Highlights of the Global Cities Makers Forum 2020
Highlights of the Global Cities Makers Forum 2020 Greater Paris Investment Agency celebrated on March 5, 2020, the 2nd edition of the Global Cities Makers Forum. Players from French, European and global cities took part to this unique event, dedicated this year to Branding Cities and the brands of/within cities. Throughout keynote sessions and five discussion panels hosted by French-German journalist Anette Burgdorf, 21 experts shared with an international and engaged audience, their experiences and solutions to bring innovation and sustainable reputation to cities. This conference programme provided a forum to exchange views, opinions and expertise, and to set up an unprecedented dialogue between those who shape the brand of cities in the world. The art exhibition Branding Cities in the Salons of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry paved the way to engage furth … Continue reading Highlights of the Global Cities Makers Forum 2020
Welcoming the world #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Welcoming the world #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum Global Cities Makers Forum February 15, 2019 – 12am Welcoming the world Business tourism, Congresses and Fairs are strong economic drivers providing positive externalities, but also key factors of global cities’ reputation and outreach. Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !Welcoming the world Bernard MICHEL Chairman VIPARIS Ronan VASPART MIPIM Markets Managing Director ReedMIDEM … Continue reading Welcoming the world #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Financer les infrastructures de mobilité #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Financer les infrastructures de mobilité #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum Global Cities Makers Forum14 février 2019 – 3:15pm Funding the next generation of mobility infrastructures Rising cost in mobility services and investment for infrastructures cannot put public budgets on mounting pressure. Alternative economic models exist to fund transport infrastructures and operate them.Could they represent a promising and scaled solution to fund tomorrow’s mobility? Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !Funding the next generation of mobility infrastructures Neil WALKER Business Development Executive – European Business MTR Corporation Jean-Pierre FARANDOU Chairman & CEO KEOLIS Group … Continue reading Financer les infrastructures de mobilité #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Feeding the City #GlobalCitiesMakers
Feeding the City #GlobalCitiesMakers Global Cities Makers ForumFebruary 14, 2019 – 9:30am Feeding the City All major cities in the world face environmental issues that push them to look for new solutions, all at once to produce more food on a local scale and to ensure steady refueling of metropolitan areas vis-à-vis demanding customers. Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !Feeding the city Thierry BLANDINIERES CEO InVivo Babette de ROZIERES Regional advisor in charge of the “Cité de la gastronomie” Ile-de-France Region Stéphane LAYANI Chairman & CEO SEMMARIS (Rungis international wholesale market) … Continue reading Feeding the City #GlobalCitiesMakers
Smart and sensible city #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Smart and sensible city #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum Global Cities Makers Forum February 15, 2019 – 4:15pm Smart and sensible city: fostering innovations that make sense Sustainability of metropolitan areas is not purely economic or ecological. It also encompasses social sustainability, meaning the ability of cities to recover the basic purpose of living in town. Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !Smart and sensible city Thierry LAJOIE CEO Grand Paris Aménagement Méka BRUNEL CEO Gecina Marie-Claire CAPOBIANCO Director of Growth Development and Corporate Coverage Member of the Executive Committee BNP Paribas … Continue reading Smart and sensible city #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Global cities go green #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Global cities go green #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum Global Cities Makers Forum February 15, 2019 – 2:30pm Global cities go green In an urbanising world, addressing ecological issues depend on our collective ability to invent and implement virtuous metropolitan forms and schemes. Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !Global cities go green Laurent GIROMETTI CEO epaMARNE-epaFRANCE Giovanni de NIEDERHAUSERN CEO Carlo Ratti Associati … Continue reading Global cities go green #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Clusters of innovation #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Clusters of innovation #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum Global Cities Makers Forum February 15, 2019 – 11:15am Clusters of innovation Knowledge-driven economy is at the same time virtual and ultra-local. Some areas established themselves as places which enable cross-fertilisation and give birth to groundbreaking products and services. How to plan cities to foster breakthrough? How to ensure local players actually work together and not along each other? Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !Clusters of innovation Philippe VAN DE MAELE CEO EPA Paris-Saclay Kirill KAEM Senior Vice-President for Innovations Skolkovo Foundation – Russian Federation Prof. Tim WHITE Associate Vice-President (Infrastructures & Programmes) Nanyang Technologi … Continue reading Clusters of innovation #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
What future model for business districts? #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
What future model for business districts? #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum Global Cities Makers Forum February 15, 2019 – 10:15am What future model for business districts? Transformations in working habits affect business districts in particular, that were designed and built for monofunctional purpose. How to shift toward a new urban setting that accommodates multiple uses? Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !What future model for business districts? Marie-Célie GUILLAUME CEO Paris La Défense Eric DONNET CEO Groupama Immobilier Karim HABRA CEO Europe Ivanhoé Cambridge … Continue reading What future model for business districts? #GlobalCitiesMakers Forum
Cities’ energy-saving challenge #GlobalCitiesMakers
Cities’ energy-saving challenge #GlobalCitiesMakers Global Cities Makers ForumFebruary 14, 2019 – 11:15am Cities’ energy-saving challenge Global Cities’ attractiveness relies partly on their capacity to safeguard a competitive and resilient energy supply. The stakes are high for energy operators and utilities companies that need to deal with rising energy demand due to population increase and additional operation and to produce clean energy. Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !Cities’ energy-saving challenge Philippe MONLOUBOU Chairman Enedis Benoit QUIGNON CEO SNCF Immobilier Thor E. THOENEIE CEO Oslo Airport City … Continue reading Cities’ energy-saving challenge #GlobalCitiesMakers
Augmented travel time #GlobalCitiesMakers
Augmented travel time #GlobalCitiesMakers Global Cities Makers ForumFebruary 14 2019 – 4pm Augmented time: the relativity of a journey Most of the time, commuting time is deemed as wasted time. It is all relative, for comfort level and ride quality are decisive in our evaluation of bearable travel duration.What if travel time was an « augmented time »? Meet the #GlobalCitiesMakers !Augmented travel time Mick SLATTERY CEO Conduent Transportation Hiba FARES Excom member in charge of Customer Experience, Marketing and Services Groupe RATP Alain KRAKOVITCH CEO Transilien SNCF … Continue reading Augmented travel time #GlobalCitiesMakers
