Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at
Esade
URL Associate Professor
Director, Center for Innovation in Cities
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.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 2624
Fax: +34 932 048 105