Bas Boorsma - The Current Paradigm Shift: The Network Paradigm

                                                             

Bas Boorsma has been specialising in smart cities for over 20 years. He shares with us "The magic of conflict resolution", why we should learn to "Be comfortable with being uncomfortable" and how "Passion and intelligence goes a long way" along with seven other valuable lessons. Hosted by Siebe Van Der Zee.

About Bas Boorsma

Bas Boorsma is a leading urban innovation and digitalization specialist & executive with 20 years of experience in the 'smart city' space. Bas serves as the (external) CDO to the City of Rotterdam. In this capacity Bas is lead orchestrator, facilitator and ambassador to the city and its innovation ecosystem. Bas also serves as Professor of Practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. Bas is also Vice President EMEA of the Cities Today Institute, and also serves as Chief Innovation Officer at Change, a fast-growing Living as a Service company. He also serves as Member of the Board, at the Smart City Association Italy (TSCAI). Bas is the author of the well acclaimed book "A New Digital Deal".

Bas served in various global and regional leadership positions at Cisco From 2015 Bas served as Cisco's Digitization lead for the Northern European region at Cisco. In this capacity he managed a series of city engagements, leading the way on Internet of Things related innovations for, with and in cities.

Episode Notes

Lesson 1: The Magic Of Conflict Resolution. 04m 32s

Lesson 2: Learn To Be Comfortable With Being uncomfortable. 07m 44s

Lesson 3: Social Innovation Can Never Be A Project Run By One Group Of People For The Benefit Of Another. 10m 36s

Lesson 4: How Grand Designs Fail When It Comes To The Betterment Of Citizens. 14m 27s

Lesson 5: Passion And Basic Intelligence Goes A Long Way. 16m 24s

Lesson 6: The Current Paradigm Shift. The Network Paradigm. 18m 52s

Lesson 7: The Magic Of Teams Synchronicity. 24m 02s

Lesson 8: It's Tough To Beat One's Demons. 26m 05s

Lesson 9: The Importance Of Walking. 28m 58s

Lesson 10: Love Comes In Many Colours. 32m 21s