This is a website of Prague City Data Congress 2019. If you are interested in the 2021 event, see our new website.
This is a website of Prague City Data Congress 2019. If you are interested in the 2021 event, see our new website.
Audrey Tang is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing personalities."
Professor of Urban Technologies and Planning Director.
Head of the innovation team for Turin City and advisor to Deputy Mayor Innovation and Smart City.
Torino City Lab
Michael is Programme Manager of Dublin’s smart city testbed – Smart Docklands – an initiative of Dublin City Council and CONNECT research centre.
Smart Dublin / Smart Docklands
Victoria Boeck is an Open Data researcher at the Technologiestiftung Berlin, where she leads the „Open Data Informationsstelle“ (“Open Data InfoPoint”, or simply ODIS). In this capacity she works with Berlin administrative employees to help them open up their data; she also helps conceptualize and implement projects that demonstrate the value of open data for the city of Berlin, including through projects with the CityLAB Berlin.
CityLAB Berlin
Tamara leads the Circular Cities Program at Metabolic, a consultancy and think-tank focused on tackling global sustainability challenges and advancing a circular economy.
Metabolic
From 2016 to 2019 he has been working as the head of the Collective Intelligence for Democracy Lab (@Participa_Lab). Most of the work in this lab has been related with Decide Madrid, the direct citizen participatory platform of Madrid City Council.
CONSUL Project
Kim is a Development Leader for Digital Services in Gothenburg. He's responsible for digital services for citizens and companies in and around Gothenburg, which includes working with open data and smarter city projects.
Vojtěch is co-founder of Institute of Circular Economy. He currently leads a transition towards circularity in Prague, and advices a number of organisations in their circular transition.
Jan is a developer at the Prague Data Platform Golemio. He also co-created an open-source application CityVizor, which visualizes the income and expenditure of municipalities in Czechia.
Operátor ICT
Since 2014 Javier works in the Urban Planning and Design Branch of UN-Habitat as an Urban Development Specialist and Programme Management Officer at UN-Habitat's Headquarters in Nairobi.
Batia has over 30 years of experience in advanced technologies management in Israel and the UK. Her expertise is Smart City strategies.
Sam joined the Circular South project as innovation manager Energy and Water. As the city of Antwerp is a lead partner for the project, he is responsible for realising the shared energy-systems, smart metering and a data platform with mobile front-end. This app will serve as a dashboard to provide the consumers with insight in their energy and water consumption and waste production. The same platform will also engage users through nudging and a blockchain-based rewarding system.
Eva Lalakova is a Project Manager and an Executive Assistant to CEO at Metabolic. Her areas of expertise vary from sustainable innovation and design to circular business models and social entrepreneurship. At Metabolic, she works in the Industries team where she helps to manage and execute consulting projects, and she also closely works with Metabolic's founder and CEO, assisting in co-creating organizational strategies and improved leadership and governance structures, and building and managing stakeholder relations with clients and partners. At PCDC, Eva will be conducting the workshop for the Circular City Section together with Tamara Streefland.
Benedikt used to manage the Ministry of Finance’s Open Data project, and now is a lead for Prague Data Platform department.
Golemio
Gianfranco leads two projects for the European Commission: the “European Data Portal” and the “Support Centre for Data Sharing”.
European Data Portal
Ekim is a founder of Games for Cities and Director of Play the City. She is a professional with a PhD and Masters Degree focused in Urban Design from Delft University of Technology, currently based in Amsterdam.
Play the City
Tactile Matrix creator & Technical Instructor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ross Douglas is a South African entrepreneur who founded Autonomy Paris, the world’s largest event uniquely dedicated to urban mobility.
Autonomy
Evelien has 7 years of experience in developing and coordinating mobility campaigns. Now she’s active in the EU-funded project TMaaS where she examines passengers’ expectations and stakeholder engagement.
EPF
Chief Data Officer of Lisbon will shed light upon Lisbon Intelligent Management Platform.
Michael is Research Programs Manager at NewCities. He has particular expertise in civic participation, having worked in city-to-city learning on the Experts Group for EUCANET.
NewCities
Tanaquil is the Chief Data Officer of the City of the Hague. She is responsible for developing and executing an integrated, long-term data strategy for the City.
The City of the Hague
Charles is an English entrepreneur who started Prague-based company that has developed the world’s most advanced dockless e-bike sharing system Freebike.
Freebike
María is the head of the Statistics Department and Data Dissemination. She focuses on functions of the Municipal Data Office and the open data project.
Barcelona Data Office
Txell is a game designer who leads teams that focus on the circular economy and urban transformation. She experiments with methods for civic design, placemaking and stakeholder engagement.
Play the City
Currently the founder & CEO of Umotional, Michal has 10 years experience designing and implementing AI-powered solutions that help people and cities move in a more sustainable way.
Umotional
Evert works as Research Engineer at Be-Mobile on projects involving geographical data management, traffic management and traffic related algorithms.
Be-Mobile
Vojtěch is co-founder of Institute of Circular Economy. He currently leads a transition towards circularity in Prague, and advices a number of organisations in their circular transition.
