WRLDCTY and The Bay Awards Summit & Gala 2024
The WRLDCTY and The Bay Awards Summit is organized by Bilbao Metropoli 30 in partnership with Resonance, with the common goal of connecting a global urban community and inspiring solutions capable of transforming cities around the world.
This year, the WRLDCTY global forum takes place in Bilbao, a city renowned worldwide for its capacity to reinvent itself, inspire and connect leading urban innovators with a global virtual community.
The WRLDCTY & The Bay Awards is for those looking for inspiration to transform cities for their future and we offer a meeting place to formulate bold answers to burning questions, find impactful solutions, learn from each other, and share knowledge on how to convince others, change structures and behaviors and focus on the right issues.
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Speakers
Agenda
Speakers
Rana Amirtahmasebi
Author & Urban Policy Specialist
Jeremy Bamberg
Co-Founder, Factory
Christian Bason
Author & Advisor
Jorick Beijer
Urbanist & Director, Blossity
Claire Flurin Bellec
Author & Urban Revitalization Expert
Hélène Chartier
Director, Urban Planning and Design at C40
Karen Christensen
CEO, Berkshire Publishing & Co-author, The Great Good Place
Greg Clark
Urbanist, Author & Global Advisor
Kelsea Crawford
Co-founder & CEO, Cutwork
Mike Day
Co-founder & Partner, Urban Solutions, Hatch
Charlotte Dégoulet
Urban Planner & Former EMEA Lead, JLL
Chris Fair
WRLDCTY Founder & CEO, Resonance
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Founder and CEO of Experimentalista
Antonio Gomez-Palacio
Partner & Chair, DIALOG
Lucinda Hartley
Urban Futurist
Sophie Howe
Future Generations Activist
Peter Hyland
International Advisor, Urban Planning & Development
Sarah Ichioka
Urbanist, Strategist, Curator, & Author
Jaime J. Izurieta
Founder & Chief Creative, Storefront Mastery
Hans Karssenberg
Partner, Founder & Public Developer, Stipo
Geci Karuri-Sebina
Associate Professor, Wits School of Governance
Bruce Katz
Author & Co-Founder of New Localism Advisors
Michael Koh
Executive Fellow, Centre for Liveable Cities
Dr Anne Kovachevich
National Sustainable Buildings & Precincts Lead, Mott MacDonald
Daria (Dasha) Krivonos
CEO, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Tommi Laitio
Urbanist & Bloomberg Public Innovation Fellow
Charles Landry
Author & International Advisor
Oliver Lang
CEO & Co-Founder, Intelligent City
Erin Lee
Founder, Mindful Moments, Singapore
Klaus Klaas Loenhart
Founder of terrain: integral designs
Debbie McNamara
Chief Executive Officer, Economic Development Queensland
Mirik Milan
Cofounder, VibeLab
David Miller
Managing Director of C40 Cities
Dr Tim Moonen
Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Business of Cities
Carlos Moreno
Author & Urbanist
Sandhya Naidu
Founder, Community Design Agency
Farah Naz
Author & Engineer
Larry Ng Lh
Former Managing Director of World Cities Summit
Margaret O’Connor
Chairperson, Launch Africa
Paul Owens
Co-founder & Director, BOP Consulting
Jasmine Palardy
Partner, The Good Future Co.
