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WORLD CITIES SUMMIT

The World Cities Summit is the exclusive and premier platform for government leaders and industry experts to address liveable and sustainable city challenges, share integrated urban solutions and forge high-level partnerships.

The fourth World Cities Summit will be held from the 1st to 4th June 2014 at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre at Marina Bay Sands, .

Singapore - a strategic location for global events Singapore has a unique convening power for the World Cities Summit because Asia has the most megacities and is experiencing the fastest urbanisation process in the world. Singapore is taking a leadership role in supporting greater debate and action by convening several global events to enable a wider group of public and private sector players to network and tap into the synergies between urban planning, water and environmental solutions. The fourth World Cities Summit is held alongside a constellation of premier environmental events including: the sixth Singapore International Water Week; the second CleanEnviro Summit Singapore; and the tenth Ministers’ Meeting on Infrastructure Development in the Asia Pacific Region.

Through the Summit, Singapore brings together global thought leaders and practitioners from the public and private sectors that specialise in the areas of urban governance and development, to share best practice on urban challenges. The World Cities Summit will provide access to expertise and knowledge on solutions to address urban challenges through plenary discussions and specialised breakout sessions based on topics and regions, as well as networking opportunities.

World Cities Summit highlights Themed “Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Common Challenges, Shared Solutions” , the fourth World Cities Summit will see more than 100 speakers share their expertise and insights at the Summit. They include notable government and industry leaders such as the Minister for Water Resources, Chen Lei from the People’s Republic of ; the Chief Executive Officer of Suez Environnement, Mr Jean-Louis Chaussade; the Founder of Gehl Architects, Mr Jan Gehl; and the Managing Director and Group Chief Financial Officer of the World Bank, Mr Bertrand Badré.

Other highlights include:

i. The Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize is a biennial international award that honours outstanding achievements and contributions to the creation of liveable, vibrant and sustainable urban communities around the world. At the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize Lecture, a representative from the 2014 Prize Laureate – Suzhou City – will share insights about how it has achieved remarkable economic prosperity, social progress, and the preservation of its celebrated cultural and historic heritage despite facing rapid urbanisation. This address will then be followed by representatives from the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize Special Mention cities – Yokohama and Medellin – during which they will highlight the good governance and innovations they have adopted in order to address urban challenges. Singapore’s President, Tony Tan will be the guest of honour at the Lee Kuan Yew Prize Award Ceremony and Banquet.

ii. The World Cities Summit Mayors Forum is an invitation only global event for city mayors and leaders to discuss pressing urban issues and share best practice with one another in a peer-to-peer environment. Over 120 mayors and city leaders will spend a day discussing common challenges and share solutions.

iii. The inaugural World Cities Summit Young Leaders is an initiative that involves more than 150 young leaders from the worlds government, industry and academia who are committed to actively catalyse change in cities and help shape urban development agendas. More than 50 of these young leaders will be involved in the WCS Young Leaders Symposium .

iv. High-level Plenary Sessions will provide strategic insights from senior city and industry leaders on leadership and governance, as well as the latest debate on liveability and .

v. Thematic Tracks will enable in-depth discussions and the sharing of case studies and best practice by city leaders and practitioners on topical urban issues. The themes include: (i) Safe and Liveable Cities; (ii) Will Mayors Rule the World?; (iii) Making Plans into Reality; (iv) Building Resilient Cities; (v) Innovative Urban Solutions for Liveable and Future-Ready Cities and; (vi) Future Mobility.

vi. In-Focus Forums aim to capture the energy of urbanisation across the world and highlight opportunities for investment and partnership in the key markets of China, India, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Public and private sector panellists will discuss projects, focusing on best corporate practices and risk mitigation strategies to meet the challenges and opportunities of sustainable urban development and management. vii. Site visits will provide first-hand perspectives on how policies and ideas have been implemented successfully in Singapore and give participants a behind-the-scenes look at real issues while providing practical learning experiences. These specially designed case studies include Singapore’s Public Housing, Singapore River and Marina Bay, Cycling the North Eastern Riverine Loop, Skyrise Greenery in Singapore, and Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.

More details on the World Cities Summit programme, including synopses and the line-up of speakers, can be found in Annex A .

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World Cities Summit 2014 ~ Programme Synopses ~

*Updated as of 10 April 2014. Content and speakers/Session Chairpersons are subject to change.

