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PUBLISHED ON 8 June 2021 BY Iacopo Testi

Iacopo Testi, Advisor and Contributor of Urban AI, is an italian urban technologist and data scientist. His professional and academic interests revolve around the development and applications of data …

PUBLISHED ON 8 June 2021 BY Ramon Gras Aloma

Jeremy Burke, Contributor and Advisor of Urban AI, is a Co-Founder and Managing partner of Aretian Urban Analytics and Design. As a City and Architectural Designer and Researcher interested in how …

PUBLISHED ON 8 June 2021 BY Hubert Beroche

Each week, Urban AI presents you one member of its Scientific Committee. For our second episode, we interviewed Nuria Oliver. Nuria is Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of ELLIS Unit Alicante …

PUBLISHED ON 8 June 2021 BY José Carpio-Pinedo

Jose Carpio-Pinedo, Advisor and Contributor at Urban AI, is a researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and a lecturer at …

PUBLISHED ON 16 May 2021 BY Laurence Liew

Laurence Liew, Advisor and Contributor of Urban AI, is the Director of AI Industry Innovation at AI Singapore and drives the adoption of AI by the Singapore ecosystem through the 100 AI Experiences …

PUBLISHED ON 16 May 2021 BY Hubert Beroche

Each week, Urban AI presents you one member of its Scientific Committee. We begin this series of interviews with Nadina Galle. Nadina is an Ecological Engineer who coined the concept of “Internet …

PUBLISHED ON 16 May 2021 BY Philippe Rapin

Philippe Rapin, Advisor and Contributor at Urban AI, is the CEO of Urban Radar. Urban Radar is a cloud platform that revolutionises the way cities understand, manage and regulate their response to …

PUBLISHED ON 16 May 2021 BY Hubert Beroche

Each week, Urban AI presents you one member of its Scientific Committee. We begin this series of interviews with Nadina Galle. Nadina is an Ecological Engineer who coined the concept of “Internet …

PUBLISHED ON 4 May 2021 BY Ariela Valverde

Ariela Valverde, Advisor and Contributor at Urban AI, has a background in Architecture and Urban Planning Policies. She is also the Co-Founder of Urbanalytica, a non-profit organization which aims …

PUBLISHED ON 27 April 2021 BY Scott Shepard

Scott Shepard is the VP Global Public Sector of Iomob. He is a digital mobility expert, startup advisor and thought leader who understands and is passionate about the intersection of cities, …

PUBLISHED ON 14 April 2021 BY Adrienne Schmoeker

Adrienne Schmoeker is the former Deputy Chief Analytics Officer for New York City, where she was Director of Civic Engagement and Strategy in the New York Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, managing …

PUBLISHED ON 2 April 2021 BY Iacopo Testi

Iacopo Testi is an italian urban technologist and data scientist. His professional and academic interests revolve around the development and applications of data science methodologies to transform …

PUBLISHED ON 18 March 2021 BY Aurélien Cottet

Aurelien Cottet brings his expert comprehensive knowledge of complex projects to Transdev to oversee all the local MaaS projects in each country where Transdev is present. He is still the operational …

PUBLISHED ON 16 March 2021 BY Rafael Luna

Rafael Luna is an assistant professor at Hanyang University and co-founder of the PRAUD architectural firm. He received a master’s degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of …

PUBLISHED ON 4 March 2021 BY Laura Narvaez Zertuche

Laura Narvaez Zertuche is an Associate Partner at Foster + Partners. She is a registered Architect and MSc in Urban Design and Sustainable Development from Tec de Monterrey; she also holds a MSc and …

PUBLISHED ON 4 March 2021 BY Iacopo Testi

Iacopo Testi is an italian urban technologist and data scientist. His professional and academic interests revolve around the development and applications of data science methodologies to transform …

