Miriam Roure Parera

Miriam Roure is passionate about the intersection between technology, cities, and climate. She is a Principal at URBAN-X, an accelerator built by MINI and Urban Us, dedicated to startups reimagining city life. Over the last three years, URBAN-X has invested in over 56 startups. Previously, Miriam worked at MIT Senseable City Lab, a research laboratory dedicated to exploring the future of cities from a data and sensor-based technology perspective. She started a Field, a platform for bringing urban technologies to market. Trained as an architect, she also worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. Miriam is a Board Member at Citibeats. She serves as a Member of the New York Technology and Innovation Council of the Urban Land Institute. She is an advisor at CIV:LAB and Utopia. She holds degrees from Harvard University (MArchII) and Cornell University (BArch), and she co-founded the Harvard xDesign Conference in 2013.