strategies - Dr Igor Calzada, MBA

19 Feb Paper published ‘Translocal Strategies for Experimenting with Smart Tourism Labs in Zumaia: The Case of the Basque Coast Geopark, Basque Country (Spain)’ in the proceedings of the 1st World Conference on Smart Destinations organised by UNWTO

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This is the full paper accepted and presented at the 1st World Conference on the Smart Destinations organised by the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organisation) in Murcia (Spain), from 15th to 17th February 2017. The paper presents the preliminary challenges around the intervention in...

06 Dec Keynote Conference in Smart Travel 2016 (Bragança, Portugal) 2nd December 2016

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Dr Calzada delivered on 2nd December the keynote conference in the Smart Travel 2016 event in Portugal. The title of the keynote was 'Translocal Strategies: Connecting (Talented) Citizens in Remote (Smart) Regions'. ...

18 Feb ‘Comparing Smart City-Regional Governance Strategies in Bristol, Glasgow, Barcelona & Bilbao’ at the Oxford City Debates, University of Oxford, Future of Cities (UK) (Feb 18-19)

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‘Smart city’ has already become a ‘fetish’ term to simplify complex urban debates in an uneven techno-deterministically-driven hyper-connected society. This paper compares strategically and ethnographically four specific city-region cases located in two European nation-states: Bristol and Glasgow in the UK, and Bilbao and Barcelona in...

30 Jan ‘7th Annual Smart Energy UK & EU Summit’ in London: Speaker & Moderator (29th Jan. 2016)

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On 29th January 2016, Dr Calzada took part in the '7th Annual Smart Energy UK & Europe 2016 Summit' as moderator of the panel 'European Smart Cities, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Connected Home' as well as delivering the conference 'Comparing EU Cities...

16 Nov The Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking > Regional Studies Association Winter Conference (London, UK)

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The paper "The Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking/Connection" was accepted in the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2013 "Mobilising Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth" that took place in London on 22nd November, 2013....

06 Jun Towards Future of City-Regions? University of Oxford (UK)

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On 23rd May, 2012, I delivered a seminar at the Potluck Seminar series for the Future of Cities Programme which I am member of. The session was attended by Steve Rayner, Idalina Baptista and Ebru Soytemel, among other participants....

27 Apr LSE Cities, London (UK) > (Towards the) Future of City(-Region)?

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On 27th April 2012, being invited by Future of Cities Group from the LSE Cities, I participated in a seminar about Smart Strategies in the Developing World. ...

29 Sep New Political Culture for Renewing the Social Capital > Hertie School of Governance (Berlin – Germany)

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As a consequence of the Networked Gipuzkoa project funded by Gipuzkoa Province Council and St Sebastian City Council, I presented an accepted paper at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, at The Governance of Large-Scale Projects International Symposium that took place on 2nd October...

Welcome to Dr. Igor Calzada

19 Feb Paper published ‘Translocal Strategies for Experimenting with Smart Tourism Labs in Zumaia: The Case of the Basque Coast Geopark, Basque Country (Spain)’ in the proceedings of the 1st World Conference on Smart Destinations organised by UNWTO

06 Dec Keynote Conference in Smart Travel 2016 (Bragança, Portugal) 2nd December 2016

30 Jan ‘7th Annual Smart Energy UK & EU Summit’ in London: Speaker & Moderator (29th Jan. 2016)

16 Nov The Future of City-Regions <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking > Regional Studies Association Winter Conference (London, UK)

27 Apr LSE Cities, London (UK) > (Towards the) Future of City(-Region)?

Invited talk at VIII World Congress of Basque Communities held by Basque Government, Presidency, External Affairs’ General Secretary in St Sebastian on 20th December 2023

Invited talk at Mondragon University’s UniverCity Symposium around Welsh & Basque Cooperation on 14th December 2023

Published peer-reviewed article in the journal Globalizations (IF 2.5/CiteScore 4.7)

Published peer-reviewed article in the journal Futures (IF 3.0/CiteScore 6.3)

Invited Speaker at Global Innovation Coop Summit, 29 Sept., Montreal (Canada)

Invited Speaker at Workshop: New Tools for the Digital Society, 29 Sept., Philipps Universität Marburg (Germany)

Invited Speaker at Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum, 13th Sept., London (UK)

Invited Speaker at the University of Salamanca (Spain) on ‘Smart City Citizenship: AI from a Transdisciplinary Social Science Perspective’, 11th Sept., Salamanca (Spain)

‘Towards an Algorithmic Nation? Dilemmas Around Synthetic Citizenship in Northern Ireland’ paper delivered at The Synthetic City: Potential, Politics, and Everyday Life Conference, 6-7 Sept. 2023, at Dublin City University (Ireland)

Invited Speaker at Stanford University, The Science of Blockchain Conference 2023 (SBC23)/ Stanford DAO Workshop, 31th August, Palo Alto – California (USA)

Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence via US-UK Fulbright Commission: Successfully culminated

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