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Tuesday 04/12
8:00- 9:00am

9:00-9:25am



9:25-9.45am




9:45-10:45am







10:45 -11:30am

11:30-12:30pm















12:30-2:00pm


2:00- 4:00pm
2:00- 3:00pm














3:00-4:00pm











4:00-5:00pm

5:00-5:30pm



5:30-7:30pm

Breakfast and Registration

Opening remarks and welcome
Adéle Naudé Santos Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT

Smart, smarter, smartest cities
        Carlo Ratti Director, SENSEable City Lab
        Assaf Biderman, Associate Director,
        SENSEable City Lab

Changing cities (Keynote Session)
The vision of the Future City from government,
industry and research
        Mark Spelman (Moderator) Global Head of
        Strategy, Accenture
        Peter Ong Head of the Civil Service, Singapore
        Nicholas Negroponte Founder & Chairman, OLPC

Brainstorming Break

Case-studies from around the world
(Pecha Kuchas and discussion session)
Past, present and future casestudies of technologies in urban environments
        Moderator: Dennis Frenchman, Leventhal
        Professor of Urban Design and Planning, MIT
        Panelists: Stefan Köhler, Mayor of Friedrichshafen
        (Skype), Nicola Villa, Global Director of Urban
        Innovation Team, Cisco, Johan Minnie, Director,
        Information Management, HDA, Republic of South
        Africa, Bruce Schaller, Deputy Commissioner for
        Planning and Sustainability, New York City,
        Department of Transportation, Bill Oates, CIO,
        City of Boston, Per Als, Chief Transport Executive,
        City of Copenhagen

Lunch working session:
Design your city`s killer app.

Changing Life, Changing Business
Changing life (Pecha Kuchas followed by
discussion session)
The human experience of technologies within cities,
and how it is impacting life and lifestyle changes
        Moderator: Adam Bly, Founder and CEO of
        Seed Media Group
        Panelists: Joeseph Paradiso, Director Responsive
        Environments Group, MIT, Skylar Tibbits, Lecturer,
        Department of Architecture, MIT, Mitchell Joachim,
         Associate Professor at NYU and Co-Founder of
        Planetary ONE and Terreform ONE, Zazie Schafer,
        Nencetti Deputy Director, UN Global Pulse, Anthony
        Townsend, Technology Forecaster and Strategist,
        Institute for the Future

Changing business (Pecha Kuchas followed
by discussion session)
        Moderator: Mathieu Lefevre, Executive Director,
        New Cities Foundation
        Panelists: Martin Fleming, Vice President IBM,
        Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of
        Sociology, Columbia University, Beatriz Lara
         Bartolome,́ Chief Innovation Officer, BBVA,
         Jonathan F.P. Rose, Founder & President,
        Jonathan Rose Companies, John Horn, T-Mobile
        USA National Director of M2M.

Afternoon Break & Idea Exchange

Day's summary and next steps...
Assaf Biderman, Associate Director, SENSEable City
Lab, MIT

Cocktail Reception

Wednesday 04/13
8:00-8:50am

8:50-9:00am



9:00-11:00am
9:00-10:00am















10:00- 11:00am













11:00-12:15pm

12:15- 1:15pm











1:15-1:30pm



2:00-5:30pm

Breakfast and registration

Welcome
Amy Glasmeier, Head of the Department of
Urban Studies and Planning

Changing research, changing government
Changing research (Pecha Kuchas followed by
discussion panel)
        Moderator: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Visiting
        Lecturer, MIT
        Panelists: Rich Friedrich, Director of the Strategy
         and Innovation Office, HP Labs, Eric Paulos,
        Assistant Professor Human-Computer Interaction
        Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Charles
        Kalmanek, Vice President of Networking & Services
        Research, AT&T Labs, Mike Batty, Chairman of
        the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL,
        Daniel Obodovski, Director of Business
        Development, Qualcomm, CDMA Technologies,
        John Frazer, Chair of Design Science, Queensland
        University of Technology

Changing government (Pecha Kuchas followed by
discussion panel)
        Moderator: Carol Coletta, President & CEO,
        CEOs for Cities
        Panelists: Simon Willis, Vice President Worldwide
        Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group,
        Cisco, Gianluca Salvatori, President and CEO,
        Manifattura domani, Pedro Miranda, Corporate Vice
        President, Head of Corporate Development,
        Siemens ONE, Simon Giles, Global Lead Smart
        Technology Strategy, Accenture, Nancy Odendaal,
        Senior Lecturer in City and Regional Planning,
        University of Cape Town.

Brainstorming Break: the next 3 steps

Moving into the Future - how to shape it? (Pecha Kuchas followed by discussion panel)
        Carlo Ratti Director, SENSEable City Lab, MIT
        Panelists: Clara Gaymard, CEO & National
        Executive, GE France, Lorenza Martínez,
        Undersecretary of Industry and Commerce, Ministry
        of Economy, Mexico, Karoline Steen, Head of
        International Affairs, City of Copenhagen, Antoine
        Picon, Professor of History of Architecture and
        Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design,
        Martin Chavez, Executive Director, ICLEI US Office

Concluding remarks
Filippo dal Fiore, Co-Head of Partners Relations and Technology Transfer, SENSEable City Lab, MIT
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(Optional) SENSEable City Lab Open House and project presentations