The Innovate4Cities Global Marketplace aims to empower regionally and locally driven discussions centered on the research and innovation priorities most crucial to urban action implementation. Sessions will be made available in suitable hours for all timezones across the three days, with engagements, booth hosting, and presentation opportunities open to all who are interested – providing plenty of opportunity to pitch and/or listen to ideas for urban research and innovation.
You can attend one day, half a day or a specific engagement – taking advantage of a program featuring select high level stock-take plenaries on research and innovation for city climate action alongside small- and medium-sized marketplace sessions to catalyze meaningful partnerships that can enable action implementation.
The Innovate4Cities Global Marketplace is presented as three separate programs so participation is possible across all timezones noting that content is tailored for audiences within targeted timezones. The plenary content will be recorded so you can watch other sessions.
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9:30 AM INNOVATE4CITIES GLOBAL MARKETPLACE OPENING KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SESSION
Event MC: Benjamin Jance IVHead of Research and InnovationGlobal Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy
Plenary Panel Moderator: Steven Bland, UN Habitat
Formal Opening:
Gregor Robertson, Global Ambassador, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM)
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‐Habitat)
Innovate4Cities re-cap
Asif Nawaz Shah, COP28
State of City Climate Science:
Keynote: William Solecki, Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York–Hunter College
City and Academic Perspectives on Research and Innovation for Cities and Local Government Climate Action:
Mayor Guthrie, City of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Mayor Basualdo, Despeñaderos, Argentina
Laura Gallardo, Universidad de Chile
Megan Meaney, ICLEI Canada
Dan Carol, Milken Institute
11:00 AM: Booth Break and side Events
12:00 PM SPRINT SESSION
Listen to a series of three (3) minute “pitches” on opportunities to accelerate city climate action implementation
Emily White – C40 Cities, A Guide to Public-Private Collaboration for Sustainable Urban Development
Chris Boreland, Fugro
Ms. Shakti Ramkumar, Student Energy
Martin Wainstein, Open Earth Foundation
Daniel Andres, Municipality of Puerto Montt, Los Lagos Region, Chile
Andrés F. Lanfranco, Municipio de Rio Cuarto
Paul Adlakha, LOOKNorth
Peter Croce, Probable Futures
12:30 PM ROUNDTABLE DEEP-DIVE DISCUSSIONS
Join a table and contribute your ideas with one of the speakers (”pitchers”) from the Sprint Session
1:30 PM Report back from roundtable discussions and Program 1 closing remarks
9:30 AM INNOVATE4CITIES GLOBAL MARKETPLACE OPENING KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SESSION
Event MC: Benjamin Jance IVHead of Research and InnovationGlobal Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy
Plenary Panel Moderator: Amy Jones, ICLEI
Formal Opening:
Gregor Robertson, Global Ambassador, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM)
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‐Habitat)
Innovate4Cities re-cap
Asif Nawaz Shah, COP28
State of City Climate Science:
Keynote: Aromar Revi, Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
City and Academic Perspectives on Research and Innovation for Cities and Local Government Climate Action:
Mayor Dogbatse, Kloto, Togo
Harriet Bulkeley, University of Durham
Oleksandr Senkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Joana Balsemao, Councilor, City of Cascais, Portugal
Dr. Kate Strachan, ICLEI Africa’s Manager for Climate Resilient Development
Jorn Verbeeck, KPMG
Seth Schultz, Resilience Rising
11:00 AM: Booth Break and side Events
12:00 PM SPRINT SESSION
Listen to a series of three (3) minute “pitches” on opportunities to accelerate city climate action implementation
Mr. Pascal Mugisha, Kampala Capital City Authority
Giulia Ulpiani, European Commission – Joint Research Centre Unit C.2 Energy Efficiency and Renewables
Jessie Press-Williams, Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance – Enabling Framework Conditions Scorecard: CCFLA and partners are developing a scorecard that helps assess the subnational government’s ability to access climate finance and provide recommendations. This scorecard is under testing in Indian and Indonesian cities.
Dr. Amos Obi, HETAVED SKILLS ACADEMY FOR INNOVATIONS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Natalia Kuniewicz, SatVu – thermal monitoring of urban spaces utilizing satellite data
Laura Parry, CDP
Dr. Mashael Yazdanie, Resilient and sustainable urban energy systems planning under uncertainty and climate change
Mr. Steven Wilding, London Borough of Hounslow
Tamlyn Shimizu, BABLE Smart Cities – an online Smart City solutions knowledge platform is free to join and use and provides companies and cities with information and inspiration on urban green effective and practical solutions.
Mr. Simon Turek, Arctica Partners
Mr. Himesh Patel, Sync Neural Genesis AG
Ahmed Abu Ismaiel, Municipality of Abasan Al-Kabira
Dr. Abdi Yuya, Adama Sciences and Technology University
William Lewis, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
12:30 PM ROUNDTABLE DEEP-DIVE DISCUSSIONS
Join a table and contribute your ideas with one of the speakers (”pitchers”) from the Sprint Session
1:30 PM Report back from roundtable discussions and Program 2 closing remarks
9:30 AM INNOVATE4CITIES GLOBAL MARKETPLACE OPENING KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SESSION
Event MC: Cathy Oke, Deputy Director Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne
Plenary Panel Moderator: Sharin Govender, ICLEI OCEANIA
Formal Opening:
Gregor Robertson, Global Ambassador, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM)
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‐Habitat)
Innovate4Cities re-cap video
Asif Nawaz Shah, COP28
State of City Climate Science
City and Academic Perspectives on Research and Innovation for Cities and Local Government Climate Action:
Mayor Reynolds, City of Hobart, Australia
Mayor Binay, Makati City, Philippines
Mr. Stanley Waleanisia, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Lands, Solomon Islands
Portia Odell, Climate Council.
Bernhard Barth, UN-Habitat
Giles Sioen, Future Earth
11:00 AM: Booth Break and side Events
12:00 PM SPRINT SESSION
Listen to a series of three (3) minute “pitches” on opportunities to accelerate city climate action implementation
Mohammed Anees Khan, Lautoka City Council
Eritina Benete, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kiribati
Bishal Pandit, Vyas Municipality
Chairman Shantha Dalugamage, Stichting Mission Lanka
Michael Oke, City of Yarra
Michele Suria, Woke
Prof. Beta Paramita, BeCool Indonesia
Sally MacAdams, Climate Emergency Australia
12:30 PM ROUNDTABLE DEEP-DIVE DISCUSSIONS
Join a table and contribute your ideas with one of the speakers (”pitchers”) from the Sprint Session