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Founder · Smart Cities
Eduard Dumitrașcu
President of the Romanian Smart City Association. With wide experience in the public and private sectors, Eduard is one of the coordinators of Romania's Smart City ecosystem.
Academia Smart City lecturers and experts
Learn directly from the people building Smart Cities.
Our lecturers are professionals from public administration, academia, the private sector and international organisations.
The Academy team
Lecturers and lead experts.
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Vice-Rector · Ecological University
Ciprian Caragea
Specialises in big data projects, web scraping, mobile phone data analysis and statistical estimation algorithms.
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Professor, PhD · Politehnica
Florin Nemțanu
Politehnica University of Bucharest. IEEE Senior Member, with affiliations to PMI, ACM, IET and Smart Cities platforms.
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Coordinator · Academia Primarilor
Cristian David
President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (Institutul pentru Libertate și Democrație). Coordinator of the Academia Primarilor (Mayors' Academy) programme.
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Lecturer · SNSPA
Cătălin Vrabie
Teaches IT for public administration and e-government strategy at undergraduate and master's level at SNSPA, Romania's National University of Political Studies and Public Administration.
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Expert · Smart Governance
Constantin Tomescu
Former deputy mayor and advocate of digital transformation initiatives in local public administration.
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CEO · Dewatering & Silent Piling
Cristian Dragu
Expert in AI, BIM and trenchless technologies for urban infrastructure.
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Expert · e-Government
Liviu Stoica
Champion of Romania's government cloud and of the new public procurement system.
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Trainer · Smart Cities
Bărbuț Cornel
Specialises in IoT, fibre-optic networks and the infrastructure behind Smart City projects.
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Expert · European Commission
Sarolta Besenyei
European Commission expert on funding for Smart City projects.