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Pilar Conesa

CEO of anteverti & Curator of the Smart City Expo World Congress

Cristina Garrido

Director of Innovation of anteverti

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Sergio García i Rodríguez

Communications Manager at anteverti & CitiesToBe Co-Director

Mons Badia

Consultant at anteverti

Sameh Wahba

Global Director of Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice at the World Bank

Ana Alcantud

Consulting Director of anteverti

Manu Fernandez

Founder of Human Scale City & Senior Consultant in anteverti

Esteve Almirall

Professor of Innovation & Director of Center for Innovation in Cities at Esade Business Law School

Dr. Hila Oren

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

Boyd Cohen

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Rebecca Smith

Head of Knowledge & Policy at Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Anna Gener

CEO of Savills Aguirre Newman Barcelona

Inazio Martínez de Arano

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

anteverti team

Internal Organization Manager at anteverti

Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urbanist, designer, author & inspirational speaker

Rashiq Fataar

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Martha Thorne

Advisor to the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

Natalia Olson-Urtecho

Co-Founder of The Disruptive Factory

Marta Galceran

Senior Consultant at anteverti & Researcher

Robert Muggah

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

Parvati Nair

Director of the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility

Kumaresh Chandra Mishra

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Maya Wiley

Civil rights activist and board chair of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board

Tatiana Gallego Lizón

Division Chief for Urban Development at IDB

Elkin Velásquez

UN-Habitat Regional Director for Latin America

Agustí Fernández de Losada

Senior Research Fellow & Director of the Global Cities Programme at CIDOB

Albert Tapia

Consultant at anteverti

Lacina Koné

Director General of Smart Africa

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

Linda Weiss

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Victor Pineda

President of World Enabled

Carlos Moreno

Professor at the Sorbonne University & Mayor of Paris’ Special Representative for Smart Cities

Bahaaeddin Alhaddad

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Diego Fernández

Buenos Aires' Secretary of Innovation & Digital Transformation

Darko Radovic

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Alba Soler

Public Sector Innovation Business Development Consultant at i2CAT Foundation and Expert in Digital Transition

Tamara Drove Aldana

APEC Advisor on Women and Inclusive Growth

Martin Brynskov

Chair of Open & Agile Smart Cities & Associate Professor at Aarhus University

Suzanne Spooner

Consultant & Urban Expert

Joan Clos

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Pedro Vidal Matamala

Executive Secretary of the Coordination of Intelligent Transport Systems of the Ministry of Transport & Telecommunications of Chile

Sladjana Mijatovic

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Catherine DIgnazio

Professor of Urban Science & Planning at MIT

Janette Sadik Khan

Former NYC Transportation Commissioner and Principal at Bloomberg Associates

Dan Lewis

President, Westcoast International. Forrmer Chief Urban Risk Reduction, UN Habitat

Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

Alice Charles

Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum

Amador Ferrer

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Maria Galindo Garcia-Delgado

Director-general for Digital Nation & Urban Agenda of the Government of Catalonia

Jason Roberts

Founder of the Better Block

Laura Faye Tenenbaum

Science communicator · former Editor at NASA Climate Change website

Pontus Westerberg

Programme Management Officer at UN-Habitat &  Block by Block programme Special Advisor

Raquel Rolnik

Prof. at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at University of São Paulo

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Vicente Guallart

Founder of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia & Director of Valldaura Labs

Ellis J. Juan

Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative General Coordinator at Inter-American Development Bank

Mireia Tuduri

Consultant at anteverti

Juliana Rotich

Co-founder of Ushahidi

Chaturvedi Bharati

Founder and Director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Carla Sanmartin

Internal Organization Manager at anteverti

Beth Simone Noveck

Founder and Director. Governance Lab

Goldsmith Stephen

Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Markku Markkula

First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions

Jesús Villasante

Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission

Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at anteverti

Aníbal Gaviria

Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)

Carlos Grau

CEO of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Pankaj Ghemawat

Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE

Ricard Garriga

Co-founder Menorca Millenials

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Carlos Vayas

Business Manager Big Data Telefónica Ecuador

Eleonora Giorgi

Consultant at anteverti

Gaetan Siew

CEO Global Creative Leadership Initiative

Cecile Faraud

London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP

Marta Santamaria

Consultant at Deloitte

Shannon Lawrence

Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group