Nils Walravens
Advisor at Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen - VLAIO
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolNils Walravens is an advisor and academic researcher with nine years of professional experience at the intersection of business modeling and ICT, specializing in smart cities, open data and mobile technologies. He coordinated the Smart Flanders programme at imec, helping 13 Flemish centre cities and Brussels develop and implement open data policies, and later joined VLAIO to advise on innovation policy at a regional level. His work combines qualitative business model research with hands-on policy coordination, translating academic insights into municipal and national practice. As a Senior Researcher at imec-SMIT and board member of Open & Agile Smart Cities, he blends scholarly rigor from a PhD in Communication and Media Studies with practical stakeholder engagement across public and tech sectors. Colleagues know him for turning complex telecom and ICT trends into actionable strategies for cities and governments. He is based in Antwerp and brings a rare mix of academic depth and policy-operational experience in urban digital transformation.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Communication and Media Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Communication and Media Studies at Vrije Universiteit BrusselKoninklijk Atheneum Keerbergen
English, French, DutchProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
smartflanders/smartflanders.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
Website of the Smart Flanders program
Contributions:174 commits, 165 pushes in 2 years 11 months
flanders
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