Programme
Day 1 – 22 May
Day 1
22 May
Welcome Address
Shri. Ramanath Jha, IAS, Director General, AIILSG
Theme Address
Mr. Ravi Ranjan Guru, Consultant Advisor, AIILSG
Address
Shri. Ravindra Gupta, Mayor, North Delhi
Address
Shri. Harsh Deep Malhotra, Mayor, East Delhi
10:00 – 11:15
Inaugural Session
Guest of Honour
Shri. Satyendra Jain, Minister of Health Municipal
Corporation of Delhi
Chief Guest
Shri. Prakash Javadekar
Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Address
Mr. Alain Grimard, Director UN - Habitat
Vote of Thanks
Ms. Anuradha Das, Director, Cities Network Campaign
11:15 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:15
Tea Break
Leadership Speak - An
Anchored Discussion
by
Mr. Ashok Wankhede
ABP News
Ms. Nilanjana
Mukherjee
South Asian City Leaders - Pride in your City Energising your Citizens
Shri. Ravinder Gupta, Mayor, North Delhi
Mr. Vikram Kapur, Principal Secretary/Commissioner
Corporation of Chennai
Mr. Mayor Shamim Al Razi, Secretary General, Municipal
Programme
Mr. Raj Liberhan,
Former Director, IHC
Association of Bangladesh
Mr. Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Kawinda Bandara
Ratnayake, Municipal Council, Matale
Shri. Praveen Prabhakar Datke, Mayor, Nagpur
Shri Ananta Jena, Mayor, Bhubaneswar
Smt. Poonam Sharma, Mayor, Chandigarh
Mr. Ajay Gupta, Municipal Commissioner, Gwalior
Dr. Ahmed Shukry Hussain, CEO, Local Govt. Authority,
Maldives
Mr. Kalanidhi Devkota, MuAN, Nepal
South Asian Cities – Empowering Local Governments
towards the Smart and Sustainable City Development
–Enhancing Urban Governance
CHAIR: Mr. M Ramachandran, IAS, Former Secretary,
MoUD
12:15 – 13:30
Panel Discussion I
Shri. Alok Sharma, Mayor, Bhopal
Mr. Rajiv Gupta, Joint Commissioner, Chandigarh
Mr. Iwai Masaya, Deputy Director, Clair, Singapore
Prof. Usha Raghupati, NIUA
Mr. Raj Liberhan, Forner Director, IHC
Ms. Hemanthi Goonasekera, FSLGA, Sri Lanka
Ms. Clare Healy, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,
United Kingdom
Mr. Vatsal Bhatt, USGBC
Integrating Safe in Smart - Safety Planning for Women
and Children
12:15 – 13:30
Parallel Session I
CHAIR: Smt. Rita Bahugua Joshi, MLA, Congress
Dr. (Prof.) Sneha Palnitkar, Director, RCUES
Programme
13:30 – 14:30
Business Lunch
Cleanliness is Every Citizen’s Right –Citizen centric
Solid Waste Management Approach
CHAIR: Dr. Jatin Modi, Emeritus President, AIILSG
CO-CHAIR: Ms. Hansa Patel, Executive Advisor, AIILSG
14:30 – 15:45
Technical Session I
Shri. Ravindra Gupta, Mayor, North Delhi
Mr. Ajay Gupta, Municipal Commissioner, Gwalior
Mr. Pawan Sharma, Additional Commissioner, EDMC
Ms. Bharati Chaturvedi, Chintan Foundation
Mr. P U Asnani, Consultant, World Bank
Mr. Ashish Deosthali, AIILSG
Lt Gen. Rajender Singh, CEO, DLF Foundation
Mr. Somnath Mukherjee, Technical Director, AECOM
Habitat III
UN – Habitat
CHAIR: Sheela Patel, Director SPARC
CO-CHAIR: Alain Grimard, UN-Habitat
14:30 – 15:45
Parallel Session II
Dr. Kulwant Singh, Regional Advisor, UN-Habitat
Ms. Roshni Nuggehaali, Executive Director, YUVA,
Mumbai
Dr. Dhiraj Ajay Suri, Cities Alliance
Dr. P Jayapal, Senior Executive Director, HUDCO
Dr. Alain Grimard, Director, UN-Habitat
Mr. Justin Jebakumar, Habitat for Humanity, India
Dr. K.K. Pandey, IIPA, New Delhi
Dr. S.K.Gupta / Dr. Akshay Sen
Programme
15:45 – 16:00
Tea Break
Moving people across cities in comfort and speed –
Technology and Urban Mobility
CHAIR: Mr. O P Agarwal, Transport Expert
16:00 – 17:15
Technical Session II
Shri. Mayor, East Delhi
Mr. J B Baraiya, Commissioner, Gandhinagar
Mr. S D Sharma, Director, Business Development, DMRC
Prof. Shivanand Swami, Executive Director, Centre of
Excellence in Urban Transport, CEPT University
Ms. Akshima Ghate, TERI
