UFGC 2016
Confirmed Speakers
As of September 9, 2015
The URBAN FUTURE Global Conference welcomes more than 180 speakers from all continents, providing a
wide variety of viewpoints and experiences from cities worldwide. Below is a selection of speakers who have
already confirmed their involvment in the conference’s 2016 edition – it does not yet represent the event’s
full spectrum of speakers.
Keynote Speakers
Braungart, Michael
Bütikofer, Reinhard
Clos, Joan
Cretu, Corina
Colville-Andersen, Mikael
Cornett, Mick
Dedring, Isabel
Finkbeiner Felix
Cradle-to-cradle expert, Hamburg
Member of the European Parliament, Co-Chair of the European Green Party, Brussels
Executive Director, UN-Habitat (requested)
Commissioner for Regional Policy, EU Commission (requested)
CEO of Copenhagenize, Copenhagen
Mayor of Oklahoma City
Deputy Mayor, City of London
Founder of „Plant for the Planet“, Munich
Jalali, Rasul
Kloiber, Julia
Loftness, Vivian
Madreiter, Thomas
Malik, Fredmund
Oren, Hila
Peñalosa, Enrique
Pique, Josep M.
General Manager Germany, Switzerland & Austria, Uber Inc, Zurich
Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, Berlin
Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Director of City Planning, City of Vienna
CEO, Malik Management Zentrum, St. Gallen
CEO, Tel Aviv Global
Former Mayor and currently running for re-election, City of Bogota
CEO, Office of Economic Development, City of Barcelona
Powell, Martin
Ratti, Carlo
Rhomberg, Hubert
Saloff-Coste, Carine
Turner, Steve
Umundum, Peter
Wowereit, Klaus
Global Head of Urban Development, Siemens, London
Architect & CEO of Carlo Ratti Associates / Director, Senseable City Lab@ MIT, Boston
CEO, CREE, Bregenz
Director of Economic Development, Ville de Paris
Head of Future City, City of Manchester
Member of the board, Österreichische Post AG, Vienna
Former Mayor, City of Berlin
All speakers (111)
As of September 9, 2015
Amann, Wolfgang
Antalovsky, Eugen
Aulinger, Christian
Barczak, Piotr
Baudelet, Olivier
Bayer, Andreas
Blom, Gert
Bragdon, David
Braungart, Michael
Briggs, Darren
Director, Institute for Real Estate, Construction and Housing (IIBW), Vienna
CEO, Europaforum Vienna
President, Austrian Federal Chamber of Architects and Engineers, Vienna
Policy Officer Waste, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Brussels
Policy Officer Urban Agenda, EU Commission, DG for Regional and Urban Policy, Brussels
Director of Storage & Distribution, REWE International
Strategic mobility advisor, City of Helmond
CEO, Transit Center, New York City
Cradle-to-cradle expert, Hamburg
Associate Director Logistics at ARUP, London
Brinkmann, Jost
Brown, Patricia
Busquets, Joan
Bütikofer, Reinhard
Carter, Dave
Castel, Florence
Clark, Greg
Cody, Brian
Colville-Andersen, Mikael
Cornett, Mick
Lead at Accenture Sustainability Services in Benelux, Utrecht
CEO of Central Consulting, London
CEO & Architect, BAU B. Arquitectura y Urbanismo SLP, Madrid
Member of the European Parliament, Co-Chair of the European Green Party, Brussels
Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Policy Studies (CUPS), Manchester
CEO of Advancity, Paris
Chairman, Business of Cities, London
Institute for Buildings and Energy, Graz University of Technology, Graz
CEO of Copenhagenize, Copenhagen
Mayor of Oklahoma City
Cross, Jeni
Daseking, Wulf
Davila, Julio D.
