2-3 MARCH 2016 GRAZ, AUSTRIA
MOBILITY RESOURCES
Change cities.
KNOW HOW!
CENTRAL EUROPE’S LARGEST
EVENT ON SUSTAINABLE CITIES.
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MOBILITY
City logistics
How cities avoid total traffic
gridlock with new urban logistics
concepts
• Logistics in cities: real effects of distribution traffic on today’s cities • Do we need to completely re-think how we distribute goods in order to prevent our cities from collapsing? • The most innovative city logistics concepts from around the world • Inside the cities: this is how we im- plemented change in city logistics • Operation successful, patient dead: how to implement alternative city logistic concepts without killing your city’s businesses
• Latest research on city logistics
Electro mobility:
Focus on e-taxis
E-taxis revolutionise the taxi
market – and the cities at the
same time
• The business case of e-taxis in cities • The world’s most successful
e-taxi businesses and what cities can learn from them
• How cities are chaning their taxi fleets: case studies from 3 leading cities
• Financial support needed? How cities and governments support e-taxi activities
Electro mobility:
Focus on e- and hybrid busses
Are electro and hybrid busses
true alternatives for urban public
transport systems?
• China’s successful e-bus manufac- turers strike fear in the hearts of established bus brands
• Why more and more cities electrify their bus fleets
• Busses change cities: e-bus case studies from cities around the world • Latest technical developments and solutions for e-busses
Multi-modality
The Champions’ League of public
transport in cities: but where
ex-actly is multi-modality working?
• Where and how is it working?
• Success factors for multi-modality in cities
• Multi-modality as a strategy: meet the decision makers and implemen- ters from several cities
• How should cities deal with their commuters
Rail
Why more and more cities are
in-vesting in driverless mobility
sys-tems: it’s not about the costs
• Which systems are currently introduced – and why?
• One does not fit all: for which cities would it make sense?
• Talk to the experts: public transport operators from around the world share their experiences with driver- less systems
Biking
How cities around the world use
the bicycle to reinvent themselves
• Why are more and more cities placing the bicycle in the very cen- ter of their mobility strategy? And what does this mean?
• Which role can bicycles really play for urban mobility?
• From car city to bike city: meet urban planners and decision makers who did it
• Why bike cities have happier citizens
• Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires or Medellin: South-American bike cities on the fast-track
• That’s how you make your city a „bike city“
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COMMUNICATION
City
communications
How cities (should) communicate
with their citizens - and the
rele-vance of digital media
• Psychology of communication: latest research that will influence the way cities communicate • They are screwed! Requirements for cities’ comms teams change rapidly
• Communication x.0: What real-time communication really means for cities
• New generation city communic- ations: innovative cities and their new communication approach
Public
participation
Much ado about nothing: Is
pub-lic participation a fad, marketing
tool or true social trend?
• Is there a new social trend?
• Meet the changers: private initiati- ves that overtook politicians on the fast lane
• This is what successful cities should learn from private initiatives
Public
participation
Time to get involved: how a new
wave of public participation
ch-anges decision making processes
in cities
• Not for all! When public participati- on makes sense and how you make it work
• Language of change: that’s how you activate your citizens for change • Public participation live: meet perts & innovative projects from around the world
Leadership
From mayor to CEO: how mayors
need to lead their cities in times
of fierce international
competi-tion for investments, innovacompeti-tion
and talent
• Why cities want to be „smart“ • To be or not to be: why competitive-
ness of cities will decide their future • You think your city is not affected? Think again – and good luck for the future.
• Cities and strategy: how strategic leadership successfully positions ci- ties for international competition • Experts talk: Meet city strategists from Paris, Copenhagen, TelAviv, Berlin, Chattanooga and Singapore
Leadership
This is how you can make change
happen in your city
• Importance of leadership in change processes
• Don’t worry (too much) about public opinion: the magic of „just doing it“ • Average must never be the goal: meet the leaders who changed their ci-ties from scratch
• Lateral thinking required: Why you should forget about having broad sta-keholder consent when you start chan-ging your city.
