Tom van Arman is an architect & urbanist using open data, api’s & IoT solutions to create more social, sustainable & resilient cities. In 2010 he founded Tapp, an award winning agency enabling local governments and industries to become leaders in bottom up digital revolution. Using agile and lean start-up methodologies, Tapp works with public and private partners to rapid prototype solutions to solve urgent urban problems.
In 2018 he co-founded CITIXL (City Innovation Exchange Lab) to share solutions with municipal partners from around the world. By utilising living-labs, city officials can reduce risks and costs while empowering their citizens to co-create easy, simple and effective solutions for a more participatory process to think, create, share and nurture future cities.
Tom is also on the board of Appsterdam (a 3000+ maker community) organising hackathons and other tech-events for Amsterdam Economic Board and a curator for Amsterdam Smart City. He is also a regular guest lecturer at Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), Vrij University (VU Amsterdam), The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), EIT InnoEnergy & Wentworth Instutute of Technology (WIT - Boston).
