Andrew Altman

Chief Executive, London Legacy Development Corporation 2009-2012

Andrew Altman was recently the founding Chief Executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company in London where he was responsible for leading the preparation of the post-games transformation of the 500-acre London 2012 Olympic Park - the largest regeneration project in the United Kingdom and Europe - into a new international growth centre. Prior to becoming Chief Executive for the Olympic Park, Andy Altman was the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Planning, and Director of Commerce for the City of Philadelphia.

• Discussion
• Cities panel: the legacy of urban leadership

Ken Banks

Founder, Kiwanja and Co-chair, Mobile Web for Social Development Group

Ken Banks, Founder of kiwanja.net, devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change. His early research resulted in the development of FrontlineSMS, an award-winning text message system today powering thousands of social change projects around the world. Ken has won numerous international awards for his work, and writes and speaks widely about technology and innovation.

• Connecting disadvantaged communities: The mobile phone leapfrog

Rainer Becker

Chief Operating Officer, car2go GmbH, Daimler AG

Rainer Becker is Chief Operating Officer of car2go GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of Daimler AG. Before joining car2go in 2009, he worked for several divisions within Daimler. He is currently responsible for product and fleet management, optimization and standardization of car2go’s operative processes and for developing car2go’s business beyond the current European and North American focus.

• Shared electric vehicles

Frauke Behrendt

Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Brighton

Frauke Behrendt is Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton and leads the 'Smart e-bikes' research project that aims to understand how people engage with electrically-assisted cycling and the issues for policy, design/product development and research that could lead to a higher uptake of e-bikes in the UK. The project is trialling a fleet of 35 e-bikes in Brighton and has developed a monitoring toolkit - using mobile media, GPS and sensors for monitoring usage and giving feedback to riders.

• Smart e-bikes

Ricky Burdett

Professor of Urban Studies and Director, LSE Cities

Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme. He is Global Distinguished Professor at New York University and a member of the UK government’s independent Airports Commission. From 2006-10 he was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics.

• Welcome - Ricky Burdett
• The electric city
• Designing place for the digital age

Craig Calhoun

Director, London School of Economics and Political Science

Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and a world-renowned social scientist whose work connects sociology to culture, communication, politics, philosophy and economics. He was previously University Professor at New York University and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge and President of the Social Science Research Council. He took a D Phil in History and Sociology at Oxford University and a Master's in Social Anthropology at Manchester.

• Welcome - Craig Calhoun
• The dynamo of cities: density, technology and ideas?
• Innovating urban futures
• Discussion

David Cameron

Prime Minister, UK Government

• Announcement of £50m Government investment for a new civic centre in "Tech City"

Carl Cederschiöld

Mayor of Stockholm 1998-2002

Carl Cederschiöld is Mayor Emeritus and High Representative of the Mayor of Stockholm. Carl is also a Member of the Royal Commission on the Future Local Self Governance in Sweden, Chief Negotiator for the government regarding infrastructure in the region of Stockholm, Member of the Board of Dalkia AB, Sweden. In addition, he is Senior Advisor to the City of Stockholm, and otherwise working as a free consultant.

• Panel

Patrik Cerwall

Head of Strategic Marketing and Intelligence, Ericsson

Patrik Cerwall is Head of Strategic Marketing & Intelligence at Business Unit Networks, Ericsson. He joined Ericsson in 1995 and has held various positions within system design and product management for GSM, GPRS and EDGE. Since 2006, Cerwall has been working with sales strategies and strategic marketing within Business Unit Networks. Cerwall has a Master of Science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He also holds ten patents in the field of mobile communication systems.

• Smart phones

Greg Clark

City and Regional Development Advisor

Greg Clark is an international mentor and advocate on City and Metropolitan Management, Investment, Development, Strategic Planning, and Governance. He works with public and private leadership of cities, regions, and districts. He is an expert peer reviewer on urban and regional development issues for the World Bank, OECD, ULI and Brookings Institution.

