As an award winning ‘telecom visionary’ and vocal advocate for gender and cultural diversity in the tech industry, Brigitte Daniel is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Wilco Electronic Systems, her family’s private cable operation that has specialized in providing affordable technologies to underserved communities as well as platform integration solutions for security access technologies, for over 40 years. Under her leadership, Wilco has created several substantial private/public partnerships providing innovative solutions to address digital disparities and lack of representation within technology sectors across the Nation, thus positioning Wilco, as a broadband and technology leader. In her role, she is continuing the family legacy by pivoting Wilco’s expertise towards the integration of security surveillance and cloud based door access, property technology (PropTech), IoT( Internet of Things), and smart home automation platforms, with a focus on urban communities. Driven by her mission to address digital and tech diversity disparities, Brigitte has become a national thought leader addressing inclusion inequities within innovation ecosystems across the Nation. As a recent 2019 Mayoral appointed member of the SMARTCityPHL advisory committee and a newly appointed board member of Philadelphia Works Inc., Ms. Daniel provides vision and strategies on how the City of Philadelphia implements roadmaps to provide smart city solutions and new workforce strategies that are inclusive and complement the Greater Philadelphia’s unique assets. She currently is a re-appointed advisor to the FCC’s Federal Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment, was awarded a 2011 Eisenhower Fellowship to India and Sri Lanka, and is continually recognized as one of the “Top Women In Technology” according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. As the founder of Mogulette, an organization dedicated to bridging diversity disparities in all facets of innovation and technology, she has also become an award winning national thought leader and speaker addressing inclusion inequities within innovation ecosystems across the Nation.She has been featured at TEDX Philadelphia, Philadelphia Magazine’s Think Fest, The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, the 2018 and 2019 SXSW Conferences, the Spelman College Innovation Summit, the National Urban League, and was a featured presenter and representative of the unveiling of the City of Philadelphia’s submission of its’ Amazon HQ2 pitch.