De Block, Gert
Dedring, Isabel
De Vries, Tjalling
Escudero, Juan Carlos
Evaeus, Barbara
Ferrandez, Luc
Finkbeiner Felix
Behavioural Scientist at Colorado State University
City planner, University of Freiburg and University of London
Director of the Development Planning Unit at University College, London
Secretary General, CEDEC - European Federation of Local Energy Companies, Brussels
Deputy Mayor, City of London
Financial Advisor, City of Enschede
Director, Environmental Studies Centre, City of Vitoria-Gasteiz
Senior Communications Manager, WWF Sweden, Solna
Mayor of Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal
Founder of „Plant for the Planet“, Munich
Frankenberger, Sebastian
Freudenberger, Miriam
Gärtner, Christian
Gebhardt, Christine
Gillespie, Ed
Griesmayr, Michael
Haynes, Caroline
Harfoush, Rahaf
Hauri, Ernst
Hill, Dan
Initiator of Smoke-free-Bavaria, Passau
CEO, Alliance for Public Participation, Stuttgart
CEO of Stylepark, Frankfurt
Head of Global Initiatives, Malik Management Zentrum, St. Gallen
Co-founder, Futerra, London
Member of the board, Value One, Vienna
Director, Magnet Cities at KPMG, London
Expert on the digital future, Paris – New York City
Director, Swiss Federal Office for Housing, Zurich
Executive Director, Future Cities Catapult, London
Hofer, Daniel
Hubold, Stephanie
Hyla, Marcin
Jalali, Rasul
Januschke, Oskar
Jones, Craig
Junker, Frank
Kamlage, Jan-Henrik
Kirchner, Sebastian
Kleinhückelkotten, Silke
Member of the board, JCDecaux, Zurich
Government & Cities Programme Lead, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Isle of Wight
Coordinator, Cities for Cyclers, City of Krakow
General Manager Germany, Switzerland & Austria, Uber Inc, Zurich
City Marketing, City of Lienz
Founder of Circular Ecology, Bristol
CEO, ABG Frankfurt Holding, Frankfurt
Scientist, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Essen
Author & Coach, Kirchner Seminare, Beratung, Coaching, Germany
Co-Director, ECOLOG-Institute, Hannover
Kloiber, Julia
Klöker, Michael
Kneeshaw, Sally
Kontinakis, Nikolaos
Krainer, Larissa
Krebs, Roland
Krukow, Sille
Lahmann, Dirk
Lemaitre, Christine
Loenhart, Klaus
Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, Berlin
Editor in chief, Innovative Administration (Innovative Verwaltung), Germany
CEO Kneeshaw Consulting, UK
Project coordinator at Eurocities, Brussels
Member of the Senate, Klagenfurt University
Inter American Development Bank IADB, Vienna & Washington DC
Behavioural design specialist & CEO, Krukow ApS, Copenhagen
Head of public participation, City of Bonn
CEO, DGNB - German Sustainable Building Council, Stuttgart
Head of Institute for Architecture and Landscape, Graz University of Technology
Loftness, Vivian
López Ventura, Júlia
Lydon, Mike
MacDonald, Jonathan
Madreiter, Thomas
Maës, Isabelle
Makowski, Wojciech
Malik, Fredmund
Maloney, Colette
McLean, Fiona
Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Regional Director Europe, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, London
Principal, The Street Plans Collaborative, Brooklyn
Change Expert
Director of City Planning, City of Vienna
Policy officer, EU Commission, DG Mobility and Transport, Brussels
Bicycle Coordinator, City of Poznan
CEO, Malik Management Zentrum, St. Gallen
Head of Unit Smart Cities & Sustainability, EU Commission, DG Connect, Brussels
European Project Development Manager, Transport & Travel Research, London
Mittermayr, Ralf
Montague, Andrew
Moreno-Peñaranda, Raquel
Nagl, Siegfried
Nanz, Patrizia
Oren, Hila
Pacheco Sequeira, José
Palmer, Boris
Patti, Daniela
Petrin, Julian
Member of the Board, Saumermacher AG, Graz
former Mayor, City of Dublin
United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies, Tokyo
Mayor, City of Graz
Founder, European Institute for Public Participation, Bremen
CEO, Tel Aviv Global
Coordinator of Research & Cooperation at Porto Vivo, City of Porto
Mayor, City of Tübingen
Partner at Eutropian, Rome
CEO of NextHamburg, Hamburg
Peñalosa, Enrique
Pique, Josep M.
Pomberger, Roland
Powell, Martin
Pucher, Thomas
Ratti, Carlo
Rau, Thomas
Rebernig, Georg
Renn, Ortwin
Resebo, Christian
Former Mayor and current contendor for Mayor, City of Bogota
CEO, Office of Economic Development, City of Barcelona
Chair of Waste Management, Montanuniversität, Leoben
Global Head of Urban Development, Siemens, London
Architect and city planner, CEO of Atelier Thomas Pucher, Graz
Architect & CEO of Carlo Ratti Associates / Director, Senseable City Lab@ MIT, Boston
Architect & CEO, turntoo, Amsterdam
CEO, Umweltbundesamt, Vienna
Risk expert, University of Stuttgart
Head of Research and Development, Streets and Parks Department, City of Malmö
Rhomberg, Hubert
Saloff-Coste, Carine
Santos, Álvaro
Schally, Hugo Maria
Scharff, Christoph
Schrentewein, Markus
Stoknes, Per Espen
Stücheli-Herlach, Peter
Tompkins, Tim
Trenel, Matthias
CEO, CREE, Bregenz
Director of Economic Development, Ville de Paris
Chairman of Porto Vivo, City of Porto
Head of unit eco-innovation and circular economy, EU Commission, Brussels
Member of the board, ARA Abfall Recycling Austria, Vienna
CEO of Doppelmayr Cable Car, Wolfurt
Climate expert & Author, BI Centre Climate Strategy, Oslo
Professor, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
President, Times Square Alliance, New York City
CEO of Zebralog, Berlin
Trickett, Lisa
Turner, Steve
Umundum, Peter
van der Wulp, Richard
van Warmerdam, Ronald
Vatthauer, Nicola
Washburn, Alexandros
Weiland, Ulrike
Wowereit, Klaus
Zech, Sibylla
Member of the City Council, City of Birmingham
Head of Future City, City of Manchester
Member of the board, Österreichische Post AG, Vienna
Urban Development, City of Rotterdam
Senior Project Manager Sustainablity, City of Amsterdam
Communications Director, Eurocities, Brussels
former Head of City Planning NYC, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Professor for Urban Ecology, University of Leipzig
Former Mayor, City of Berlin
Professor for Spatial Planning, Vienna Technical University
Zenz, Christian
Deputy Director Housing & Policy, Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy

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