Ronald Lenz

Urban innovation expert and entrepreneur, working in the creative industries in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For more than 10 years, working on challenges for smart cities, with a special focus on innovation in cultural heritage, tourism, hospitality, education, mobility and open data.

Passionate about how wireless, mobile and networked technologies can contribute to the livability and resilience of cities and help to adapt to our changing needs in energy, mobility, living, working, education and governance. Advocate for open systems, open design and citizen & community co-creation.

A regular speaker at international conferences on creative technologies for social innovation and urban development.

• Alumnus of THNK, Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership (MBA);
• Team lead THNK consortium proposal for the Amsterdam Metropolitan Solutions Institute.
• Founder and CEO of 7scenes - mobile platform for location-based services;
• Founder Urban Reality Lab at Waag Society, institute for art, science and technology;
• Initiator AugmentedCity - events and workshops on mobile media - and BestSceneInTown - mobile design competitions for universities - together with the PICNIC festival;
• Initiator MuseumApp - publishing museum collections to city locations;
• Initiator Mobile Learning Academy - transforming education through mobile gaming;
• Initiator Guest Navigator - mobile services for hotels, resorts, holiday parks and cruise liners;
• Co-founder Cities Next - creative think tank for urban challenges.

Expertise: business & strategy development, program management, product development, technology design, team management.