• Governing urban transformation
• Cities panel: the legacy of urban leadership

Isabel Dedring

Deputy Mayor of London

Isabel Dedring is Deputy Mayor for Transport. Before her appointment, she was the Mayor's Environment Advisor. A qualified lawyer, she has worked across both public and private sectors including at Transport for London as Director of the Commissioner's Policy Unit and at McKinsey and Company, where she spent four years working with clients in regulated industries including telecoms and transport.

• Panel

Julio Dávila

Director, Development Planning Unit, UCL

Julio D Dávila is Director of the Development Planning Unit, University College London (UCL). His recent research is on the role of local government in progressive social and political transformation and the governance dimensions of urban and peri-urban infrastructure, especially public transport and water & sanitation. His most recent book is Urban Mobility and Poverty: Lessons from Medellín and Soacha, Colombia (2012).

• The low-tech experience and social inclusion: Medellín's MetroCable

Wim Elfrink

Chief Globalisation Officer and Executive Vice President for the Industry Solutions Group, Cisco

Wim Elfrink joined Cisco in 1997. His most recent role was to globally lead Cisco Services. As Chief Globalisation Officer and Executive Vice President, Mr. Elfrink heads three of Cisco’s global initiatives: Cisco’s Industry Solutions and Emerging Countries initiatives, and the company’s globalisation strategy.

• High tech solutions for an urbanising world

Graham Floater

Principal Research Fellow, LSE Cities and Director, The Climate Centre

Graham Floater is Director of The Climate Centre and Programme Director of the Economics of Green Cities at LSE. Previously, he was Deputy Director at the UK Prime Minister’s Office of Climate Change, economic advisor at the UK Treasury, and EU trade negotiator in the WTO for the European Commission.

• Discussion

Nicky Gavron

Deputy Mayor, London 2000-2008, London Assembly Member and Chair, Planning Committee

Nicky Gavron has been an elected politician since 1986. Nicky has been at the forefront of developing integrated land-use, transport and environmental policy. London’s first Deputy Mayor 2000-2008, she led for the Mayor on the London Plan and on climate change. Initiatives included establishing the London Climate Change Agency and the C40. Re-elected as a London-wide Assembly Member in 2008 and 2012, she chairs the Planning Committee. She continues her international work with cities, and is chief project advisor to Economics of Green Cities Programme.

• Discussion

Simon Giles

Lead, Intelligent City Strategy, Accenture

Simon Giles is Accenture's global lead for Intelligent Cities Strategy and is currently advising cities, government and developers on economic development, citizen centred design and digital masterplanning. He runs a global advisory team, based in London, that works with interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers and digital designers to develop new development strategies for existing and new build cities. Simon also leads the advisory group for the World Economic Forum on Low Carbon Finance and Future Urban Development.

• Discussion

Ed Glaeser

Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He is Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Director of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1992.

• Economic dynamics of the 21st century electric city
• A new climate for the urban economy?

Adam Greenfield

Managing Director, Urbanscale, New York City

Adam Greenfield, founder and managing director of Urbanscale, is a passionate advocate for the human-centered design of technological systems. Between 2008 and 2010, he was Nokia’s head of design direction for service and user interface design; earlier in the decade, he had worked as lead information architect for the Tokyo office of Internet consultancy Razorfish. He is the author of Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (2006), Urban computing and its discontents (2007, with Mark Shepard) and the forthcoming The city is here for you to use.

• Use and misuse of smart technology in cities

Maarten Hajer

Director, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Maarten Hajer has been Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency since 2008, employing a staff of around 250 people. Maarten Hajer is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam since 1998. The Dutch Cabinet appointed him as Director of the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL – Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving) in 2008. He continues his professorship part time.

• Discussion

Dan Hill

CEO, Fabrica

Dan Hill is CEO of Fabrica, a communications research centre and transdisciplinary studio based in Treviso, Italy, and part of the Benetton Group. A designer and urbanist, he has previously held leadership positions at Sitra (the Finnish Innovation Fund), Arup, Monocle, and the BBC, and writes for cityofsound.com.