PUBLISHED ON 4 March 2021 BY Hubert Beroche

An AI world tour One year ago, I went on an artificial intelligence (AI) world tour. This journey aimed to answer one question: can AI help us build sustainable cities? In other words, inclusive …

PUBLISHED ON 2 July 2020 BY MARIUS HARTMANN

By Marius Hartmann, Chief Advisor at the Danish Business Authority A successful city plan acknowledges that a city is formed by its inhabitants and users. The narrow winding streets of …

PUBLISHED ON 18 June 2020 BY ALISON J.FAIRBRASS

By Alison J.Fairbrass ( Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London and Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London) Summary Urbanisation drives the …

PUBLISHED ON 8 June 2020 BY Hubert Beroche

Yoshua Bengio is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning.  Since 1993, he has been a professor at the Department of Computer …

PUBLISHED ON 20 December 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

How does the Andersen’s tales translate themselves into AI and the “Smart City”? The answer is here: Andersen and The Emperor’s New Clothes In Copenhagen I met Stephen Alstrup, CEO and …

PUBLISHED ON 20 December 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

The cities of Italo Calvino In Invisible Cities (1972, Italo Calvino), the Emperor Kublai Khan asks that Marco Polo explore his wide empire and report back on what is happening. To the ruler’s …

PUBLISHED ON 6 December 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Max Welling is a research chair in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam and a VP Technologies at Qualcomm. He is also the co-founder of “Scyfer BV” a start-up specialized in deep …

PUBLISHED ON 14 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

François Chollet is a sofwtare engineer at Google and the author of Keras, a leading deep learning framework used by more than 350,000 people around the world. He also wrote “Deep learning …

PUBLISHED ON 11 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Founder and president of the SAT and rewarded with the Bâtisseuse du XXIe siècle award by the city of Montreal, Monique Savoie is one of the major influencers in the world of digital art. Could you …

PUBLISHED ON 11 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

What is social physics ? How AI can help us build better neighborhood ? To answer these questions (and many others), I’ve met Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Director of the MIT Connection …

PUBLISHED ON 11 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Internationally recognized for her work on globalization, immigration …

PUBLISHED ON 11 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Carlos Moreno, an internationally recognized expert on smart city and sustainable city, shared with me his vision of AI and cities. You often talk about the “Quarter Hour City”. Could you tell us …

PUBLISHED ON 11 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

How can AI help us create more walkable cities? What does the future of mobility look like? To answer these questions (and many others!) I’ve interviewed Andres Sevtsuk, Director of Harvard’s …

PUBLISHED ON 11 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

In Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002), the movie takes place in a futuristic city (Washington in 2054) full of incredible technologies. Among them: self-driving cars, advertisements tailored …

PUBLISHED ON 8 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Philosopher, essayist and President of the Think Tank Generation Libre, Gaspard Koenig made a journey to the heart of artificial intelligence ! In his latest book, he discusses the promises and risks …

PUBLISHED ON 3 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Created by the “City Science Group” of the MIT Media Lab, CityScope is a platform which involves Lego, AI technology and urbanism. How does this tool work? How can it help us build dynamic cities …

PUBLISHED ON 3 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Power consumption in buildings is responsible for more than 30% of CO2 emissions. In New-York, it reaches 70%, making its skyscrapers the city’s main polluting source. As a result, how can AI …

PUBLISHED ON 3 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Water, a major challenge for cities A civilization’s fate seems to be closely linked to its water usage. As a result, the roman aqueducts, Arabic gardens as well as the Paris’ sewers (created by …

PUBLISHED ON 3 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Last May, Montreal stood out of the crowd by winning The Smart Cities Challenge. Quebec’s metropolis has also won a 50 millions dollars prize allowing it, among other things, to create and develop …

PUBLISHED ON 3 October 2019 BY Hubert Beroche

Why do we say of an area that it is “typically Parisian”? Where does the “New York energy” come from? Or even the “Californian vibe”? More generally, how can a city give us a culture, an …

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