Where
& When

New York City
January 7, 2010

What

Sustainable City Finance— creating more sustainable cities using smarter design tools, sounder environmental practices and cleaner energy systems.

Who

Innovators who are scaling-up practical urban innovations in infrastructure, technology, energy, transport, water, and finance to build more livable cities.

About
Conference

Meeting of the Minds 2009, presented by Toyota, is an invitation only leadership summit. It brings together 130+ policy-makers, opinion-shapers and thought-leaders from commercial, non-profit and public sector organizations.

Each year’s “Meeting of the Minds” builds on the last year’s successes. 2009 focuses on the connections between disparate challenges facing cities. As they undertake complex projects, city leaders are finding new ways to ‘connect the dots'. Whatever their city’s shape or size, whether rich or poor, urban leaders are busy making their communities more sustainable. This Meeting provides a platform to understand better ‘what works’ and ‘why’.

Previous
conferences

2008

Meeting partners were Governor of Oregon; Portland General Electric; IBM; Oregon Business Council; Oregon Transportation Commission; American Planning Association; LandDesign.

2007

Meeting partners were Mayor of Oakland; University of California Berkeley; World Resources Institute; Embarq; American Planning Association; LandDesign

Past Speakers
 

Jozias van Aarsten: Mayor of The Hague (Netherlands)

Jeb Bruggman: Founder, ICLEI; faculty, Cambridge University.

Robert Buckley: Managing Director, Rockefeller Fdn.

Paul Camuti: Pres./CEO, Siemens Corporate Research

Ron Dembo: Founder/Chairman, ZeroFootprint, Toronto

Hella Dunger-Löper: Permanent Sect. for Building and Housing, Berlin Senate Dept. for Urban Development

Earl E. Gales, Jr.: Chairman/CEO of Jenkins, Gales & Martinez

Jack Hidary: Chairman, SmartTransportation.org; co-founder, Vista Research; co-founder, EarthWeb/Dice; co-founder, Freedom Prize Fdn.; chairman, Hidary Fdn.

Len J. Lauer: EVP and COO, Qualcomm

Robert Lieber: Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, NYC

Irv Miller: Group VP for Environment + Public Affairs, Toyota Motor Sales, USA

Paul Pelosi: Pres., City of S.F. Commission on the Environment

Bill Reinert: National Manager, Advanced Technology Group - Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.

Susan Zielinski: Director of SMART – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Registration
 

You can register online
or by contacting us directly:

Gordon Feller
Urban Age Institute San Francisco, California - USA
+1-415 491 4233
Gordon@UrbanAge.org

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