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Interview with Marieta del Rivero

Marieta del Rivero, General Manager Deputy to CCDO / Telefónica, S.A “Telefónica stands up for an open, safe internet experience as the basis for the development of Digital Economy. We need cooperative, open models that foster the new economy. The Smart City platform should be open, standard, cloud-based and determined to break the silos of…

Digital Cities, ICT, Information Society

Interview with Berrin Benli

Interview with BERRIN BENLI. Co-Founder of NOVUSENS Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute, the 1st ‘think tank’ organization in Science, Technology, and Innovation field in Turkey which is independent and for-profit, service innovation oriented that was established in 2009, Ankara, Turkey.

Interview with Oscar Pallarols

The success that the Mobile World Congress has experienced in these past editions is inseparable from the hard work of an organization that has been working for years to foster the use of mobile technologies, sustainability and innovation: Mobile World Capital. This organization has become a key pillar of the Congress since 2011, year in…

Interview with Toni Mascaró

A 42-year-old businessman from Barcelona, Toni Mascaró has a mind that never stops racing. After a long career as a specialist businessman in new technologies and online marketing, he is currently the Chief Executive Officer at e.mascaró, one of the most successful and innovative companies in e-business applied to tourism.

Big Data, Digital Cities, Smart Cities, Tourism

Interview with Donatella Mosso

Today, Turin is perhaps one of the three benchmark smart cities in Italy, along with Bologna and Genoa. We had a conversation about Turin with Donatella Mosso, executive director of “Torino Smart City. A Winter Olympics”. A strong commitment towards innovation and tourism were the key points for the success of a city that has…

Smart Cities, Tourism

Interview with Ignasi Vilajosana, CEO of Worldsensing

“This is an emerging market where the initial steps are being taken in the absorption of such technologies, but we should bear in mind that these are new products in a new market” “Barcelona provides talent at a reasonable cost and quality of life. Besides, in the last five years, an ecosystem of small companies…

Interview with Fabien Girardin

“A Smart City handles a huge amount of data, but how to relate them to each other is still to be determined” “We work to turn these non-related data into value. Doubt is the starting point, but as a means to state whether something is good or bad” Fabien Girardin -a Swiss engineer and researcher…

Big Data, Smart Cities

Interview to Stephen Brobst. CTO at Teradata

“Strategies depend on the particular projects and approaches undertaken by each company “For big companies with huge amounts of data to work on, the cloud is not profitable from an economic point of view” At the Teradata Universe event we had the opportunity to talk to Stephen Brost, Teradata CTO, along with several international press…

Interview with José Andrés García

"In Spain, technology moves faster than its specific applications" “People has been working with Big Data for years in Spain. The change does not lie in analytics itself, but in the arrival of new types of data”

Interview with José Manuel Leceta

“A Smart City is a city capable of rethinking itself by catalizing creativity and collective intelligence” “Responsible public management cannot only be measured in terms of certain funds being entrusted to a person in charge. It should also be measured in terms of efficiency” “We are not really aware of the social changes the ICTs…