Rick Azer is Associate Vice President for Black & Veatch’s Smart Integrated Infrastructure Group. Rick’s role is to identify new trends, establish solution architecture, support ecosystem development, and system integration capability to successfully bring emerging technology programs to market. Rick is passionate about bringing technology into the built environment and the advancement of CleanTECH initiatives. He has 25 years of experience delivering solutions for emerging technologies, including new product offerings for telecommunication, media, renewable energy, transportation, and petrochemical industries.