Joe DiStefanoCo Founder

United States - Berkeley, California

Joe DiStefano is CEO and co-founder of UrbanFootprint, a software company that serves the ​world’s first Urban Intelligence Platform to public and private-sector organizations taking on the urban, climate, and social equity challenges of the 21st century. UrbanFootprint’s data and web-based geospatial software unifies previously siloed climate, environmental, urban, and socio-economic data and helps governments, utilities, financial institutions, and urban and transportation planners to answer fundamental resource questions—where to invest, where to deploy resources, and where to optimize for risk, return, resilience, and community.

Before starting UrbanFootprint, Joe spent more than 20 years as a leading practitioner in the urban planning and disaster response field, working with governments and enterprises across the globe in designing cities and new technologies to tackle critical challenges in climate, land use, mobility, hazard risk, and social equity.