KEYNOTE SESSIONS | PUBLIC KEYNOTES
Keynote Sessions
Keynote Sessions and Panels are included in the Ecocity World Summit and Discount Packages.
Simultaneous translation into French and English.
Tuesday, August 23
OPENING KEYNOTE
Ecocities for All?
Jan Gehl et Janice Perlman
Tuesday, August 23, 8:30 – 9:45 am
Room 517 D
Wednesday, August 24
KEYNOTE 1
Panel on Municipal Government Climate Change Engagement
Wednesday, August 24, 8:30 – 9:45 am
Room 517 D
David Cadman, President, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Brent Toderian,
Director of City Planning, City of Vancouver, Canada, Christer Larsson, Director of City
Planning, Malmö, Sweden, Thorsten Tonndorf, Head of the Urban Development Planning
Division, Berlin and Zhang Quan, Director of Environment Protection Bureau, Shanghai, China.
KEYNOTE 2
Economics of the Ecocity
Wednesday, August 24, 8:30 – 9:45 am
Ms. Fatimata Dia Touré and Prof. Peter A. Victor
Room 520 BC
Thursday, August 25
KEYNOTE 3
The Right to the Ecocity
Thursday, August 25, 8:30 – 9:45 am
Prof. Yves Cabannes
Room 517 D
KEYNOTE 4
Health and the Built Environment of Ecocities
Thursday, August 25, 8:30 – 9:45 am
Dr. Howard Frumkin
Room 520 BC
Friday, August 26
KEYNOTE 5
Biodiversity and Urban Agriculture in Ecocities
Friday, August 26, 8:30 – 9:45 am
Ms. Maria Caridad Cruz and Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf
Room 520 BC
KEYNOTE 6
Ecomobility and Urban Planning in Ecocities
Friday, August 26, 8:30 – 9:45 am
Prof. Carole Després and Prof. Jeff Kenworthy
Room 517 D
Friday, August 26
MAYORS PANEL
Implementing Ecocities: Opportunities and Challenges
Friday, August 26, 10:15 – 11:15 am
Room 517 D
Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of Montréal, Canada; Markus Lewe, Mayor of Münster, Germany;
Ki-ho Cho, Vice-Mayor of Changwon, Korea; Ronan Dantec, Vice-Mayor of Nantes, France.
CLOSING KEYNOTE
What Future for Ecocities?
Friday, August 26, 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Room 517 D
Panel with Richard Register, Debra Efroymson. Closing remarks from Janice Perlman and Jan Gehl.
public keynotes
The Right to the City.
Citizen Participation and Urban Planning: inspiring examples for Montréal?
Tuesday, August 23, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Room 517 D
Organized by Collectif Quartier in collaboration with Montréal Urban Ecology Centre and
Ecocity World Summit 2011
Guest Speakers:
Prof. Yves Cabannes, University College London
Chantal Gagnon, City of Montréal
Shannon Franssen, Solidarité Saint-Henri
Presented in French with simultaneous translation to English
Breathing Easy in the City: the STM’s Green Strategy
Wednesday, August 24, 7:45 – 8:20 am
Room 516 ABC
Michel Labrecque, president, Montréal Public Transit Authority (STM)
Presentation in French with simultaneous translation to English.
ECOCITY SMATTERINGS: Ideas, images and inspirations from around the world
Wednesday, August 24, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Room 517 D
What are Ecocities anyway? Participants will hear about various ecocity projects and approaches from a handful or two of leading ecocity thinkers and practitioners from diverse perspectives and geographies. The format will be a series of fast & fun 7-minute slide presentations (20 slides, 20 seconds each). This event is open to conference participants as well as the general public.
Guest Speakers :
Richard Register, Janice Perlman, Jeff Kenworthy, Debra Efroymson, Jennie Moore, Kirstin Miller, Jan Gehl, Fabienne Giboudeaux, Owen Rose, Jeff Stein, Nicolas Michelin
Presented both in French and English without simultaneous translation.
Public Post-Conference Event: Montréal Today and Tomorrow
Friday, August 26, 1:45 – 3:30 pm
Room 517 D
The Ecocity World Summit’s organizing committee would like to continue the momentum from the wealth of ideas and proposals that have been generated during the conference. They have invited the Institut de Politiques Alternatives (IPAM) de Montréal to organize a public session on Montréal. With Alex Aylett Sustainable Cities International; Edith Cyr, Bâtir son quartier; Winnie Frohn, UQÀM; Dimitri Roussopoulos, IPAM.
