About me
Jens Bley, Initiator and Lead of urban experimentation projects including UrbanTestbeds.JR (supported by Interreg Baltic Sea Region) and ANN RADAR (financed by the ICLEI Action Fund) at the Institute of Urban Planning and Regional Development at HafenCity University. Initiator and Lead of SmartSquare, a “Smart Service City” urban testbed focusing on cultural service innovations in smart cities, as visiting professor at the CityScienceLab@HCU; Senior Expert for New European Bauhaus transformation projects in multiple cities; Smart Cities & Digital Transition Cluster Manager and Senior Advisor for the European Union International Urban and Regional Cooperation programme IURC for Asia & AustralAsia; Initiator and Co-Host of Coding da Vinci North, a hackathon and innovation sprint with cultural institutions from northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden; Initiator and producer of eCulture forums; speaker (including keynote) and workshop organizer at various cultural innovation conferences in Europe, USA, Asia, Australia; Co-Organizer of the TEDxHamburg innovation conference; Management Board member for the Hamburg cluster for the digital economy. Previously: award winning producer for kids edutainment in cooperation with National Geographic; Visiting Professor for content economy at the University of Arts Berlin.