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ESTEVE ALMIRALLEntrepreneur and Lecturer, ESADE

• Cities: From Providing Services to Managing Ecosystems• Open Innovation: Engine of Urban Ecosystems

Esteve Almirall holds a PhD in Management Sciences (ESADE), a MRes in Management Scienes, a MCIS, DEA and MRes in Artificial Intelligence

(UPC). Most of his career has been devoted to Information Technologies, especially in consult-ing, banking and finances where he worked for more than 20 years in executive and board level positions in IS, Organization and Marketing. As an entrepreneur he actively participated and founded several start-ups in the field. Moreover, Esteve has an MBA, a PDD from IESE a Diplo-ma in Marketing from UC Berkeley and a GCPCL Diploma from Harvard Business School.

Esteve Almirall also worked as a researcher in Computer Science (UPC) and in Management (IESE and Esade) while being active in consulting. He participated and coordinated a number of research projects around Innovation, Collaborative Environments, Social Networking and Rec-ommender Systems. European Projects such as Open Cities (coordinator), Laboranova, Collabs, Fireball or Gala, together with national or regional projects, being active in a number of innova-tion initiatives such as the Catalan and European Network of Living Labs. He also collaborated as an expert with the EU or acted as a reviewer in NSF projects and published a fair number of articles in academic and non-academic journals and conferences such as Academy of Manage-ment Review, EURAM, European Management Journal or R&D Mgmt conference and advised research projects and Master Thesis, being regularly appointed as speaker in Europe, America and Asia. His research has been featured in HBR and other management publications.

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EDWARD ANDERSONICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

• Cities and Risk

@edwardcanderson

Edward has a professional and academic focus on science and technology for development. He trained as an Aerospace Engineer and holds an MA in

International Relations. He began his career with the UN Programme on Space Applications for Disaster Management and European Space Agency’s Earth Observation Science and Applica-tions Directorate. This work focussed largely on remote sensing, mapping, risk modelling for climate change adaptation in water resources, coastal zones, epidemics and food security.

In 2004 Edward launched a technology start-up company for early warning systems in East Af-rica – focussed on a proof of concept for new diagnostic tools in malaria epidemic surveillance. After supporting the 2006 Development Marketplace for Health Innovations, Edward worked in disaster risk operations for the Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank – in new partnerships with technical communities including NASA, Google, and CrisisCommons. Edward is now part of the ICT Sector team at the World Bank and coordinates the Open Development Technology Alliance work on engaging technical communities and ICTs for greater transparency, participation and accountability of public services.

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HAIDEE BELLInnovation Programmes Lead, Nesta

• Cities as Platforms for Apps and Services

KIRAN BHATRAJUInnovation Programmes Lead, AmericanEfficient

• Democratizing Energy

@heideebelly

@KiranRaju

@jeabarroca

ALEX BARBATProfessor of Structural Mechanics, UPC Barcelona Tech

• Cities and Risk

JEAN BARROCAProduct Manager, Alfamicro

• Cities as Platforms for Apps and Services• Open Innovation: Engine of Urban Ecosystems

• Marketplace: Smart City ProjectsJean Barroca has a degree in Engineering – Computer Sciences, from Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon.

Jean worked in several non-profit organizations and also at Local Government level where he has developed experience and competencies in team and project management with strong em-phasis on open innovation strategies, Web 2.0 dissemination and communication strategies as well as on the development of new services using ICT enabled applications in different domains.

During the last years he has been involved in several EU funded projects under CIP ICT PSP and FP7 programmes, working in the topics of Smart Cities, Future Internet and Living Labs, developing Open Innovation platforms and applying design thinking tools for the co-creation of services and business models.

Haidee Bell comes from UK innovation agency Nesta, an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. Haidee has worked at Nesta for 5 years in designing and leading interventions to accelerate the creative economy. This includes supporting creative and data businesses to scale, through targeted support for start-ups and for growing businesses, finding ways to deliver more using creativity and technology in priority public services and creating new networks for innovation by bringing together people from different backgrounds.

Haidee is Nesta’s open data lead, currently working with a network of nine cities on Code for Europe to explore open and user driven innovation in the public sector, and is the Europe manager of the global Open Civic project to share civic apps in partnership with Civic Commons and The World Bank. She is also currently shaping a Civil Society Data Network for the UK to promote open data in the charities sector.

Haidee is a Fellow with the British Council International Leadership programme and has studied open governance in Brazil and Europe: how states and cities are tackling the challenge of trans-parency and accountability to citizens.

Kiran Bhatraju is Co-Founder and Director of Business Development for an innovative customer engagement platform that connects electric and gas

utilities with retailers and manufacturers to achieve long-term residential energy efficiency sav-ings. Previously, Kiran worked on various House and Senate campaigns and as a Legislative Aide to Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3). Kiran is also currently completing his first book chroni-cling the life of Eula Hall who built one of the first community health centers in Mud Creek, KY, near his hometown in Appalachia. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Civil Engineer (1970) and Doctor in Civil Engineering (1978) by the Tech-nical University of Iasi, Romania; Ingeniero de Caminos Canales y Puertos (1986) and Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos Canales y Puertos (1989) by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC-BarcelonaTech: http://www.upc.edu/), Spain. Doctor Honoris Causa by the by the “Ovidius” University, Constantza, Romania, by the Technical Uni-versity “Gh. Asachi” of Iasi, Romania and by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Professor of Structural Mechanics and of Earthquake Engineering at the UPC. Senior researcher at the International Centere of Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE: www.cimne.com) Barcelona, Spain. Supervisor of 26 doctoral theses. Current research interests: seismic analysis and design of structures; evaluation of the seismic damage of structures; seismic vulnerability and risk evaluation; and active and passive control of structures.

