Partnership for Urban Innovation Global Conference 2010
SHANGHAI JUNE 17TH 2010
Please mark your calendar for the Partnership for Urban Innovation: Global Conference 2010 in Shanghai, China, June 17, 2010. In conjunction with Shanghai Expo 2010, the conference brings together leading global innovators from cities, business, academia, and urban planning and builds from the successful Connected Urban Development conferences in San Francisco and Amsterdam in 2008 and Seoul in 2009. The conference aims to address the scope and ambitions toward applying technology to making sustainable, economic, and socially attractive 21st–century cities and how this is advancing through a growing alliance of multisector partners.
Partner organizations are Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities program leadership; the Connected Urban Development program member cities; The Climate Group; and Metropolis, the global cities association. In a schedule of events throughout this period of the Shanghai Expo 2010, partners in this multisector conference will also have the opportunity to invite delegates to their own Expo pavilions and related events in this same week.
Cisco chairman and CEO John Chambers, The Climate Group CEO Steve Howard, and other leading thought leaders will deliver keynote addresses for the event, which will be hosted in collaboration with the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination. The objectives of the conference are to recognize leading cities for their efforts in addressing sustainable development; to discuss challenges and solutions leaders are developing at the intersection between environmental sustainability, economic development and social inclusion; and to establish a global community of collaboration.
This unique, invitation–only event provides attendees an opportunity to explore how cities are using information and communications technology (ICT) to create solutions that help reduce carbon emissions in metropolitan areas while fostering economic development and bridging social inclusion. A series of interactive sessions will take place to provide the audience with new approaches to urban innovation and to foster closer relationships among leading and innovative urban leaders.
Under the leadership of The Climate Group, the Connected Urban Development Alliance will be launched and will represent a transformational milestone in the evolution of the successful program, following the lead taken by the founding cities of Amsterdam, Birmingham, San Francisco, Hamburg, Lisbon, Madrid, and Seoul. New cities, business partners, and nongovernment organizations will be asked to share their perspectives and knowledge as well as to join the Alliance.