Speakers
Senator Art Eggleton – Toronto
Senator, Canada
Chair, Global City Indicators Facility
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Professor, Sociology
Co-Chair, Committee on Global Thought
Columbia University
New York City, United States of America
Paul Young – Toronto
Vice President, Research
Professor, Civil Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Partner, Municipal and Public-Private Partnership/Infrastructure Group
Stikeman Elliot LLP
Toronto, Canada
Doug Saunders – Toronto
International Affairs Columnist & Author
The Globe and Mail
Toronto, Canada
Chief Executive Officer,
Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)
Ottawa, Canada
Governor, Niger State
Minna, Nigeria
Professor Emeritus & Former Dean, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
Senior Fellow, Global Cities Institute
University of Toronto
Founding Principal, Baird Sampson Neuert
Toronto, Canada
Deputy Mayor & Councillor
City of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
President & CEO
Siemens Canada Limited
Oakville, Canada
Project Director, Urban Infrastructure Initiative
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Geneva, Switzerland
Chairman, Technical Committees ISO/TC 59/SC 17 & ISO/TC 268
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Paris, France
Chief, Global Urban Observatory, UN-HABITAT
Author “Streets as Public Spaces and Drivers of Urban Prosperity”
Nairobi, Kenya
Mayor
Holy City of Makkah
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Distinguished Engineer
Chief Architect for Smarter Cities & Operations
IBM
Austin, United States of America
Vice President, Low and Medium Voltage Division
City Manager, GTHA and
2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games Program Manager
Siemens Canada Limited
Oakville, Canada
Director, Strategic Information& Research
City of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
Head of Urban Development, Global Centre of Competence for Cities
Siemens AG
London, United Kingdom
Head, Global Public & Government Affairs
Philips Lighting
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Senior Standards Program Manager, Corporate Standards
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, United States of America
City Manager
City of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
General Manager, Economic Development & Culture
City of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Division Director
Development Research Center
Shanghai Municipal People’s Government
Shanghai, China
Division Director
Shanghai Municipal Commission of City Development and Transport
Shanghai Municipal People’s Government
Shanghai, China
Director, Research & Studies
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Office of the Mayor, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Head, Makkah Urban Observatory
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Senior Vice-President, Hatch Mott MacDonald
Chair, Ontario Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure
Niagara Falls, Canada
Clinician Scientist, St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Chairman & Founder, Maytree
Chairman, Avana Capital Corporation
Toronto, Canada
General Manager
Bluepath City Consulting
Beijing, China
Coordinator, Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch, UN-HABITAT
Coordinator, Global Housing Strategy
Chalmers 150th Jubilee Visiting Professor
Chair, Urban Revitalization of Mass Housing international competition
Nairobi, Kenya
ISO TC268 & SC1
International Organisation for Standardization (ISO)
Tokyo, Japan
Senior Advisor, The World Bank
Professional Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
Bethesda, United States of America
Chief Architect
Barcelona City Council
Barcelona, Spain
Maarten Hajer – Amsterdam
Director, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Professor, Public Policy, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project Manager, Climate Change & Sustainability, CSA Group
International Secretary, ISO/TC268/WG2 City Indicators
Mississauga, Canada
Associate Professor & Jeffrey Boyce Research Chair, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Chief Safety and Risk Officer, Government of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
Rick Huijbregts - Toronto
Vice President, Industry Transformation
General Manager, IoE | Smart + Connected Communities
Cisco Canada
Toronto, Canada
General Manager
Niger State Geographic Information Systems
Minna, Nigeria
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Cityzenith
Founder, Satellier
Menlo Park, United States of America
Professor, Civil Engineering
Director, Cities & Engineering Management, University of Toronto
President-elect, International Society for Industrial Ecology
Toronto, Canada
Director
Amman Urban Observatory
Greater Amman Municipality
Amman, Jordan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Michi Creative City Designers Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Global Practice Lead
AECOM
New York City, United States of America
Bernard Leservoisier – Paris
Secretary, ISO TC268 & TC268 WG1 Management Systems
AFNOR Group - AFNOR Standardization
Paris, France
ISO TC268 WG1 Expert; expert of IEC smart city SEG1
VP, iSoftStone Group
Engineer, Digital City Engineering Research Center of MoHURD
Consultant of National Smart City Industrial Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance
Beijing, China
Urban Planner, National Urban Observatory
General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP)
Ministry of Housing & Urban Communities
Sohag, Egypt
Professor, Political Science
Director, Global City Indicators Facility
Director, Global Cities Institute
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
MCIP, MRAIC
Principal, Brook McIlroy
Toronto, Canada
Helen Ng - Toronto
ISO TC268 WG2 City Indicators Expert
Program Coordinator, Global City Indicators Facility
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Senior Programme Officer, Buildings and Cities
Acting Head, Built Environment Unit
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP/DTIE)
Paris, France
Senior Advisor to the Mayor
City of Makati
Makati, Philippines
Co-Director, cityLAB
Adjunct Professor, UCLA
Principal, Roger Sherman Architecture + Urban Design
Los Angeles, United States of America
Vice President, Customer Insights & Analytics
Scotiabank
Toronto, Canada
Niels Van Duinen - Boston
Director of Business Development, Global Lighting Systems
Business Group Professional Lighting Solutions
Philips Lighting
Burlington (MA), United States of America
Chairman of Haiphong City People's Council/City Party Secretary
Haiphong, Vietnam
Vice-President, Policy, Planning & Innovation
Metrolinx
Toronto, Canada
Dean, Professor of Architecture & Urbanism
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Director
Development and Design International
Toronto, Canada; Beirut, Lebanon
Landscape Architect & European Union Liaison, City of Rotterdam
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, Delft University of Technology
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Politics & International Relations
Director, Urban Studies Program
Wheaton College
Wheaton, United States of America
Emeritus Professor, Political Science & Public Policy
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Fernando Alvarez de Celis – Buenos Aires
Director General of Planning
Planning Secretariat
Ministry of Urban Development
City of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ari Jaakola – Helsinki
Statistics and Information Services, Urban Facts
City of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Mary Luz Pinzon Romero – Bogotá
Deputy of Sectoral Analysis
Secretariat of Finance
City of Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
Irene Del Rosario – San Jose del Monte
City Councilor
Sanggunian Panlungsod Member
City of San Jose del Monte
San Jose del Monte, Philippines