Author: Pablo Valerio
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Has the Pandemic Impacted Retail Rotation?
Before Covid-19, retail rotation was considered an indicator of a city’s healthy business and retail fabric. Has the pandemic impacted the opening of new shops, or has the process continued, helping businesses stay afloat?
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UK Railroads Invest in Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning
The oldest rail network in the world, with over 32,000 km. of track, is investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning to streamline maintenance and deal with weather-related challenges. Two months ago, during the AI and Big Data Expo, I had the opportunity to meet Nikolaos (Nick) Kotsis, Chief Data Scientist at Network Rail. At […]
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Web Summit Returned to Lisbon with an impressive lineup
Named the world’s largest and most influential tech conference, the Web Summit came back to Lisbon as an entire physical event. The organization says 42,751 people from 128 countries attended. This year’s event featured over 700 top-notch speakers such as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Arm CEO Simon Segars, VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram, and former Facebook […]
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MWC Lite came back to Barcelona
After 28 months, Mobile World Congress came back to Barcelona, much smaller and with significant absences, but with a renewed interest in meeting on-site, focusing on 5G, OpenRAN, and massive IoT. It was a strange feeling for most of us attending the show. Almost two and a half years after the last edition, we were […]
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Trade Shows Uncertain Times
Expecting a dark winter, conferences are being canceled worldwide, putting millions of jobs at risk.
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Volkswagen Group Retools German Factories for EVs
The biggest European automaker is retooling and building new facilities in Germany for Electric Vehicles.
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Fira Barcelona ready for SmartCityLive, this year’s urban innovation event
Co-organized with Mediapro as a TV show, Smart City Live will be the digital edition of SCEWC this year. It will be online on Nov. 17-18.
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IoT Technologies Monitoring the “New Normal”
LPWAN technologies provide space managing, helping social distancing and contact tracing.
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Barcelona will have to wait for MWC 2021
Yesterday, the GSMA announced that it is postponing the Mobile World Congress to the end of June.
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Time for Barcelona to “Hit Refresh”
It is time to make bold, disruptive changes in the city’s economy: fuel innovation, sustainability, and policies to improve Barcelona residents’ quality of life.