Innovation Evangelists

Innovation Evangelists

We promote Change, we think the process to achieve it, is as important as the outcome itself.

"Engage and partner with people who have a disruptive mindset"

JORGE DIAZ

United Nations-UNOPS

Get the Whole Picture

Ph.D. Jorge Diaz is a professional "traveller", he is a life-long learner. His approach seeks to link "know-how" to business development. He considers a key step to engage people from the very beginning of idea generation. We need to shift our mind beginning from the way we use resources. The key is the "management model". Airbnb, Uber, and so on have succeeded in doing this.

Although his expertise in mobility, and Disaster Risk Reduction is backstopped by more than twenty years across the globe, he prioritizes "holistic", comprehensive mind maps.

SERIGNE MANSOUR

United Nations-UNIDO

Local Community Empowerment

Ph.D. Serigne Mansour leads various research networks and large development programs and projects within short and long-term assignments at national and international levels. He has extensive working experience with officials at high level positions. He is a french native speaker and lives in the worldwide famous city of Dakar.

IEMKE IDSINGH

CEO@

Smart City Academy

I4 Urban

Connecting the Dots

We believe that the overly hyped ‘Smart City‘ focus has led to a lot of misconceptions in the average city council. Vendors, technology providers, consultants keep on pushing their offerings to cities that may not yet be ready to fully understand the impact of these promises.
To this end we assess and compare the city’s aspirations, validate those with the actual accomplishments, translate them in concrete requirements, engage the right stakeholders, support potential procurement cycles.

SAYAKA YODA

Consultant

5F-ICC

Japan on Stage

She has been working for an international organisation to implement city-to-city cooperation projects in DRM, especially exporting Japanese expertise in the field to developing cities in the Asia Pacific Region to increase their resiliency.

Her approach to Smart City Planning is to create a system which allows the community to provide key data to improve the quality of public services (Open Data Platforms)

PETER BJøRN

OWNER @

Smart City Insights AppS

Data runs at lightspeed

After nearly 15 years working with strategic development of cities he decided to use his knowledge to start as an independent consultant. In the last 8 years Peter has worked with the Smart City concept and for the past 4 years worked on how to create a data ecosystem that ensure effective use of data in both the public and private sector. He is a member of the Smart City Advisory Board for the Danish Government, but he has also worked with more than 40 cities around the world and worked with leading companies on understanding the potential in the smart city concept and how to source and sell data.

Your Local Expert

Consultant

Local "Sherlock Holmes"

This is the person(s) who will provide us with relevant information about your city particular challenges, so to address specific topics during the workshop.

This way your city and key stakeholders will get the best from us. At the same time "capacity building" is quickly mainstreamed.