Tom van Arman, Founder & Director, TAPP/Netherlands
In FutureLab Talk #6 Tom van Arman [TAPP] shares smart city solutions especially in light of COVID-19. He is an architect and urbanist based in Amsterdam who works with local governments, industry leaders, and maker-communities to create living labs. In 2010 Tom founded Tapp, an award winning agency enabling local governments and industries to become leaders in bottom up digital revolution. Using agile and lean start-up methodologies, Tapp works with public and private partners to rapid prototype solutions to solve urgent urban problems. In 2018 Tom co-founded CITIXL (City Innovation Exchange Lab) to share solutions with municipal partners from around the world. By utilizing living-labs, city officials can reduce risks and costs while empowering their citizens to co-create easy, simple and effective solutions for a more participatory process to think, create, share and nurture future cities.