Smart urban ecology in action

Headlining the eighth edition of Utopian Hours, Europe's leading festival for city-making and urban innovation, to present my book in Turin, Italy.

Opening and closing keynotes at the Partners in Community Forestry Conference in Chicago, celebrating urban forestry and community connections.

An unforgettable evening celebrating the Dutch translation of THE NATURE OF OUR CITIES with family, friends, colleagues, and fellow nature lovers.

Raising awareness on how technologies can help foster urban forest diversity on BBC Earth, with over 50K views.

Inspiring the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects to design and view the world through green-colored glasses.

Delivering a keynote at Kolektivo: the Caribbean's leading innovation festival devoted to social impact, entrepreneurship, and technology.

Highlighting the IoN technologies and practitioners making a difference in my new column for Landscape Trades — Canada's premier horticultural trade publication.

Delivering the keynote address to open the ISA Ontario Annual Conference.

Delivering a keynote speech on the latest innovations in urban ecology to a new audience for me: marketing professionals.

Launching my concept to bring nature online on the TEDx stage.

Creating the green and blue map of the city with Nature Desks and Urban Good.

Taking Amsterdammers on a virtual tour of the city’s trees — and how technology can help protect them.

Exploring the diversity of species, genera and family in street tree inventories within — and across — eight cities internationally.

Delivering a keynote on the role of technology in greening the real estate and development sectors.

Contributing to the FeltrinelliCamp Broken Cities panel on the role of technologies in (re)connecting urbanites to nature.

Delivering a keynote on how smart city technologies can build and maintain climate-proof, liveable cities.

Providing expertise to TomTom's new documentary on location tech and the evolving role maps play in daily life.

Building strategic partnerships for a state-of-the-art soil sensor company.

Delivering a keynote at PROTO, a vibrant festival full of knowledge, inspiration, and practical examples about sustainable futures.

Delivering a keynote on urban metabolism at Oslo Urban Arena.

Investigating what it means to be a “functional city” with the Mayor of Helsinki.

Developing an urban tree-detection algorithm.

Moderating a session on how stories and tech will help us cherish our planet.

Untangling where to start large-scale systemic change.

A community workshop to kick off the Connecting Nature Enterprise Platform.

Designing a webinar for 400+ participants technology and urban forestry.

Founding a three-week intensive course on the Circular City.

Unravelling the power of the circular economy.

Developing an online course to investigate the Anthropocene.

Exploring what makes (or breaks) an international civic tech collaboration.

Exploring the latest European trends in tech-driven urban forestry.

Building an open-source geoAI collective to map, monitor, and manage urban trees.

Creating an interactive keynote through gamification.