FRANCESCA BRIASenior Project Lead, Nesta Innovation Lab

• World Bank Co-Creation Approach to Smart Cities• Implementing Innovative Energy Efficiency Programs

@fbria

Francesca Bria is a Nesta Senior Project Lead in the Nesta Innovation Lab. She is the EU Coordinator of the D-CENT project on open democracy and of DSI a EC policy study on digital social innovation in Europe. She is Teaching Associate at Imperial College Busi-ness School in the Innovation Studies Centre- Digital Economy Lab. Francesca has a background in social science and innovation economics and an MSc in E-business and Innovation from the University College of London, Birkbeck. Francesca is an advisor for the European Commission on Future Internet and Smart Cities policy. She is also a member of the EC Expert Group on Open Innovation (OISPG) and a member of the EC Stakeholders Group on the Internet of Things (IoT-A).

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PEDRO PAULO CARVALHOChief of Staff, City of Rio de Janeiro

• Efficient Mobility Solutions

Graduated and postgraduated in economics at the Federal University of Rio (UFRJ) with a Master’s Degree in Applied Politics from the FIIAPP in Madrid and a Master in Economics from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Pedro Paulo began his public service in the early 1990s working with Eduardo Paes. Since then, he has become the head of the city’s borough of the West Zone, Secretary for the Environ-ment and member of the State Assembly. After coordinating Paes’ election campaign in 2008, Pedro Paulo was chosen to be the City Hall’s Chief of Staff. As such, he has been responsible for the implementation of the high performance management structure – the first step of which was the design of a Strategic Plan that establishes priorities and short and long-term goals for all different areas of the municipality, such as health, education and transport. All public work-ers that match their annual goals receive a bonus. This kind if management assures the greatest possible efficiency for the public service and has led to a huge number of successful projects, such as the Rio Operations Centre, the construction of the BRT TransOeste, the creation of the 1746 Hotline and the revitalisation of the port area.

HENRY CHESBROUGHAuthor and Professor, ESADE Business School

• Open Innovation: The Road Ahead

PABLO SÁNCHEZ CHILLÓNInnovative Urban Planner and CEO, EolexCityLab

• Open Innovation: Engine of Urban Ecosystems

@HenryChesbrough

@PabloSChillon

Internationally acclaimed author and speaker Dr. Henry Chesbrough is the creator of one of the most influential theories of modern business – open

innovation. He first coined the term in his 2003 award-winning book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. His insights into open innovation models have restructured the world of research and development and created new landscapes of business development and innovation strategy.

Prior to his academic career, Chesbrough spent 10 years in various product planning and strategic marketing positions in Silicon Valley companies. He worked for seven of those years at Quantum Corporation, a leading hard disk drive manufacturer and a Fortune 500 company. Previously, he worked at Bain and Company. Chesbrough holds a Ph.D. in Business Administra-tion from the University of California, Berkeley, an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Yale University, summa cum laude.

Lawyer, Political Scientist, Urban Planner and Innovation Researcher, de-velops the Smart Cities paradigm in Spain and Latin America. Regular guest

lecturer and conference speaker in international forums on innovation and urban matters, Pablo is co-founder and CEO of Eolexcitylab, and Sánchez Chillón Abogados, two Legal /Consultancy teams of urban innovators, helping Public Governments and private players to conform and deploy innovative urban projects based on ‘Cityzentrism’, affordable Technology and the role of ‘Digizens’ (new Digital Citizens).

MARISOL CARANTON ARBOLEDAManager, ParqueSoft Manizales

• World Bank Co-Creation Approach to Smart Cities

GONZALO DE CASTROSenior Executive, Development Bank of Latin America

• Enery Efficiency Programs and Portfolios• Financing Barriers and Solutions

Managerial Economist, specialized in Marketing and Sales Management, with an Executive Master in Management of Projects, programs and portfolios, currently I manage a Software Technology Park - ParqueSoft Manizales, this is an Entrepreneurship ecosystem which is focused on the Information Technology sector in the city of Manizales, I worked in the area of business development with the Chamber of Commerce of Manizales for more than seven years, I have extensive experience in management and execution of economic development projects in the department of Caldas with sources of national and international cooperation.

Managerial Economist, specialized in Marketing and Sales Management, with an Executive Master in Management of Projects, programs and portfolios, currently I manage a Software Technology Park - ParqueSoft Manizales, this is an Entrepreneurship ecosystem which is focused on the Information Technology sector in the city of Manizales, I worked in the area of business development with the Chamber of Commerce of Manizales for more than seven years, I have extensive experience in management and execution of economic development projects in the department of Caldas with sources of national and international cooperation.

@MCaranton

PILAR CONESADirector, Smart City World Congress

• Plenary: The Urban Opportunity

@PilarConesa

Pilar Conesa is a Smart City pioneer and an advocate of innovation in the successful transformation of businesses. She has held various execu-

tive management positions at ICT companies and public organizations for more than 25 years.

