ANTHONY TOWNSEND 
Research Director, Institute for the Future
Anthony Townsend is an urban planner and forecaster whose writing, public speaking, activism and consulting focus on urbanisation, ubiquitous computing and technology-led innovation and economic development. He holds posts as Research Director at the Institute for the Future, an independent research organisation based in California's Silicon Valley, and Senior Research Fellow at New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation. He was co-founder of NYCwireless, a pioneer in the community broadband movement, and was named one of Planetizen's "Leading Thinkers in Urban Planning & Technology" and "Top 100 Thinkers" tracking the Internet of Things by Postscapes. His first book, "Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia", is published by W.W. Norton & Co.

The Economist,Mr Wladawsky-Berger argues that without corporations playing a leading role in designing and managing the infrastructure of smart cities, they will never live up to the hype.

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