Nicos Komninos is a professor emeritus at the School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a master’s degree in Architecture-Engineering from Aristotle University, postgraduate studies in Semantics, and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Research of City Planning from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris). He is the founder and director of URENIO Research and has coordinated numerous projects under European research and territorial development programmes. His research interests and expertise are in two interrelated areas: (1) intelligent & smart cities: genesis and evolution, structure and ontology, architectures of intelligence, smart ecosystems, connected intelligence, digital platforms and apps design & development, planning, strategy, and governance, and (2) urban & regional innovation: territorial innovation models, cities of innovation, urban innovation, innovation ecosystems, innovation strategies and measures, DIP environments of innovation, platforms for innovation, Gen-AI and data-driven innovation, measuring innovation performance. Current research on intelligent environments and innovation through connected intelligence. He has authored about 220 publications, including 13 books, on intelligent cities, connected intelligence, city planning, innovation systems, and strategies. He is an associate editor and member of the editorial board of 15 academic journals and a co-editor of Elsevier’s series on smart cities.