• Local impact of virtual actions

Bjarke Ingels

Architect and Principal, BIG

Bjarke Ingels started BIG Bjarke Ingels Group in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke has developed a reputation for designing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. Bjarke has received numerous awards and honors, including the Danish Crown Prince’s Culture Prize in 2011, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal awarded Bjarke the Architectural Innovator of the Year Award.

• Meaning and symbolism of green architecture and urbanism

Anshu Jain

Co-Chairman, Management Board and Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank

Anshu Jain has been Co-Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank since June 2012. He has been a member of the Management Board since 2009 and the Group Executive Committee since 2002. He was previously head of the Corporate & Investment Bank, globally responsible for Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Finance, Sales and Trading, and Global Transaction Banking business.

• Welcome - Anshu Jain

Boris Johnson

Mayor of London

• Tech City development

Abha Joshi-Ghani

Director, Thematic Knowledge and Learning, World Bank Institute

Abha Joshi-Ghani is the Director for Thematic Knowledge and Learning at the World Bank Institute. Until recently she headed the World Bank’s Global Urban Development and Local Government where she oversaw the World Bank's work on Urban Policy and Strategy and Knowledge and Learning. She is also the Head of the Global Urbanization Knowledge Platform, a multi- partner initiative of the World Bank. She led the World Bank's Urban Strategy in 2010.

• Discussion

Tessa Jowell

Member of Parliament, UK

Tessa Jowell has been MP since 1992 and served as a Minister throughout the Labour Government. Tessa is credited with bringing the government behind London’s bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. She became Olympics Minister in 2005 and served on the Olympic Board. This year Tessa was made a Dame for her political and charitable services.

• Discussion

Ayesha Khanna

Managing Partner, Urban Intel

Ayesha Khanna is Managing Partner at Urban Intel, which provides strategic, technology and financial advisory services for smart and sustainable cities. She is also Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group focused on human-technology co-evolution, geotechnology and innovation, and a Faculty Advisor at Singularity University.

• Discussion

Michael Kimmelman

Architecture Critic, The NY Times

Michael Kimmelman is architecture critic of The New York Times, a 2012 Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale, and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Michael has written on issues of public housing, public space, infrastructure, community development and social responsibility. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of several books and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

• Discussion
• Designing place for the digital age

Kent Larson

Director, Cities Science Initiative MIT Media Lab

Kent Larson is Director of the City Science Initiative at the MIT Media Laboratory, with research focused on transformable urban housing, mobility-on-demand, responsive technology, and living lab experiments. Larson practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture, 2000 by the New York Times Review of Books.

• Intelligent dwelling

Greg Lindsay

Journalist, Fast Company and Visiting Scholar, New York University

Greg Lindsay is a contributing writer for Fast Company and an author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next (2011). He is a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management and an affiliate of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI).

• Smart working

Mark Major

Director and Founding Partner, Speirs+Major

Mark Major is an architect and lighting designer and a founding partner of the award-winning practice Speirs + Major. He has a special interest in public lighting and is an advocate for sustainable lighting development. He was the Lighting Design Advisor to the Olympic Delivery Authority for London 2012 and is on the Mayor of London’s Special Assistance Team panel for the Outer London Fund. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 2012.

• Discussion

James Miller

Lead Consultant, Experian Data and Analytics

James Miller is Lead Consultant at Experian Data & Analytics. He has worked in the fields of market planning, consumer insight, and spatial analysis for 14 years. He helps organisations understand the impact of people and places on business performance, and how to identify new opportunities, enter new markets, and manage risks to their operations. Previously, he led the market insight team at Dixons Retail, and worked in international retail research for global property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.

• Retail futures

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive, NESTA

Geoff Mulgan is Chief Executive of NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). From 2004-2011 he was the first Chief Executive of the Young Foundation, a leading centre for social innovation. Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos.