2nd June 2014, Morning In-Conversation and Opening Plenary, “Shaping our Cities, Water and Environment for a Liveable and Sustainable Future”

Note: The In-Conversation and Opening Plenary are held jointly as the grand opening of the World Cities Summit, Singapore International Water Week and CleanEnviro Summit Singapore.

Synopsis: Urbanisation is accelerating. Two thirds of the global population would be living in urban areas by 2040. Whilst cities have become engines of growth for emerging countries and have brought general improvements to the , increased concentration of industrial, transport and agricultural activities are all exacting enormous pressures on urban environments and their hinterlands, straining existing infrastructure, housing inventories and the world's natural resources. Changing climate patterns, bringing about extreme weather conditions – rising seawater, droughts, heavy precipitation and flooding – amplify the intense challenges we face over urban, water and sanitation resources.

To date, some 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and more than 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. With rising expectations of public service delivery and demand from citizens for fair access, urban leadership and governance is critical for the implementation of sustainable policies to ensure affordable, clean drinking water and safe sanitation for all and to roll out adaptation and mitigation measures.

How do we create a roadmap towards a more liveable and sustainable future? Speakers will share insights on cross- disciplinary urban policy and governance issues. The key questions to answer include:

• What are our common challenges in creating sustainable developments? • Should there be a limitation on physical developments and resource uses? • How can cities create their own sustainable pathways?

Session Chairperson: Prof Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

The In-Conversation session will feature a 3-party interactive dialogue, moderated by Prof Tommy Koh. It will feature three speakers from the key stakeholder groups of Government, International Organisation and Industry.

In-Conversation Speakers: Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, Chairman, UNSGAB on Water and Sanitation H.E. Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Minister of Infrastructure and Environment, The Netherlands Jean-Louis Chaussade, CEO, Suez Environnement

Opening Plenary Speakers: H.E. Chen Lei, Minister of Water Resources, China

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The Honourable Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development, Sri Lanka H.E. Kirsten Brosbøl, Minister of the Environment, Kingdom of Denmark H.E. Dr Rashid Ahmed bin Fahad, Minister of Environment and Water, UAE Khaw Boon Wan, Minister for National Development Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD Yoshiro Mori, Chairman, Tokyo Olympic Committee and Honorary President, Asia Pacific Water Forum Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for

******** 3rd June 2014, Morning WCS Plenary 1, “The Next Urban Decade: Critical Challenges & Opportunities”

Synopsis: Plenary 1 will kick off a full day of best practice sharing and dialogue on the themes of governance, planning, resilient cities/climate change and innovative urban solutions. This plenary will paint with broad strokes the realities of and how it is reshaping our planet and radically transforming economies and societies.

What are the critical urban challenges and opportunities in the next 5–10 years? Although there is significant diversity in urbanization progress and levels among cities, lessons can be drawn from common challenges:

• Diversity in urbanisation levels reached by different regions – What lessons can developing cities draw from the successful urban experiences of developed cities, and vice versa? Are today’s developed cities sustainable, and if not, can developed cities make further progress? • Unequal pace of development between cities and their larger context – Unequal development across cities, countries and regions may place political pressure. How can city governments manage such unequal development and equalise the local cost-benefits across to wider national/ regional levels? • Governance and capacity strengthening – There is an urgent need to increase integrity in governance, creating effective capacities for regulation and enforcement, coordinating across overlapping jurisdictions, and strengthening the role of the people sector as partners, including to serve as watchdogs and whistleblowers. • Cross-sector approach to urban issues – Urban issues also do not exist in isolation. Population growth, economic space, housing supply, transport network, water and sanitation are all interlinked. How can we understand and manage such complexity? What are the common challenges and solutions? • Innovative R&D technologies, solutions and collaborative efforts – Relevant, practical urban innovations are often the products of close collaboration among government, private sector companies and research institutes. What are the potential new urban technologies & solutions? What future capabilities are in development?

Session Chairperson: Ambassador Chan Heng Chee, Ambassador-at-large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore and Chairman of Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Speakers: Dr Peter Ho, Chairman, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore The Honourable Greg Clark MP, Minister of State for Cities and Constitution, United Kingdom H.E. Tsevelmaa Bayarsaikhan, Minister of Construction and Urban Development, Mongolia Gianfranco Casati, Group Chief Executive, Growth Markets, Accenture Laura Ipsen, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, Microsoft Corp Prof Geoffrey West, Distinguished Professor

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3rd June 2014, Afternoon WCS Plenary 2, “Liveable & Sustainable Cities – Fast Forward”

Synopsis: Plenary 2 rounds off a day of WCS dialogue sessions. The plenary will reiterate the realities of urbanization and the pressing need in many cities to deliver services to stakeholders effectively. Speakers will highlight successful game- changing initiatives implemented, and underscore the important mandate of city leaders to effect real changes by piloting innovations, fostering partnerships, and building opportunities for citizens to experiment, create and generate new economies and knowledge for a sustainable and liveable urban future. The closing remarks will drive home the message for city leaders to embrace urbanization as an opportunity to create liveable, competitive and sustainable environments, while mitigating the challenges of social unrest, environmental deterioration and economic stagnation.

Top opinion leaders will share the most urgent urban challenges to be addressed, viable technologies & solutions, and appropriate strategies & implementation methods to achieve liveable and sustainable cities of tomorrow.

Session Chairperson: Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Chief Negotiator for Climate Change, Singapore

Speakers: YAB Tuan Lim Guan Eng, Chief Minister, Penang Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney Luis Fernando Arboleda Gonzalez, President, Findeter, Colombia Dr Andrew Steer, Chairman, World Resources Institute Dr Roland Busch, CEO, Infrastructure and Cities, Siemens Jeremy Bentham, Vice President, Royal Dutch Shell Michael Dixon, General Manager, Smarter Cities, IBM Sir David King, Chairman, Future Cities Catapult Centre and former Chief Scientific Advisor, United Kingdom

******** WCS Thematic Tracks

These tracks allow speakers to deep dive into topical issues in creating liveable and sustainable cities. Case studies and best practices will be shared by city leaders and practitioners who have led projects to their successful conclusion.

1st June 2014, Afternoon Safe and Liveable Cities

Synopsis: This track will cast the spotlight on the latest game-changing technologies that improve coordination and management of safety, security and urban challenges at the Whole-of-Government level. The session will explore how government agencies can collaborate with industry to co-develop new solutions such as integration of existing sensors on the ground with multiple government databases and uses advanced analytics to enhance sense-making and enable prediction and forecasting. These cutting-edge innovations will optimise the use of manpower resources, improve day-to-day operations of agencies from law enforcement and beyond as well as facilitate inter-agency collaboration for crisis management.

Speakers: Wong Soon Nam, Vice President, NCS Communications Engineering Geoffrey Baird, President, Product & Technology Group, AGT International Ger Daly, Global Lead, Defense and Public Safety, Accenture Dr Paul Wang, CTO & VP, NEC AP

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3rd June 2014, Morning & Afternoon Note: There are five Thematic Tracks that will run in parallel. Will Mayors Rule the World?

Synopsis: The challenges associated with urbanisation such as inequalities, congestion, environmental degradation, housing shortage are complex non-disciplinary problems where feedback loops make outcomes unpredictable. For those who govern cities, the difficulties are compounded as outcomes of policy decisions are often not obvious or measurable in the short term. No single party – government, private sector or civil society – can claim to have the full ‘big picture’.

Good governance is not about more or less ‘Government’, but about better connections across public, private and people sectors, and adopting longer-term thinking. Well-managed cities tend to share common characteristics, such as a consistent long term vision tempered by flexibility and pragmatism, sound institutions with a strong culture of integrity, active involvement of the community, and leveraging on the strengths of the markets and private sector.

The rise of cities in this century has shown that city leaders can, and will, step into breaches where nations hesitate to tread. The temptation to forego the medium and long term results for the short term can be difficult to ignore, when governments have a limited political lifespan. Will mayors show the way to a sustainable and liveable urban future?

Morning Session: Innovations in Dynamic Urban Governance • Cities tend to be more nimble and responsive to global and local changes. How have cities’ relationships with their national governments, as well as governance structures and institutions, made cities globally competitive? • What can leaders in public, private and people sectors do to bring about a culture of integrity and put in place a robust policy making framework, implementation processes and incentive structures? • How can governance structures and institutions in cities manage the downsides of rising inequality, strains on urban infrastructure, services and tensions in the social fabric? • Creating a liveable and sustainable city is a complex long-term undertaking which needs active involvement from different stakeholders. How can patronage pressures be kept at bay to prevent reform efforts from getting derailed? • With increasingly volatile economic cycles, cities need the resilience and flexibility to cope with booms and busts. How can cities resolve the tension between the need to think long-term, and pressure to show results in the short-term? How can city governments build up social capita and achieve buy-in?

Session Chairperson: Smita Srinivas, Director, Technological Change Lab, Columbia University and Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, GSAPP, USA

Speakers: Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) The Right Honourable Stephen Yarwood, Lord Mayor of Adelaide Josep Roig, Secretary General, UCLG Dr Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat Zhang Gengtian, Director of Research, Urban China Initiative Flemming Borreskov, President, International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP)

Afternoon Session: Innovations in Urban Financing • Cities and metropolitan regions in the developed world face dwindling revenues as their populations age, as well as the pressure of renewing ageing infrastructure and providing public services for the ageing population. How can city leaders prioritise investments to maximize impact with limited resources? How can cities do more with less, by harnessing the resources of the private sector and civil societies? What are some of the non-traditional sources of municipal revenue as alternative models of financing and investment? • Besides a lack of investment, cities have also made poor investment choices or invest inefficiently based on the misguided belief that supply creates demand. How can such ‘mis-directed’ infrastructure investments be avoided?

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• Public sector can delegate key infrastructure projects to the private sector for implementation, but must play a larger regulatory role to ensure the success of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects. How can we balance financial feasibility, socio-economic and environmental cost-benefit and sustainability considerations in designing a PPP? • Cities and municipalities are part of complex regional and global systems. How can power and funding be rebalanced between central and local governments to support urban investments and delivery of urban services?

Session Chairperson: Dr Teh Kok Peng, Chairman, Ascendas Pte Ltd

Speakers: Bertrand Badre, Managing Director and Group CFO, World Bank Andrei Sharonov, Dean of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Advisor of Mayor of Moscow Her Worship Alderman Ms Patricia de Lille, Executive Mayor of Cape Town Denis Simonneau, Senior Vice President, International Relations, GDF Suez Hazem Galal, Partner and Cities and Local Government Sector Global Leader, PwC

******** Making Plans into Reality

Synopsis: Beyond physical plans, urban plans address the need to optimize planning decisions so as to achieve balanced outcomes in a city’s environment, economy and quality of life. It must ensure that competing demands and uses are met not only for today, but also for tomorrow. Effective plans do not just stay on paper – they must be implemented, executed with dedicated organizations, expertise and resources. In doing so, all stakeholders must be engaged for the desired outcomes in urban policies to be achieved. Common challenges and varying solutions, in terms of urban growth and urban management, between developing cities and developed cities will be discussed.

Morning Session: Creating Liveable and Sustainable Cities Urban planning and development have been traditionally characterized by a top-down approach with limited room for local involvement. This approach can potentially result in problems of project sustainability after project completion. Urban authorities have realized that to ensure successful implementation and sustainability of urban development, rigid master plans need to employ more flexible strategies. Urban planners need to become urban managers with a good understanding of the complex relationship between urban economy, society, and spatial fragmentation, as well as be able to formulate plans to tackle issues such as informal housing, social inequality and economic deprivation.

Therefore, state-led action is not the only model for urban growth. How can private sectors and communities seek to work with governments, to create further growth opportunities in their cities? This session will tap upon the experiences of rapidly growing cities. Some of the key discussion points include:

• Mechanism between urban polices and plans – What are successful urban policies and how do we measure them? How should urban policies be shaped to achieve sustainable development? How can cities integrate individual policies and plans to wider national or regional plans? Is it crucial to integrate? • Land Owners, Investors & Operation Scale – Is there a minimal operation scale (land size) before urban development can take place? In an existing city, how can authorities persuade land owners to develop their land for long-term value enhancement? How can authorities get project investors and financiers on board? • Administration – How can governments implement urban policies and plans better? What are the instruments and mechanisms that support the development of liveable and sustainable cities in the long term? Who are the key players and stakeholders, and how can planning authorities seek buy-ins, engage and mobilise them? • Applied research – How can research support urban policies in sustainable development? How can cities encourage and foster innovations? Innovations are often the results of close collaboration - what roles can governments, research institutes and private companies play?

