive Team Member of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) at the U.S. Department of Transportation, where he lead strategic initiatives to advance vehicle safety and the deployment of autonomous vehicles.
Previously, Mitchell was the Co-founder of Venture Smarter, an enterprise tech startup focused on building a platform to accelerate the development of smart cities that included a B2B community of 7,000+ organizations. He led the company's corporate development (Fortune 50 customers), strategic initiatives, and partnerships, such as a $3 billion joint venture with investment firms and $50M 'Smart Infrastructure Challenge'.
Additionally, Mitchell served as the senior Policy Counsel to US Senate Leadership on technology, transportation, and infrastructure. Before that Mitchell was a Counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and national security matters. Mitchell has also served as an advisor to venture capital firms, accelerators and venture-backed startups including FiscalNote (raised $347M).