My name is Andres El-Fakdi, Smart Cities Master co-coordinator and researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation at the University of Girona. I'm a member of the Tecnio Centre EASY in the Agents Research Laboratory. My research interests are focused in contributing to the development of modern societies in urban environments. For this purpose, my studies are related with the application of machine learning techniques for Big Data Analytics and the use and development of blockchain technologies for distributed security and IP assurement. My field of work are smart cities.