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Data as the new wheel. Mobility beyond transport in smart cities.
Vinay Venkatraman has a background in industrial design, strategic innovation, tech & education, and is the founder and CEO of Leapcraft (www.leapcraft.dk), a design driven innovation consultancy based in Copenhagen, and co-founder of Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), a consultancy who works with design, innovation, services and environment.
With a background in design and a passion for strategic innovation and tech, Vinay has helped shape strategy and content for numerous initiatives, including companies like Nokia, Intel, Novo Nordisk, Maersk line and Lufthansa Technik, through consulting, teaching and research. He aims to incubate new technology ideas and find new models of sustainable socioeconomic development using appropriate technologies. In collaboration with The Danish Design Center, Vinay initiated the Big Data Visualization Academy in 2013, to build awareness about how big data can be utilized within design thinking and innovation.
"Data as the new wheel: Mobility beyond transport in smart cities”
Back in 2012 Vinay was giving the TED talk “Technology crafts for the digitally underserved” during the TedxSummit in Doha, and now he will be one of five speakers at the TEDxCopenhagenSalon event on ‘Mobility’.
This time the title of the talk is “Data as the new wheel: Mobility beyond transport in smart cities”, which will be about how the world of sensors, data and smart infrastructure is changing the landscape of how people move around in cities.
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