Healthy City, Resilient City Forum Agenda and Confirmed
Speakers
Monday, April 20
All Day
MOBILE WORKSHOP
Forum participants will visit innovative projects in and around Beijing and Shanghai.
5:30 pm
OPENING DINNER
Welcoming Remarks
TBD, Asia Society
Patrick Philips, Chief Operating Officer, Urban Land Institute
Li Tie, Director General, China Center for Urban Development
6:15pm
SEEKING SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT IN ASIA’S CITIES
Across the pan-Pacific region, urban leaders are seeking to harness the unprecedented
rates of urbanization in their communities and organizations to create lasting value. How
are stakeholders balancing the realities of local markets with broader goals of creating
healthy communities? How are the issues of climate change, public health and
community resilience so important to the future of individual urban communities and
their real estate markets?
Keynote
Kevin Rudd, President, Asia Society Policy Institute and former Prime Minister of Australia
Moderator
Lynn Thurber, Chairman, LaSalle Investment Management and Urban Land Institute
Discussants
Ronnie Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Group
Li Tie, Director General, China Center for Urban Development
Henry Cheng, CEO & Executive Director, Chongbang Group
Tuesday, April 21
8:00 am
REGISTRATION
Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:30 am
WELCOMING REMARKS
Welcoming remarks
Lynn Thurber, Chairman, LaSalle Investment Management and Urban Land Institute
Program Committee Co-chairs welcome
Sean Chiao, President, Asia Pacific AECOM.
Uwe Brandes, Founding Executive Director, the Master’s Program in Urban and Regional
Planning at Georgetown University
9:00 am
THE ARC OF URBANIZATION IN CHINA
Plenary Panel
Demographers suggest that China is at the mid-point of a century-long arc of rural to
urban migration. What challenges do China's urban leaders face today, and what are the
prospects for shaping the next five to ten years of urban growth? What lessons have been
learned in the last decade and what positive trends can be accelerated to create
sustainable urban communities?
Moderator
Patrick Philips, Chief Executive Officer, Urban Land Institute
Discussion Leaders
Li Tie, Director General, China Center for Urban Development
Wu Jiang, Vice President, Tongji University
10:00 am
SHAPING BEIJING
Plenary panel
Over 3,000 years old, Beijing is more than China's governing capital: it is a gateway to the
world and a thriving center of business, culture, finance, and the knowledge economy.
How is Beijing addressing air quality challenges and water resource constraints? How is it
balancing the needs of pedestrians and bicyclists against those of the automobile, and the
desire for progress against historic preservation? How can the capital city meet new goals
for health, resilience and sustainability?
Moderator
Rachel MacCleery, Senior Vice President, Urban Land Institute
Discussion Leaders
Adam Yu, president, Winland International Finance Center
Bian Lanchun, Professor, Tshinghua Unversity
Qian Jingjing, Deputy Director, Natural Resource Defense Council China Program
11:00 am
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 am
HEALTH, RESILIENCE, AND THE PROMISE OF PACIFIC CITIES
Plenary Panel
How are public heath goals becoming a catalyst for achieving urban development
outcomes across Asia? What are the short-term connections between health, resilience
and urban development pressures? How are long-term community health strategies
being translated into city-building strategies?
Moderator
David Nieh, Head of China, Managing Director-development, Asia; and Director of
Sustainability, Asia, Lend Lease
Discussion Leaders
Jiang Lin, Senior Vice President, Energy Foundation
Mao Qizhi, professor, Tsinghua University
12:30 pm
LUNCH
1:30pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Please choose one of these sessions. The purpose of these sessions is to enter into a
meaningful dialogue and document the trends, challenges and opportunities associated
with the healthy and resilient cities of tomorrow.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS AND COMMUNITY PATTERNS
Concurrent session
Land use economics create frameworks of feasibility for both individual building design
and the larger patterns of community. Land use patterns and building design represent
fundamental opportunities to shape community health and resilience outcomes. How
can new approaches to the way buildings are used and reused; financed and designed
advance new benchmarks of performance? How can new combinations of building types
create community patterns which are livable, sustainable, healthy and resilient?
