This year I have the pleasure to participate under the aegis of Fundación Bankinter, in the XXX Future Trends Forum, focused on cities. Three people, Marce, Chistopher, and Juan Luis among others, have been able to put together an impressive team of talented people making path-breaking contributions on cities: “Smart Citizens, Shaping Future Cities” that will be held on May 30th-June 1st, 2018, in Sintra, Portugal.
What is Future Trends Forum?
"El Future Trends Forum es el único think tank multidisciplinar e internacional focalizado en innovación. Formado por más de 400 expertos, el Future Trends Forum anticipa y detecta las tendencias de innovación, analizando su impacto en la sociedad y modelos de negocio...Todo el contenido generado por cada tendencia se publica en nuestra página web, y es difundido a través de las conferencias celebradas por todo el país, con el principal objetivo de anticiparnos al futuro y potenciar la innovación en nuestra sociedad."
These people will be among those enlightening the conversation in this year session on cities as for March 17th:
Gordon Feller, who led Cisco’s partnership with San Francisco and is the Founder of http://meetingoftheminds.
Peter Hirsberg, a Principal in the Maker City Project and Founder of the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. USA
Evan Wolff, a Partner at Crowell and Moring leading their Cybersecurity group. USA
William Haseltine, a pioneer in DNA sequencing whose Foundation is developing models for distributed health care delivery. USA
John de Yonge, Insights Director at Ernst & Young’s think tank EYQ, focused on innovation ecologies in second tier cities. USA
Natalia de Esteban, Head of Innovation at Transport for London, UK
Olga Gil, Researcher in Smart Cities at University Complutense de Madrid. Spain
Antonio Damasio*, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy at USC and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute, USA
Tan Chin Nam*, Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Manpower; Chairman, National Computer Board; and Managing Director, Economic Development Board, Singapore
Jens Schulte-Bockham*, Chief Operating Officer, MTN Telecom Group, South Africa
Stephen Trachtenburg*, President Emeritus, George Washington University, USA
Charles Bolden*, Former Administrator of NASA, USA
Previous to the elaboration programm we were able to hold a trasatlantic over-the-phone meeting where suggestions where shared regarding two questions: 1) experts and 2) general themes related to cities. I shared on this discussion and further messages my work on the regulation of data in cities and other levels of government at Facultad de Ciencias Políticas in Universidad Complutense. This work is concerned with power, ethics, governance, future trends and theoretical implications. I teach on this subject at UCM. Here you my find an intro.
This work crosses streams of research with other works carried out by members of the Smart Cities and Smart Government Research-Practice Consortium (SCSGRPC), of the Center for Technology in Government (University at Albany), directed by Theresa Pardo.
On the corporate side we will be able to learn and debate with people such as Mariola Pina, previous Head for Smart Cities at Hitachi, with actual expertise in Germany, Hawai, London, Manchester, and cities in Japan. I look forward to meet them all!