Currently, she is the founder and CEO of anteverti, a consulting company that advises private companies, cities and public organizations in projects of transformation and change , focusing on Smart Cities and OpenGovernment. Furthermore, she is the Congress Director of Smart City Expo World Congress, the world referent event. She is the former CIO of the Barcelona City Council. Other previous positions include TSystems’ Vice President for Public Administration and Health (Deutsche Telekom Group), CEO of AIS Chile, and executive positions at Catalan Government’s ICT Services and Barcelona’92 Olympic Games organization committee.

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JARMO ESKELINENPresident, European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)

• Creating a Global Apps Marketplace for Cities• Launch of Living Lab Toolkit

SANTIAGO CREUHERAS DIAZDirector-General of Energy Efficiency and Technological Inno-

vation, Secretary of Energy, México• Plenary: The Urban Opportunity

JUAN PABLO ESPINOSAManager, Public Company for Water and Sanitation, Quito

• Plenary: The Urban Opportunity

@ElukkaE

@juanpaespi

Jarmo Eskelinen is an innovation professional from Helsinki, Finland. Orig-inally trained as an architect, Jarmo is an expert in digital content, smart cities and user driven design, currently devoted to open data. Jarmo leads Forum Virium Helsin-ki, an innovation company building digital bridges between people and services. Forum Virium Helsinki activities are based on the principles of open and user-driven innovation. Forum Virium Helsinki growth coaching boosts annually the International growth of 30-40 companies.Jarmo is also the President of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), promoting international cooperation in user-driven innovation and co-creative, human-centric RDI. Earlier, Jarmo has been the director of the Media Centre Lume of the Aalto University, the program director for the Helsinki 2000 European City of Culture, and the founder & CEO of a successful music, media and event production company PopZoo Promotions.

Santiago Creuheras es actualmente el Director General de Eficiencia Energética e Innovación Tecnológica de la Secretaría de Energía de México (SENER).

Anteriormente, se ha desempeñado en diversos cargos en la Administración Pública entre los que destacan Asesor del Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Coordinador Sectorial de la Oficina del Secretario de Energía, Asesor del Secretario de Energía, Director General Adjunto de Política Interior y Exterior de la Oficina del Presidente de México, y Director General de capacitación de la Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social de México.

Creuheras es egresado de la Licenciatura en Economía de la Universidad de las Américas en Puebla, México; obtuvo los grados de Maestro en Gobierno y Maestro en Historia Económica por la Universidad de Harvard en E.U.A., y es candidato al grado de Maestro en Liderazgo Suste-ntable por la Universidad de Cambridge en Inglaterra.

Lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, also Master of Strategic Management and Innovation Management from the Univer-

sities Carlos III of Madrid. Nowadays is persuing a Specialization in Urban Strategic Planning issued by the Iberoamerican Center for Strategic Urban Development – CIDEU – Spain. Is also designated as a tutor for the modules water sector and energy sector in the First Year of Wide Band for the public sector of Mesoamerica dictated by the Interamerican Development Bank - IDB. He currently serves as Administrative and Logistics Manager at the Public Company of Water and Sanitation in Quito. He is a member of the Committees for Smart Cities Metropolitan Mayor of Quito, and served as coordinator of the First Round of the development and Socially Innovative Digital Agenda 2022 and Quito XIV Latin American Meeting on Digital Cities Digital Quito 2013.

KATALIN GALLYASOpen Innovation Policy Advisor, City of Amsterdam


@KatalinG

Responsible for launching a Smart Governance/ Open Innovation program in Amsterdam where Open Data is a key enabler. She is coordinating cur-

rently 3 EU Innovation projects (Code4EU, Open Cities, City SDK) that have been demonstrat-ing the added value for Open Data (both for cities and businesses), Open Source App Develop-ment. Due to these programs Amsterdam could release 300 datasets and arrange 3 hackathons where currently the business incubation side is the most exciting. Dedicated to the incubation of a concept called Tech Accelerator for cities to foster a quicker and more transparent gover-nance that makes a good use of ICT and collaborative platforms. She acts often as an interface/ mediator between local governance, innovation agencies and app developers. She maintains a rich network of EU cities, innovation agencies, ventures and web based entrepreneurs.

@LFArboledag

LUIS FERNANDOPresident, FINDETER

• Roundtable Discussion on Financing Barriers & Solutions

Caldense, Business Manager, specialist in Public Service Administration of the Iberoamerican Institute of Public Administration of Spain, with

studies in Senior Management at the University of Los Andes, Inalde and the Institute of Public Administration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

With over 32 years of experience in infrastructure projects, Luis Fernando Arboleda Gon-zales has an excellent management as a technical, social, economic and political project leader in several institutions and public companies. He has held important positions as mayor of Manizales and the Management of Public Enterprises of Manizales, Aguas de Manizales, Triple A - and Metroagua SA Santa Marta. During the past 18 months he has served as president of FINDETER.

In addition, he managed the Modernization Program for the Ministry of Development in part-nership with the World Bank.

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Felipe Jaramillo is currently Country Director for the Central America countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) at the World Bank. He joined the Bank in 2002, as Lead Economist for Central Amer-ica. In his previous positions, he was Sector Manager in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) network in the Europe and Central Asia region, and most recently Country Director for the Andean countries (Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela).

Mr. Jaramillo holds a Ph. D. in development economics from Stanford University. He was a public servant in the Government of Colombia, holding offices in the Ministry of Finance, the National Planning Department and the Ministry of Trade. He has taught at the Department of Economics of the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota and at the University of Maryland.

Vicente Guallart is the Chief Architect of the city of Barcelona and founder of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), which he directed during its first 10 years.

