Program of the
conference

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Day 1 of the Meeting Program

JP Morgan Chase
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, Manhattan

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome by Gordon Feller:
Welcome from the convenor — “Why this Meeting?”

Opening remarks by Irv Miller — Group Vice President for Environment and Public Affairs, Toyota Motor Sales, USA

Opening Session: “The Big Picture: How the pieces fit together?”

Panelists:

Paul Camuti - Pres. and CEO, Siemens Corporate Research

Len J. Lauer - EVP and COO, Qualcomm

Coffee Break

Session Two: “Cities Mapping their Paths to Sustainable Development”

Moderator:

Robert Buckley - Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation

Presentation by:

Jozias van Aarsten - Mayor of The Hague (Netherlands)

Commentators:

Mutula Kilonzo - Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development (Kenya)

Hella Dunger-Löper - Permanent Secretary for Building and Housing in Berlin‘s Senate Department for Urban Development (Germany)

Session Three: “Innovation + Renovation: Urban mobility/infrastructure crisis as opportunity”

Moderator:

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

Panelists:

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

Susan Zielinski, Director of SMART – Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ron Dembo, Founder and Chairman - ZeroFootprint, Toronto

Paul Pelosi, Pres/COO: Natural Blue Resources; advisor NASA Ames Research Center; advisor Sunforce Solution International; Pres: City of San Francisco Commission on the Environment

Luncheon

Group discussions during luncheon:

From Urban BluePrints to GreenPrints

Crossing Bridges: How Partnering Can Work Better

Scaleable and Replicable Experiments

New Ways of Getting To the Finish Line

Keynote “U.S. Mayors Pushing for Innovation: Linking Climate Change, Transport, Energy and Smart Urban Design, Urban Planning, Urban Land Use”

Tom Cochran, Executive Director – United States Conference of Mayors,
followed by Q&A.

Session Four: Designers Looking Ahead – The Cities, The Vehicles, The Imperative for Change

Panelists:

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

Jeb Bruggman, urban and business strategist; author: "Welcome to the Urban Revolution" (Bloomsbury); founder, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability; faculty, Cambridge University Programme for Sustainability Leadership

Session Five: Global Cities: Positioning for the Next Expansion -- The Right Economic Agenda

Moderator:

Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association

Panelists:

Robert Lieber, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, New York City

Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation

Rick Lazio, Managing Director, JP Morgan Asset Management, Global Real Assets, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Elliot "Lee" Sander - Elliot Sander, Executive Director and CEO, Metropolitan Transportation Authority

NYC has adopted the most far-reaching and comprehensive sustainability plan for the next 20 years. How the ongoing financial crisis is affecting PlaNYC’s many initiatives -- and what are their strategies for dealing with challenges.

Session Six: How Smart City-Regions are Learning and Adapting

Neal Peirce, Citistates; Washington Post Group columnist

Session Seven: What the Data Tells Us

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology - Department of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Closing remarks

No-host dinner

Four small group discussions continue during dinner