Interview with Frans-Anton Vermast, the strategy advisor and international smart city ambassador at Amsterdam Smart City. We will talk about his and their visions for the future of cities, how they approach the definition of smart city, how their projects at Amsterdam Smart City are established, and many more. So let’s start with a proper introduction.
Frans-Anton is an expert in searching for the opportunities of novel appliances and services that make cities a more habitable place for its citizens to live, work and play pleasantly. Furthermore, he specialises in developing Smart Cities as open and user centric innovative platforms as well as holistic and cross-silo approaches through collaborative bottom-up approaches and citizens engagement. Apart from best and next practises, Frans-Anton is not afraid to share some failures and lessons learned to prevent other cities making the same mistakes. He has extensive knowledge and experience in facilitating the participation of local governments, municipalities and communities in these initiatives.
You can find out more about Frans-Anton and Amsterdam Smart city through this links:

Frans-Anton Vermast on LinkedIn
Amsterdam Smart City
Frans-Anton Vermast at Amsterdam Smart City

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