Apr 13, 2020
Dan Hon is an expert on technology and its role in society. Most recently, he has been doing groundbreaking work, transforming government and digital services, the subject of a Harvard Kennedy School case study. He is a keynote speaker on government digital services and the role of technology in society. You can find his writing…
Apr 09, 2020
Alice N. Bravo, P.E., was appointed Director of Miami-Dade Transit in July 2015. In February 2016, Ms. Bravo was appointed Director of the of the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTPW), which merged the County’s Transit and Public Works functions under one department. Throughout her career, Ms. Bravo has managed numerous diversified public-private partnership…
Apr 09, 2020
John Siraut, Technical Director Economics at Jacobs specialises in the wider economic and social impacts of transport policies and investment, as well as advising on economic development and regeneration issues generally. He has advised a wide range of clients on parking issues including company purchase, charging tariffs and the impact of parking on retail activity.
Apr 09, 2020
Katerina is a community and engagement specialist with a background in urban planning and human geography. Originally from Toronto, Katerina is currently based in Amsterdam where she works as an Engagement Manager at Office App.
Apr 09, 2020
Alissa Walker connects people with where they live through writing, speaking, and walking. As the urbanism editor at Curbed, she authors the column Word on the Street, highlighting the pioneering transit, clever civic design, and game-changing policy affecting our cities. For her writing on design and urbanism, Alissa has been named a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts…
Apr 09, 2020
Michèle Champagne is an independent researcher and designer. She has written about the happiness industry, Sidewalk Labs, and privatized towns for Articles, Failed Architecture, and Volume by Archis Foundation. She has a Master degree in Design from Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and has lectured at École de design at Université du Québec à Montréal and…
Apr 01, 2020
Christopher Hawthorne works for Mayor Eric Garcetti as Chief Design Officer for the city of Los Angeles. Prior to that, Christopher Hawthorne was the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to March 2018. Before coming to The Times, he was architecture critic for Slate and a frequent contributor to the New York…
Apr 01, 2020
Jeanne Gang, FAIA, is the founding principal and partner of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Her inquisitive, forward-looking approach to design—unique in its pursuit of new technical and material possibilities as well as in its expansion of the active role…
Mar 27, 2020
Scott Smith is founder and managing partner of Changeist, a futures research and consulting partnership established in 2007 in the United States, now based in the Netherlands. He has more than 25 years’ experience in forecasting, and has lived in three countries over that time. He currently makes his home in The Hague, where his…
Mar 24, 2020
Benjamin de la Peña is an urbanist, a strategist and a design thinker. He’s worked on urban development issues that cover technology, sustainable transportation and informal systems. His writing has been featured in Citylab, Atlantic Cities, Next City, FutureEverything and TED City 2.0. He has presented at national and international conferences including Bloomberg and Atlantic’s…
Mar 24, 2020
Richard Sennett currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Program on Climate Change and Cities. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT. Previously, he founded the New York Institute for the Humanities, taught at New York…
Mar 23, 2020
Anthea a rejoint NewCities au début de l’année 2020. En tant que coordinatrice de programme pour CoMotion, elle gère les sujets et les intervenants des conférences CoMotion LA et Miami. Originaire de Vancouver, Anthea est titulaire d’un B.A. & SC. en sciences cognitives avec une mineure en linguistique de l’Université McGill. Après avoir obtenu son…