Engineer and Geographer, Stéphane Roche is a full professor of Geographical information sciences at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada and, Associate Dean for Research and Studies at the Faculté de Foresterie, Géographie et Géomatique. He teaches GIS and spatial analysis (undergraduate and graduate), Geographical Information Society (graduate) and Geospatial data quality (graduate). Roche has been an associate professor of Geography at the University of Angers (France) and a Research fellow at the French CNRS for five years. Since his move to Québec (in 2003), he chaired the department of geomatics sciences, has been the director of the Center for Research in Geomatics and more recently the Acting scientific director of the GEOIDE Network of Centers of Excellence. Roche has extensively worked on the social dimensions of GIS, Public Participation GIS (PPGIS), Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Geodesign. He is especially interested in exploring the role of social geolocation (LBSN), open data and crowdsourcing to support the implementation and operation of smart city concepts. He is currently involved in the development of a living lab focused on the issue of smart city and civic engagement. Roche is a research affiliate to the MIT Senseable City Lab and Honorary Principal Fellow to the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. For further details: http://about.me/stephane.roche/.