Miguel de Castro Neto is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS), Portugal, where he created and leads the NOVA Cidade - Urban Analytics Lab and directs the Master in Information Management and the Post-Graduation programs in Smart Cities and Business Analytics for Hospitality and Tourism. He was Secretary of State of Spatial Planning and Nature Conservation and Smart Cities Personality of the Year 2017. He is Advisory Member of the Portuguese Professional Engineers Association, founder of the Data Science Portuguese Association, and member of the Sustainable Growth Platform think tank. Developing his research and teaching work in the area of Business Intelligence and Smart Cities, an highlight to the direction of NOVA IMS Master of Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence, currently ranked as the world "Best Master Program in Business Intelligence" by Eduniversal international ranking, where he teaches the Business Intelligence curricular units.