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Professor Theo Lynn is (Full) Professor of Digital Business at DCU Business School. Professor Lynn specializes in the role of digital technologies in transforming business and society. His main teaching areas are strategy and digital marketing. He has been published widely including JASIST, the European Journal of Marketing, Information, Communications and Society, Computers and Human Behavior, New Media & Society, the Journal of Distributed and Parallel Computing, the International Journal of Advertising, European Planning Studies and others. He is the Series Editor on the Palgrave Studies in Digital Business & Enabling Technologies. He is a regular speaker at both academic and industry conferences. 

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I am a Master of Administrative Sciences with a special interest in human geography, regional science and environmental policy. As a researcher, I am particularly interested in urban planning, participation, agency and citizen science, and the concepts of space and place 

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Prof. Boualem Benatallah is a full professor of computing at Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland) since Jan 2022. He is fellow of the IEEE. His main research interests are developing fundamental concepts and techniques in service Web services middleware, business process automation, quality control in crowd sourcing services, automated and crowdsourced training data curation, intelligent and AI-augmented services, conversational cognitive services, context aware and compositional task-oriented conversational services. He has published more than 300 refereed papers including more than 90 journal papers. He is a member of the steering committee of BPM (Business Process Management) and ICSOC (Int. Conference on Service Oriented Computing) conferences. He is member of Executive Committee of IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems. He has built a strong set of international relationships with leading researchers and practitioners in his field, and multiple productive collaborations with internal universities, industry and government organizations.

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Paulo Batista is a junior researcher at the University of Aveiro, where he is developing a research path through the fields that support the building of spatial planning decision support tools. With an initial graduate background in Urban and Regional Planning, he obtained his PhD in E-Planning, from the University of Aveiro. Moreover, he was finished a posgraduation in Data Analytics at Faculty of Economics - University of Porto.

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Dr. Johannes Flacke has over 20 years of theoretical and practical experience in urban and regional planning in the global north and south and the development and use of geo-information and planning support systems. Fields of application have been urban land use planning, informal settlements, health and environmental inequalities, sustainable land management, climate change adaptation, hazard and risk management, and poverty alleviation and targeting. His research focuses on the transformation of urban areas into sustainable and resilient places for all. Main research interests are currently informed spatial decision making for urban planning in the global south, climate change adaptation planning at the local level, the application of collaborative spatial decision support systems in urban planning and micro-level modelling of urban dynamics.

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Luca holds a Master’s degree in Urban Mobility from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a Master’s in Geoinformatics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Has been part of the BiciZen project since the beginning, focusing on the design, the development and the management of the platform websites as well as the back-end. Currently working at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), on the modelling of bicycle ridership levels in Barcelona. 

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Lorena Velázquez is the communication an community manager for BiciZen; a citizen science project that aims to learn about urban mobility and to make city regions more bikeable. Her work focuses on promoting the platform among the cycling community of Barcelona and other urban regions of Europe.
She holds a bachelor´s degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Latina de América (UNLA) in Morelia, México. She is a graduated student in the Travel Journalism Master, at the Unversitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where she engaged with a large group of professional travel journalists from Spain and Latin America; having the chance to create her own project called “Voces de Núremberg” (Nuremberg´s Voices), a four chapters documentary that explores the history and culture of this German city.
Her professional career covers the areas of communication, broadcasting and production. She has worked in several radio stations in her hometown, reaching big audiences, and now she faces a new challenge by becoming part of the City Lab team as the Communication intern.

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I am Professor or Regional Studies and lead the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG). I am also the PI for Tampere University part of the Centre of Excellence in Research on the Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization (RELATE) funded by the Academy of Finland, and the vice director of the New Social Research (NSR) profiling programme in Tampere University. My research lies at the intersection of political geography and global and transnational sociology, with focus on the study of political subjectivity, political agency, forced migration and transnationalization. I am particularly interested in the political agency of people in vulnerable positions. I have also studied discourses and practices of territoriality, borders and national identities, urban planning and civic participation, and the methodology of human geography.

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