Steven Pedigo
Director, Lyndon B. Johnson School Urban Lab
Idoia Postigo
General Director, Bilbao Metropoli 30
Michel Poulain
Initiator of the concept of ‘Blue Zones’, Professor, UCLouvain (Belgium) & Tallinn University (Estonia)
Carmen Santana
Spanish Urban Award 2021
Tara Heuzé Sarmin
Co-founder, Communes
Gregorio Lucena
Director, GCDN
Jason Schupbach
Author & Dean, Antoinette Westphal College, Drexel University
Elinor Seath
Ramsgate Cultural Consortium Co-ordinator
Matthew Singleton
COO, Odonata Foundation
Raynuha Sinnathamby
Chief Executive Officer, Springfield Land Corporation
Anya Sirota
Principal, Akoaki
Maria Vassilakou
Founder, Vienna Solutions
Nadia Verjee
Executive Director, Expo City Dubai
Rosanna Vitiello
Creative Director, The Place Bureau
Stephen D. Willacy
Architect & Urban Advisor
Anupam Yog
Managing Partner, XDG Labs
Neo Mogodi
Key communications lead, Social Employment Fund
Kate Philip
Programme Lead, Presidential Employment Stimulus, Presidency, South Africa
Francisco Purroy
Director of Land Life Iberia
Illac Diaz
Founder and Global Director, Liter of Light
Director Climate Change and City Resilience, City of Melbourne
Ina Homeier
Urban Development and Planning, City of Vienna
Johannes Lutter
Head of International Relations & Strategic Partnerships, Urban Innovation Vienna
Feletcia Saleh
Community Engagement Unit, Ramallah Municipality ” Palestinian Authority”
Oscar Escobar
Former Mayor of Palmira “Colombia”
Mark Farrow
Director of Strategy and Planning at Places for London
Elaine Tan
Director-Research, CLC Singapore
Nourhan Bassam Ph.D.
Founding Director of The Gendered City
Zoe Baldwin
Vice President for State Programs at Regional Plan Association, New York
Dr Kim Inhee
Director, Research Planning and Coordination, Seoul Institute (SI)
Agenda
October 08, 2024
Learning Journey
October 09, 2024
Gala
October 09 and 10, 2024
WRLDCTY Global Forum for Urban Innovation
Types of attendance
International pass: 500 €
Offers full access to all the events of 8, 9 and 10 October 2024 in Bilbao, according to the official program.
- Learning Journey (8 October): Site visits and presentations of some of the most strategic projects of the revitalization process of Bilbao and its metropolis from its strategic stakeholders (BAT – B Accelerator Tower, Infraestructural projects of Biscay, the future project of Zorrozaurre island, the clean-up of the estuary, the Guggenheim Museum…)
- WRLDCTY & The Bay Awards Summit (9-10 October from 9 am to 4:30 pm in Euskalduna Bilbao, including coffee-breaks and Networking lunches of both days).
- The Bay Awards Gala ceremony (9 October at 7:30 pm in Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 1-hour event + cocktail reception).
Summit pass: 380 €
Offers access to the WRLDCTY & The Bay Awards Summit, on 9-10 October 2024, from 9 am to 4:30 pm in Euskalduna Bilbao, including coffee-breaks and networking lunch both days.
(Learning Journey and Gala event are not included)
Gala pass: 70 €
Offers access to THE BAY AWARDS GALA ceremony, on 9th October at 7:30 pm at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, including 1-hour event + cocktail reception.
FREE registration
- Members of Bilbao Metropoli 30.
- Partners of The Bay Awards.
- Students (accreditation will be required). Access only to the Summit (networking lunches are not included).
- Collaborators of Bilbao Metropoli 30, under confirmation.
All free registrations need to contact info@thebayawards.com for confirmation and to get tickets.
When?
2024
Who can attend?
Non-conformist, passionate people with a thirst for practical knowledge to drive change in order to make our cities more sustainable, more equitable and more humane.
Where?
Summit: Euskalduna Conference
Centre Bilbao
(Abandoibarra Avenue, 4 – Bilbao)
The Bay Awards Gala: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
(Abandoibarra Avenue, 2 – Bilbao)
What is The Bay Awards?
The Bay Awards is an opportunity to mobilize the exchange of pioneering and disruptive knowledge on how to best address the urban challenges of our century, guided by the following objectives:
- Developing an innovative international network that is rooted in the cutting-edge knowledge of renowned experts and institutions that work on the great urban challenges of the future.
- Promoting world-class urban strategic thinking that bridges the disciplines and boundaries involved in constructing cities.
- Fostering public-private-civic collaboration ecosystems to create synergies and build bridges that allow for the development of transformational projects of a strategic nature and greater impact.
- Growing a network of leading innovative nodes to prototype and develop transformational projects that test cutting-edge solutions for global challenges.
- Celebrating pathbreaking projects from across the world.