Vicente Guallart is a pioneer of interaction between nature, technology and architecture, pro-posing new paradigms based in urban, social and cultural conditions emerging from the informa-tion society. From this position, he has explored the emergence of a new kind of urban develop-ment linked to the concept of the Metapolis (a term coined by the French sociologist François Ascher), as a discontinuous metropolis that calls for the project design of both the constructed and the natural. He also created his own professional studio, Guallart Architects, now directed by Maria Díaz, a widely recognized architectural practice achieving numerous international awards, as well as participating in several one man and collective exhibitions. He is the author of numerous books, including GeoLogics, Sociópolis, Media House Project and Geocat, and co-au-thor of the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, the research study HiperCatalunya, and editor of the book Self-sufficient Housing.

Lawyer specialized in environmental and urban issues. Since October 2012 he is the Director General of Environment at the Municipality of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He has taught graduate courses at various universities in central Mexico, and has been legal advisor on sustainability to various organizations, government agencies and business chambers.

Frank Kresin is Research Director at Waag Society, institute for Arts, Science and Technology, based in Amsterdam. Waag Society develops and

researches creative technology for social innovation, putting people and their needs at the cen-ter. It involves artists, scientists and entrepreneurs in early stages to come up with truly useable systems and services. Frank’s background is in Artificial Intelligence and film making, and his interest is in developing technology for societal goals.

SAMI KAMELGeneral Manager for Global Growth & Market Development, GE Power and Water

• Energy Efficiency Programs and Portfolios• Round Table Discussion on Financing Barriers and Solutions

VICENTE GUALLARTChief Architect, Barcelona City Council

• Keynote: Barcelona 5.0

Sami Kamel is General Manager, Global Growth & Market Development for MENAT & SubSaharan Africa in GE Power & Water. Sami leads a team responsible for identification of new commercial growth opportunities within the renewables, distributed power, supply-side energy efficiency, conventional power plants & water technology market spaces. He also leads design & execution of strategic initiatives aimed at establishment of region reference for new GE technologies and applications through adoption of innovative business models, and formulation of strategic partnerships. Prior to joining GE, Sami has worked with United Nations Environment Program, US Department of Energy & the World Bank.

Sami holds BA in Economics from American University in Cairo, Egypt, and Master & PhD in Energy Economics from Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA.

ROHIT KHANNAProgram Manager, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)

• Implementing Innovative Energy Efficiency Programs

Rohit Khanna is Program Manager of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) at the World Bank. In this role, he oversees a

portfolio of analytical and advisory activities in the energy sector. Mr. Khanna, an Indian nation-al, joined the World Bank in 2000. Prior to assuming his current position at ESMAP, Mr. Khanna worked on the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Clean Technology Fund (CTF) at the World Bank. He has had country experience with the Bank in Cambodia, Ghana, Uganda, Mozam-bique, Thailand, and South Africa, and was part of the team that developed the CTF investment program for Concentrating Solar Power in the Middle East and North Africa. Before joining the Bank in 2000, he was a Programme Officer in the United Nations Environment Program and worked for Save the Children Federation in its Bhutan Field Office. Mr. Khanna is a graduate of the University of Delhi and has a Master of Public Administration degree from American Univer-sity in Washington, DC.

FRANK KRESINResearch Director, Waag Society


@kresin

CARLOS FELIPE JARAMILLOCentral American Country Director, World Bank

• Cities and Risk

FIDEL GARCÍADirector General of Environment, León, México

• Implementing Innovative Energy Efficiency Programs|

@figragra

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ILARI PATRICK LINDYSenior Operations Officer, World Bank Institute

• Launch of Living Lab Toolkit

CHARIS LYPIRIDISPublic-Private Partnerships Advisory Services Specialist, IFC

• Energy Efficient Programs and Portfolios• Round Table Discussion on Financing Barriers and Solutions

PAUL MACKAYTechnologist, Code4Europe

• Marketplace: Smart City Projects

Before moving to World Bank in 2011, Ilari worked as Senior Advisor at the Department of Development Policy in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland advising on MFA’s global policies and instruments related to ICT4D as well as to science, technology and innovation. He has previously served as Counsellor for Ministry at the Embassy of Finland in South Africa, Senior Expert for European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and Project Officer at the European Commission DG Information Society. He has served as advisor and evaluator in several international and local initiatives focusing on development and take-up of ICT enabled innovation. His current interest is on Open Innovation, innovation ecosystems and grassroots approaches.

Charis Lypiridis is an operations specialist at IFC’s Advisory Services on Public-Private Partner-ships. His work at IFC covers the global portfolio on climate change-related business, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, solid waste management, water and transport. Prior to IFC, he worked for Bloomberg New Energy Finance in London, and previously he was project man-ager and consultant for water and urban planning EU projects. Mr. Lypiridis holds an MPA from Columbia University in New York, a certificate on sustainability management from UN Universi-ty in Tokyo and a five-year civil engineering degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece.

Paul Mackay is a software developer contributing to the Code for Europe programme, looking at ways to increase sharing and reuse across local gov-ernment. His main focus is the development of a Europe Commons website

that provides a marketplace for innovative open source civic apps and services. Previously Paul worked at Nokia and then Dorling Kindersley developing mobile phone software and apps as technical team lead. In 2013 he has also started a company called Folk Labs, focus-sing on software and tools for local communities. Paul holds an M.Eng in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College and is an active coordinator with Transition Towns groups working to build better communities.

