SCC Webinar

Making Cities Smarter

SCC #SustainableChat: Making Cities Smarter

SCC #SustainableChat Webinar


Smart cities are about people and technology. This webinar will discuss groundbreaking

examples of successful projects as well as pitfalls. It will be a broad discussion kick

starting with a look at the following issues:

• How should a city go about developing a strategy for development in a 'smart' way?

• How can community revitalization be supported with new technology?

• How can citizens be helped to go about their business using smart technology, for

example in the area of transport?

Whether it is democratic accountability, energy efficiency and renewable energy, zero

waste targets or walkability there is hardly an area of life that is not being touched by

revolutionary promise of smart cities. But as an umbrella term it is often used in advisedly.

This webinar will attempt to sort out genuine success stories from business as usual hype.

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#SustainableChat Webinar: Moderator

Moderator:

David Thorpe, Special Consultant Sustainable Cities Collective, Author

Twitter: @DavidKThorpe

David is Special Consultant of this website. He's

author of Energy Management in Buildings, Energy

Management in Industry, Sustainable Transport

Fuels, Solar Technology, Sustainable Home

Refurbishment, Solar Photovoltaics Business

Briefing, The One Planet Life, and much more.

He's also a novelist, script and comics writer,

journalist, and editor. He was for 13 years news

editor of Energy & Environmental Management

magazine, & is director of Cyberium, a media

company. Amongst his novels is Hybrids about

teenagers in a terror-filled near-future world

afflicted by a pandemic that causes people to

merge with frequently-used technology.

#SustainableChat Webinar: Panelists

Dario Hidalgo PhD,

Director Integrated Transport Practice EMBARQ,

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Twitter: @dhidalgo65

Darío Hidalgo is a researcher and

practitioner with 25 years of

experience in sustainable urban

mobility. Since 2007, he works with

WRI, where he has provided

technical advisory services to local

and national governments, mainly in

Mexico, the Andean Region, Brazil,

Turkey, India and China. He has

been a consultant and government

official, and was part of team that

implemented the high capacity bus

rapid transit system TransMilenio in

Bogotá. He is author of more than

30 journal and conference papers

and has delivered more than 20

training and master level courses.

He is part of the BRT Centre of

Excellence.


Melanie Nutter is the Principal of Nutter Consulting that

provides sustainability and smart cities strategy

development and implementation for cities, foundations

and companies. Previous to her current role, she served

as the Director of the San Francisco Department of

Environment under Mayor Gavin Newsom and Mayor

Edwin Lee. From 2005-2010, Nutter served as the

Deputy District Director for the U.S. House of

Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As an

internationally recognized advisor and speaker on

climate change and smart city strategies, Melanie has

presented at TEDx, South by Southwest ECO,

GreenBiz’s VERGE conference and the Smart Cities

World Congress Expo, among other events. She has

been featured as a contributor on CNN.com and the

Today Show.

Melanie Nutter,

Principal, Nutter Consulting;

Former Director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment

Twitter: @melnut


Storm Cunningham,

Publisher, Revitalization News

Twitter: @restorm

• Author, The Restoration Economy

(Berrett-Koehler, 2002)

• Author, reWealth (McGraw-Hill

Professional, 2008)

• Author, Resilient Prosperity (coming

Nov. 2015)

• Author, Paradise Renewed (coming

Nov. 2016)

• Publisher, Revitalization News

(RevitalizationNews.com)

• Speaker/Consultant

(StormCunningham.com)


Pratik Dave,

Consultant—Sustainable Urban Transport

Twitter Handle: @homeisland

Pratik is an independent consultant working in

India since last 8 years in the field of Urban

Transport. He has been working with NGOs,

government and private consultancies. He has

played an active role in “Ahmedabad BRT” which

is India's only successful Bus Rapid Transit

System. His key interest lies in Public Transport.

He is an active researcher in the field promoting

WBC (Walk+Bus+Cycle) for improved urban

mobility across Indian Cities.


Compact, Connected, Coordinated Cities

Better Growth Better Climate

New Climate Economy Report

http://newclimateeconomy.report/cities/


Improved Access, Specially for the Poor

Reduced Fatalities, Injuries, Illness

Air pollutants and CO2 reduction

Technology

Improvements Public

TransportNon-motorized

Transport

Urban

development

and transport

integration

AVOID SHIFT IMPROVE

Three Pronged Approach

Source: EMBARQ; http://thecityfix.com/blog/on-the-move-advancing-sustainable-transport-getting-from-here-to-there-holger-dalkmann/

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SCC #SustainableChat: Making Cities Smarter