WHAT: The role of cities has become increasingly significant in recent decades. The majority of the world’s population lives in those urban areas where most of the wealth is produced, energy and information are consumed and waste and pollution are generated. These urban agglomerations are witnessing major technological and social transformations, resulting in new lifestyles and inequalities at the same time.
Smart cities are currently considered one of the most powerful tools to be used to deal with contemporary challenges at local level, such as pollution, energy efficiency, transportation, social inclusion and welfare, and to attract investments. In this framework, cities become potential platforms where major building blocks such as infrastructure, urban planning, rules enforcement and active citizenship might be glued together into a system that is able to respond dynamically to a new set of citizens‘ needs.
Overall, the main goal is to offer better services and to increase quality of life while guaranteeing infrastructure security and personal safety of citizens-consumers. Furthermore, dealing with the multiple challenges associated with the realization of smart city projects requires a holistic consideration of different policy areas (ICT, transport, energy and water) with the inclusion of all stakeholders, such as governmental and non-governmental actors, private sector players and citizens.

WHO: The course is mainly addressed to policy makers, regulators, city planners, utility network specialists, industry experts, software architects, startuppers, researchers, local decision makers and community managers

PROGRAMME:

- October 24, 2018 | GOVERNING SMART CITIES
An overview of the concept of smart city, on the different experiments carried out in Europe and on the challenges for the regulation of the urban services.

- October 25, 2018 | MOBILITY
From on-demand services to driving autonomous vehicles, “smart mobility” represents a radical shift of paradigm for local mobility and transport sector in general, hence opening up technological, economic and political challenges.

- October 26, 2018 | DATA-DRIVEN CITIES AND DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Big data and technology are transforming the cities all around the world: rethinking the traditional urban model is not just a technological and economic challenge, but a political one as well.

FACULTY:

Lorenzo CASULLO, OECD
Lorenzo Casullo joined the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2015, initially at the International Transport Forum (ITF) and subsequently at the Regulatory Policy Division where he works closely with the Network of Economic Regulators aiming to tackle emerging challenges for regulators in areas such as disruptive technologies, customer engagement and infrastructure investment. He is also involved in the development of innovative techniques to design and implement regulations, most notably in the field of behavioural insights. An economist by training, Lorenzo holds Master degrees from Cambridge University (Land Economy) and City University in London (Economic Regulation and Competition).

Marco CIURCINA, Lawyer
Italian lawyer, working in the field of commercial and contractual law, Information Technology law, Copyright, Patent, Trademark, and Privacy law, particularly, with special focus on free software licenses, open content and open data.
He teaches "Law and ethics of communication" at the Politecnico di Torino, Faculty of Information Science.
Free software and digital freedoms activist.

Juan MONTERO, European University Institute/UNED
Professor of Administrative Law at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid. His research is focused on the regulation of network industries, particularly railways, telecommunications and posts. He has published six books and more than forty scientific articles on independent regulatory agencies, network access regulation and public service obligations. He provides regular advice to carriers and governments on institution building, liberalization and public service schemes.

Pier Luigi PARCU, Florence School of Regulation, Communications & Media Area (FSR C&M)
Prof. Parcu is currently Area Director of the FSR Communications & Media, Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom and of the Florence Competition Programme. He is also Chairman of a consultancy company specialized in antitrust and regulatory issues of network industries. From 2000 to 2003, he has been CEO of the Independent System Operator running the Italian Electricity Grid (GRTN). From 1991 to 2000 he was the Director of Investigation at the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) in charge of several regulated sectors. Previously, he served as Chief Economist at the Italian Security and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) and as Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Cristina PRONELLO, Sorbonne Universités – UTC​ and Polytechnic of Turin
Cristina Pronello is full professor at Sorbonne Universités - UTC and full professor at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering; she has been full professor at Université Lumière Lyon2, LET (Laboratoire d’Economie des Transports). She is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the JPI Urban Europe and she has been for eight years Chair of the COST Domain Committee Transport and Urban Development, and served in the ECTRI board from 2005 to 2013. Her scientific interests are mainly focused to the travel behaviour, the effects of ITS on users' behaviours, the mobility surveys, transport economics and the environmental impacts from transport systems.

Christian RACCA, TOP- IX
Design Engineer, Christian manages the TOP-IX BIG DIVE program aimed at providing training courses for data scientists, data-driven education initiatives for companies, organizations and consultancy projects in the (big) data-exploitation field. After graduating in telecommunication engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Christian joined TOP-IX Consortium, working on data streaming and cloud computing, and later on web startups. He has mentored several projects on business model, product development and infrastructure architecture and cultivated relationships with investors, incubators, accelerators and the Innovation ecosystem in Italy and Europe.

Giulia RIPA DI MEANA, car2go Srl
Double Master degrees in Law, from Turin University and Université de Paris Descartes, Giulia started her professional path at the Italian Embassy in Luxembourg, therefore she has been Public Affairs manager at Seat Pagine Gialle Spa. Fascinated by digital startups and entrepreneurship world she holds the MBA Bath Entrepreneurship Programme deepening her passions as a Digital Account at Spindox Srl. From 2017 Giulia is car2go responsible in Turin, managing and developing the free floating car sharing service contributing to the urban mobility evolution together with Institutional Stakeholders and Mobility Operators.

Tom SYMONS, Nesta
Tom is a Principal Researcher in the Policy and Research team at Nesta. His research focuses on government innovation and he is currently undertaking research into the ways data can help governments to improve decision making and support innovation. Prior to Nesta Tom was an Associate at Social Finance, a not-for-profit organisation that works with government, the social sector and the finance community to develop solutions to complex social problems. At Social Finance Tom worked on projects developing Social Impact Bonds and whole systems change programmes in local public services, including children’s services, early years provision and health and social care integration. Tom previously worked at the Local Government Association, and before that was a Senior Researcher at the think tank New Local Government Network. Tom began his career as a Graduate Trainee at the London Borough of Islington. He has a BA in Economics and Politics from Exeter University and an MA in Housing from the University of Westminster. Outside of work Tom enjoys photography, travel, hiking and will watch and/or play almost any sport that doesn’t involve horses or engines.

ALBERTO VANOLO, Polytechnic of Turin
PhD in Spatial planning and local development at the Polytechnic of Turin, is associate professor of Political and economic geography at the University of Turin, Italy. His main research fields include urban studies and cultural geography. His latest book, entitled ‘City branding, urban imaginaries and ghosts: the politics of representation in globalising cities’, published by Routledge in 2017, focuses on city branding and the cultural and political dimensions of urban representations. 

SECRETARIAT:
TSLR Contact: Monica Postiglione, Monica.Postiglione@turinschool.eu
FSR Contact: Chiara Carrozza, Chiara.Carrozza@eui.eu 

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