We have been awfully quiet about our little event in Amsterdam, haven’t we? Apologies for that.

It’s only one more week to the event and while the timing is short, we hope to see many of you at our first iteration of the Cognitive Cities Salon in Amsterdam.

While being silent, we haven’t been idle. It is our combined pleasure to introduce you to the speakers that will engage the conversation about the future of cities at De Verdieping on the evening of June 30th.

James Burke, Co-founder of VURB
Katalin Galayas, Policy Advisor to the City of Amsterdam
Kars Alfrink, ‘Chief Agent’ of Hubbub
Edwin Gardner, VOLUME Magazine

The four of them will present their thoughts on urbanity, technology and how we are in the middle of it all. But the Salons are not intended to give only the speakers the stage. While sometimes it is important to only receive curated information, we are very much hoping for a lively debate at the event. Be challenged by the speakers, but also do your best to challenge them.

A special call for participation for the next IoT workshop by Volume and VURB will be delivered by Vincent Schippers, Alexander Zeh and Caro van Dijk. The workshop is for architects, planners, coders and others interested in prototyping applications for a more writeable city.

The evening will be moderated by Juha van ‘t Zelfde, host of Visible Cities.

Here are the details

Date: 30th of June
Location: De Verdieping
Begin: 19:00 (we will start at 19:30)
End: 22:30
Entrance fee: 10 Euros

Details about the location:
De Verdieping

Please RSVP to our
Facebook Event

We will provide some drinks and snacks, just to make sure that everybody is powered up for a great evening full of conversations.

As always, a big shout out goes to our partners in crime:

VURB
Visible Cities
Volume Project

If you feel like it, please spread the word!

Warren Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television recognized for his sociocultural commentary on futurist themes spannning nanotechnology, cryonics, mind transfer, and human enhancement.

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Vinh-Nghi Tiet is currently Head of Development and Sustainability at ICADE Germany, a Real Estate Investor and developer. Also auditor for the German society for sustainable buildings, he focuses on creating buildings that join sustainable lifestyle and performing business.

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Anil Bawa-Cavia is a technologist with a background in social software. Former lead developer of online music network Last.fm, Anil now researches urban networks at the inter-disciplinary Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), UK.

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Pitt Moos – Smart (future urban mobility since 1998)

Pitt Moos is the Product Manager for the Smart Electric Vehicle series. In this position he focuses on pushing the boundaries for urban and sustainable mobility.

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Those are just a few of the questions that we had to answer – or more precisely: to evade – over the last few months. The first iteration of the conference was a full successful, but we needed some time to digest and process. After all, the team was not doing this full time – it was a side project.

After a few months of wrapping our minds around it we decided to push CoCities into the next gear. No, we are not announcing the next big conference, nor are we saying that there will be one. The first conference was a big experiment. We poured our combined experiences from other conferences into one and attempted to create something new. That worked out well, but doing just the same thing over doesn’t seem appropriate.

That’s why we are happy to announce Cognitive Cities Salons today. The first one will be in Amsterdam on June, 30th. More precisely, it will happen at De Verdieping (Wibautstraat 127, Amsterdam).

The general idea behind the salons is simple: create an local event, from locals, for locals – curated by CoCities. Those will be small events, not larger than 100 people. A major part of those events is to find the appropriate partners. Luckily, in Amsterdam we are very well served. To say it with Juha’s words:

With VURB, Visible Cities and Volume Magazine, we have a great lineup of partners to create an exciting event for Amsterdam. There will be an entry fee, but we will try to keep that as low as possible.

That is it for the moment. More announcement will be streaming in soon, but we hope to see you soon in Amsterdam.

Partners:
http://vurb.eu/
http://verdieping.org/
http://visiblecities.eu/
http://volumeproject.org/

Sami Niemelä – Urban information design and the new materials of interaction

Sami Niemelä is the creative director of Nordkapp, a Helsinki based group of experienced designers, strategists and technologists.

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Georgina Voss – What is that beautiful house?

Georgina manages the Homesense research project, and is a Tutorial Fellow in Ethics at Sussex University. She has previously worked with Tinker London, focusing on user and outlaw design and innovation.

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Georgina Voss

Half Finnish, half DJ and the co-founder of Vurb, Juha van ‘t Zelfde is interested in ubiquitous culture and urban rhythms.

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Juha van ‘t Zelfde

Dannie Jost is Science Advisor and Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI), NCCR Trade Regulation, Law Faculty, University of Bern. She works in policy and regulation issues where science, technology and trade are involved in close collaboration with trade lawyers and other experts in regulatory affairs.

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Dannie Jost

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