Enabling Digital Twins from Micro to Metro

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Metro X Labs Founder

Mark is a licensed Architect and Environmental Planner with over 20 years of experience and a holder of Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of the Philippines.  He is the current Global President, current global board member and leader of the Austronesia Chapter of the International Metropolitan Fellowship (IMF), a network of more than 250 metropolitan planners and professionals in various continents with the mission to pioneer, advocate and spread the metropolitan discipline.  

He developed and spearheaded the MetroHackathon and Metro X in Metro Cebu and currently in Metro Manila.Mark also a founder of EnPraxis, an environmental planning firm that espoused participatory planning.

Meet our team

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Metro X Labs Strategic Advisors

Our advisors combine urban planning expertise with advanced AI insights to deliver effective metropolitan solutions.

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Pedro Ortiz
Principal at International Metropolitan Institute
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Olivier Cruzier
Senior Economist, MSc, PhD, MBA
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Alain Bertaud
Urbanist, Independent consultant
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Ernesto Serote
Sustainability Advisor
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Jorge Alonzo Cortez
Planificador Territorial
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Wafa Al-Daily, Ph.D.
EHAAR Executive Director

The Technical Team

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JR Dizon
GIS and Digital Twin Specialist
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Ar. Romelito Bencito
Futures Thinker and Master Planner
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Norhaya Demacaling
Agropolis Specialist
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EnP Justin Dela Cruz
Metropolitan Economics and Financial Specialist

PHILIPPINES

Projects and Initiatives

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Metro Cebu

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Explore strategies for building resilient and sustainable metropolitan areas through technology, innovation, and collective intelligence.

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Metro Manila

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Explore strategies for building resilient and sustainable metropolitan areas through technology, innovation, and collective intelligence

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Metro Cagayan De Misamis - Agropolis

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Explore strategies for building resilient and sustainable metropolitan areas through technology, innovation, and collective intelligence

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Metro Iloilo

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Explore strategies for building resilient and sustainable metropolitan areas through technology, innovation, and collective intelligence

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Metro Clark

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Metro Laoag

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Explore strategies for building resilient and sustainable metropolitan areas through technology, innovation, and collective intelligence

Projects and Initiatives

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Session 1: Futures Thinking and Vision Alignment

Session 2: Assets and Constraints Mapping

Session 3: Stakeholder Alignment

Session 4: Strategic Roadmap Building

Session 5: Policy, Investment and Governance

Session 6: Innovation Clusters and Project Pitches

Next Steps

Key Collaborators

Our impact is made possible through collaboration with forward-thinking institutions

Podcasts & Events

Voices of Metropolitan Approach

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Whitepapers and publications

Transforming urban planning with intelligent, data-driven solutions for metropolitan growth and efficiency.

Contact

Connect with our experts

Reach out for metro planning support.

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AI-Driven Intelligence for the Metropolises of Tomorrow

A global consultancy for metropolitan planning, helping metropolises solve complex urban challenges through data, foresight, and collective intelligence.

What we aim to do

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Network Visualization

A web of interconnected nodes, where each node represents an individual, idea or dataset. Strength of relationships and knowledge exchange.

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Flock Dynamics

Each agent follows simple rules (share, adapt, align) yet produces emergent intelligence at scale Self-organization and emergent behavior.

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The Brain

Ideas fire like neural signals, spreading across pathways. When enough signals converge, a “collective decision” emerges – like synaptic reinforcement. Decision making and knowledge integration.

Create a lab that can interconnect nodes that produces emergent intelligence at scale where collective decision emerges

Our Collective Intelligence Playbook

We believe solving metropolitan challenges requires more than just data, it needs a framework that transforms scattered insights into coordinated action.

Agenda Mapping

Clarify purpose and align on a shared vision.

Crisis Mapping

Identify critical problems worth solving.

Commitment Mapping

Mobilize collective action and governance.