About Medina Works
Medina Works is an urban sustainability & innovation consultancy focused on accelerating urban wellbeing for people and the planet in emerging cities. Working with a wide range of city stakeholders, the MW team develops a combination of top-down and bottom-up strategies, concepts and solutions to shape urban space, skills and ventures and to contribute to further liveability, sustainability and resilience in cities. MW services include: sustainable space design, collaboration facilitation, impact measurement, training, and entrepreneurial development. For more information: www.medina-works.com
About Cities Next (NL)
Cities Next (NL) is a civic innovation design agency that empowers citizens to design their future city, together with the municipality and local businesses, so they can create a better place to live and work in. The core belief is in Smart Citizens: people that self-organize, create new services and products (online) and find new ways of distribution and sharing information. Citizens that are not just consumers, and take a lead in the era of open data, crowd-funding, sharing economies, quantified self and personal fabrication. For more information: www.citiesnext.nl
Meet the Founders

Rym Baouendi
Urban Sustainability Catalyst | Medina Works | Cogite | THNK
Rym Baouendi is an urban sustainability catalyst and social entrepreneur with over twelve years of experience in the field of…

Ronald Lenz
Social Innovation & Smart Cities. 1%Club | THNK | Crowdsuing | Cities Next | 7scenes | Waag Society
Urban innovation expert and social entrepreneur, creating smarter cities and do-good communities through civic crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, co-creation, corporate social responsibility,…