@pmackay

Ms Marja Mattila is an EU Coordinator with the focus on international, smart city and open innovation projects. She works at Forum Virium Helsinki, which is a com-pany owned by the City of Helsinki, developing digital service innovations in cooperation with the city, citizens and companies. Currently she coordinates the European-wide CitySDK project, and is involved in the emerging Code4Europe movement. Ms Mattila holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Helsinki School of Economics.

Derek Morgan is the Head of the eThekwini Municipal Energy Office in the city of Durban, South Africa. The Energy Office is broadly responsible

for climate change mitigation in the city and covers areas such as renewable energy, energy

MARJA MATTILACitySDK Coordinator, Forum Virium Helsinki

• Cities as Platforms for Apps and Services• Marketplace: Smart City Projects

DEREK MORGANHead, Durban eThekwini Municipal Energy Office


@marja_mattila

Dana Kupova works in the Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Team at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. Dana has more than 10 years of experience working with municipalities on sustainable energy pro-grams, as a consultant as well as energy efficiency specialist on behalf of the EBRD. The focus of Dana’s recent work has been on assisting municipalities with preparation of sustainable urban regeneration master plans, helping to link private and public sector energy efficiency invest-ments and assessing financing needs for sustainable energy programmes. Dana’s background is in energy efficiency in the built environment.

DANA KUPOVAEfficient Energy and Climate Change Engineer, EBRD

• Energy Efficiency Programs and Portfolios• Financing Barriers and Solutions

Sergio researches on data visualization, information design and interface design with an especial focus on geoinformation, map related visualizations and geospatial data interaction. He is cofounder and lead Designer at vizzuality, the company behind the geospatial platform CartoDB.

SERGIO ÁLVAREZ LEIVACo-Founder and Lead Designer, Vizzuality

• Citizens and Data Culture

@saleiva

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VICTOR MULASOpen Innovation Ecosystems Specialist, World Bank

• Cities as Platforms for Apps and Services

JUAN LUIS NUÑEZGeneral Manager, Fundación País Digital

• World Bank Co-Creation Approach to Smart Cities

MANUEL FRADINHO OLIVEIRASenior Research Scientist, Sintef

• Gamification to Improve Citizen Engagement

Victor Mulas, a Spanish national, joined the World Bank in 2010. He specializes in World Bank policy relating to information and communi-cation technologies (ICT) and innovation in multiple geographic regions including South East Asia, Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America. This involves policy analysis and advisory work, policy strategy and ICT-led innovation and transformation. Victor is currently leading projects on open innovation in cities and development of innovation ecosys-tems in multiple regions, including Latin America and the Middle East. Prior to the World Bank, Victor worked for Telecommunications Management Group, a global consulting firm, where he advised governments and multinational ICT companies in regulatory strategy. He also worked as head of regulatory affairs for the affiliate of the Tiscali group in Spain. Victor holds an MBA with an International Business Diplomacy certificate from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, an LLM in telecommunications Law from Universidad de Comillas, and a Law Degree from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

Law Degree from the Catholic University of Chile. Lawyer. Master of Laws (LLM) with certification in International Business Law, American Univer-sity, Washington DC, USA. His professional experience has been linked to

telecommunications, competition and regulation, having worked in these areas both in Chile and in the United States. He has served as Chief of Staff of the Undersecretary of Telecommunica-tions (2010-2011) and as Head of Development Fund Division of Telecommunications (2011-2012). He is currently the General Manager of Fundación País Digital.

Manuel Fradinho Oliveira is senior research scientist at Sintef. His re-search interests include social media, serious games, user engagement, gamification, user behaviour change, virtual environments, and mixed

reality. He has more than 100 refereed conference and journal publications to date. He is the main founder of HighSkillz, a start-up specializing in rapid competence development using serious games and gamification. He currently works on MyNeighbourhood EU project where he developed a gamification methodology that allows citizens to gamify their co-designed services.

@MulasVictor

@nuneztissinetti

Balaji Prabhakar is a faculty member in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. His research in-

terests are in computer networks; notably, in designing algorithms for the Internet and for Data Centers. Recently, he has been interested in Societal Networks: networks vital for society’s functioning, such as transportation, electricity and recycling systems. He has been involved in developing and deploying incentive mechanisms to move commuters to off-peak times so that congestion, fuel and pollution costs are reduced. He has been a Terman Fellow at Stanford Uni-versity and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has received the CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Erlang Prize, the Rollo Davidson Prize, and delivered the Lunteren Lectures. He is the recipient of the inaugural IEEE Innovation in Societal Infra-structure Award which recognizes “significant technological achievements and contributions to the establishment, development and proliferation of innovative societal infrastructure systems.” He serves on the Advisory Board of the Future Urban Mobility Initiative of the World Economic Forum.

BALAJI PRABHAKARProfessor, Stanford University


efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction. Derek has been at the Municipality for 3 years and was previously a consultant working for local government in KwaZulu-Natal. During this time Derek managed various programs focusing on sustainable economic development. Derek graduated with a Masters from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2002 after completing his BSc Hons at the University of Cape Town. Derek’s primary field of interest is the interface between the economy and the environment, with increasing emphasis on promoting alternatives to carbon intensive consumption patterns.

