“UNDERSTANDING THE METRO GAP”. MIT Metro Lab First Annual Conference Saturday April 11th from 9:00 AM to 4.30 PM –105 Massachusetts Ave., Building 9, Room 9-450 - MIT CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PROGRAM 9.00 9.15 Sponsored by DSC BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION Prof. Bish Sanyal – Welcome Notes Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning. Director, Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) and Humphrey Program, Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), MIT Arch. Gabriel Lanfranchi – Presenting the MIT Metro Lab SPURS Fellow and Founder, MIT Metro Lab, DUSP, MIT 9.30 METRO at MIT Moderated by Planner Lily Baum Pollans, PhD candidate, DUSP, MIT Prof. Albert Saiz – Metropolitan Housing Markets MIT Center for Real Estate Prof. John E. Fernandez – Urban Metabolism and City Typologies MIT Urban Metabolism Group Prof. Jinhua Zhao – Challenges for Metropolitan Transit Systems MIT Transit Lab Dr. Thomas Chupein – The J-PAL Urban Services Initiative MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab 10.45 COFFEE BREAK 11.00 METRO: a View from the field Moderated by Planner David Lee Newsome, Master in City Planning candidate, DUSP, MIT Arch. Eduardo Rojas – Governing the Metropolis University of Pennsylvania Arch. Pedro Ortiz – Matrix Metropolitan Planning: Madrid and other Metropolitan Areas. Senior IGO's consultant (EU, IDB, ADB, WB, UNCRD, CAF) Prof. Antonella Contin – Towards Metropolitan Architecture Politecnico di Milano 12.00 METRO: an Institutional perspective Moderated by Yu-Hung Hong, Director Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab Lic. Sebastian Fernandez – Rethinking Housing in Mexico at a Large Scale Director, Infonavit, Mexico Dr. Francisca Rojas – Building Metropolitan Governance in Argentina: the IDB's Experience The Inter-American Development Bank Planner Victor Vergara –The Metropolitan Imperative and the World Bank Metro Lab The World Bank 1.00 LUNCH 2.00 WORKSHOP “Co-creating the Metro Lab: Strategizing the next steps” Moderated by Ofer Lerner, SPURS Associate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT How can the Metro Lab make the biggest impact? Let’s collaboratively identify gaps between theory and practice where the Metro Lab can make a difference.