Chief Data Product Manager responsible for Italian National Digital Data Platform.
Digital Transformation Team
Chairmen of czBIM, NGO engaged in digitization in construction. Co-founder of di5 architekti inženýři and BIM-POINT software.
czBIM
Jan is a developer at the Prague Data Platform Golemio. He also co-created an open-source application CityVizor, which visualizes the income and expenditure of municipalities in Czechia.
Operátor ICT
Maria is Metrics, Analytics & Data Visualization Expert. She collaborates on the development of the Data Analytics Framework for the Italian Government.
Digital Transformation Team
Co-founder and CEO of Liftago, local ride-hailing platform with a vision of sharing transportation capacity across different mobility segments and services in order to help reduce traffic.
Liftago
Bahanur is an architect and film producer in Vienna. She is head of two associations in Austria and works on international projects for Eutropian.
Eutropian
Peter has been the community leader for the Waze Benelux community for almost ten years. He is the owner of Wegstatus.nl, an open traffic dashboard.
Waze Benelux Community
Vítek is a founder of the first bikesharing in Czechia that is now available in 7 Czech cities. He is now a CEO at this infamous pink bikesharing called Rekola.
Rekola
Josina is a Ph.D. researcher on a blockchain. She has worked for over 20 years as an economist in the corporate world as a Marketing and Finance Director and as a Consultant.
Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Vladimír is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Transportation Sciences. His field covers land transport control systems & related questions of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Czech Technical University in Prague
Benedikt used to manage the Ministry of Finance’s Open Data project, and now is a lead for Prague Data Platform department.
Golemio
Jaroslav is the leader of the atmospheric modelling working group in Institute of Computer Science. He concentrates on urban climate and air quality modelling for last 15 years.
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Jan currently leads a project of Virtual Prague which aims at developing a digital twin of Prague as a tool for city planning, management and decision making based on the visualization of city data and simulations.
Operátor ICT
Jan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Computer Sciences. His specialization is urban climate modelling and practical application of model outputs on the city level.
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Pavel is a co-author of the Radiative Transport Module in PALM-4U. He focuses on parallel scalability optimization and the MPI-related development.
The Czech Academy of Science
Sustainable urban development has been in the forefront of the EU and global agenda since the legendary 1992 Rio Conference. Despite the best intentions of city planners and data analysts, their joint ventures and the use of new technologies has not always helped to achieve excellence in environmental and social sustainability. Therefore, within this thematic focus of PCDC, we are addressing the issues of socio-technical mismatches and opening a discussion about transparent smart cities.
Datafication of our everyday lives grew exponentially over the last couple of years. Many pilot projects all over the world were launched to explore the benefits of smart mobility: electric cars, micro mobility, and self-driving vehicles. Most recently, mobility as a service became a way to extrapolate technologically advanced prototypes to reality. In this section of PCDC, we will discuss the solutions for user-friendly mobility applications as well as for platforms integrating mobility data and easing the management of transportation flows.
Within this thematic section, we will explore the variety of potentials for different types open data and open API. Also, the limitations of going open and necessity to secure data as well as the technicalities of working with the private sector in negations about open data and open API for city management will be debated.
This section will present a glimpse into the future of smart cities and smart planning. The transformation most US cities are going through at the moment, shifting from data officers to data analysts, clearly indicates the strong direction that the future data departments will be focusing on more complex issues. For that, there will be a need to work with more complex tools, like data modeling. Although only a few cities are now ready for this transition, it shall become a great goal and aspiration for many.
PCDC is hosted by the city of Prague to accelerate the sharing of the best practices, networking, and community engagement in the sphere of urban data. Each year we focus on excelling data practices in different areas and bring together experts from different fields to discuss the potential to change our cities for better through city-data.
Last year we’ve explored the consciousness of smart cities through the topics of mobility as a service, community engagement and sustainability, open data and API and building information modeling. Keynotes were delivered by Ira Winder (MIT), Ekim Tan (Play the City), Michael Woodbridge (New Cities) and Ross Douglas (Autonomy, Paris). A friendly atmosphere accompanied the discussion throughout two conference days. Small scale afternoon workshops that always follow the morning presentations enabled speakers and visitors to abandon the barriers and widen their horizons together.
This year we open a discussion about modularity in the city by picking three main areas that are gaining traction: circular economy, innovation, and open-source. Around three hundred attendees will come together to address practical concerns in regard to advancing circularity, open-source, and innovation hubs and living labs in their cities. Limited capacity workshops for professionals and municipal workers in respective fields will highlight the topics that Prague is aspiring to pursue in the future.
To embark on this two-day journey into the urban data world with us, please register in the Registration Section below and wait for approval.
I am impressed by this reflective gathering of Prague’s leading technologists, and am proud to be part of a discussion that pushed beyond mere buzzwords. Every keynote challenged us to think critically about whether our computational “solutions” are solving the right problems, all the while sharing best practice techniques for implementing digital tools.