Arturo brings over 15 years of experience in telecommunications and financial services. Currently, as Senior ICT Policy Specialist in the Informa-tion and Communication Technologies Department at The World Bank, he spends most of his time helping client countries and cities design and implement projects (investment and technical assistance) on telecommunications (broadband, regulation, rural telecommunications), IT industry development, Smart Cities and local IT-based innovation in Latin America and East Asia Pacific.

Arturo is currently exploring the different mechanisms through which high speed connectivity can lead to economic growth, innovation, entrepreneurship, and poverty alleviation, from open development to services co-creation at the city and national levels. In particular, he is interest-ed in design thinking for governments as an approach to increase the quality of public service delivery in developing countries.

ARTURO MUENTE-KUNIGAMIICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

• World Bank Co-Creation Approach to Smart Cities• Gamification to Improve Citizen Engagement

@n0wh3r3m4n

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PETER RATHJEManaging Director, Project Zero


LARS OSTENFIELD RIEMANNGroup Market Director for Buildings, Ramboll

• Energy Efficiency and Innovation in Buildings

Peter Rathje is the Managing Director for the ProjectZero Company, a public private partnership driving the implementation of the ProjectZero vision. From 2007 and until the completion of the Frank Gehry Mas-

terplan for Sonderborg Harbour Company in 2009, he was also in charge of the master plan creation-process. The GEHRY project is focused on turning a 50.000 m2 old harbor area into a vibrant ZEROcarbon community. From 1999 until accepting his present position in 2007, he was CEO of Agramkow Fluid Systems A/S, focused on fluid charging solutions for industry appli-cations including the automotive industry. Until 1999 he was EMEA Vice-president Sales of US based Scientific Atlanta (Now part of Cisco). Peter Rathje has work-experience from global organizations and lived in both Frankfurt/Germany and Pennsylvania/USA. During the last 25 years Peter Rathje has been an active board-member of business schools, university colleges and University organizations.

Lars is heading the Buildings sector in Ramboll, a Scandinavian based engi-neering and management consultancy with more than 10.000 employees.

In this role Lars is ensuring a common strategic approach, knowledge sharing and joint devel-opment of skills in the company. The work is driven by the Global challenges that define the future need of skills. Ramboll has played a key role in decarbonising Denmark both in terms of transforming the energy sector and by minimising the use of energy in the Danish building stock. Lars is drawing on his 15 years of design experience as well as his business skills when develop-ing and evaluating the feasibility of solutions. This has resulted in strategies for transforming cities into carbon free communities without burdening public budgets.

@lars_riemann

Neeraj Prasad is Manager of the WBI Climate Change Practice, which focuses on capacity development and practitioner networks on sustainable energy, climate-smart agriculture, sustainable cities and low emissions development. Before joining the World Bank in 1996, Mr. Prasad was a member of the Indi-an Administrative Service, with assignments as a development administrator, in the federal Finance Ministry, and as Assistant to India’s Executive Director in the IMF. In the World Bank, he supported and led Environment sector operations in Asia, including its single largest Carbon Finance transaction, the China HFC-23 project. He supported the management of its Carbon Finance Unit.

Balaji Prabhakar is a faculty member in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests are in computer networks; notably, in designing algorithms for the Internet and for Data Centers. Recently, he has been interested in Societal Networks: net-works vital for society’s functioning, such as transportation, electricity and recycling systems. He has been involved in developing and deploying incentive mechanisms to move commuters to off-peak times so that congestion, fuel and pollution costs are reduced.

Lluis is technical director of the RACC (Royal Automobile Club of Catalo-nia) Foundation, leading all technical and public policy activity on vehicle, road and driver impact on traffic safety, intelligent transport systems and mobility. Lluis is member of the Board of Directors at the European Road Assessment Pro-gramme, member of the Strategy Committee of ERTICO ( European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Organisation ) and of several FIA ( Féderation Internationale de l’Automobile ) working groups on transport and mobility. Lluis is MsC degree in Industrial Engineering by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and MBA at EADA Business School.

NEERAJ PRASADClimate Change Practice Manager, World Bank Institute

• Energy Efficiency Programs and Portfolios• Round Table Discussion on Financing Barriers and Solutions

BALAJI PRABHAKARProfessor, Stanford University


LLUIS PUERTOTechnical Director, Royal Automobile Club of

Catalonia Foundation

• Marketplace: Breakthrough Technologies

Open Data and Open Government as well as innovation and collaboration are part of my values and what I believe in. It has been in this area where I’ve developed my career in the last years.

As Director of the first Spanish-speaking Open Government I was allowed to shake up an admin-istration and spread enthusiasm. In 2009, I designed, launched and began to manage the only on-line platform in Spanish that embodies and combines the three principles of Transparency, Participation and Collaboration of Open Government, Irekia in Basque.

NAGORE DE LOS RÍOSOpen Government, Open Data and Data Journalism Senior Consultant

• Once upon a time, in world of small data...

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JORGE SOTOCo-Founder, CitiVox

• Amplifying the Voice of Citizens• Cities and Risk

Jorge has recently started working with the been Mexican Federal Govern-ment, after being appointed Deputy Director General of Civic Innovation

of the Presidency Office’s National Digital Strategy Coordination. Jorge has recently been appointed aJorge has been involved in the design and implementation of projects that uses technology to empower citizens and institutions in Mexico, Latinamerica and Africa. In 2009, together with Oscar Salazar, he launched “cuidemos el voto” (let’s protect the vote) to track and monitor Mexican elections and later that year they launched “internet necesario” (internet is necessary) to protest against an internet 3% tax in Mexico. In 2010 he founded CitiVox, a start-up that uses technology to enhance the communication between citizens and their institutions. From helping NGOs in Benin track elections to enabling policemen in Honduras to build a state-of-the-art real time crime database, CitiVox empowers citizens, community leaders and gov-ernment officials to turn citizen reports into actionable information. At 26, he is the youngest Endeavor global entrepreneur in the world and was selected as one of the top 10 Mexican entre-preneurs by a local Time-Warner magazine. In late 2011 he was selected Young Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum and invited, together with other 30 Global Shapers in the Americas, to represent the millennial generation in Davos during the World Economic Forum in 2012.

