Stefan Junestrand

Stefan Junestrand holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and is considered a leading international expert and speaker in the areas of Smart Cities, Intelligent Buildings, Sustainability and Blockchain.

CEO & Co-Founder: Junestrand is the CEO and co-founder of Grupo Tecma Red, Spain’s leading Media Company in the areas of Sustainability, Energy and New Technologies for Buildings and Cities. Grupo Tecma Red publish five daily B2B Portals and organize four yearly Congresses about Sustainable Building, Intelligent Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Smart Grids and Smart Cities.

Speaker: Stefan Junestrand is a frequent Speaker and Moderator at Conferences and Events related to Blockchain, Smart Cities, Intelligent Buildings, Smart Energy and Sustainability. Lately, he has been an invited speaker in Columbia, Qatar, Ukraine, The Netherlands, Spain, India, Slovakia, etc.

Teacher: Stefan is a teacher and lecturer at a large number of Masters and Courses at different Universities and currently also Adjunct Professor in the “Master in Strategic Design of Spaces” at the IE School of Architecture and Design taking place in London, United Kingdom and Madrid, Spain.

Research & Writer: Stefan Junestrand has a wide experience in Research and Development, he has written several books and published more than a dozen scientific papers.

Stefan Junestrand is a member of the “EU Blockchain Observatory” and a main contributor to the forthcoming United Nations / ITU “Blockchain 4 Cities” report.

Stefan is Swedish but lives in Madrid (Spain) since 20 years. He speaks fluent and English, Spanish and Swedish. For requests to speak at conferences and other events please use the contact information.

Stefan Junestrand is a frequent and highly appreciated speaker at events related to Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Sustainability, and Blockchain.

Keynote and Highlighted Speaking Examples:

• • Speaker: “10 Technology Trends shaping the Smart Cities of the Future” at the Webinar: “Smart city – new technologies, business opportunities and implementation of innovative solutions”, June 2021, organized by CEOE, Embassy of Poland, Ambassade de France en Espagne and The Germany Embassy in Madrid. See Linkedin
  • Speaker: “Blockchain in the Governance of Smart Cities” at “DES | Digital Enterprise Show”, May 2021 in Madrid, Spain. See Linkedin
  • Keynote Speaker: “Challenges and Opportunities for Smart Cities” at the “Final Conference of the EU Replicate Project”, March 2021, San Sebastián, Spain. See Linkedin
  • Keynote Speaker: “Blockchain in the Governance of Smart Cities: A Revolution of Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Services” at London Blockchain Labs (LBL) February 2021, London, England. See Linkedin
  • Speaker: “Blockchain in the Governance of Smart Cities: A Revolution of Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Service” at the “Blockchain Conference in Business” December 2020, Athens, Greece. See Linkedin
  • Keynote Speaker: “Construcción 4.0 – Nuevas Tecnologías para construir un Futuro Sostenible” en el “1er Encuentro Virtual de Tecnología y Sostenibilidad en el sector de la Construcción y la Infraestructura”, organizado por Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA), October 2020, Medellín, Colombia. See Linkedin
  • Keynote Speaker: “Blockchain for Smart Cities from an international perspective” at the Norwegian Blockchain Association Meetup, November 2019, Oslo, Norway. See Linkedin
  • Keynote Speaker:  “Blockchain for Smart Cities and Governance” at “Blockwalks 2019” October 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. See Linkedin / See full Video.
  • Keynote Speaker: “Socio-economical, environmental and technological trends in Smart Cities” and teaching Workshop about “Blockchain for SmartCities”  at the Congress and Expo “Colombia 4.0” October 2019 in Bogota, Colombia. See Linkedin / See Full Video (Spanish).
  • Speaker: “Blockchain in Governance – A disruptive way to offer Public Services” during the “Digital Business World Congress at DES 2019”, May 2019 in Madrid, Spain. See Tweet
  • Speaker: “New models of blockchain governance benefiting citizens” at the “EU Blockchain Observatory Workshop about Governance and new organizational challenges” April 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. See Linkedin
  • Keynote Speaker: “Smart Buildings, Sustainability, and Business Opportunities” at the III Tenerife Smart Island Congress in Tenerife, Spain. See Video
  • Keynote Speaker: “Blockchain for Smart Cities” at the Business for Smart Cities Expocongress, January 2019 in Kiev, Ukraine:  See Video
  • Keynote Speaker: VIII Feria de la Construcción 2018, Centro para el Desarrollo del Hábitat y la Construcción del Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje – SENA,  October 2018 in Medellín, Colombia. See Organizers News Post
  • Keynote Speaker: “Blockchain for Smart Cities and Green Urban Infrastructure” at the “Boominfodag”, June 2018 in The Netherlands. Read Full Post
  • Keynote Speaker: “Blockchain and other emerging technologies for Smart Cities and Territories” when the Colombian Government presented their Smart City Strategy, March 2018 in Bogotá, Colombia. Read Full Post