• City of stakeholder groups: how you can lead change, identify the right sta-keholders - and get them on board Change your city to more sustainability and get re-elected (for it)
Communicating
sustainability
Cities have many great ideas:
wi-thout proper communication they
might get killed before they even
start
• Psychology meets sustainability • Communicating sustainability: that’s how your efforts will make a diffe- rence
• Plan your sustainability project’s communication properly - or it will be doomed
• Biggest mistakes you can make when communicating sustainability • Key success factors in communica- ting sustainablity
• The world’s most successful sus- tainability campaigns
Closed door session. For mayors and city
representatives only.
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LIVING &CITY
PLANNING
Climate change
Better be prepared: How climate
change will change our cities and
what that means to urban
plan-ning
• That’s how climate change will affect our cities
• City planning & climate change: case studies from around the world show how cities react
• Summer in the city: how cities (can) deal with the heat
• Architecture & climate change
Focus on timber
How to master the challenge of
innovative construction in cities
• Innovative construction vs. on: that’s how cities clean out their building codes to speed-up inno- vati on
• Clash of Clans: does timber have the potential to become the able solution for urban ction?
• The timber business case: do wooden buildings pay off? • The most innovative wooden buildings from around the world • Sustainable building refurbishment
Revitalising cities
and city districts
Rising from the dead: how cities
and districts are being reinvented
• The most exciting revitalising projects: case studies from around the world
• Revitalising meets businesses: how cities successfully integrate
their business communities in urban development projects
• Revitalising districts: that’s how cities did it plus what mistakes to avoid
• Planning the impossible: the 5 key success factors for sustainably revitalising city districts
• Requirements for urban planning
Cities, sensors &
data
On the search for happiness: can
„big data“ make cities more
sus-tainable?
• What Big Data can do for cities – and what it can’t do
• What is the true benefit for our citizens?
• Where data is helping: exciting Big Data case studies from cities around the world
• How urban data influences city planning
Cities, sensors &
data
Innovation and digital revolution:
are our cities’ structures being
overwhelmed by the speed of
ch-ange?
• Digital innovation happens in real- time: how can cities’ structures keep up?
• Innovative management: these cities revamped their structures from scratch
• Cities and Open Data: how making city data available increases cities’ competitive advantage and fosters innovation
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RESOURCES
Reducing
emissi-ons
Unwanted: How cities around the
world fight greenhouse gas
emis-sions
• Underestimated: that’s how wide programs to reduce GHG emissions increase its competitve advantage
• Climate protection is top priority – that’s how cities around the world manage their activities
• Business case climate protection: how cities win business from protecting the climate and cutting GHG emissions
• Working together makes the difference: the world’s most cessful city cooperations to protect the climate
Cities and their
waste
How cities rethink their approach
to waste
• Cities and waste: endless love story or is a divorce coming up?
• Alternative waste management: what cities can learn from vators from around the globe • Innovative waste concepts: what’s working and what’s not
• The implementation challenge: Meet the cities who made ve systems work
• Reconsidering beliefs: innovative waste managers and their gies for change
Circular economy
From freak status to business
mo-del: will circular economy be the
next revolution?
• The next big things: circular economy, cradle-to-cradle and ZeroWaste
• Why the circular economy could radically change our cities
• Circular economy and business: how companies around the world benefit from it
• ZeroWaste: utopia or simply a tion of attitude?
• Competitive advantages from lar economy: case studies from around the world
Sharing resources
Shared-Economy is a reality for
municipal administrations
• How cities save resources and reduce costs through sharing • Competencies and status symbols:
psychology of implementing sharing in city administrations
• Make it work: cities share structure
• Case studies
Cities & climate
change
Who cares? Why mayors will be
caught up by climate change
soo-ner than expected.
• Climate change: what does it really mean for our cities
• Cities leading the fight against cli- mate change: meet the mayors • Why sustainable growth will not work without protecting the climate
Sponge Cities
Ground sealing and rain water:
how cities avoid floodings and win
a new source for drinking water
• Strategies to fight urban ground sealing
• Case studies from cities around the world
• Technical solutions for sponge cities • Purification of rain water
• Guided excursion Closed door session, mayors only Closed door session. For Chinese and Indian del e-gations only
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