Prague City Data Congress 2019 was exactly the sort of event that NewCities loves to be involved in; a convening of experts from across sectors, disciplines, and distances, working together to unearth new perspectives that will help improve quality of life in cities. We look forward to PCDC 2020!
Prague City Data Congress offers a very good opportunity to think about and plan the future of digital cities. People from different disciplines can join forces to improve the life of citizens.
A smart city is the path, a data city is the aim. The more Prague learns about it, the more it will have an influence on citizens’ lives. And this knowledge will bring new jobs, new business opportunities that help create the economy of the Czech Republic.
This conference was very important and specific, because here in Prague you have a very progressive mayor who is moving the capital in a very positive direction. She can get together in one place academia, the private sector and the local authority so that they can openly discuss a topic that concerns every citizen. You are setting a new direction in global access based on co-operation with other cities
I think that it’s great for Prague that it’s paying attention to the topic of data and I can see that Prague is on a very good path in the area of Open Data. The congress was very useful because, in my experience, it is one of the few congresses in the world that is technical and specific. I could meet fellow experts here and share experience.
I’m really happy that we managed to arrange the congress, which was attended by experts on city data from three continents, in Prague. By holding the congress, Prague showed that, globally, it is a leading city involved in data. I was really pleased by the feedback from international experts about our Golemio data platform, which we presented to attendees at the congress. What is very important for us is to gradually build a community of data experts between individual cities. The involvement of data analysts is then particularly important. I strongly believe that the Prague Data Cities Congress has started a tradition of meetings between data experts and today I’m already looking forward to the next congress.
Gianfranco leads two projects for the European Commission: the “European Data Portal” and the “Support Centre for Data Sharing”.
Ekim is a founder of Games for Cities and Director of Play the City. She is a professional with a PhD and Masters Degree focused in Urban Design from...
Tactile Matrix creator & Technical Instructor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT.
Ross Douglas is a South African entrepreneur who founded Autonomy Paris, the world’s largest event uniquely dedicated to urban mobility.
Evelien has 7 years of experience in developing and coordinating mobility campaigns. Now she’s active in the EU-funded project TMaaS where she examine...
Chief Data Officer of Lisbon will shed light upon Lisbon Intelligent Management Platform.
Michael is Research Programs Manager at NewCities. He has particular expertise in civic participation, having worked in city-to-city learning on the E...
Tanaquil is the Chief Data Officer of the City of the Hague. She is responsible for developing and executing an integrated, long-term data strategy fo...
Charles is an English entrepreneur who started Prague-based company that has developed the world’s most advanced dockless e-bike sharing system Freebi...
María is the head of the Statistics Department and Data Dissemination. She focuses on functions of the Municipal Data Office and the open data project...
Txell is a game designer who leads teams that focus on the circular economy and urban transformation. She experiments with methods for civic design, p...
Currently the founder & CEO of Umotional, Michal has 10 years experience designing and implementing AI-powered solutions that help people and cities m...
Evert works as Research Engineer at Be-Mobile on projects involving geographical data management, traffic management and traffic related algorithms.
Vojtěch is co-founder of Institute of Circular Economy. He currently leads a transition towards circularity in Prague, and advices a number of organis...
Chief Data Product Manager responsible for Italian National Digital Data Platform.
Chairmen of czBIM, NGO engaged in digitization in construction. Co-founder of di5 architekti inženýři and BIM-POINT software.
Founder of Česko.Digital and Apiary.
Jan is a developer at the Prague Data Platform Golemio. He also co-created an open-source application CityVizor, which visualizes the income and expen...
Maria is Metrics, Analytics & Data Visualization Expert. She collaborates on the development of the Data Analytics Framework for the Italian Governmen...
Co-founder and CEO of Liftago, local ride-hailing platform with a vision of sharing transportation capacity across different mobility segments and ser...
Bahanur is an architect and film producer in Vienna. She is head of two associations in Austria and works on international projects for Eutropian.
Peter has been the community leader for the Waze Benelux community for almost ten years. He is the owner of Wegstatus.nl, an open traffic dashboard.
Vítek is a founder of the first bikesharing in Czechia that is now available in 7 Czech cities. He is now a CEO at this infamous pink bikesharing call...
Josina is a Ph.D. researcher on a blockchain. She has worked for over 20 years as an economist in the corporate world as a Marketing and Finance Direc...
Vladimír is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Transportation Sciences. His field covers land transport control systems & related questions of I...
Benedikt used to manage the Ministry of Finance’s Open Data project, and now is a lead for Prague Data Platform department.
Jaroslav is the leader of the atmospheric modelling working group in Institute of Computer Science. He concentrates on urban climate and air quality m...
Jan currently leads a project of Virtual Prague which aims at developing a digital twin of Prague as a tool for city planning, management and decision...
Jan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Computer Sciences. His specialization is urban climate modelling and practical application of mod...
Pavel is a co-author of the Radiative Transport Module in PALM-4U. He focuses on parallel scalability optimization and the MPI-related development.
The Mayor of Prague.
Chairman of the Board and General Manager at Operátor ICT.
Center for architecture and metropolitan planning
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