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Dan Hill

Closing Speaker

Dan Hill is an Associate Director at Arup, and Head of Arup Digital Studio, a multidisciplinary design team that helps develop transformative digital technology for cities, spaces, infrastructure, buildings and organisations.
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Kristien Ring

Keynote Speaker

Kristien Ring is an architect, curator, publicist and Assist. Professor at the University of South Florida for Architecture and Community Design, and principal of AA PROJECTS I Interdisciplinary Studio.
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Dietmar Offenhuber

Keynote Speaker

Dietmar Offenhuber is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the departments of Art + Design and Public Policy, where he heads the Information Design and Visualization graduate program.
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Liesbeth Huybrechts

Keynote Speaker

Liesbeth Huybrechts (1979, Leuven, Belgium) is Postdoctoral researcher in the area of participatory design and spatial transformation processes in the research group Arck, University of Hasselt.
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Joost Beunderman

Keynote Speaker

Joost Beunderman is a Director of the London-based design and strategy practice 00, where he joined in late 2008 to lead on a wide range of research and strategy projects.
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Tony Garcia

Keynote Speaker

Tony Garcia is a Principal of Street Plans Collaborative, and leads the firm’s Miami office. Anthony is a nationally recognized architect, writer, speaker and advocate in the in the field of transit, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.
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Christian Nold

Keynote Speaker

Christian Nold is an artist, designer and academic who builds participatory technologies for collective representation. In the last decade he has been creating large-scale public projects such as the widely acclaimed 'Bio Mapping' and 'Emotion Mapping' projects.
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Tracy Metz

Moderator

Tracy Metz, a native of California, is a journalist and author based in the Netherlands. She is the director of the John Adams Institute, an independent foundation that brings the best and brightest American thinkers and writers to the Netherlands.
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Geleyn Meijer

Conference Speaker

Geleyn Meijer is the Dean of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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Ben Schouten

Conference Speaker

Prof. Dr. Ben Schouten is Full Professor Playful Interactions in Smart Environments at Eindhoven University of Technology and Lector of Play & Civic Media Research at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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Matthijs Bouw

Conference Speaker

Matthijs Bouw is a Dutch architect and founder of One Architecture (est 1995), an award-winning Amsterdam and New York-based design and planning firm.
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Saskia Beer

Conference Speaker

Saskia Beer is an Amsterdam-based urban transformation entrepreneur and founder of ZO!City (formerly known as Glamourmanifest) and TransformCity®.
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Willem van Winden

Conference Speaker

Dr. Willem van Winden (PhD) is an urban economist specialized in urban innovation and policy. He is professor of Urban Knowledge Economy & Strategy at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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Dorien Zandbergen

Conference Speaker

Dorien Zandbergen is an anthropologist researcher at the department of sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
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Frank Suurenbroek

Conference Speaker

Dr. Frank Suurenbroek (1974) is Professor Urban Transformation at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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Thijs Turèl

Conference Speaker

Thijs Turèl is program manager of the Democracy by Design program at Alliander. He is working both on smart grid innovations and the societal implications of the energy transition.
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Knowledge Mile

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The location of Design & The City was the Knowledge Mile: an area in the heart of Amsterdam which runs from the Amstelplein to the Nieuwmarkt. A coalition of universities of applied sciences, citizens, municipality, organisations and companies has formed an applied research ecosystem to develop, test and display smart solutions for metropolitan challenges in the area.

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