Assaf Biderman is a technology inventor, author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Superpedestrian, a robotics company that focuses on the future of personal urban mobility, and the co-inventor of the Copenhagen Wheel: MIT’s award winning bicycle project and the company’s first product. Superpedestrian has received multiple awards including the Red Dot: Luminary – the highest Red Dot distinction – Time Magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2014, and the Deutscher Werkbund award. He also teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the Associate Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. Biderman focuses on working in partnership with city government and industry members worldwide to explore how distributed and embedded technologies can be used to improve livability in cities and create a more sustainable urban future.
Is Data Really the Solution to Better Urban Environments?
The smart use of data is important to cities and the citizens that reside in them. But what are the pitfalls as we navigate the economic, social and environmental stresses that affect cities? Who decides what data to rely on? What rights will citizens get to that data? Can we arrive at collectively acceptable policies for how data should alter our lives and help run our urban environments?
Toward a Self Aware City
How smart are “smart” cities? Can they guarantee safety? Carbon neutrality? Resilience? Better services? Democracy?
Conferences
Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