Roundtable on Climate Smart Cities
NIUA
16:00 – 17:15
Parallel Session III
17:15 – 17:30
19:00
onwards
Closing Day 1 – Briefing on Day 2
Business Meeting/ Dinner (By Invitation Only)
Day 2
23 May
09:30 – 11:15
Technical Session III
Dr.(Ms.) Shyamala Mani, Professor, NIUA
Ms. Usha P. Raghupathi, Professor, NIUA
Ms. Pallavi Sharma, Research Associate, NIUA
Ms. Richa Sharma, Senior Project Associate, NIUA
Financial Viability of Smart Cities – A Policy Approach
Programme
Guest of Honour – Hon’ble Minister of Urban
Development and Water Supply, Sri Lanka Shri Rauf
Hakeem
CHAIR: Mr. M Ramachandran, IAS, Former Secretary,
MoUD
MR. Sanjay Chauhan, Mayor, Shimla
Mr. Vikram Kapur, Principal Secretary
Mr. Raj Liberhan, Former Director IHC
Mr. Jagan Shah, Director, NIUA
Mr. Santosh Kumar, Executive Director, NIDM
Ms. Elizabeth Gogoi, Oxford Policy Management
Mr. Roger Savage, Atkin
Mr. Advait Aundhkar, Consultant, MMRDA
Mr. V Suresh, Advisor, Good Governance, India
Foundation
Mr. Palash Srivastava, Director, PPPI & Programmes IDFC
Smart Cities and Buildings for Sustainable Urban
Future
CHAIR: Vatsal Bhatt, USGBC
09:30 – 11:15
Parallel Session IV
11:15 – 11:30
Tea Break
Ms. Mili Majumdar, TERI
Ms. Preeti Sinha, YES Institute/YES Bank
Ms. Sandhya Godey, Smart Vizag
Ms. Preeti Singh, Business World
Ms. Rumi Engineer, Godrej*
Mr. Ajay Dhaka, DLF*
Programme
South Asian Mayors’ Forum/ Business Meeting - Closed Group Meeting
11:30 -12:15
CHAIR Dr. Jatin Modi
CO-CHAIR – Shamim
Participants – Mayors
Institute of Urban Designers – India
11:30 -12:15
Parallel Session V
Mr. Arunava Dasgupta Head-in-charge, Department of
Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture
Water and Sanitation – Enhancing the Lifeline fluid of
cities
CHAIR: Dr. Sudhir Krishna, IAS, Former Secretary,
Ministry of Urban Development
12:15 – 14:00
Technical Session IV
Shri. Praveen Prabhakar Datke, Mayor, Nagpur
Prof Dinesh Sharma, Mayor, Lucknow
Shri Ashok Kumar Rankhamb, Addl. Municipal
Commissioner, Thane
Dr. Suresh Rohilla, Centre for Science and Environment
Mr. Puneet Srivastava, Urban specialist, WaterAid
Mr. Ranjan K Panda, Water Initiatives Odisha
Development of Asia’s 1st City Heat Action PlanExperience from Ahmedabad
12:15 – 14:00
Parallel Session VI
Dr. Dileep Mavalnkar, Director , IIPH Gandhinagar
Dr. Parthasarathi Ganguly. Additional Professor, IIPH
Gandhinagar
Programme
14:00 – 15:00
Business Lunch
Energy Efficiency and Off-grid Technologies – Role in
making a Smart City
CHAIR: Mr. Chetan Vaidya, Director, School of Planning
and Architecture
15:00 – 16:15
Technical Session V
Dr. Shailaja Fennell, Centre of Development Studies,
Cambridge
Mr. Sanjay Seth, Bureau of Energy Efficiency*
Ms. Anuradha Das, Director, Cities Network Campaign
Mr. Rajeev Kumar, Green Mantra
Mr. Vagish Sharma, NSDC
Urban Vulnerability and Resilience of Cities – Climate
Change and Adaptation
15:00 – 16:15
Parallel Session VII
CHAIR: Shri. Asim Ahmed Khan, Minister Environment
and Forest, Delhi Government
CO-CHAIR: Mihir Bhatt, AIDMI
Dr. B C Sabat, Senior Scientific Officer, Delhi Government
Mr. Ashok Jain, Terracon Ecotech
Dr. Vijaylaxmi, Development Alternatives
Ms. Divya Sharma, TERI
Mr. Narendra Mishra, Programme Officer UNV,UNDP
Programme
16:15 – 16:30
Tea Break
Paradigms for Future Cities- Moving Cities Towards
Smartness
South Asian City Representatives
Mr. Ramanath Jha, IAS, Director General, AIILSG
Mr. M Ramachandran, IAS, Former Secretary, MoUD
Dr. Sudhir Krishna, IAS, Former Secretary, MoUD
Mr. Raj Liberhan, Former Director, IHC
Ms. Hansa Patel, Executive Advisor, AIILSG
16:30 – 17:45
Panel Discussion II
17:45 – 18:15
Closing and Way Forward
* tbc
Note: Programme as on 18/05/15 and is subjected to change.