Director of Emerging Urban Solutions Initiatives at Tecnalia
Jesús de la Quintana leads the Emerging Urban Solutions initiatives at Tecnalia, integrating technological innovations into urban transformation projects, which are committed to solving the key challenges facing cities around the world.
It encourages the design of innovative scenarios to help build an urban transformation based on people, communication and energy that will generate sustainable economic growth and well-being.
It coordinates the MEDICI initiative, a powerful alliance whose objective is to anticipate new urban paradigms in which the intelligent use of technology allows inhabitants to enjoy a better life in cities.
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