“Backcasting Transformation: Smart + Sustainable Cities in 2040” - you are invited
On April 12 you are invited to join (virtually) a special smart-cities workshop:
“Backcasting Transformation: Smart + Sustainable Cities in 2040”
This workshop, co-hosted by the Nordic think-tank Demos Helsinki and Meeting of the Minds, will gather urban leaders from cities, corporations, start-ups, non-profits and academia to explore state-of-art methods on urban foresight. The workshop demonstrates how the Nordic way of using foresight in urban regeneration creates better, smarter and more sustainable cities.
This event will be live webcast via Periscope. Periscope is a mobile app that allows you to watch live webcasts via your mobile device. Follow our Twitter feed to access our Periscope broadcast at the time of the event. If you do no have Periscope installed on your mobile device or your laptop, you will be asked to install the app prior to joining the webcast.
Date: April 12, 2016
Time: 9am-12pm California time
Location: Nordic Innovation House Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California
Program
Discussion 1
Welcome & What to Learn from Nordic Urban Foresight
- Gordon Feller, Board Co-President, Meeting of the Minds
Discussion 2
Nordic Urban Foresight & Lessons Learned from Smart Retro Urban Testbeds
- Aleksi Neuvonen, Demos Helsinki
Discussion 3
City as a Testbed for a Start-up: Waste of Time or Necessity?
- Harri Paloheimo, PiggyBaggy
Discussion 4
What Can US Cities Learn?
Speakers
Gordon Feller
World Smart Cities Forum: moderator
Meeting of the Minds: Board Co-President
Gordon Feller is Co-founder/Convenor of Meeting of the Minds, an annual leadership summit organized since 2007 by Urban Age Institute (UAI). Feller was for more than five years Director at Cisco Systems headquarters in Silicon Valley. He served in an executive capacity within the company’s programs focused on cities.
Prior to joining Cisco, Feller was CEO of UAI, an international non-profit research/training organization which began as a magazine inside the World Bank and was spun off ten years later in 2001. For 30 years, Feller’s advised on economic and technology issues with leaders of multinational companies, cities, NGOs / foundations, and national governments. His clients included World Bank, United Nations, German and Canadian national governments, The Rockefeller Foundation, IBM, Reuters, Metropolis, and United Cities & Local Governments.
Feller advises leaders on how advanced technologies enable leaders to solve complex problems — with a special focus on developing practical and forward-looking solutions where economics, technology, and sustainability intersect. His work is the basis of documentaries and other multimedia projects. Feller’s published hundreds of articles in newspapers, scholarly journals, and magazines, including CFO Magazine, Urban Land Magazine, TIME Magazine, Financial Times. He was formerly executive editor of Urban Age Magazine and Planet Earth Magazine.
Feller’s a keynote speaker at key leadership events. Columbia University awarded him a Bachelor’s in political science, cum laude, and a Master’s in International Affairs. AT Columbia he served as a Lehman Fellow, a Wallach Fellow and a Deans Fellow.
Aleksi Neuvonen
Demos Helsinki: Co-Founder & Head of Research
Aleksi Neuvonen is the co-founder and head of research at the Nordic think tank Demos Helsinki. His academic background is in futures studies and innovation research. At Demos Helsinki Neuvonen has completed tens of future forecasting projects, varying from scenario reports for European Commission research projects, to workshops on megatrends for NGOs, cities, ministries and corporations. Aleksi is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on futures research and urban planning at Tampere University of Technology in Finland and Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Harry Paloheimo
Coreorient Ltd.: Founding Member & CEO
Harri Paloheimo is the founding member and CEO of Coreorient Ltd. The second generation sharing economy start-up develops crowdsourced solutions that save time, money and the environment. Piggybaggy.com is an internet service solution for last-mile delivery where deliver goods to each other along their way. 24/7 Community smart space concept is a distributed service platform and a hub in a smart container. In addition to technology development the company creates solutions for the whole society in collaboration with the government, the public sector and NGOs. Harri is a co-author of the non-fictional World after cheap oil (Routledge, 2014) and is an expert in the areas of natural resource scarcity, sustainable development, and crowdsourcing. He graduated from Aalto university in 2000 majoring in space technology and is a PhD candidate with his topic of transport energy efficiency improvement potential using crowdsourcing. Harri has lead research teams in Nokia, and is an author or co-author of a number of patents and scientific publications. His family of four lives in Espoo, Finland – without a car.