Moderator
Jeffrey Heller, President and Founder, Heller Manus Architects
Discussion Leaders
Fu Zhiqiang, Chief Architect, Vanke Group
Patrick Condon, Chair, Urban Design program, University of British Columbia
Ye Qing, Dean, Shenzhen Institute of Building Research Co., Ltd
INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE AND URBAN SYSTEMS
Concurrent session
Innovations in infrastructure planning and delivery are creating new urban systems
which are more responsive, functional, sustainable and intelligent. In newly
developing cities, how can infrastructure decision making be focused on healthy living
and long-term resilience? In older cities, how can obsolete infrastructure be rebuilt and
repurposed to enhance health and resilience?
Moderator
Leslie Van Duzer, Director, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture,
University of British Columbia
Discussion Leaders
Joonhoo Ko, Director, Megacity Research Center, Seoul Institute
Benedict Schwegler, Vice President and Chief Scientist, Walt Disney Imagineering
(WDI) Research & Development
2:15pm
MOVE TO INTERACTIVE ROUNDRABLES
Participants will work in pre-assigned groups, facilitated by a discussion leader, with
assistance from staff and translators, and documented by scribes.
2:30pm
DEVELOPMENT OF PRINCIPLES
Working within the context of your group, please identify 5 priority principles which
help to elevate and promote the health and resilience of communities through
professional practice which shapes the built environment.
Roundtable discussion leaders
Aidan Hughes, Group Leader, Arup San Francisco Office
Ryan Botjer, Senior Managing Director, China Country Head, Tishman Speyer
Alex Yong, General Manager, General Manager China, The Jerde Partnership
Deland Chan, Lecturer, Urban Studies, Stanford University
3:30 pm
COFFEE BREAK
4:00 pm
THE PATH TO INNOVATIVE OUTCOMES
Plenary Panel
This panel explores the leadership stories associated with overcoming major urban
challenges. This interactive dialogue will explore how lessons learned in individual
cities might be transferred to others.
Moderator
Orville Shell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
Discussion Leaders
Tom Murphy, Urban Land Institute Senior Resident Fellow and former Three-term
Mayor of Pittsburgh
Lee Inkeun, Head, Land and Housing Institute, Korea
Arata Ichihashi, Chief of the Urban Environment and Climate Change Division and
Coordinating Supervisor, Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental
Protection
5:00pm
Closing Remarks
Patrick Philips, Chief Executive Officer, Urban Land Institute
TBD, Asia Society
Wednesday, April 22
8:00 am
DOORS OPEN
Networking Breakfast
8:30 am
OPENING REMARKS
Bruce Pickering, Vice President Global Programs and Executive Director Northern
California Center, Asia Society
John Fitzgerald, Chief Executive, Urban Land Institute Asia Pacific
Uwe Brandes, founding Executive Director of the Masters’ Program in Urban and
Regional Planning, Georgetown University
9:00 am
SOCIAL CAPITAL: PLANNING FOR SOCIAL COHESION AND BEHAVIOR
CHANGE IN CITIES
Plenary Penal
How can urban form and the public realm enhance social and emotional health and
feelings of belonging? What role does social cohesion play in promoting resilience
during times of crisis? How can urban design strategies foster a stronger social fabric,
so that communities are more cohesive and integrated, lives are better protected, and
communities are better prepared for disruptive events?
Moderator
Jonathan Woetzel, Director, Mckinsey & Company Greater China
Discussion Leaders
Sean Chiao, President, Asia Pacific, AECOM
Liu Thaiker, Chairman, Center for Livable Cities
Kizzy Charles-Guzman, New York City Program Policy Director, Nature Conservancy
10:00 am
ASIA LEADING THE WORLD IN SMART CITIES
How is technology enabling new ways of integrating value in urban economies? Are
these new strategies being advanced to advance urban livability and resilience in a
culturally specific way? How are technology entrepreneurs and companies working
with government to improve and innovate old practices? What do Asia's cities have to
teach the world?
Moderator
Uwe Brandes, Executive Director, Urban and Regional Planning Program, Georgetown
University
Discussion Leaders
Walter Fang, Executive Vice President, iSoftStone Group
11:00am
INTERACTIVE ROUNDTABLES-SESSION 2
KEY MESSAGES FOR URBAN ACTORS
Participants will work in pre-assigned groups, facilitated by a discussion leader, with
assistance from staff and translators, and documented by scribes. Groups will develop
key messages about integrating health and resilience for a variety of urban actors.
Groups may also discuss vehicles for carrying the messages forward.
12:15pm
Closing Remarks
Lynn Thurber, Chairman of LaSalle Investment Management and Urban Land
Institute
TBD, Asia Society
12:30pm
Forum Closing Lunch
1:30pm
Forum Adjourns