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Welcome to Metropolis Congress 2008
'The challenge for Metropolis in the next few years is to give concrete answers to the great questions of the day, not only for the citizens, but also for all inhabitants of our planet, in terms of transport, urbanism, organisation, public health, environment, development and governance.' Jean-Paul Huchon, President of Metropolis ... more >

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Schedule

Oct 2008

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Connecting Global Research To Design Smart Cities

Speakers

Maria Atkinson
(Sydney Australia)
Head of Global Sustainability, Lend Lease

Dr Richard Cashman
(Sydney Australia)
School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism University of Technology

Elisabete Franca
(Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Secretary of Low Income Housing

Ms Guo Jianhua
(Guangdong Province, China)
Vice-Director, Planning & Administration Office, Pearl River Delta

Irina Ivashkina
(Moscow, Russia)
Head of Department of Environmental Protection

Justin Madden
(Melbourne, Australia)
Minister for Planning, Victoria

Dr Mohammad Ghalibaf
(City of Tehran, Iran)
Mayor

Mr Sayed Mohammad Pezhman
(Mashhad, Iran)
Mayor

Mr Iuli Nascimento
(Ile-de-France, France)
Project Director, IAU-IDF

Jean-Paul Huchon
(Paris, France)
President Regional Council of Ile-de-France

Maria Krautzberger
(Berlin, Germany)
Permanent Secretary Department for Urban Development

Steffen Lehmann
(Sydney Australia)
Chair UNESCO, Sustainable Urban Development, Asia and Pacific

Sean O’Toole
(Sydney, Australia)
CEO Landcom

Dr Rajendra Pachauri
(Delhi, India)
Chairman Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Kathy Pain
(Loughborough, UK)
Globalization and World Cities research network

Ms Yannick Rabemanantsoa
(Antananarivo, Madagascar)

Carlo Ratti
(Boston/Turin)
Director SENSEable City Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tom Roper
(New York, USA)
Board member, Climate Institute

Dr Sayedmorteza Saghaeiannejad Esfahani
(Esfahan, Iran)
Mayor

Prof. Saskia Sassen
(New York/London)
Committee of Global Thought Columbia University

Mr Olcay Unver
(Istanbul, Turkey)
UN World Water Action Programme

Chetan Vaidya
(Delhi, India)
Director National Institute of Urban Affairs

Ms Marcela Valasco Gonzalez
(State of Mexico)
Secretary of Urban Development

Mr Michel Vampouille
(Ile-de-France, France)
Vice-President

Karen Waldman
(Sydney, Australia)
Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Integral Energy

Peter Verwer
(Sydney, Australia)
CEO Property Council Australia