Calendar of public talks
2020
June, 2nd. At the Smart Cities’ Sofa Summits. Talk about “Smart City Challenges and Prototypes”
April, 23rd. At the Master of Architecture in Collective Housing (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Madrid. Masterclass on “Toronto Tomorrow. A Google-made Smart City”
April, 16th. At the Master of Architecture in Collective Housing (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Madrid. Masterclass on “Cities as Innovation Platforms”.
2019
Dec, 11th. At API Days Global, Paris. Talk on “APIs for People”
Dec, 4th. At the Master in Advanced Architectural Projects (MPAA), UPM, Madrid. Class on “Visualizing Flows and Networks in the City”.
Nov, 28th. (16:30-17:30 CET). At Cities Coalition For Digital Rights (CC4DR). Webinar on “Eurocities’ Citizen Data Principles”. Join the webinar here.
Nov, 19th. At Urban Beers BCN on “Big Data analysis to help cities improve”. Talk on “Urban data for the common good”. See review here.
Nov, 18th. At Barcelona Smart City World Expo. Moderating the session “Data, People, Cities – EUROCITIES citizen data principles in action”. Info and registration here.
Oct, 18th. At Barcelona Meeting Point’s Tech Talks. Talk on “10 key lessons on Innovation Districts”, at the Innovation Districts for Smart Cities’ session. See review here (in Spanish).
Sept, 10th. At the European Commission, Luxembourg. Talk on Data Rights and Citizen Data Principles at the “Workshop on creating a European data space in public services”. You can view the presentation here.
June, 21st. At the We Make The City festival, Amsterdam. Talk on Digital Human Rights at the “Is Google Your Best Friend” session.
June, 5th. At the Master of Architecture in Collective Housing (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Madrid. Masterclass on “Cities as Innovation Platforms”.
March, 28th. At Eindhoven’s Beyond Data Conference. Round-table on “Citizen Data: From Principles to Implementation”
February, 28th. At University of Zaragoza’s Program of Citizen Participation. Lecture on “Enhancing Citizen Participation Through City Making”
2018
November, 30th. At Asian Mayors Forum, Gaziantep (Turkey). Keynote on Smart & Innovative Citizen Platforms
November, 14th. At Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona. Presentation on the “Chart of Citizen Data Principles”.
October, 25th. At “Broadband World Forum”, Berlin. Chair of the City Innovation Track and keynote on “Data Sharing for a Better Urban Planning”.
October, 22nd-24th. At “Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum“, Zaragoza (Spain). Event co-organizer and talk on “Open Urban Lab: Collaborative City Making”.
May, 29th. At the Master of Architecture in Collective Housing (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Madrid. Masterclass on “Cities as Innovation Platforms: Why, What, How, and… Who?”.
May, 8th. At “GovConnect Ontario”, Toronto. Moderator of roundtable “Building and Agile & Nimble Public Sector”.
April, 16th. At “Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum“, Ghent (Belgium). Talk on “Urban Data and Co-Creation”
February, 13th. At “Harvard’s Smart City Accelerator“, Dublin. Talk on “The City as an Innovation Platform”
January, 24th. At “Medium Cities Confronting the Challenges of a New Urban Agenda” Almansa (Spain). Talk on “Innovation for and by Citizens”
2017
December, 6th. At App Show, Milan (Italy). Keynote Speech and panel moderator on “Smart Solutions for Smart Cities”
November, 8th-9th. At Etopia Center for Arts and Technology, Zaragoza. Programme and content design, event conductor and pannelist. “Democity: The Digital City as an Agent for Social Change”
October, 17th. At Eurocities’ Knowledge Society Forum, Uppsala (Sweden). “Strategic Leadership in Cities”.
September, 28th. At Digital Media City International Conference, Seoul (South Korea). “Zaragoza: from the Digital Mile to the Open Source Smart City”.
June, 28th. At Smart City LATAM Congress, Puebla (Mexico). “Co-creation and urban data”
June, 6th. At University Carlos III, Madrid. Conference on “Extracting value from Big Data in cities”
May, 17th-18th. At Smart to Future Cities, London. Program Advisor and talk on “Co-creating Smarter Cities”
May, 5th. At Zaragoza Activa’s Civic Economies Sessions, Zaragoza. Talk on “Urban Labs for co-creating the City”
April, 26th. At Eurocities Green Digital Charter. On-line webinar on “Guidelines for Urban Big Data Sharing”. Listen to the session’s reccording here.
April, 5th. At Smart Cities Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest. Talk on “Urban Innovation Policies”
March, 8th. At the Master of Architecture in Collective Housing (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Madrid. Masterclass on “Bits, Atoms and Ideas in today’s cities”.
February, 6th. At TM Forum Action Week, Cascais (Portugal). “Addressing smart city challenges through data sharing and co-creation”. See review here.
January, 25th. At Cities in Transition Conference, Brussels. “The role of data in Zaragoza’s Innovation Policies”. See review here.
January, 17th. At Big Data Info Days on Horizon 2020, Luxembourg. Presentation on “Zaragoza Citizen Card: the city’s innovation platform”. See review here.
2016
November, 2nd. At Nordic Smart Cities, Stockholm. Talk on “Cities as Innovation Platforms” and panel on “Talent Attraction in Cities”. See review here.
