Jan Kadijk studied urban and regional planning and worked for twenty years in the field of knowlegde dissemination on urban planning and housing. He has lead the project ‘New map of the Netherlands’, a public geodatabase that opened up an overall view of all urban plans and building projects in the Netherlands. At the start-up company Smartsensors.me (started in 2014), he is committed to push smart cities forward by bringing sensing solutions to all stakeholders involved in the smart city. At the moment, Jan is Knowledge & Innovation Manager of the Dutch Green Building Council.