Antoni Vives

City Transformation Agency

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Chairman of the City Transformation Agency, an urban consulting firm; former deputy mayor of the City of Barcelona 

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Big tech companies including IBM and Cisco invented the idea of "smart cities" using Big Data to systematize public services and improve the quality of life.

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