Invited Speaker Reflections from Budapest: WIRE2024 & BME Seminar This November, I had the privilege of contributing to two significant events in Budapest, Hungary, exploring the intersection of emerging technologies, regional innovation, and societal challenges. These engagements highlighted how trustworthy AI and decentralized technologies can serve...
The lectureship focuses on the case-study co-production with students in two main fields: (i) Transformative Smart Cities and (ii) Changing Social Innovation. Here is the outcome of the FIRST edition, 2015/16: 
Ref.: Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, & Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.
This policy report, entitled 'Global Sustainable City-Regions' is the direct outcome of the new MSc Master Programme in Global Sustainable Cities jointly carried about the lecturer, Dr Igor Calzada, MBA and the seven participants/students working comparatively on seven global city-regional case-studies, as follows: Mumbai, Shenzhen,...