Other Speaker, Moderator  & Webinar Involvements:

• • Moderator and Coordinator: Round Table “Reaching SDG 11: Sustainable and Smart Cities” at the “DES | Digital Enterprise Show”, May 2021, Madrid, Spain. See Linkedin
  • Speaker: “Sustainability in Buildings and Cities” at the Urban Land Institute event: “RE-Generation: Sustainable Value of Real Estate” (On-Line), November 2020, Madrid, Spain. Linkedin 
  • Moderator: Round Table “Digital Society & Identity: Blockchain for Public Sector” at the European Blockchain Convention, January 2020, Barcelona, Spain. See Linkedin
  • Speaker: Round Table “Digitalization and Blockchain for the Oil and Gas Industry” at the Repsol Tech Lab, January 2020, Madrid, Spain. See Linkedin
  • Speaker: Round Table “Blockchain to fight Climate Change” COP25, December 2019, Madrid, Spain. See Linkedin
  • Moderator:  Round Table “Blockchain for a Sustainable Society and New Business Models” at “Convergence: Global Blockchain Congress” November 2019, Malaga, Spain. See Full Video
  • Speaker and Moderator: Round Table “Blockchain for Diversity”, at “3rd International Congress about Technology and Tourism for Diversity” November 2019 in Malaga, Spain. See Linkedin / See Full Video.
  • Speaker: “Blockchain and AI for Smart Cities and Governance” and participating in a Round Table, at Smart City Expo World Congress, November 2019, Barcelona, Spain. See Linkedin 
  • Speaker: “Blockchain for Smart Cities – an Open Source Transformation built upon Cybersecurity, IoT and Big Data”, at “Open Expo”, June 2019 in Madrid, Spain. See Tweet
  • Moderator: Roundtable “Blockchain for Governance” at the “European Blockchain Convention”, May 2019 in Copenhague, Denmark. See Tweet
  • Speaker: Roundtable “Connecting the Urban Dots” at The Cities & Public Sector Forum during at DES 2019, May 2019 in Madrid, Spain. See Article in El Español
  • Speaker: “Smart Cities and Future Scenarios” at the “III European Congress for Proximity, Participation and Citizenship”, March 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
  • Speaker: “Smart Cities and Future Scenarios” at the “European Blockchain Convention”, November 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Webinar Speaker: Title “Blockchain for Smart Cities: Applications and Use Cases” at the “Blockchain, Crypto, Smart Cities chat”, August 2018 in Bangalore, India. See Post Linkedin
  • Moderator: Roundtable “Cities in transformation: Experiences to learn from cities in Asia and Europe” at AsiaInnova, July 2018 in Madrid, Spain. See Post Twitter
  • Moderator: Roundtable “Blockchain for Smart Cities” at the V Congreso Ciudades Inteligentes, May 2018 in Madrid, Spain.
  • Speaker: “Towards a Circular Economy in the Built Environment: Blockchain as a solution for supply chain transparency” at IE Business School, April 2018 in Madrid, Spain. Read Full Post / Article
  • Speaker: Cybersecurity in Intelligent Buildings in Industry 4.0″ at the INCIBE 11th Conference about Information Security, November 2017 in León, Spain. Read Full Post

Why audiences and meeting planners love Stefan Junestrand

Stefan dedicates time to understand the organization, audience and the ideal outcomes of the speech long before he takes the stage. He customizes the presentation so it meets the unique needs of the event. By choosing Stefan Junestrand as your keynote speaker, you’ll get an inspiring and customized keynote that the audience will love and remember.

Contact

Contact with Stefan Junestrand at www.stefanjunestrand.com/contact

Stefan Junestrand is teaching at some of Europe’s most prestigious  Universities and conducts training for professionals in the areas of Smart Cities and Smart Buildings.

