Smart Leaders

Turín

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…
Ignasi Vilasojana

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…
Fabien Girardin

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…
Stephen Brobst

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…
José Andrés García

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”
José Manuel Leceta

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…
Íñigo de la Serna

Interview With Íñigo de la Serna. Santander Mayor

“We have become an urban laboratory” “We must be ready to face future challenges, be more sustainable, offer more efficient services to our citizens and adapt to their needs” “The history of mankind is measured by the technological achievements reached. We are now facing a new period of change and evolution”
SCEWC

Interview with Rosa Paradell, editor of Smart City Expo

"We shouldn’t treat this as a moral obligation but as a means of survival” “We have to transform our cities to make them more efficient, more sustainable and more habitable for greater numbers of people” “We want Smart City Expo World Congress to be the number one international reference event in the Smart Cities field”
Carlo Ratti

Interview with Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti is a civil engineer and architect who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory. He is a regular contributor of articles on architecture to the magazines Domus and Casabella and the Italian newspapers Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa.
José Manuel Petisco

Interview José Manuel Petisco Director General – Cisco Spain

A few weeks ago, as part of the technology conference held in Santander, José Manuel Petisco remembered his early work in Sweden and the impressive transition our society is going through, riding on the development of new technologies that the head of Cisco Spain speaks about with real passion and, of course, with extensive knowledge