Anna Gonzàlez

Anna González is a specialist in strategic planning, territorial planning, citizen participation processes, mobility and regulation of shared mobility systems, and has been working as a consultant at Anteverti since 2020. She is both part of the consulting team and of the events management team - including the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona and its international spin-offs and Digital Future Society, among many others. Before joining Anteverti, she worked in the urban planning studio URBANing for 6 years, where she participated in the development of several studies and coordinated and managed various projects related to her areas of expertise. Anna González holds a degree in Economics by the Universitat de Barcelona and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a MA in in Territorial Planning and Environmental Management by the Universitat de Barcelona. In addition, she has received complementary training in Gender Equality and Opportunities, Project Management and Bike Lane Planning (College of Geographers of Andalusia).

Technology

Cities moving into the Metaverse: an augmented, but better reality?

By Cristina Garrido, Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Shared Mobility and Strategic Planning

Can the Metaverse be useful to improve people's lives? As its boom raises questions, our experts explore how cities are already tapping into its potential today.

Urban planning

The indispensability of urban innovation: 5 examples on how it has proven crucial for cities to face the Covid-19 crisis

By Cristina Garrido, Mireia Tuduri, Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Shared Mobility and Strategic Planning

From more human-centered urban spaces to new housing concepts, let's hope the disruptive period unleashed by the pandemic to be an igniter to start making things better in our cities.

Anna Gonzàlez

By Cristina Garrido, Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Shared Mobility and Strategic Planning

By Cristina Garrido, Mireia Tuduri, Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Shared Mobility and Strategic Planning

By Cristina Garrido, Mireia Tuduri, Anna Gonzàlez, Eleonora Giorgi

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Shared Mobility and Strategic Planning

CONTRIBUTORS

Head of Communications & CitiesToBe Executive Editor

Director of Innovation of Anteverti

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

Senior Consultant at Anteverti

Director of Research & Urban Innovation at Anteverti

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Former Consulting Director of Anteverti

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

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

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

CEO of Futurity Systems

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

Co-Founder of The Disruptive Factory

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Documentary photographer

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

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

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

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Governor of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile

President of World Enabled

Author and consultant

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

Senior Consultant at anteverti & Researcher

Consultant at anteverti

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

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

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

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

Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum

Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Yonsei University

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Advisor to the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

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

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Buenos Aires' Secretary of Innovation & Digital Transformation

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

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

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

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Consultant & Urban Expert

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

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Director General of Smart Africa

APEC Advisor on Women and Inclusive Growth

Urbanist, designer, author & inspirational speaker

CEO of Savills Aguirre Newman Barcelona

Former NYC Transportation Commissioner and Principal at Bloomberg Associates

Head of Knowledge & Policy at Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Professor of Urban Science & Planning at MIT

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