Smart City: Transferring the Amsterdam Approach to the Brazilian context

Is Strategy Advisor and International Smart City Ambassador for Amsterdam Smart City and City of Amsterdam’s Chief Technology Office Innovation Team. Vermast is an expert in identifying opportunities to make cities and their regions more inclusive and habitable places for people to live, work and play. In addition to having more than 20 years experience advising consultancy firms, communication incumbents, SME’s and start-ups, Vermast specializes in citizen engagement and governance-models to facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration.  His objective is to boost social and economic well being by facilitating social innovation and fostering a more sustainable environment via open data and algorithms.  Vermast has extensive international experience having advised public and private stakeholders in more than 20 countries. He is a visiting speaker at Leiden University and Radboud University Nijmegen and a guest lecturer at the Universities of Applied Sciences of The Hague.

Is AUAS Professor of the research group Play & Civic Media. De Waal has a background in journalism, media studies and practical philosophy. His research is focused on the relation between digital media and public space, with specific interest in civic media and digital placemaking. De Waal is a co-founder of The Mobile City, a non-profit that has organized numerous workshops and events on digital media and urban culture in the Netherlands and internationally. Before working at the AUAS he was an assistant professor in media studies at the University of Amsterdam, and was a visiting scholar at the MIT Centre for Civic Media. Previously, he was a journalist working for a diverse range of Dutch media (de Volkskrant, VPRO Radio, Emerce) covering technology & society. De Waal was appointed professor of the Play and Civic Media research group in February 2020.

Is senior lecturer within the Urban Management track at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). Van Os teaches policy science, policy management and e-governance within the Public Administration BSc and Urban Management MSc programs. Van Os’ research lies at the interface of ICT and public administration, with an emphasis on the administrative side of digital services and smart cities. Van Os’ expertise centers on how urban administrative organizations deal with contemporary technological developments, the way ICT changes urban administrative processes and the impact of technology with regard to how governments interact with business and citizens.

Is the International Liaison for Amsterdam Smart City, an innovation platform residing under the Amsterdam Economic Board which brings together governments, companies, knowledge institutions and civil society organizations to shape the city of the future. Dinca is responsible for connecting international stakeholders to relevant smart city experts and projects in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region, which facilitates knowledge transfer and helps kickstart new collaborations. She is also the founder of Sustainable Amsterdam, a consultancy focused on transferring Amsterdam-based best practices for sustainable and smart cities internationally through experiential learning.  Dinca holds an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Amsterdam and a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calgary.  Previously, Dinca worked on energy, climate change, sustainable mobility and urbanism projects in Canada and Germany.

Is an urban economist and professor at AUAS. Since obtaining his PhD in 2003 at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, he has published many international comparative studies on the topics of: cities in the knowledge economy, ICT & the city, the future of industry in European industrial regions, and economic clusters. Van Winden is the initiator of many research projects in the broader field of urban economics, usually on behalf of municipal institutions. He also serves on the academic board of the AUAS Urban Lab, which brings together research and stakeholders on metropolitan issues. In addition to his professorship, Willem van Winden is director and co-founder of Urban IQ, an internationally oriented consultancy practice for urban policy. He is also affiliated with the European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (Euricur) and works as an advisor for URBACT, a European institute aimed at promoting knowledge exchange between cities.