Categoría: Technology

Natalia Olson-Urtecho: "Disruption means deciding outside the box"

Co-Founder and Innovation Officer of The Disruptive Factory and expert in public policies and public engagement

Jeff Merritt: “Data-driven cities bring benefits and vulnerabilities”

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

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

By Cristina Garrido, Anna Gonzàlez

Director of Innovation and Strategic Development in Anteverti, Expert in Urban Sociology & CitiesToBe Co-Director

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.

10 Years, 10 Urban Ideas: Dr. Hila Oren

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

Dr. Hila Oren, CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation, answers to our 10-item questionnaire about urban innovation and the future of cities.

Lacina Koné: "The Covid-19 pandemic provided African cities with an opportunity to shift the mindset"

Director General of Smart Africa

We talk with Lacina Koné, CEO of Smart Africa, about how technology is helping African cities cope with their demographic boom while facing Covid-19.

A year of hyper-accelerated digital transformation: what our cities and societies have learned

By Pilar Conesa, Manu Fernandez, Sergio García i Rodríguez

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

What have we learned from the intersection between this pandemic year, life in cities and digital transformation? Our team has identified four areas and trends where the way forward is clearer today than it was a year ago.

Categoría: Technology

By Natalia Olson-Urtecho

Co-Founder and Innovation Officer of The Disruptive Factory and expert in public policies and public engagement

By Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

By Cristina Garrido, Anna Gonzàlez

Director of Innovation and Strategic Development in Anteverti, Expert in Urban Sociology & CitiesToBe Co-Director

By Dr. Hila Oren

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

By Lacina Koné

Director General of Smart Africa

By Pilar Conesa, Manu Fernandez, Sergio García i Rodríguez

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

By Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

CONTRIBUTORS

Communications Manager at anteverti & CitiesToBe Co-Director

Director of Innovation of Anteverti

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

Former Consulting Director of Anteverti

Senior Consultant at Anteverti

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

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

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

Founder of Human Scale City & Senior Consultant in anteverti

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

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

Internal Organization Manager at anteverti

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

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

Author and consultant

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

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Senior Consultant at anteverti & Researcher

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

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 Sociology at Boston College

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

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

Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Yonsei University

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Advisor to the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Consultant at anteverti

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

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

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Consultant & Urban Expert

Buenos Aires' Secretary of Innovation & Digital Transformation

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

Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum

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

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

APEC Advisor on Women and Inclusive Growth

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

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Director General of Smart Africa

Division Chief for Urban Development at IDB

Urbanist, designer, author & inspirational speaker

Former NYC Transportation Commissioner and Principal at Bloomberg Associates

Head of Knowledge & Policy at Climate Infrastructure Partnership

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

Science communicator · former Editor at NASA Climate Change website

UN-Habitat Regional Director for Latin America

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