Meeting of the Minds (NYC 2009)

Program of the
conference

 June 1st 2nd 3rd 2009

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Day 2 of the Meeting Program

Host
Address

JP Morgan Chase
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, Manhattan

7:30 am

Breakfast

8:45 am

Session Eight: The View from the Ground Level: Cities and their infrastructure strategies

Moderator:

Michael Lindfield - Principal Urban Development Specialist, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Special Initiatives Group, Asian Development Bank, Manila

Panelists:

Mayor Jerry F. Treñas, Ilo-ilo City, Philippines; former President-League of Cities of the Philippines

Commentator:

Victor Vergara, Lead Urban Specialist/Program Leader, Urban and Local Government: World Bank Institute

9:45 am

Session Nine: The Vision of the Existing City: Facing the Intersection of Planning and Keeping Personality in Place

Moderator:

Victoria Kahn – Managing Director, ING Clarion Partners

Panelists:

Alexandros Washburn – Chief Urban Designer, New York City Dept. of Planning

Bernard Zyscovich - Founder, Zyscovich Architects

A. Eugene Kohn – Founding Partner and Chairman, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

10:40 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am

Short Report

Rob Kerr, Director of GlobeScan – reporting on the survey conducted with Meeting participants and other city leaders

11:20 am

Session Ten: The Future is Now: Intelligent cities deploying new solutions

Moderator:

Tom Wright, Executive Director – Regional Plan Association

Panelists:

Scott Griffith, Chairman/CEO - Zipcar

Mario Gandelsonas, Founding Director - Center for Architecture, Urbanism + Infrastructure; Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture

Nicholas You, Senior Advisor, Policy & Strategic Planning - Office of the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT - Best Practices and Local Leadership

12:45 pm

Closing Session: Meeting2009 Survey Results

Rob Kerr, Globescan (Toronto)

1:15 pm

Luncheon

© 2009—2010 Meeting of the Minds

Presented by TOYOTA

Hosted by JP MORGAN CHASE & CO.

Organized by URBAN AGE INSTITUTE

Sponsored by Siemens, ZipCar, World Bank, CDIA, UN, ULI, Regional Plan Assn., Alberta Research Cncl., Metropolis and Financial Times of London/FdI.

Meeting of the Minds is carbon neutral. The carbon emissions from building energy use, printed materials, and waste have been balanced out using ISO 14064-part 2 carbon offsets.