Putting Europe’s Intelligent Communities into Overdrive

The Intelligent Community

The CEO and Founder of Bable Smart Cities in Germany is on a mission: to accelerate change for a better urban life by helping a city or a region’s stakeholders create sustainable, innovative, and inclusive places. How’s he doing? And why is his company called “Bable??” In this episode we speak with Alexander Schmidt, whose company has been working on process of improvement for cities and which is partnering with ICF for the Barcelona Summit in early November at the Smart City Expo. Schmidt says that by “simplifying innovation” cities can save 80% of money allocated to them by the EU and other sources. He discusses this. Mr. Schmidt, whose company continues to open offices throughout the EU, also tells us why he finds the ICF method for creating better communities everywhere on Earth a compelling proposition.

And he tells us how Bable got its name…. Alexander Schmidt is the Founder/CEO at BABLE Smart Cities with the mission to accelerate the change for a better urban life by supporting urban stakeholders in creating sustainable, innovative, and inclusive cities and towns - providing a knowledge platform that enables collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and the acceleration of smart solutions. His competencies focus on: urban mobility, business models for new (digital) markets, system analysis and development of urban solutions and moderation of partnerships between public and private entities. He has a deep understanding of the goals, processes and background of industrial, scientific and governmental institutions. Mr. Schmidt holds several degrees, incl. a M.Sc. Transport from Imperial College London, Environmental Engineering & Business Studies, was a researcher and project lead at the Fraunhofer Research Society, Morgenstadt and MIT Sensible Cities Lab,. He was also part of the founding and management team of EIT Urban Mobility - an institution of the European Union.