Basis Blockchain for Urban Mobility
The course will introduce the very basic concepts around Blockchain and its applications in the mobility sector. Its contents will include a definition of blockchain and its related concepts such as transaction, network and functions with especial emphasis on the transport and mobility sector.
Target audience: Any professional from public and private organizations interested in how blockchain can add value in his/her organizations.
Teaching staff
Researcher and technologist enthusiast. Interested on blockchain and related business ideas and business applications, but with a quite critical vision about the high expectations that communities are showing for it – and for this marketing pressure that creates misunderstandings and perplexities…
I am also doing academic activities on disruptive innovations and their implementations on the market, in line with cutting-edge models which support a sustainable development into technology pathways.
Miquel Oliver is Full Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He received a Ph.D. in Telecom Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1999, a Degree in Business Administration (UOC, 2009) and GloColl Executive Education (Harvard, 2011-12). Before joining UPF, he was Associate Professor at the UPC and Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University (US, 1999). He is leading the multidisciplinary Networking and Strategies Research Group (NeTS) since its foundation in 2004. He has been Visiting Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the academic year 2013-14, Columbia University (2011), Southampton University (2018), Cardiff University (2019 and 2022).
Starting the 30th of October 2025.