Cities: XXX Future Trends Forum at Fundacion Bankinter

Cities is the focus of the XXX Future Trends Forum that Fundación para la Innovación Bankinter celebrates this year. The forum will allow to discuss about the many sides of technology and its relation with cities, and how this applies to the Spanish case. The discussions -l look forward to- will surely be very interesting.

These are some of the participants as for May 29th

Charles Bolden, Former Administrator of NASA. Bolden has overseen the safe transition from 30 years of space shuttle missions. USA

Kyle Corkum, Managing Partner and co-founder of LStar Ventures, leading development of the Union Point project — a 1,500 acre state-of-the-art smart city taking shape just outside Boston. USA

Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy at USC and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute, USA

Natalia de Esteban, Consultant. Advisor to the European Commission on transport R&D and former Head of Innovation at Transport for London. UK

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. USA

Gordon Feller, who led Cisco’s partnership with San Francisco and is the Founder of http://meetingoftheminds.org, focused on urban sustainability. USA

Olga Gil, Researcher in Smart Cities at University Complutense de Madrid. Spain

William Haseltine, a pioneer in DNA sequencing whose Foundation is developing models for distributed health care delivery. USA

Peter Hirhsberg, a Principal in the Maker City Project and Founder of the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. USA

Rick Jacobs,  CEO Accelerator for America. Accelerator’s mission to bridge the public and private sectors to connect people with fulfilling work. USA

Chris Johnson, Managing Principal at Gensler Middle East Region. An award-winning architect, he is the creative force behind a number of the firm’s landmark architectural and planning projects. UAE

Richard Kivel, Senior Manager: Bridgewater & Chairman Rhapsody Biologics. Focused on fast growth technology and healthcare related companies. USA

Philip Lader, Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley. He is also a Senior Adviser to Palantir Technologies. USA

Emilio  Mendez, Director, Energy Sciences at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Tan Chin Nam, Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Manpower; Chairman, National Computer Board; and Managing Director, Economic Development Board, Singapore

Eden Shochat, Equal Partner at Aleph, Finder of Needles in Haystacks. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology specialist. Israel

Jens Schulte-Bockum, Chief Operating Officer, MTN Telecom Group, South Africa

Stephen Trachtenberg, President Emeritus, George Washington University, USA

Wilfried Vanhonacker, Visiting Professor of Marketing, Ex-dean, CEIBS. He is recognized as an accomplished scholar, academic entrepreneur, pedagogical innovator. China

Evan Wolff, a Partner at Crowell and Moring leading their Cybersecurity group. USA

John de Yonge, Insights Director at Ernst & Young’s think tank EYQ, focused on innovation ecologies in second tier cities. USA