18-20 November 2027 | Invited International Conference Chair + Keynote Speaker | Barcelona, Spain Professor Igor Calzada has been invited to serve as Conference Chair and Keynote Speaker at the 2027 Global Conference on Urban Governance (GCUG 2027), scheduled for 18–20 September 2027 in Barcelona, Spain....
Dr Calzada has been collaborating in the last couple of years with Mr Amitabh Satyam, the Managing Partner at SAP company in Bangalore, India, in order to prepare the publication of the following book: 'The Smart City Transformations: The Revolution of the 21st Century'. The...
On 13th February, the second workshop from the series 'Bridging European Urban Transformations' that Urban Transformations ESRC programme leads from the University of Oxford in partnership with Vrije Universiteit Brussel took place in Brussels. The first workshop was entitled 'Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs)...
Dr Calzada will give a keynote conference and participate in the '2016 Strategic Innovation Summit: Smart Cities Europe' with representatives and senior leaders of smart city-regional strategies from Catalonia, Bristol, London, Dublin, Zaragoza as well as from other academic institutions in order to explore governance,...
Dr Calzada and Dr Cobo (both from the Future of Cities/Urban Transformations and Oxford Internet Institute respectively at the University of Oxford), will conduct a workshop entitled 'Education for (Social) Innovation: Transformation in (Smart) Cities' in St. Sebastián on 25th October 2016 as an action...
Dr Calzada participated in the roundtable organised the University of Valencia in collaboration with the Institute Alfons el Magnanim regarding a timely topic in the Spanish politics such as devolution and the plurinational state reality....
Since January 2015, Dr Igor Calzada is Lecturer at the Master MSc in Global Sustainable Cities at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. This new Master will start on September 2015 with two modules that will be in...
During the week of 22nd to 29th September 2013, I spent the field work trip collecting data in Reykjavik (Iceland) for my postdoctoral project 'Benchmarking Future City-Regions'. Almost, a year and four months later, here is my scientific ethnographic chronicle that has been published in...
A paper about Smart Devolution was presented in Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research at the 'Smart City-Regional Governance - International Symposium' on 8 and 9th October....
