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Almirall Mezquita, Esteve

Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at Esade
URL Associate Professor
Director, Center for Innovation in Cities

Education
  • Ph. D. in Management Sciences. FUNDACION ESADE
  • Master of Research in Management Sciences.
  • DEA in Artificial Intelligence. UPC-UB-URV
  • Master Internacional de Gestió Empresarial. La Salle Bonanova - Manhattan College
  • Enginyer Tècnic en Informàtica de Sistemes. UOC
  • Master of Science in Computer Information Systems. University of Phoenix

Biography
Esteve Almirall serves as Associated Professor at Esade and Dtr. of the Center for Innovation in Cities. He lectured at various universities, including UC Berkeley, Purdue, UPF, UPC and EPFL. He has a mixed background in both AI and Management Sciences, particularly in Innovation.However, Esteve spent a previous life in the business IT sector with a career in consulting and banking where for many years Esteve was the youngest CTO in the Spanish banking industry, being the 1st in offering online transactions and the 2nd in online banking. As an entrepreneur he founded several companies and participated in tech startups.In academics he has been involved in multiple programs and created a Smart Cities program together with the World Bank that was well attended. His last contribution was the creation of the Esade's Master in Business Analytics ranked #5 in the world in 2018 https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/business-masters-rankings/business-analytics/2019.Esteve is passionate about the intersection between Digital Technologies and Innovation, in particular Smart Cities where he participated in multiple projects and congresses. He was one of the founders of the European Networks of Living Labs with +400 Living Labs around the world and coordinated several high-impact European Projects such as Open Cities or Commons for Europe and participated as principal researcher in many others totaling a budget of more than €29M. Esteve also worked for the World Bank and the European Commission as an expert. He has been deeply involved in the Smart Cities movement and in Smart City Expo since its inception.His research has been published in leading scientific journals such as Academy of Management Review, MISQ, Government Information Quarterly, HBR, CACM or California Management Review among others, totaling +80 publications. He is also a frequent contributor to the general press such as Forbes, La Vanguardia, Via Empresa or El nacional among others, and a well-known public speaker.As a recovering geek he prides himself on teaching Python, Julia, Machine Learning, Cloud Planforms and AWS as well as Competing with AI & Cloud, Smart Cities, Innovation and Management. 

Selected publications

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Tel: +34 932 806 162
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Fax: +34 932 048 105