Agenda

Jonathan Andrew is an Associate Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy, where his research focuses on the intersection of emerging digital technologies with human rights. He holds a PhD in Public International Law from the European University Institute and the Academy of European Law’s Diploma. He is also the Data Protection Advisor to the Consortium of fourteen partner institutions of the EU Horizon 2020 project 'ITFlows'.

Ben Green is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics, with a secondary field in Science, Technology, and Society, from Harvard University. Ben studies the social and political impacts of government algorithms, with a focus on algorithmic fairness, smart cities, and the criminal justice system. His book, The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future, was published in 2019 by MIT Press. Ben is also an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.

Lorena Santana Reuss is a business engineer with an MBA from the Catholic University of Chile, and was awarded a scholarship as the best student of German Schools of Chile for Germany in 1988 and Japan in 2000 in recognition of her work in support of the development of Chilean manufacturing. She worked until the year 2000 in the German Ministry of Economy and Cooperation, in the GIZ division, where she worked in the project "Improving the Competitive Position of Chilean Manufacturing in International Markets" Propyme. Since she was 22 years old, she has developed her own ventures, such as the advisory and training agency for microenterprises, Emprende; then the marketing agency, Esencia, which sold in 2014 to the Swiss multinational MCI. In 2012 she developed the company Truss Up, of corporate and fair architecture. Her latest initiative is Do! Smart City since 2016, a city agency and then foundation, dedicated to territorial development.

V.P. of International Strategy at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona (www.smartcityexpo.com), the premiere international event convening the world’s leading experts on smart cities. Business leaders, municipalities, innovative thinkers and key decision makers from all around the world gather to share insights, results and strategies for tackling the challenges facing cities globally. SCEWC showcases the latest thinking on Technology, IoT, Smart Society, Governance, Energy, Sustainability, Mobility, Resilience, Urban Planning and Security. The 2015 edition brought together over 14,000 professional attendees, 485 exhibiting companies and 570 cities from 90 countries.He has organized other Smart Cities events in cities like Medellin, Bogota, Brasilia, Shanghai, Seoul, Tel Aviv.

As former Director of Strategic Sectors at the City Council of Barcelona (2006-2011), he collaborated in the design, promotion and implementation of the strategic plan for sustainable mobility and smart city initiatives in the city of Barcelona. His professional expertise in the smart cities arena includes designing and promoting private-public partnerships, fostering industrial transformation and implementing economic development.

Katharina Candel-Haug is a strategy and innovation manager and deputy department head at MVG, the Munich public transport provider and subsidiary of Stadtwerke München GmbH. She develops the MVG strategy in sharing and on-demand mobility and heads the mobility section of the EU-funded smart city project Smarter Together in Munich.
 
Before joining Stadtwerke München, Katharina was a consultant in public transport market design at KCW Berlin and a consultant in private sector development at the World Bank Group in Istanbul. She holds a PhD in Innovation Economics from the University of Munich.