Iñigo is an engineer of roads, canals and ports, graduated from the Univer-sity of Cantabria in the specialty of Hydraulics, Oceanography and Envi-ronment. He was elected mayor of Santander in 2007, by the Popular Party, with an absolute majority. In 2011 he was re-elected, increasing the percentage of votes obtained from 52% to 56 % and going from 15 to 18 councilors, out of the total of 27 for the whole Corporation.

He worked in the private sector, as head of the Department of Hydraulic for the Engineering Company Apia XXI, between 1995 and 1999. Subsequently, he was appointed chief of staff for the Minister of the Environment of the Government of Cantabria, between 1999 and 2003. His first public office was Councillor for the Environment, Water and Beaches at the Santand-er City Council during the 2003-2007 term. He was elected Regional deputy during his first term as mayor, between 2007 and 2011. He is part of the Executive Committee of the Party of Cantabria. Today, he is the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP). He also chairs the Spanish Network of Smart Cities (RECI).

Jungsu Song was born in Young-Chun city, 350km south of Seoul in 1965. He received bachelor’s degree from law school of Korea University in

1987, M.A. degree in public administration from the Seoul National University in 1993, another M.A. degree in Telecommunications program from George Washington University in 1998, and finally PH.D. in public administration from Seoul National University in 2009.

Before he joined World Bank as a secondee last March 25th 2013, he had worked for several Korean ministries. Since he joined the Ministry of Post in 1990, his ministry has changed its name into Ministry of Communications(MIC) in 1994, then into Korean Communications Com-mission(KCC) in 2008 and finally into the current long and ambitious name of Ministry of Sci-ence, ICT and Future Planning(MSIP). He had kept his ministry even though its names changed several times. For the past 20 years in public service, He has engaged in diverse areas of work including fostering the ICT industry, advancing broadband networks, establishing information security policies for a safe online environment, streamlining laws and regulations on spectrum and broadcasting, and doing trade negotiations. He was directly involved with establishment of Korean U-City Master Plan in 2009 as a director of Network Planning Division. During the course, he gained a broad understanding of the ICT industry in general and obtained a wealth of knowledge on policy making and implementation methods.

IÑIGO DE LA SERNAMayor, City of Santander


JUNGSU SONGSenior ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

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@idlserna

CLORINDA ROMODirector of Creative Projects, Laboratorio para la Ciudad

• Reimagining the (Im)Possible City

Clorinda Romo is an architect interested in cities. From 2006-2008, she co-organized the DF Pecha Kucha event, a monthly forum where members of the city’s creative scene, cultural promoters, and academics converge to share ideas. From 2008-2011, she was the editor and an editorial board member of Tomo, a monthly supplement to the newspaper Excelsior focusing on art, architecture and design. In 2008 she co-founded Pase Usted, an organization committed to the dissemination of ideas and proposals for an inclusive discussion of the most important national issues. She coordi-nated Pase Usted’s GeneraMX project, a platform that powers and incubates projects that can improve the quality of life in cities through technological development. From 2010-2011 she coordinated the Project TelmexHub, which is an initiative of the Mexican telecommunication company to create public space focusing on creative innovation. On Ibero 90.9 FM, Clorinda hosted a Pase Usted program and contributed to the “Good Morning Santa Fe” program for three years.

She is currently the Director of Creative Projects at Laboratorio para la Ciudad(@LabPLC - @LabForTheCity), Mexico City’s new Creative Think Tank, which is part of the local government, an area that furthers civic innovation and urban creativity. She is constantly looking for new ways to collaborate and innovate in project management.

@LabForTheCity

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SAMEH WAHBASector Manager, Urban Development and Resilience Unit, World Bank

• Launch of the City Energy Efficiency Transformation Initia-tive (CEETI)

Sameh Wahba is responsible for the Bank’s urban policy, strategy and analytics at the global level. Prior to this position, Dr. Wahba was the Brazil

Sector Leader of the Sustainable Development Department, at the World Bank’s Latin America and the Caribbean Region where he was responsible for coordinating the Bank’s investment program and policy advisory/analytical services in Brazil in the areas of urban development, infrastructure, disaster risk management, and social development, as well as coordinating the Bank’s portfolio in several States including Sao Paulo. Since joining the World Bank in 2004, he has worked on urban development, housing and infrastructure issues in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North Africa Regions where he managed numerous invest-ment and technical assistance activities related to housing, land and urban upgrading policy, infrastructure, local economic development, municipal/urban development issues, and disaster risk management in several countries. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) in Rotterdam and at the Harvard Center for Urban Development Studies in Cambridge, MA. He holds a Ph.D. and Masters in urban planning from Harvard University and a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in engineering from Cairo University. He has 18 years of experience in urban development, infrastructure and sustainable development issues. He is fluent in Arabic, French, English and Portuguese and currently resides in Washington D.C.

