Philipp Bouteiller ist ein starker Befürworter von Berlin als Hauptstadt der Freiheit, Toleranz und Innovation und wurde für seine Arbeit an nachhaltigen städtischen Innovationsstrategien in den Bereichen intelligente Mobilität, intelligente Infrastruktur, erneuerbare Energien in Städten und zukünftiges Stadtdesign als einer der einflussreichsten globalen Führungskräfte im Bereich Smart Cities bezeichnet. Nach mehreren Jahren als Senior Consultant … Continued
Eugen Antalovsky ist ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Urban Innovation Vienna GmbH und des europaforum wien, dem Zentrum für Stadtdialog und Europapolitik. Er verfügt über umfangreiche Erfahrung in nachhaltiger Stadtplanung und internationaler Stadtpolitik. Seine Arbeit mit Wissenschaftler:innen, Stadtoberhäuptern, städtischen Investor:innen und kommunalen Unternehmen konzentrierte sich auf die aktuellen Herausforderungen der Metropolen im Kontext des globalen Wettbewerbs. Eugen … Continued
Birgit is programme director at FutureBuilt in Oslo. In that role, she’s working with facilitating climate-friendly architecture and urban development in the Oslo region. Birgit’s passionate about new innovative solutions and showing that it’s possible to realize buildings and city areas with a very low carbon footprint. The projects of the very successful network FutureBuilt … Continued
As a Project Manager and enthusiast, Anna Huttunen pushes for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility in the medium-sized Finnish city of Lahti, the European Green Capital 2021. At the helm of the sustainable urban mobility plan, Anna is transforming Lahti’s connectivity through improved walkability and cycling, multi-modality, and low-carbon mobility options. She leads the city’s … Continued
John Judge is CEO of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), the oldest outdoor recreation and conservation organization in the U.S. providing high quality outdoor recreation programs and leadership training. With more than 20 years of civic leadership experience, John leads AMC in enacting its community of 325,000 people in outdoor recreation and conservation stewardship. He … Continued
Gerhard Schuster has worked in real estate for more than 30 years. His ambition in aspern Seestadt – the urban lab of Smart City Wien – is to use his expertise to help build a city that changes the way we plan cities in the future. He invites and supports gamechangers from different realms, brings … Continued
Johanna Schäfer is founder and CEO of BonnLAB which is a city lab for the citizens of Bonn, Germany. BonnLAB is multifunctional – it is a public living room, an office for urban development & participation, a coworking space, a social innovation point, an event location and the headquarter of the NGO PROJECTSbonn. The organizations … Continued
Gil Friend is a systems ecologist, serial social entrepreneur, and widely considered one of the grandfathers of the sustainable business movement. For five years, Gil served as Chief Sustainability Officer of the city of Palo Alto, California, where he led the development of one of the most aggressive climate action plans of any North American … Continued
As a business economist, Dr. Luise Noring specializes in urban governance and finance, including socio-economic impact analyses, urban business models and finance mechanisms for implementation of both large-scale urban regeneration and smaller neighborhood interventions. She has several years of experience identifying and implementing models for self-governing and self-financing cities and teaches as an assistant professor … Continued
Martin Russ is a city planner by profession and an innovation enthusiastic at heart. Working in the field of mobility solutions for more than 25 years, he is excited to see many of the crazy concepts of the past become a reality today – sharing, micro mobility, data led governance, experimental frameworks and mobility labs … Continued