Speaker Series: Smart Cities and Data

Big Data is inherent to Cities. However, the use of Big Data, Data Analytics and Data Driven apps is still scarce. In this session we will examine Cities & Data from both the angle of the Public Policy and the one of the implementation together with some salient cases of how to build a nascent Data Infrastructure for Catalonia. 

Join us for the second session of our Speakers’ Series relating to Business Analytics, where we will count with two main speakers and two 15-minute lightning talks.

PROGRAMME:

7:00pm    Welcome
                  Prof. Esteve Almirall, Academic Director of the MSc in Business Analytics at ESADE

Main Speakers sessions

7:05pm    Data Devolution in Europe
                  Dr. Igor Calzada, Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer in Urban Transformations, 
                  University of Oxford

7:30pm    Dealing with Data in Cities
                  Carles Carrasco , Researcher at IESE Business School and Partner at Eixos.cat

Lighting talks

8:00pm    Sentilo – An Open Source IoT framework developed in Catalonia
                  Gregori Mora, Smart Region project coordinator at Barcelona Provincial Council

8:15pm    Big Data projects in SmartCat
                  Rosa Paradell, Innovation Business Unit Manager at i2CAT Foundation

Q&A and Networking

8.30pm       Panel with the students of the ESADE’s MSc in Business Analytics

9:00pm       Networking drinks