103. Productized Cities: Being the CTO of the city - transforming cities digitally. w/ Egle Radvile
Channel: Productized
Date: 25/05/2022

In the 11th episode of Productized Podcast S11: Future Cities André talks to Egle Radvile. In this episode, André was talking to Egle Radvile. Egle is a Digital Futurist Angel, Author of Vilnius Digital Strategy. Egle was in the position of Vilnius City Municipality CTO from 2018 to 2021. Currently, she is the Head of the Lithuanian CIO’s club CIO.LT, Digital Train board & Harvard Digital Program member. Egle has a PhD in Information Engineering and Technology. Recently she graduated from Harvard's Leading Digital Innovator programme.

Main topics covered:

🔎 What are the responsibilities of the city CTO?
📍 What does the city’s digital strategy consist of?
👩🏻‍💻 What changes happened in Vilnius from a technological perspective during Egle’s term of office?
🚀 What can other cities learn from Vilnius?

Timestamps:

Introduction of the guest[1:00]
Current political situation's impact on the daily life [1:30]
Gediminas Legion organisation purpose and founding story [3:00]
Humanitarian and technological help for Ukraine [6:00]
How did Egle develop an interest in technology [8:00]
PhD in technology and lecturing [11:30]
Harvard's Leading Digital Innovation program [13:00]
Story of getting into the position of Vilnius CTO [18:00]
Vilnius Digital Strategy [22:30]
What has changed in Vilnius in practical terms [25:00]
Internet of things policy in Vilnius [28:00]
How is Egle working on Vilnius strategy now [31:00]
How can cities tackle the issue of talent competition? [33:00]
Advanced IT topics on the high school curriculums [37:00]
A different vision of mobility: how does improving schools will have an effect on mobility [39:30]
LEUC2022 conference. Vilnius Plan: Mission Data - Practical Vilnius City Innovations [47:00]
What is the Lithuanian CIO Club about [56:00]
Being an expert in the Transparency Academy [57:00]
Best practices other European cities can adapt [59:00]
Words of advice for younger self [1:02:30]
Recommendations [1:04:30]

Quotes, links to Vilnius strategy, data policy and city plan and more links are on Medium:
https://productized.medium.com/103-being-the-cto-of-the-city-transforming-cities-digitally-w-egle-radvile-55ad3408b516 

PRODUCTION
This podcast was hosted by André Marquet, with research by Evelina Bogdiun and sound editing by Miguel Sousa.

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