Dean is the Co-Founder, CTO, and principal inventor and technologist of RUNWITHIT Synthetics (RWI).  RWI is a Certified Indigenous Business, women-led, that is pioneering the future of people, place and scenario-based intelligence, utilized by leaders around the globe to support investment decisions in sustainable futures.  RWI’s advanced AI-based simulation, synthetic data, and 3D visualization platform delivers data management, synthetic modelling, synthetic data generation, and VR visualization at community, city and larger scales. This is inclusive and representative of diverse people, natural and built environments, governance, businesses, utility services, and critical infrastructure to inform integrated urban (re)development strategies and accelerate climate action with innovative plans, pilots, and programs. RWI’s team is a passionate, diverse, inclusive, and representative team of experts in civil, environmental, computer, mechanical, electrical engineering, social and computer science, 3D design, and international business. We have won awards worldwide for contributing to generational thinking and dialling forward the outcomes and impacts of choices with a primary focus on sustainability, equity, and resilience. Between 2020 and 2023, RWI's highlight wins include the United Nation's Global Call for Decarbonizing Growing Urban Environments, ASTech awards for “Innovation of the Year” and "Advanced AI Simulation," Taiwan's Top Technology Gold Medal Award, Electic Power Research Institute's Incubatenergy Labs (2022 & 2022), Certified SET100 designation (top 100 startups in energy transition and mobility in 2021 & 2022), and top 5 in Toyota Mobility Foundation's City Architecture of Tomorrow. We were recently selected as Canadian Mission from MaRS Climate Champion.