• Culture and innovation in the electric city
• Discussion

Wolfgang Nowak

Managing Director, Alfred Herrhausen Society

Wolfgang Nowak is Managing Director of the Alfred Herrhausen Society, the International Forum of Deutsche Bank. He has held various senior positions in Germany’s state and federal governments, France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and UNESCO. A former State Secretary, Wolfgang was Director-General for Political Analysis and Planning at the German Federal Chancellery from 1999 to 2002.

• Closing remarks

Jeremy Oppenheim

Director, Sustainability and Resource Productivity, McKinsey&Company

Jeremy Oppenheim leads McKinsey’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice. Drawing on deep expertise in renewables, energy efficiency, and environmental finance, he advises private, public, and social sector clients globally.

• Discussion

Enrique Peñalosa

Mayor of Bogotá, 1998-2001

Enrique Peñalosa is a Colombian politician and urban strategy consultant whose proposals have influenced policies in numerous cities throughout the world. As Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, he turned the city into a model of improvements in quality of life, mobility and equity. He is currently President of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy of New York.

• Discussion

Wolfgang Pietsch

Physicist and Philosopher, Munich Center for Technology in Society, TU Munich

Wolfgang Pietsch is a physicist and philosopher working at the Munich Center for Technology in Society of Technische Universität München. As a Poiesis Fellow of the Institute for Public Knowledge (New York University) he is researching the social impact of modern information infrastructure. Otherwise, his main academic interest concerns the foundations and history of the scientific method, more recently in particular with respect to the engineering sciences.

• The networked society of the future

Carlo Ratti

Director, MIT Senseable City Lab and Founder, carlorattiassociati

Carlo Ratti, an architect and engineer by training, practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. Carlo holds several patents, has co-authored over 200 publications, and serves as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Urban Management. He is the program director at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow and a curator of the 2012 BMW Guggenheim Pavilion in Berlin and Expo2015.

• The social nexus

Philipp Rode

Executive Director, LSE Cities

Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Ove Arup Fellow with the LSE Cities Programme. He leads LSE Cities’ research on the environment and climate change and recently coordinated the ‘Cities’ and ‘Buildings’ chapter of UNEP’s ‘Green Economy Report’. As researcher and consultant he has been directing interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and design over the last 10 years.

• Continuity or disruption: the impact of new urban tech
• Facilitating transformation: a global survey of city governments

Richard Rogers

Architect and Chairman, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Richard Rogers is Chair of international architectural practice Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Awarded 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, RIBA Gold Medalist (1985), Légion d’Honneur (1986), Knighted (1991), Life Peerage (1996), Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (2008). Richard was Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayors of London, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson.

• Panel

Saskia Sassen

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Sassen’s recent books include Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages and A Sociology of Globalization. Her books are translated into over 20 languages. Sassen serves on several editorial boards, is an advisor to international bodies, and writes regularly for international news media, including OpenDemocracy and The Huffington Post. She is currently working on Ungoverned Territories, under contract with Harvard University Press.

• Urbanising technology

Richard Sennett

Professor of Sociology, LSE and University Professor of the Humanities, New York University

Richard Sennett is Chair of the advisory board for LSE Cities, Professor of Sociology at the LSE and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett has served as a consultant on urban policy to the Labour party, was past President of the American Council on Work and the former Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. His work focuses on the intersection of cities, labour, and culture. His most recent book is titled Together: the rituals, pleasures, and politics of Cooperation.

• The Stupefying Smart City
• Panel

Rohan Silva

Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, UK

Rohan Silva is Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. Rohan works across all areas of policy, but is particularly passionate about technology and innovation. He has been responsible for developing key policies to improve the environment for enterprise in the UK, including the new tax breaks for angel investment, the overhaul of the Intellectual Property System, and the creation of the Tech City initiative.

