Natalia Rincón

Natalia, a PhD candidate specializing in participatory urban planning and smart cities, brings a robust computer science background to the table. Her expertise is geared toward fostering social impact in both business and politics. She places a high value on resilience and actively challenges the existing norms and practices.

She is a frequent speaker at conferences on topics such as the future of smart cities, digitalisation of cities, governance, and artificial intelligence. In 2018 European Commission acknowledged Natalia and CHAOS and ranked her in the top 10 EU female tech entrepreneurs who foster the industry, and the 100 women in AI to follow in 2019.

She has founded CHAOS architects, a Helsinki-based AI data company for smart cities and the urban planning industry. She is an architect and computer science engineer and has been a Business Tampere ambassador, a deputy councillor in Tampere and an advisor for foreign talent at the Ministry of Employment and Economy of Finland.