Carlos Cadena
Escuela de Administración, Finanzas e Instituto Tecnológico (Universidade EAFIT), Colombia

August 19, 16:30

Carlos Cadena is an Associate Professor at EAFIT University and member of the Improving Inclusive Innovations Outcomes (i3O) research team, focusing on the study of innovation districts from an inclusion perspective. He currently serves as Ambassador of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) in Colombia and has lived and studied in the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan. An award-winning sustainability expert, he is the former Transport Commissioner of Medellín, Colombia; a full member of the Scientific Committee for the Climate Crisis of the State of Antioquia; and a former consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and UN-Habitat.

Carlos Cadena will participate in-person. This lecture will be held at Bilbioteca Brasiliana Auditorium, and will be broadcast on CEUCI's YouTube channel.

Carmen Adán
La Salle Technova Barcelona, Spain

August 20, 11:30

Carmen Adán is the Director of La Salle Technova Barcelona, the innovation park of La Salle–URL. She also served as CEO of the Network of Science and Technology Parks of Catalonia (XPCAT) until 2017, where she currently sits on the Board of Directors. She has over 20 years of experience in innovation management, entrepreneurship, and knowledge transfer across various sectors, including PropTech and ConTech.

Victor Eskinazi is an Associate Architect at the international firm Sasaki. He has experience in urban regeneration projects, waterfront developments, university campuses, mixed-use districts, and innovation districts. His work has received national and international awards, including from the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Society for College and University Planning. He holds a Master’s degree in Urban Design and Urban Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo, Brazil. He is affiliated with the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

Carmen Adán will participate online. Victor Eskinazi will participate in-person. This lecture will be held at Bilbioteca Brasiliana Auditorium, and will be broadcast on CEUCI's YouTube channel.

Rosemary S. Adu McVie
Papua New Guinea University of Technology (PNGUOT), Papua New Guinea

August 20, 16:30

Rosemary McVie is a Senior Lecturer/Researcher at the School of Surveying and Lands at PNGUOT, Head of Property Studies, and Acting Director of the Melanesian Land Studies Research Centre. She is internationally recognized for her pioneering research on the classification and performance assessment of innovation districts. From 2019 to 2022, she was a researcher at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, where she developed a multidimensional classification framework to assess the performance of existing innovation districts and categorize them into typologies to inform policymakers and urban planners for better decision-making regarding the planning, development, and management of these districts.

Rosemary McVie will participate in-person. This lecture will be held at Bilbioteca Brasiliana Auditorium, and will be broadcast on CEUCI's YouTube channel.

Adrian Smith & Fabiana Tock, mediated by Carlos Leite
University of Sussex, England; Tide Setubal Foundation; Mackenzie Presbyterian University

August 21, 11:30

Adrian Smith is a Professor in Technology and Society at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) since 1997. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Centro de Innovación en Tecnología para el Desarrollo Humano at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His research considers the politics and governance of innovation for sustainability, drawing upon ideas, insights and methods from sociology, political science, innovation studies, and science and technology studies. He has participated in studies both in and across so-called global Northern and Southern contexts, covering local through national to international scales in a variety of sectors. These projects have been funded by a variety of academic, government and civil society organisations in the UK and overseas (e.g., UK Research Councils, the European Commission, Friends of the Earth, the German and UK Environment Ministries, the Norwegian Research Council, the Mexican Council on Science and Technology, the Colombian Minnistry of Science, International Development Research Centre, Madrid Regional Government, the European Joint Research Centre).

Fabiana Tock holds a master's degree in Public Administration and Government from Fundação Getulio Vargas, with an advanced diploma in Sociology and Social Research from University College Dublin. She also holds a postgraduate degree in Public Management from the School of Sociology and Politics of São Paulo. Graduated in Social Communication from Faculdade Cásper Líbero. Since 2010, she has worked in the formulation and coordination of social development programs and policies on the themes of inequality, poverty, early childhood, slum upgrading, sanitation, and housing. She served as technical director at the São Paulo State Secretariat for Social Development, managing the state's policy to combat extreme poverty and early childhood development within the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS). She is the coordinator of the Cities and Urban Development Program at the Tide Setubal Foundation, leading urban intervention projects in slums and peripheries.

Carlos Leite is an Architect and Urbanist with a Master and PhD in Urban Environmental Structures from University of Sao Paulo and a Posdoc from California Polytechnic State University. He is the Dean at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, and a consultant on urban development and social urbanism at Stuchi & Leite Projetos e Consultoria. He was an Invited Researcher at Urban Spaces and Health Studies Group, IEA-USP (Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo) since 2019. He was also Coordinator of the Social Urbanism Center, Arq.Futuro Cities Lab, Insper, 2020-23; Visiting Scholar/Lectuter at several institutions including UC Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia, Parsons/NY, CalPoly, UofManitoba (Canada), Amsterdam Academy and IaaC/Barcelona; Director at Sao Paulo Urbanismo, São Paulo City Hall, where he coordinated several urban intervention projects (PIUs); and external senior urban development consultant at BID (IADB), UNESCO, CAF and other international institutions.

Adrian Smith will participate online. Fabiana Tock will participate in-person. Carlos Leite will mediate this session. This lecture will be held at Bilbioteca Brasiliana Auditorium, and will be broadcast on CEUCI's YouTube channel.