Anthony is Research Director in the Technology Horizons Program for the Silicon Valley-based Institute for the Future, and independent research organization. His research focuses on the impact of new technology on cities, infrastructure and public institutions and the role of technology in economic development.He also holds the post of Senior Research Fellow at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management where he is investigating the impacts of mobile information services and commu-nications on travel behavior and long-term shifts in mobility demands in megacities.He has also been a Fulbright Exchange Scholar at the Seoul Development Institute in South Korea, studying the social impacts of broadband on the Seoul metropolitan region and was one of the original founders of NYCwireless, a pioneer in the municipal wireless movement.

Antoni Vives i Tomàs was born in Barcelona in 1965. He has a degree in Business Science, specialised in marketing and international trade, and has

developed most of his professional career in private companies. He was General Secretary for the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1999-2003), and subsequently Director of the Ramon Trias Fargas Foundation (2003-2007). Currently is a Deputy Mayor for Urban Habitat, an area that includes urbanism, town planning, housing, infrastructures, environment and urban services and ICT. He is also Vice President of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area and Councillor for the City District of Les Corts. He won the Joan Fuster Essay Prize, the Prat de la Riba award for journalistic articles and the Creixells Award 2010. He is Senior Advisor for the Prince of Asturias Professorship of Spanish Studies of the London School of Economics.

Chris Vein is the Chief Innovation Officer for Global Information and Communications Technology Development at the World Bank. Mr Vein’s role consists in helping the World Bank embed technological innovations across its operations and ensuring that the benefits of this are seen in projects throughout its client countries. Formerly, Chris Vein was the Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Government Innovation in the White House Office

ANTHONY TOWNSENDResearch Director, Institute for the Future


ANTONI VIVESDeputy Mayor, City of Barcelona

• Opening Remarks

CHRIS VEINChief Innovation Officer for Global ICT, World Bank

• How Can Technology Change Governments?• Opening Remarks

• Closing Remarks

@anthonymobile

KAM STARFounder, PlayGen


Kam Star is a digital media entrepreneur, inventor, researcher, investor and award winning games developer. Creating his first computer game in 1986, he studied Architecture and is deeply passionate about innovation in play, social influence and collective intelligence. Founder of PlayGen, Kam designs and develops playful solutions for de-livering engaging experiences that make a lasting impression and use the power of the crowd to transform topics. He has produced gaming projects for the European Commission, BBC, AVIVA, UNESCO, McKinsey, EPSRC, NESTA, Ministry of Defence, National Health Service, Wellcome Trust as well as a range of local and national government agencies and many others.

Since 2001 Kam has been working on gamification and games with a purpose, using play to deliver citizen engagement on a wide range of public policy issues from attitudes toward ex-tremism to teenage pregnancy, from flood policy to biomedical science and from drink driving to helping young people explore their future career potential.

@playgenof Science and Technology Policy. In this role, he convened those with transformative ideas to support development of innovation ecosystems across the USA; supported the testing of those transformative ideas through open systems, repeatable methodologies, and rapid customer-cen-tric iteration; and showcased those that work. Prior to joining the White House, Chris Vein was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City and County of San Francisco (City) where he led the City in becoming a national force in the application of new media platforms, use of open source applications, creation of new models for expanding digital inclusion, emphasizing “green” technology, and transforming government.

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Antonio Zugaldia is an experienced developer and CTO of Silica Labs, a startup focused on developing software for Google Glass and other wearable devices. He is a Google Glass Explorer and a winner of the Glass Foundry hackathon organized by Google in New York. He co-organizes the Google Glass and Google Developer meetups in Washington, DC, taught the the Google Glass class for General Assembly in NYC, and has presented Google Glass to numerous audiences, including recently the Federal Communications Commission, Kaiser Permanente, and National Geographic.

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ANTONIO ZUGALDIAChief Technology Officer, Silica Labs

• Marketplace: Breakthrough Technologies

LAWRENCE YANOVITCHPresident, GSMA Mobile for Development Foundation

• Cities and Risk

XIAODONG WANGSenior Energy Specialist, World Bank

• Energy Efficiency Programs and Portfolios• Financing Barriers and Solutions

Lawrence Yanovitch is the president of the GSMA Mobile for Development Foundation which promotes mobile enabled basic needs services to the underserved in emerging markets. The Foundation brings together the mobile industry, adja-cent industries and the international development community in order to advance commercial business models in health, education, banking, women’s empowerment, agricultural productivi-ty, identity, and renewable energy. Mr. Yanovitch was previously an officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he managed a portfolio of investments in financial services for the un-banked targeted to reach 80 million households. Prior to that, Mr. Yanovitch had a long career in microfinance and philanthropy. He is a former member of the management team at FINCA and of the faculty of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Xiaodong Wang is a Senior Energy Specialist in the East Asia & Pacific (EAP) region of the World Bank. She is the Task Team Leader for the Green Energy for Low-Carbon City in Shanghai project, China Energy Efficiency Financing (CHEEF) program, China Renewable Energy Scale-Up Program (CRESP), and Energy Saving Measurement and Verification project. She is the lead author for the World Bank East Asia’s energy flagship reports:Winds of Change: East Asia’s Sustainable Energy Future and Unlocking Commercial Financing for Clean Energy, and the Energy Chapter of the annual World Bank flagship report: World Development Report 2010 on Development and Climate Change. She is also a co-author for the Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development Book in China.

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