Recorded live during Las Rozas’ hosting of the ICF Top7 Intelligent Communities event and produced within the CIVINET Iberia project, this episode features Cristina Álvarez Requena, CEO, and Nuria Blanco, Mobility Manager at Las Rozas Innova. They trace their journeys from multinational engineering and regional transport planning into public service, showing how the four-year-old municipal innovation company has already secured €24 million and joined 14 European consortiums. The pair explain how AI-assisted urban design, subsidised car-sharing and a citizen-co-created Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan help a dispersed Madrid suburb overcome road barriers, behaviour change and multi-level governance. Above all, they argue that passion, trust and resident-centred planning – not technology alone – create a truly smart, inclusive city. 

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