Description
Motorola Solutions is transforming from providing
communications equipment to delivering next-generation software and services.
As the 88-year-old company develops innovative solutions for customers ranging
from police departments to multinational petrochemical companies, it is using a
combination of customer-focused research and data science to understand and
meet customer needs, and then advancing those solutions using an open
innovation approach.
Conrado and Steinberg share insights into the role
of big data in Motorola Solutions’ evolution. Discover how design thinking and
data science inform solution development, creating a culture of data
collection, evolving the business model and cultivating the right skill sets
for data-driven innovation. They’ll also share examples of Motorola Solutions’
approach in action.
Contributors
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Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office, Motorola Solutions
Conrado is responsible for managing the company’s growth-focused strategy, accelerating innovation across the company’s products, services and software, and bringing a design-centric approach to business model and customer experience innovation. He leads the strategy team, the chief information office, the chief technology office and Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, the company’s strategic investment group.
Previously, Conrado led the company’s marketing and IT organizations, which focused on creating seamless customer experiences. He joined Motorola in 1992 and has served in a variety of leadership roles in multiple international businesses in a range of consumer and commercial segments across Motorola.
Conrado serves on the boards of directors of Ascension, the largest U.S. non-profit health system; and the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago. He is past national chairman of the Business Marketing Association and in 2011 was named BtoB Magazine’s Marketer of the Year.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Texas Tech University; a master’s degree in business administration from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain; and a master’s degree in international management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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Paul Steinberg, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Motorola Solutions
Steinberg oversees development and execution of the company’s technology strategy, vision and venture investments, driving focused innovation around market needs and customer challenges to enable the future of communications and intelligence for public safety and commercial customers.
Steinberg joined Motorola in 1992 and most recently was chief architect for integrated command and control and private broadband solutions for public safety systems. Prior to that, he was chief architect for carrier wireless infrastructure broadband products (LTE) in Motorola’s wireless networks business. Before joining Motorola, Steinberg was a distinguished member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Steinberg serves on technical advisory boards for multiple companies that supply products and technologies to the networking industry. He is a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technical Advisory Council and served on the FCC’s Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability. In addition, Steinberg is a member of Motorola Solutions’ Science Advisory Board Associates (SABA) and holds several U.S. patents. He was recognized with the Motorola Dan Noble Fellow award in 2004 and named a Motorola Fellow in 2006.
Steinberg serves on the board of trustees for Adler Planetarium and for Chicago’s public television station WTTW.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Illinois Benedictine College and completed graduate studies in computer science at the University of Illinois.