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

By Cristina Garrido, Anna Gonzàlez

CEO of Anteverti & Director of CitiesToBe

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.

CONTRIBUTORS

Cristina Garrido

CEO of Anteverti & Director of CitiesToBe

Sergio García i Rodríguez

Head of Communications at Anteverti & CitiesToBe Executive Editor

Mons Badia

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

Pilar Conesa

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

Manu Fernandez

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

Ana Alcantud

Former Consulting Director of Anteverti

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Sameh Wahba

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

Raül Daussà

Consulting Director at Anteverti

Dr. Hila Oren

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

Esteve Almirall

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

Jason Roberts

Founder of the Better Block

Pedro Vidal Matamala

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

Carlo Ratti

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

Laura Faye Tenenbaum

Science communicator · former Editor at NASA Climate Change website

Martin Brynskov

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

Tatiane Martins Carrer

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

Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

Agustí Fernández de Losada

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

Lauren Sorkin

Executive Director of the Resilient Cities Network

Anteverti Team

Maya Wiley

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

Carlos Moreno

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

Pontus Westerberg

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

Alba Soler

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

Dan Lewis

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

Linda Weiss

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

Vicente Guallart

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

Joan Clos

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Ramon Gras

Co-founder of Aretian and researcher at Harvard University

Darko Radovic

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Shawyn Patterson-Howard

Arturo Bris

Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urbanist, designer, author & inspirational speaker

Victor Pineda

President of World Enabled

Catherine DIgnazio

Professor of Urban Science & Planning at MIT

Raquel Rolnik

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

Albert Tapia

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Local and Regional Economic Development

Diego Fernández

Buenos Aires' Secretary of Innovation & Digital Transformation

Siphelele Ngobese

Senior Researcher at the South African Cities Network

Bahaaeddin Alhaddad

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Rashiq Fataar

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Alice Charles

Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum

Maria Galindo Garcia-Delgado

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

Sladjana Mijatovic

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

Cecilia Tham

CEO of Futurity Systems

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Amador Ferrer

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Natalia Olson-Urtecho

Co-Founder of The Disruptive Factory

Christina Yan Zhang

Jung-hoon Lee

Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Yonsei University

Rebecca Smith

Head of Knowledge & Policy at Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Elkin Velásquez

UN-Habitat Regional Director for Latin America

Mar Santamaría

Co-founder of 300.000 Km/s

Susan HayesCulleton

Managing Director at the HayesCulleton Group

Inazio Martínez de Arano

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Orna Rosenfeld

Advisor in Housing and Urban Affairs

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Marta Galceran

Research Fellow at CIDOB

Suzanne Spooner

Consultant & Urban Expert

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

UNESCO Chair on Gender in Science, Technology and Innovation

Kumaresh Chandra Mishra

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Robert Muggah

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

Anna Gener

CEO of Savills Aguirre Newman Barcelona

Tamara Drove Aldana

APEC Advisor on Women and Inclusive Growth

Boyd Cohen

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Janette Sadik Khan

Former NYC Transportation Commissioner and Principal at Bloomberg Associates

Parvati Nair

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

Claudio Orrego Larraín

Governor of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile

Lacina Koné

Director General of Smart Africa

Roman Demyanenko

Documentary photographer

Martha Thorne

Advisor to the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Tatiana Gallego Lizón

Division Chief for Urban Development at IDB

Carla Sanmartin

Head of Administration at Anteverti

Anneli Simm

Felix Finkbeiner

Carlos Grau

CEO of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Francesca Tur

Valeria Andrade

Consultant & Senior Congress Specialist at Anteverti

Jesús Villasante

Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission

Shannon Lawrence

Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Aparna Ramanan

May al-Ibrashy

Carlos Vayas

Business Manager Big Data Telefónica Ecuador

Majora Carter

José de la Uz

Gaetan Siew

CEO Global Creative Leadership Initiative

Mireia Tuduri

Consultant at Anteverti

Cecile Faraud

London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP

Juliana Rotich

Co-founder of Ushahidi

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Balbina Rocosa

Eleonora Giorgi

Capacity Building Officer at the European Urban Initiative

Markku Markkula

First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions

Goldsmith Stephen

Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Berta Segura

Beth Simone Noveck

Founder and Director. Governance Lab

Ricard Garriga

Co-founder Menorca Millenials

Aníbal Gaviria

Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)

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

Pankaj Ghemawat

Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE

Clàudia Gomis

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

Marta Santamaria

Consultant at Deloitte

Anna Gonzàlez

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