Mayors Innovation Project
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Winter 2026 Sponsors

Meet our 2026 Winter Meeting Sponsors

We’re deeply grateful to our Winter Meeting sponsors for making this meeting possible. Each of them are committed to supporting cities and their leaders. We invite and encourage all attendees to take a moment to read through this page and familizare themselves with our sponsors before the event so that they can maximize their time with them.

Our sponsors are here to help you, please don’t hesitate to reach out to them to learn more about how they can support you. Contact information is included for each organization below.

For three decades, RTC has served as the national voice for trails, setting the precedent that rail-trails are need-to-have community assets and establishing policies and practices that ensure these trails are built.

Meet with Rails to Trails Conservancy at the meeting:

Elle Segal is Rails to Trails Conservancy’s (RTC) Advocacy Outreach Director and lives in Washington, DC. At RTC, Elle manages federal advocacy efforts and outreach, including building new partnerships with groups like MIP, as well as growing relationships with key national and state partners and increasing advocacy engagement with RTC members from across the country. She joined RTC in 2022 after working for more than eight years working in community outreach, relationship management, and advocacy.

Resources from Rails to Trails Conservancy:

SERVUS helps local governments improve and strengthen their revenue streams, delivering solutions that empowers cities to serve residents more fairly while simultaneously achieving their financial goals.

Meet with SERVUS at the meeting:

Bryan Glenn is Founder & CEO of SERVUS, a municipal finance analytics company applying behavioral economics and machine learning to help cities balance fiscal sustainability with social equity. He has published research with GFOA, presented at leading industry conferences, and partners with university researchers to advance data-driven approaches to municipal fee structures.

For more than 20 years, corporations, governments, and philanthropies have hired Next Street to strengthen the small businesses they rely on. They provide end-to-end solutions – powered by their proprietary technology, national networks, and industry expertise – for clients to propel small businesses in their supply chains and communities.

Meet with Next Street at the meeting:

Andi is Next Street’s Chief Revenue Officer. Before joining Next Street, Andi was the Director of Economic Development at Accelerator for America where she built and led a team to support and advise mayors across the country in advancing economic mobility, with a particular focus on Black and Brown business development. Andi has over fifteen years of experience working in community and economic development with expertise in regional and local government. Earlier in her career, Andi worked for the YMCA solving health disparities in communities around the country, and for the City of Lansing, Michigan where she led the Department of Neighborhoods + Citizen Engagement.

Spencer is a Senior Director with Next Street, where he provides strategic, financial, and operational advisory services to a wide variety of clients to help expand their impact on small business ecosystems locally and nationally. He has worked across civic, private, and social sectors, with experience with government programs and policies around business procurement and supply chain development, including in auto industries, infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing. Prior to joining Next Street, Spencer worked at L.E.K. Consulting and PwC Strategy&, where he led projects involving growth and supply chain strategies in industrial and manufacturing sectors.

Resources from Next Street:

Trusted by 750+ communities, Via helps cities launch new transit services in just weeks. Their tech-powered solutions expand access, engage communities, and grow the economy.

Meet with Via at the meeting:

Headshot of Rob Bryans.

Rob serves as a Strategy and Partnerships Principal at Via, working closely with cities and transit agencies to advance innovative public mobility solutions. With decades of experience spanning the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the UK, he helps civic leaders design transit systems that are more responsive, sustainable, and inclusive. He is passionate about using technology to make public transportation work better for residents and the communities they call home.

Resources from Via:

Cyvl empowers governments to build and maintain public infrastructure they’re proud of by accelerating decision-making through their sensors and Infrastructure Intelligence Platform.

Meet with CYVL at the meeting:

Daniel Pelaez

Daniel Pelaez is the co-founder and CEO of Cyvl, a company helping local governments make streets and sidewalks safer, more reliable, and more affordable to maintain. Cyvl has worked with 300+ U.S. cities to help public works teams identify the highest-impact repairs, plan smarter, and stretch limited budgets—so taxpayers get more fixes per dollar. Daniel partners with mayors and transportation leaders to improve safety, accessibility, and day-to-day quality of life, while bringing more transparency and speed to how projects are prioritized, funded, and delivered.

Dan McCarthy

Dan McCarthy is Vice President of Product at Cyvl, where he leads the development of infrastructure planning tools that help local governments turn real-world data into actionable repair and maintenance outcomes. With a background anchored in product strategy and client collaboration, McCarthy works closely with public works teams to streamline how cities identify critical needs, prioritize projects, and make data-driven decisions that improve safety, efficiency, and taxpayer value. His work supports improved infrastructure planning and execution for hundreds of municipalities across the U.S.

Headshot of Former Mayor Miro Weinberger (Burlington, VT)

  • Former Mayor Miro Weinberger (Burlington, VT), Strategic Advisor

Miro Weinberger served as Mayor of Burlington, VT from 2012 to 2024, dramatically expanding housing production, guiding the city through a major financial turnaround, building hundreds of millions of dollars of public infrastructure, and launching an electrification initiative that reduced community emissions nearly 20 percent.  Miro is a co-founder and Executive Chair of Let’s Build Homes, an advocacy organization working to address Vermont’s housing shortage. He recently served as a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, is the Leahy Scholar in Residence at UVM’s Honors College, and a Strategic Advisor to Cyvl.

Resources from Cyvl:

HR&A Advisors, Inc. (HR&A) advises public, private, non-profit, and philanthropic clients on how to increase opportunity and advance quality of life in cities.

Meet with HR&A at the meeting:

The Trust for Public Land protects land for people, ensuring access to nature for healthy, livable communities. TPL focuses on creating urban parks, protecting forests, and watersheds, and connecting people to the outdoors.

Meet with Trust for Public Land at the meeting:

Thank you so much to our Winter 2026 Meeting Sponsors for making this meeting possible.

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