Theresa Fink is a Researcher in Urban Design Computation in the Competence Unit Digital Resilient Cities at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna. Her expertise lies in the field of digital, parametric urban master planning using computational methods and urban analyses. She graduated in Architecture at the Graz University of Technology in Austria. During her studies she gained experience in parametric design in international architectural offices like Herzog & de Meuron and Baumschlager Eberle in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Saibal Das Chowdhury is an urban technologist and CEO and Co-Founder of Urbanetic –   a ‘City-as-a-Service’ software platform for digitization of buildings and infrastructure and their development financing, securitization and exchange.  A former VP of Hewlett-Packard for start-ups investments and VP of AT&T Solutions Asia-Pacific, Saibal has been among the pioneers in the areas of industrial robotics and Product Life-Cycle management (PLM) technologies. 

Professor Junyi Zhang is a professor at Mobilities and Urban Policy Lab of Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan. He is also the Director of  Center of Asian Sustainable Mobility Research at Hiroshima University, Japan. Prof. Zhang’s research fields include transportation planning, urban and regional planning, traffic engineering, environment and energy policies, tourism policy, and health policy in the contexts of both developed and developing countries.

Hong Soo Lee is a smart city expert with a background in urban policy, planning, and development. He brings experience to support bank-wide initiatives and projects in urban development. Before he joined ADB, he worked at Seoul Housing Corporation and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in the Republic of Korea and Urban Redevelopment Authority in Singapore.

Arpan Paul is an assistant professor at the School of Human Settlements at XIM University. He was previously an assistant professor at Sushant University and a research scholar at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.