• A national strategy for the urban tech revolution

Erik Spiekermann

CEO, EdenSpiekermann

Erik Spiekermann is an information architect, type designer and author. He founded MetaDesign in 1979 and FontShop in 1989. Today Eric is CEO at Edenspiekermann based in Amsterdam, Berlin and San Francisco. He is Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts Bremen, Honorary Doctor at the Pasadena Art Center, RSA Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, and holds the Federal German Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.

• Mapping and designing urban systems

Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum

Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum in London. He was the founding editor of Blueprint magazine (1983–1996), editor of Domus (2000–04) and the Architecture Critic of The Observer (1998–2006). Before joining the Design Museum in 2006, Deyan was dean of the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design at Kingston University, and visiting professor at the Royal College of Art. Deyan has published widely on design and architecture, including The Language of Things, published by Penguin in October 2008.

• The 21st century legacy of the electric age

Mark Swilling

Professor and Coordinator, Sustainable Development Programme, University of Stellenbosch

Mark Swilling is Professor and Coordinator of the programme of Sustainable Development at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University. He leads the project of the Centre for the Transdisciplinary Study of Sustainability and Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute. He is a member of the International Resource Panel and Coordinator of the Cities Working Group of this Panel. He is co-author with Eve Annecke of Just Transitions: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World published by UN University Press.

• The green transition of ordinary cities: The role of new technology

John Urry

Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University

John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. He was educated in economics and sociology at Cambridge and has published over 40 books. These include Mobilities (2007), After the Car (2009), Climate Change and Society (2011), Mobile Methods (2011), Societies beyond Oil (2013). He was part of the UK Foresight Programme on Intelligent Infrastructure Systems and contributed to the Royal Academy of Engineering Report on Electric Vehicles (2010).

• Sociotechnical scenarios for the future of the city

Antoni Vives

Deputy Mayor of Barcelona

Antoni Vives i Tomàs is a Deputy Mayor for Urban Habitat, an area that includes urbanism, town planning, housing, infrastructures, environment and urban services and ICT. He is also Vice President of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area and Councillor for the City District of Les Corts. He was General Secretary for the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1999-2003), and subsequently Director of the Ramon Trias Fargas Foundation (2003-2007). Vives serves as Senior Advisor for the Prince of Asturias Professorship of Spanish Studies at the London School of Economics.

• Panel

Judy Wajcman

Professor of Sociology, LSE

Judy Wajcman is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). She is a Research Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute, and has been President of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Her books include: The Social Shaping of Technology, The Politics of Working Life, TechnoFeminism and the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies.

• Discussion

Shi Wang

Chairman, China Vanke Co. and Executive Manager, China Real Estate Association

Wang Shi is the Chairman and Founder of China Vanke Co., Ltd., China’s largest residential developer. He is the co-founder of China Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology and Chairman of China Entrepreneurs Forum. Wang Shi sits on the board of World Wildlife Fund US and the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability.

• Discussion

David Willetts

Minister of State for Universities and Science, UK

David Willetts MP is Minister for Universities and Science. He has been the Member of Parliament for Havant since 1992. He has worked at HM Treasury, the Number 10 Policy Unit, and served as Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government. He is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation and a member of the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His book The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future – And How They Can Give It Back was published last year.

• Keynote

Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Founder, Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture, Dean, School of Architecture, Princeton University

Alejandro Zaera-Polo is an accomplished contemporary architect and founder of London and Barcelona-based Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architects. His work has consistently merged the practice of architecture with theoretical practice, providing a strong intellectual rigour to the discourse on architecture through a sharp capacity to identify social and political trends and creatively extrapolate them. He is currently the Dean of the School of Architecture in Princeton University.

• The impact of digital technology on the space of the city

Dimitri Zenghelis

Senior Visiting Fellow, The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE

Dimitri Zenghelis is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE and Associate Fellow at Chatham House. He is also Senior Economic Advisor to Cisco's long term innovation group. Previously, he headed the Stern Review Team at the Office of Climate Change, London, and was one of the authors of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown.

• The green economy: A global perspective