Teaching at Universities:

Some of the Universities where Junestrand currently is and has been teaching:

• • Adjunct Professor: “Master in Strategic Design of Spaces”, 2019-Present, IE School of Architecture and Design, United Kingdom & Spain.
  • Adjunct Professor: ”ICT and Innovation for Smart Cities”, 2021, Camara Bilbao University Business School, Bilbao, Spain.
  • Adjunct Professor: “Master in Smart Cities: Functionality, Services and Design”, 2020, Master in Design for Public Spaces, POLI.design (Milano, Italy) & ESNE (Madrid, Spain).
  • Adjunct Professor: “Master in Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Big Data”, 2020-2021, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain.
  • Adjunct Professor: Summer School “Smart Cities, Urban Design, Sensorization, Data, and Smart Buildings”, 2019, Universidad de Alicante (UA), Alicante, Spain.
  • Adjunct Professor: “Interior Design Program”, 2016-2018, ESNE (Escuela Universitaria de Diseño, Innovación y Tecnología), Spain.
  • Adjunct Profesor: “Master in Smart Homes and Intelligent Buildings”, 2005-2014, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
  • Adjunct Professor: “Master in Intelligent Buildings and Smart Homes”, 2004-2013, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
  • Adjunct Profesor: “Master in Building Automation: Smart Homes and Intelligent Buildings”, 2005, Escuela Politécnica Superior de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
  • Adjunct Professor: School of Architecture, 1994-1998, Royal School of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

  Teaching at Courses:

  Some courses for professionals that Stefan has directed and taught:

  • Course Director: “Building Automation for Smart Buildings”, 2018, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Va-Navarro, San Sebastián, Spain.
  • Adjunct Professor: “Efficient Installations, and Renewable Energy for Net Zero Energy Buildings”, 2017-2019, Area of City Planning, City of Madrid, Spain.
  • Course Director: “Smart Buildings: Automation, Telecom, and Robotics for Energy Efficiency, Security and Accessibility”, 2015-2016, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, Spain.
  • Course Director: “Smart Buildings”, 2013-2015, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, Spain.
  • Course Director: “Smart Homes and Intelligent Buildings: Solutions for Refurbishment and New Construction”, 2014, Fundación para la Investigación y Difusión de la Arquitectura, Sevilla (FIDAS), Sevilla, Spain.
  • Course Director: “The Digital Space as an Architectural and Social Element”, 2012, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, Spain.
  • Course Director: “Smart Buildings for Architects”, 2012, Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia, Spain.
  • Course Director: “Building Automation in the Architectural Desing Project, Energy Efficiency, Functionality and System Integration”, 2011, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, Spain.
  • Course Director: “Smart Homes and Intelligent Buildings for Architects, Technology, Energy Efficiency and Space”, 2010, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, Spain.
  • Course Director: “Debates about Smart Homes”, 2008, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía Palacio de Jabalquinto.

Stefan Junestrand has written several books and published more than a dozen scientific papers, articles, etc. in the areas of Blockchain, Smart Cities, Intelligent Buildings, Sustainability. He also frequently appears in interviews about the same topics. Below a selected number of his latest appearances and publications:

Recent Interviews and Podcasts with Stefan Junestrand:

• • El Dia de Tenerife (Spanish) – Interview with Stefan Junestrand about Smart Buildings, Smart Cities and Sustainability, April 2019
  • Compilando Podcast (Spanish) with Stefan Junestrand, #42 About Smart Cities.
  • Crypto News: “Blockchain applications to fostering Smart Cities”  –  Video-Interview with Stefan Junestrand, December 2018
  • Diariobitcoin: “Blockchain for Smart Cities” (Spanish) – Interview with Stefan Junestrand, October 2018.
  • El Economista: Integración, seguridad y transparencia: las aportaciones del Blockchain a las smart cities – (Spanish) – Interview with Stefan Junestrand, April 2017.
  • Everis TV: Smart Cities en la era de Blockchain – (Spanish) Video-Interview with Stefan Junestrand, June 2017.

  Articles:

  • Smart Cities and Sustainable Building at the Dubai Expo 2020, Blog, March 2022.
  • Blockchain Revolution in the Governance of Nations and Cities – Published in Openledger Insights, March 2019.
  • A Blockchain-based Governance Model for Public Services in Smart Cities – Published in Open Acces Government, October 2018 (see also printed version).
  • Towards a Circular Economy in the Built Environment: Blockchain as a solution for supply chain transparency – Published on Medium, Abril 2018.
  • How can blockchain help smart cities? – Published on the BBVA Corporate Website, July 2017.

