Categoría: City Branding

Internationalization, City Branding, Smart Cities

What is Smart City branding? 4 successful examples

By Cristina Garrido, Sergio García i Rodríguez, Valeria Andrade

CEO of Anteverti & Director of CitiesToBe

Amid fierce global competition for opportunities, investment, and talent, Smart City Branding can be the key for cities to stand out. Discover 4 top-performing global cities embracing this trend with our experts.

CONTRIBUTORS

Sergio García i Rodríguez

Head of Communications at Anteverti & CitiesToBe Executive Editor

Cristina Garrido

CEO of Anteverti & Director of CitiesToBe

Pilar Conesa

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

Mons Badia

Senior Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Creative Urban Solutions, Eco-innovation, Environmental Resilience & Circularity

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Manu Fernandez

Deputy Director General of Anteverti & Expert in Urban Innovation and Public Policies

Ana Alcantud

Former Consulting Director of Anteverti

Dr. Hila Oren

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

Sameh Wahba

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

Esteve Almirall

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

Catherine DIgnazio

Professor of Urban Science & Planning at MIT

Jung-hoon Lee

Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Yonsei University

Roman Demyanenko

Documentary photographer

Diego Fernández

Buenos Aires' Secretary of Innovation & Digital Transformation

Marta Galceran

Senior Consultant at anteverti & Researcher

Tatiana Gallego Lizón

Division Chief for Urban Development at IDB

Anteverti Team

Parvati Nair

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

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Agustí Fernández de Losada

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

Arturo Bris

Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center

Inazio Martínez de Arano

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Pedro Vidal Matamala

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

Cecilia Tham

CEO of Futurity Systems

Kumaresh Chandra Mishra

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Alba Soler

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

Martha Thorne

Advisor to the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Bahaaeddin Alhaddad

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

UNESCO Chair on Gender in Science, Technology and Innovation

Lacina Koné

Director General of Smart Africa

Elkin Velásquez

UN-Habitat Regional Director for Latin America

Martin Brynskov

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

Vicente Guallart

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

Janette Sadik Khan

Former NYC Transportation Commissioner and Principal at Bloomberg Associates

Pontus Westerberg

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

Laura Faye Tenenbaum

Science communicator · former Editor at NASA Climate Change website

Albert Tapia

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Local and Regional Economic Development

Maya Wiley

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

Victor Pineda

President of World Enabled

Jason Roberts

Founder of the Better Block

Raquel Rolnik

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

Lauren Sorkin

Executive Director of the Resilient Cities Network

Siphelele Ngobese

Senior Researcher at the South African Cities Network

Alice Charles

Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum

Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urbanist, designer, author & inspirational speaker

Boyd Cohen

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

Rashiq Fataar

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Claudio Orrego Larraín

Governor of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile

Linda Weiss

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Sladjana Mijatovic

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Amador Ferrer

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Raül Daussà

Consulting Director at Anteverti

Carlo Ratti

Director of the MIT Senseable City Lab & founding partner of CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati

Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

Joan Clos

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Rebecca Smith

Head of Knowledge & Policy at Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Maria Galindo Garcia-Delgado

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

Susan HayesCulleton

Managing Director at the HayesCulleton Group

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

Natalia Olson-Urtecho

Co-Founder of The Disruptive Factory

Carlos Moreno

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

Dan Lewis

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

Suzanne Spooner

Consultant & Urban Expert

Anna Gener

CEO of Savills Aguirre Newman Barcelona

Orna Rosenfeld

Advisor in Housing and Urban Affairs

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Robert Muggah

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

Darko Radovic

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Tamara Drove Aldana

APEC Advisor on Women and Inclusive Growth

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

Cecile Faraud

London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Marta Santamaria

Consultant at Deloitte

Tatiane Martins Carrer

Senior Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Urban Innovation and Design of Spaces

Eleonora Giorgi

Consultant at anteverti

Valeria Andrade

Consultant & Senior Congress Specialist at Anteverti

Christina Yan Zhang

Shannon Lawrence

Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Beth Simone Noveck

Founder and Director. Governance Lab

Shawyn Patterson-Howard

Ellis J. Juan

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

Chaturvedi Bharati

Founder and Director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Clàudia Gomis

Consultant at Anteverti & Civil Society, Conflict, Migration & Global Development

Mireia Tuduri

Consultant at Anteverti

Carla Sanmartin

Head of Administration at Anteverti

Jesús Villasante

Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission

Goldsmith Stephen

Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Carlos Grau

CEO of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Aníbal Gaviria

Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)

Juliana Rotich

Co-founder of Ushahidi

Ricard Garriga

Co-founder Menorca Millenials

Markku Markkula

First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions

Gaetan Siew

CEO Global Creative Leadership Initiative

Carlos Vayas

Business Manager Big Data Telefónica Ecuador

Mar Santamaría

Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Mobility, Urban Innovation & Citizen Participation

Pankaj Ghemawat

Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE