Sep 10, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. The opening conversation at the New Cities Summit, The Age of Urban Tech, assembled voices from the public and private sectors to discuss the vast potential of Urban Tech…
Sep 08, 2016
The ecology of water, its flora, fauna and microbes, past and present; water and geology, how they are related to the shape of the land; the history of humans and these waters; the development of the city, industrialization; infrastructure and the control, delivery and removal of water; neighborhoods and their local relationship to water; the…
Sep 07, 2016
The German Energiewende (the transition to a low carbon sustainable energy system) is under pressure. The transition surged in the late 1990s and early 2000s due to innovative and far-reaching policies to support renewable energies, improved efficiency, and reduced consumption, resulting in the transformation of a large industrialized economy. Yet, once again, energy politics are…
Sep 07, 2016
Airbnb, a key player in the new sharing economy, has recently established the role of Chief Employee Experience Officer who oversees the company’s “workplace as an experience™”—and they’ve even trademarked it—who carefully orchestrates the physical, emotional, intellectual, virtual, and aspirational elements of the work experience to inspire employees. It’s been a big hit with employees,…
Sep 06, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. Placemaking: Building the Community Through Urban Tech considers the role that communities in the age of Urban Tech play in physically and socially altering cities. “The most important use…
Sep 06, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. How will people and technology collide to open up new pathways for energy creation and management at the city scale?People Powered Cities set its sights on how the relationship…
Aug 26, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. “Our societies are physical manifestations of our technological developments, but also our social structures,” said Fahd Al-Rasheed. The New Urban Lifestyles panelists grouped a diverse range of experts to…
Aug 26, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. With seemingly exponential innovations in Urban Tech and urban planning, what opportunities exist to expand the “Sharing Economy” in our cities? Sharing is Caring, Trust is Key provided a…
Aug 17, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. “Technology is no longer a question of just who can take part, it is also who wants to take part,” said Jenviev Azzolin on the topic of Inclusive Urban…
Aug 17, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. With Urban Tech pushing public transport towards deeper mobility convergence, Mobility as a Service set out to examine what it will mean for the future design and strategy of…
Aug 15, 2016
We need innovative solutions for our planet’s increasingly crowded cities — and we need them fast. Around the globe, one million people — the equivalent of an entire medium-sized city — move to urban centers every week. This pace of urbanization is picking up, putting relentless pressure on transport systems, infrastructure and services, and health…
Aug 12, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. Will Urban Tech democratize the tools citizens can use to develop cutting-edge ideas and technologies? Empowering the Innovators provided a forum to discuss how technology can be used to…
