Ignasi Fontanals is the CEO at OptiCits, a start-up at Universitat Ramon Llull that helps city experts to improve Resilience in cities by providing certification courses, software tools and partnership programs.

He is member of the City Protocol Task Force and the BCN Urban Resilience Partnership for the City Resilience Profiling Programme – UN Habitat. City pioneer introducing smart technologies to manage urban services, he has engineering applied experience and a background in urban services development. He has professional experience in different engineering multinational and SME companies. He holds a Diploma in International Business (MIBP) with the Grenoble Business School and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a MBA. He attended IQS Environment and Energy Efficiency education and he is doing his investigation in Resilience & City Management at the IQS-Universitat Ramón Llull.