Août 28, 2017
Dr. Shain Shapiro is the founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy. Sound Diplomacy is the leader of the Music Cities movement, which sees culture built into the urban environment through policy. They also run Music Cities Events, the global leading music cities conference series.
Août 09, 2017
Konvitz joined the Urban Affairs Division of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1992 after nearly twenty years on the history faculty of Michigan State University. Upon retiring from the OECD in 2011 as Head of the Regulatory Policy Program, Konvitz was appointed Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow. Cities and Crisis, his…
Août 08, 2017
Alexander Mirescu is CEO of RESILIÉNT/CITY, a company based in New York which provides expert risk assessments project management and support for Disaster Risk Reduction and Urban Resilience. Mirescu was selected in 2015 by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) to serve as a Public Advocate for the United Nation’s “Making…
Août 04, 2017
Mr Amit Pathare is an energy and utilities sector executive with 20 years of experience, having held Management positions with the ENGIE Group over the past nine years. He is currently ENGIE’s Programme Director for Cities, and a passionate advocate for steering ENGIE’s activities into new geographies, technologies and business domains.
Août 01, 2017
Jean-François Barsoum joined IBM’s Strategy Consulting practice in 1996, and as Senior Managing Consultant, Smarter Cities, Water and Transportation, Innovation, Research & Development, he has worked on dozens of strategy mandates since them, most of them focused on environmental or smart city issues. In 2008, he was among the few Canadians selected by the Al…
Juil 31, 2017
Saleemul Huq is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) since 2009 and intends to support growing capacity of Bangladesh stakeholders, while enabling people and organizations from outside to benefit from training in Bangladesh. ICCCAD runs regular short courses as well as a MSc. program in Climate Change and Development.…
Juil 31, 2017
Dean M. Esserman is the Senior Counsellor of the Washington, D.C.-based Police Foundation. He is the immediate past chief of the New Haven (CT) Police Department. Prior to that, he served as Chief of Police in Providence, Rhode Island; Stamford, Connecticut; and the New York State MTA-Metro North Police Department. From 1987-1991, he served as…
Juil 06, 2017
Caspar Herzberg is the President of Schneider Electric Middle East & Africa. Caspar manages SE’s operations in 80+ countries, with 15,000 employees across Middle East & Africa including Central Asia and Turkey. Schneider Electric serves its customers with integrated efficiency solutions, combining energy, automation and software in Power Management and in Industrial Automation Systems. Prior…
Juin 21, 2017
As Head of the Novartis Foundation, Dr Ann Aerts has played a key role in devising policy recommendations and exploring innovative solutions to public health problems. Prior to joining Novartis, Dr Aerts served as Director of the Lung and Tuberculosis Association in Belgium, and as Head of the Health Services Department of the International Committee…
Juin 16, 2017
Mayor Ninna Thomsen has been Mayor of Health and Care in the City of Copenhagen since January 2010. She has been a member of the City Council since 2006 and the political leader of the Socialist People’s Party in Copenhagen since 2011. Prevention and public health have been key issues in Ninna Thomsen’s political career…
Juin 14, 2017
Alex is Co-founder of Made in Montréal and now serves as Executive Director. As a trained paper maker and former employee at Papeterie Saint-Armand – a proud member of Montreal’s community of manufacturers – Alex developed an interest in manufacturing in contemporary urban contexts. Alex went on to pursue his enthusiasm for urban manufacturing and…
Juin 14, 2017
Claude Faribault is Research Director at Montréal Living Lab, an open innovation center that explores the interaction between technologies, the city and its people. The Center brings together citizens, researchers, entrepreneurs and policymakers to enable them to test mobile technologies on the ground that could be used for urban development.