  Books:

  • “Smart Cities and Blockchain” (pp. 103-111), chapter in Preukschat (Ed.), Blockchain: la revolución industrial de internet (English: Blockchain: the industrial revolution of Internet), Gestión 2000, Madrid 2017.
  • Being private and public at home – An architectural perspective on video mediated communication in smart homes – (Doctoral Thesis). Author: Junestrand, S. Published in: School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004.
  • Domótica y Hogar Digital – Authors: Junestrand, S., Passaret, X. & Vázquez, D. Published in: Thomsson Paraninfo, Madrid, España, 2004.
  • IT OCH BOSTADEN ett arkitektoniskt perspektiv – Author: Junestrand, S. Published in: School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998.

  Scientific Papers:

  • Clasificación y Descripción de Conceptos, Productos, Servicios y Actores del Mercado del Hogar Digital – Author: Junestrand, S. Published in: Mundo Internet 2005, X Congreso Nacional de Internet, Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información, Asociación de Usuarios de Internet (AUI), 2005.
  • Espacios Arquitectónicos en el Hogar Digital – Author: Junestrand, S. Published in: Mundo Internet 2005, X Congreso Nacional de Internet, Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información, Asociación de Usuarios de Internet (AUI), 2005.
  • User Study of Video Mediated Communication in the Domestic Environment with Intellectually Disabled Persons – Authors: Junestrand, S., Keijer, U., Molin, G. & Tollmar, K. Published in: International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA, pp. 87-103, Volume 15, Number 1, 2003.
  • Domótica – Authors: Junestrand, S. & Vázquez, D. Published in: A Distancia, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España, pp. 248-254, vol. 21, Febrero 2003.
  • Private and Public Digital Domestic Spaces – Authors: Junestrand, S., Keijer, U. & Tollmar, K. Published in: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Academic Press, London, England, pp. 753-778, Vol. 54, No. 5, May 2001.
  • Public and Private Places – the use of Video Mediated Communication in a Future Home Environment – Authors: Junestrand, S, Tollmar, K., Lenman, S. & Thuresson, B. Published in: The Future Is Here, Extended Abstracts. Conference CHI 2000, Future Is Here, New York, USA, pp. 16-17 and as a video in the Video Program, min. 31:28-38:24, 2000.
  • Measuring and Evaluation of ICT-supported services in Domestic Environments – Authors: Junestrand, S. & Keijer, U. Published in: HOME INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS, Information, Technology and Society, Proceedings of the HOIT2000 conference. International Federation of Information Processing, University of Wolverhampton, England, Vol. 2, pp. 47-75, 2000.
  • Virtually Living Together: A Design Framework for New Communication Media – Authors: Konrad Tollmar, Stefan Junestrand, Olle Torgny Published in: Daniel Boyarski, Wendy A. Kellogg (Eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, Techniques, August 17-19, 2000, pp. 83-91. New York City. ACM Press, New York, 2000, ISBN 1-58113-219-0
  • Video Mediated Communication for Domestic Environment, architectural and technological design – Authors: Junestrand, S. & Tollmar, K. Published in: Streiz, N., Siegel, J., Hartkopf, V., & Konomi, S., (Eds.), Cooperative Buildings, Integrating Information, Organizations and Architecture, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1670, pp. 177-190. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 1999.
  • Det kvalitativa distansarbetsrummet – en pedagogisk studie av begrepp som beskriver miljön – Authors: Junestrand, S., Leal, I, Edvinsson, C. & Petrelius, T. Published in: Arbete Människa Miljö & Nordisk Ergonomi, pp. 164-178, Nº 3, 1999.
  • The dwelling as a place for work – Authors: Junestrand, S. & Tollmar, K. Published in: Streiz, N., Konomi, S. Burkhardt, (Eds.), Cooperative Buildings, Integrating Information, Organizations and Architecture, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1370, pp. 230-247. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 1998.
  • The Home Office – a new architectural perspective – Authors: Junestrand, S. & Leal, I. Published in: Work Man Environment & Nordic Ergonomics, Karlskrona, Sweden, pp. 236-243, Nº 4, 1998.
  • IT tjänster för bostaden i Informationssamhället – ett arkitekturperspektiv – Authors: Junestrand, S. & Keijer, U. Published in: Nordisk Arkitekturforskning, pp. 61-74, vol. 12, nr 4, 1998.

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