Session Chairperson: Nicholas You, Associate, Citistates

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Speakers: H.E. Soichiro Takashima, Mayor of Fukuoka City, Dr Dieter Salomon, Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau, Pang Yee Ean, Chief Executive Officer, Surbana, Singapore Jan Gehl, Founder, Gehl Architects, Denmark

Afternoon Session: Housing and Planning Solutions for Better Living in High Density Cities The world is rapidly urbanising with more and more people migrating into cities in search of jobs and better facilities. The large congregation of people in cities provide a wealth of resources and ideas, helping cities to become engines of growth. On the other hand, such rapid urbanisation poses tremendous challenges of insufficient housing, pollution, traffic congestion and lack of infrastructure to serve city dwellers.

These challenges become even starker as the population and densities in cities increase, particularly in developing countries in Asia. For many, rising property prices have caused housing to be out of reach. Some cities also face a changing demographic with the population ageing rapidly. Some of the key discussion points include: • What are possible housing and planning strategies and solutions that can address these challenges? • How can we provide more affordable quality housing? • What innovative planning processes and urban solutions are available to improve the quality of urban living? • How can our cities become more sustainable, smarter, healthier and resilient?

Session Chairperson: Arun Jain, Urban Design and Urban Strategist, Portland, USA

Speakers: Kaname Uchida, Vice President, Urban Renaissance Agency of Japan Chung In-Uk, Senior Executive Vice-President, Korea Land & Housing Corporation Dr Cheong Koon Hean, Chief Executive Officer, Housing & Development Board, Singapore Mitchell Silver, Chief Planning & Development Officer and Planning Director, Raleigh, North Carolina

******** Building Resilient Cities

Synopsis: Resilience is the ability of an individual, a household, a community, a city or a nation to withstand, to adapt, and to recover from stresses and shocks. 1 “Resilience” can be defined in various ways. To put it simply, it is perhaps to be able to “fail safely”. 2 In other words, when faced with disasters, how prepared city planners and leaders are to ensure that disruption of the critical infrastructure, utilities or services such as infocomms, electricity and transport are kept to a minimum. Also embedded in the concept of resilient cities, is how fast cities are able to bounce back from disasters.

However, building up hardware is not enough, for resilience is ultimately people-centred. Resilient communities are able to bounce back from adverse situations, drawing upon social capital for access to information and communication networks in times of difficulty. The networks that connect and hold the community together are increasingly important given the complexity and magnitude of today’s natural and man-made disruptions.

Morning Session: Social Resilience – Partnerships for Cohesive Cities Having greater economic, technical, political and social links create strong feedback loops that in turn induce resilience within a city. A more cohesive community is likely to bounce back and restore itself to its previous state. How can we foster social resilience? What important elements are to be in place to build social capital for resilience? How do city leaders build partnerships that will help develop capacities and adaptabilities for weathering crises?

1European Commission, Resilience , http://ec.europa.eu/echo/policies/resilience/resilience_en.htm , accessed on 24 January 2014. 2 Better Cities Now, The making of resilient cities , 18 Dec 2012, http://bettercitiesnow.com/design/urban- planning/making-cities-resilient , accessed on 24 Jan 2014.

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In this session, speakers will: • Share examples of socially-resilient cities – Defining socially-resilient cities and their key attributes, including the issues of immigration and integration, and capacities for building social capital in diverse communities. Socially cohesive cities with self-motivating communities will bounce back quickly from city disruptions. • Share on the importance of partnerships among government, businesses and communities in building resilient cities – The adaptive capacities of cities are dependent on its residents, neighbourhoods and districts. A comprehensive approach to building resilient cities involves bringing all stakeholders, including private enterprises and the community, on board and moving together towards shared goals of improved resilience. • Share novel approaches and emerging practices that will foster greater social cohesiveness and social capital – A diverse and proactive community will build significant resilience for the city. As such, city leaders should invest in community-related events that create awareness and involve residents in emergency drills and disaster management plans. Harnessing the cooperation of businesses and people are equally important.

