News & Views

September 15, 2026

UIG partner Teppo Rantanen publishes 'Road to Citiverse', drawing on ten years leading Tampere's digital transformation.

June 15, 2024

Recently I had the pleasure of attending the EXPERIENCE (the Metaverse) event, organized and hosted by the City of Tampere, Finland. The presentations were high quality, the companies exhibiting were fun to engage with, starts up were pitching and a solid number of cities - from Rotterdam to L.A. - were represented.

May 6, 2024

For all of us – leaders, practitioners, entrepreneurs, educators, program managers, technologists – busying ourselves with our urban futures, the truth is staring us in the face: our original education no longer is the academic source of guidance to the skills and knowledge we need to get it right.

May 4, 2024

The emergence of the Metaverse is one of those children. It has all of the potential to redefine how we communicate, plan, learn, befriend, decide or, indeed, entertain in the near future. For cities and city leadership the big question looms: how do we effectively embrace this fresh dimension in which our cities get expressed and its citizens express themselves?

November 20, 2023

Urban Innovators Global and BABLE signed an official agreement to forge a new path with a ground-breaking urban innovation leadership academy programme.

November 16, 2023

And-We-Are-On! On behalf of the Urban Innovators Global community and leadership team I am extremely proud to introduce ourselves and welcome you to our webpages!

November 16, 2023

We are thrilled to announce the official launch of our Startup Studio focused on urban innovation!

October 26, 2023

At the NEOM Main Stage, September 11, 2023, keynoting about urban transformation and digitalization, and what we need to get right in our next chapter

October 11, 2023

Let’s explore the essence of digitalization – how can communities benefit from the next leap of digital change.