Director for Europe of a canadian company that develops dynamic, predictive and intelligent risk and crises management solutions for resilient organisations. Former CEO & Co-founder of a pioneer start-up from Barcelona born to develop new tools to improve city resilience. He has been Work Package leader at the EU H2020 RESCCUE -Europe’s first large-scale innovation and urban resilience project. He is associated teacher in different “Smart and Resilient City” Masters and courses in France and Spain within Université Gustave Eiffel, Université Côte d'Azur, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and Universitat Ramon Llull.
He is member of the French association Resiliances for economic activities and major risks. He is also member of the Smart City Group at the Engineer Association from Catalonia and the Canada-Spain Chamber of Commerce . He promoted the BCN Urban Resilience Partnership with UN-Habitat actually known as Urban Resilience Hub by UN-Habitat to disseminate city resilience at a global scale.
With entrepreneurship oriented skills, during his professional experience he has pioneer introduced smart and innovative technologies and approches in the public and private sector. He has engineering applied experience and professional background in urban services management working for multinational and SMEs companies. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Business Management and Administration at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and holds a diploma from the Grenoble Business School and a MBA. He attended Environment and Energy Efficiency education and participated in research activities at IQS about business strategy, resilience & city management. In recent years has attended different startup accelerator programs in Barcelona and Philadelphia.
Sessions in which Ignasi Fontanals participates
Salon des exposants
Ignasi Fontanals, REZILIO TECHNOLOGIE (Speaker)
Salon des exposants
Ignasi Fontanals, REZILIO TECHNOLOGIE (Speaker)
Salon des exposants
Ignasi Fontanals, REZILIO TECHNOLOGIE (Speaker)
Salon des exposants
Ignasi Fontanals, REZILIO TECHNOLOGIE (Speaker)
Activités participatives
Ignasi Fontanals, REZILIO TECHNOLOGIE (Speaker)
Pr Youssef Diab, UGE / EIVP (Speaker)
Aurélie Legaz, PRUDENT CONSULTING GROUP (Speaker)
Mr Miquel Rodríguez, Barcelona City Council (Speaker)
Donald Fortin, Service de sécurité incendie de l'agglomération de Longueuil (Speaker)
Sarah Garcia (Speaker)
Christian Sommade, RESILIENCE FRANCE (HCFRN) (Speaker)
Sessions in which Ignasi Fontanals attends
Activités participatives
Terrence Fernando (Speaker)
Marie-Christine Therrien (Speaker)
Professor Jon Coaffee (Speaker)
Communications libres
Vanessa Howard, Calian (Speaker)
Communications libres
Mme Marie-Hélène Poirier, Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et sécurité du travail (Speaker)
Activités participatives
Eve Pouliot, UQAC - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Speaker)
Mélissa Généreux, Université de Sherbrooke (Speaker)
Pr. Danielle Maltais, UQAC (Speaker)
Communications libres
Ursule Boyer-Villemaire, Ouranos (Speaker)
Annabelle Lamy, Ouranos (Speaker)
Communications libres
Pascale Biron, Université Concordia (Speaker)
Activités participatives
Sidney Ribaux, Ville de Montréal (Speaker)
Yona Jébrak, Universite du Quebec à Montreal (Master of ceremonies)
Louise Bradettte, Ville de Laval (Speaker)
Jean Tremblay, Ville de Longueuil (Speaker)
Activités participatives
Mercedes Aguerre, Croix Rouge française (Speaker)
Communications libres
Eva Cohen, Civil Protection Youth Canada (CPYC) (Speaker)
Communications libres
Marlène Villemure, Premier Continuum Inc (Speaker)
Activités participatives
Boris Roueff, Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon - EVS-LAURe CNRS UMR 5600 (Speaker)
Gabriela Estrada, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico) - Département d'Architecture (Speaker)
Julie Morin, Ville de Lac-Mégantic (Speaker)
Véra Seng (Speaker)
sophie Bertran de Balanda (Speaker)
Activités participatives
Pr. Danielle Maltais, UQAC (Speaker)
Mélissa Généreux, Université de Sherbrooke (Speaker)
Joanie Turmel, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) (Speaker)
Typhaine Leclerc (Speaker)
Mme Elsa Landaverde, Université de Sherbrooke (Speaker)
Yann Roche, Département de géographie/UQAM (Speaker)
Maddie Le Gall, PRUDENT CONSULTING GROUP (Speaker)
M. Hugues HANGNON, AGMQ (Speaker)
Hachem Agili, Geosapiens (Speaker)
Karem Chokmani, INRS (Speaker)
Mr. Pierre Bilodeau, Esri Canada (Speaker)
M. Serge Legaré, Ministère de la Sécurité publique (Speaker)
Hans Asnong M. Sc., Universite du Quebec à Montreal (Master of ceremonies)
Amélie Bernier, Ministère de la Sécurité publique (MSP) (Speaker)
Olivier Caron, UQAM, Département de géographie (Speaker)
Mr Jonathan Pelletier, PRUDENT CONSULTING GROUP (Speaker)