Session Chairperson: Kent Martinussen, Chief Executive Officer, Danish Architecture Centre, Denmark

Speakers: H.E. Hon Dr Mohamed Muizzu, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, Maldives H.E. Celia Wade-Brown, Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand Gino Van Begin, Sec-Gen, ICLEI Michael Berkowitz, Managing Director and President, 100 Resilient Cities, The Rockefeller Foundation, USA Patrick Phillips, CEO, Urban Land Institute

Afternoon Session: Environmental Resilience – Strengthening the Basic Building Blocks of a City A fundamental part of city resilience lies in ensuring solid basic infrastructure. When disaster strikes, cities that have systems that can operate autonomously are more resilient than those that are co-dependent – where failure of one component leads to a massive collapse. Increased autonomy is a key factor in city resilience. 3 A city’s resilience depends significantly on how integrated it is in terms of responsiveness. In the face of a disaster, how effectively can residents reach for help from emergency and police protection services? How fast can city leaders and decision makers make a call on what actions to take in restoring essential services to their citizens?

In this session, speakers will: • Provide examples of environmentally-resilient projects or initiatives – The role of critical infrastructure, planning, design and (risk) management to address challenges such as climate change and natural disasters. • Explore the importance and benefits of creating environmentally-resilient cities – Investments are urgently needed for energy, water and waste management infrastructure in many growing cities. There are opportunities in these cities for the public, private and people sectors to adopt innovative systems to strengthen resilience. • Discuss the challenges in building environmentally-resilient cities – What are the common challenges faced? An example is the competing needs for finances. How can cities overcome these hurdles? How can the private, public and people sectors work towards more eco-friendly development even if incentives differ?

Session Chairperson: Simon Upton, Environment Director, OECD

Speakers: Jens-Peter Saul, Chief Executive Officer, Ramboll Anne Skovbro, Director, City of Copenhagen, Denmark Rob Steele, Secretary General, ISO Dr Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM Selwin C. Hart, Climate Finance Advisor, Caribbean Development Bank ********

3 Better Cities Now, The making of resilient cities , 18 Dec 2012, http://bettercitiesnow.com/design/urban- planning/making-cities-resilient , accessed on 24 Jan 2014.

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Annex A Innovative Urban Solutions for Liveable and Future-Ready Cities

Synopsis: The track will showcase cutting-edge technology and leading efforts in urban solutions research that can translate into policy formulation to tackle the key challenges faced by cities. It will also address how governments, businesses, and research institutions can work together to create a healthy eco-system for solutions generation.

Morning Session, Smart Technologies and Collaborative Thinking for Innovative R&D Solutions • How can science and technology be successfully harnessed to improve the way we live? What are the successfully implemented case studies and learning points for application in other highly urbanised cities? • Relevant, practical urban innovations are often the products of close collaboration between governments, research institutes and private sector companies. How can this be facilitated?

Speakers: Liu Shyh-Fang, Deputy Mayor, Kaohsiung City Bernard Salha, Senior Executive Vice President, R&D, EDF Dr Er Johnny Wong, Group Director, Housing & Development Board, Building Research Institute, Singapore Dr Gyeng Chul Kim, President, Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) David Tan, Assistant Chief Executive Officer, JTC Corporation Prof Brian Collins, Prof and Director, Centre of Engineering Policy, UCL UK

Afternoon Session, Developing Future Technologies and Solutions • What are the future technologies, solutions and capabilities in development beyond the immediate term? • What future issues are cities likely to face and which new technologies have the potential to help us to address these future challenges? Where are our knowledge and technical gaps that would benefit from R&D?

Session Chairperson: Prof Steven Miller, Vice Provost (Research) and Dean, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University

Speakers: Prof Peh Li-Shiuan, Prof Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT Charbel Aoun, Senior Vice President, Smart Cities, Schneider Electric Prof Edward Ng, Professor of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong Peter Quek, Chief Information Officer, Information System and Geospatial Group, URA Prof Michael Batty, Professor of Planning and Chair of Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, United Kingdom ******** Future Mobility

Synopsis: Rapid urbanisation, climate uncertainty and ageing population are some of the growing challenges faced worldwide in meeting mobility needs. Daily travel for work, education, leisure and social needs are expected to be safe, cost-effective and sustainable. In this track, city leaders, policy makers, researchers and practitioners will shed light on: • How technology would enhance the urban travel experience – Autonomous vehicles, intelligent transport systems, personal mobility devices, smart ticketing, are examples of technology developments in the transportation sector. How would such advancements make our travel safer, easier, more cost-effective, and more inclusive? • How mobility would shape future community life – The 20 th century saw a rapid growth in transport networks centred around cars, which in turn shaped the physical landscape of many cities today. What will future mobility be like? What role do we want urban transport to play in shaping our future community life? ********

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