IMDEA Software Institute researcher Carmela Troncoso served as an invited speaker at the Smart City Expo World Congress held in Barcelona. The event included an exhibition where companies showcased solutions ranging from devices to analytics products for smart cities, and a conference with keynotes and panels covering important topics for smart city development.

Carmela’s talk at the Privacy in the Smart City panel, entitled “Privacy-preserving Smart Cities: Utopia or Reality”, provided a technical overview of current challenges and prospective solutions to privacy in smart city infrastructures. Privacy is an important research topic at the IMDEA Software Institute.