October, 20th. At “Etopia Center for Arts and Technology”, Zaragoza. Workshop on “Open, Agile and Lean Startup Principles for Urban Innovation”. See review here.
October, 13th. At “Strategic Innovation Summit: Smart Cities Europe”, Dublin. Talk on “Measuring (openly) urban innovation”.
October, 6th. At “International Open Data Conference”, Madrid. Talk on “Citykeys: Opening Key Perfomance Indicators for Smart Cities”.
September, 20th. At “Etopia Center for Arts and Technology”, Zaragoza. Co-creation workshop on “Bicisur challenge. Promoting intermodality between lightrail and bicycles”.
June, 17th. At “Spanish Assembly of the Shared Economy”, Zaragoza. Roundtable on “The Shared Economy as a framework for economic and social transformation”. See review here (in Spanish).
June, 16th. At “Advances and Applications of Data Science and Engineering” International Workshop at Real Academia de Ingeniería, Madrid. Conference on “Guidelines for urban big data sharing”.
June, 10th. At IE Business School’s “Master in International Management”, Madrid. Lecture in the module “Shaping the impact of disruptive technologies”.
June, 1st. At Critical Communications World 2016, Amsterdam. Talk on “Turning critical telecom networks into citizen-centric infrastructures”. See interview here.
May, 13th. At Master of City Sciences, Zaragoza. Lecture on “(Making of) an open city”. See post-interview here.
April, 27th. At Smart to Future Cities 2016, London. Dialogue on “Strategy and tools towards a Smart Citizenship”
April, 19th. At Webit Festival 2016, Sofia. Talk on “The city as an innovation platform”. See review here.
Jan, 29th. At Smart energy UK & Europe Summit 2016, London. Talk on “A Guideline for a PublicPrivate Partnership on Urban Big Data Sharing on Energy, Transport and Economics”. See review here.
2015
Dec, 4th. At Smartravel Portugal, Bragança. Talk on “The city as an innovation platform”. See review here.
Dec, 2nd. At University of Córdoba, Córdoba. Conference on “Extracting value from Big Data in cities”. See review here.
Nov, 19th. At EERA Joint Programme Smart Cities´ Symposium (Smart City Expo), Barcelona. Talk on “Measuring urban intelligence through the Citykeys KPI framework”. See review here.
Nov, 6th. At Eurocities Annual Conference in Living Cities, Copenhagen. Speed networking session on “Citykeys: Key performance indicators for smart city projects”. See review here.
Oct, 28th. At Master of City Sciences’ opening session, Madrid. Lecture on “Cities as our biggest solution providers”. See review here.
Oct, 17th. At Politechnic University of Madrid. Roundtable “Ciudad 2020”. See review here (in Spanish).
Jun, 5th. At International Conference on City Sciences, Shanghai. Session chair and panelist on “Urban innovation practical cases”. See review here.
May, 28th. At Meet and Talk Congress, Zaragoza. Talk on “Smart infrastructures for 2020”. See review here (in Spanish).
Feb, 12th. At Agora Urban Planning, San Sebastian. Workshop on “Smart cities without technology”. See review here (in Spanish).
Jan, 21st. At Live in a Living City event, Santander. Roundtable on “Humanizing Smart Cities”. See review here (in Spanish).
2014
Nov, 6th. At Satellites and Smart Cities – Europe’s Open Days event, Zaragoza. Roundtable on “Business opportunities around satellite and Smart Cities”. See review here (in Spanish).
Oct, 8th. At the Inspiring Day – Future of Cities conference, Madrid. Roundtable on “The City Hall in motion “. See review here (in Spanish).
Sep, 25th. At the Smart Week Majadahonda, Madrid. Roundtable on “Smart services across Europe”. See review here (in Spanish).
Sep, 4th. At the European Network Of Living Labs Summer School, Amsterdam. Roundtable on “Smart services across Europe”. See review here.
Jul, 28th. At the Master in Creative Economy (Rey Juan Carlos University), Madrid. Lecture on “A journey through the creative economy”. See review here (in Spanish).
May, 29th. At the National Internet Governance Forum, Zaragoza. Panel on “Crowdfunding as a lean start-up tool for public governance”. See review here (in Spanish).
Feb, 22th. Roundtable and debate on New participatory processes, Zaragoza. Talk on “Citizen Innovation, the factory of city makers”. See review here (in Spanish).
2013
Nov, 8th. Presentation of the book Smart Cities, by Anthony Townsend, Zaragoza. See review here (in Spanish).
Oct, 18th. Keynote speech on “Digital public space”, at “Smart City Exhibition”. Bologna (Italy). See interview here.
Jul, 2nd. At Etopia Center for Arts and Technology, Zaragoza. Workshop on “Open, agile and lean start-up urban design”, with M.I.T. Professor Michael Joroff. See review here (in Spanish).
Jun, 5th. At Paris Citoyen, Paris. Roundtable on “L’europe et le citoyen: une rélation á reconstruire”. See review here (in Spanish).
2012
Oct, 20th. At Open Days Europe, Brussels. Panel on “Green, connected and smart mobility”. See review here.
2009
Jun, 23rd. At “Broadband Strategies for Cities”, Toronto. Talk on “Connected cities”.
