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April 2008
Developing and Investing Green:
Creating Value Through Sustainability
Event: As market demand grows, developers, owners and tenants are discovering many advantages of building sustainable and green. Green can be not just financially feasible, but also financially preferable. This conference will show what makes it work; how it differs from conventional practices; how businesses can benefit from it; how to maximize profit; and how easy it can be to develop green. Opening remarks will be made by Pat McCrory, Mayor of Charlotte.
Date: 7 to 8 April 2008
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Organiser: Urban Land Institute
Contact: Cary Sheih
Telephone: +1 202-624-7161
Email: csheih@uli.org
Internet: www.uli.org
April/May 2008
On-Line Conference:
Urban Value Chain Development
Event: How can we harness the resources of today's cities for sustainable poverty eradication? This on-line conference invites practitioners and other experts from related communities of practice: urban development, housing, local economic development, enterprise development, microfinance, value chain development, livelihood security and social enterprise.
Date: 29 April – 22 May 2008
Location: On-line conference: http://edexchange.seepnetwork.org
Organiser: Mary McVay
Contact: Mary McVay
Email: mcvay@seepnetwork.org
Internet: http://edexchange.seepnetwork.org
May 2008
Brownfields 2008
Event: The National Brownfields Conference is the largest, most comprehensive conference focused on cleaning up and redeveloping abandoned, underutilized, and potentially contaminated properties in the nation. There is no better deal in the redevelopment marketplace than Brownfields 2008. Why? Because registration is free, and by signing up you gain access to more than 150 educational and learning opportunities, outstanding plenary sessions, over 200 exhibitors, scores of networking events, special training sessions, film screenings, book signings, and much, much more.
There are plenty of ways that individuals and organizations can take advantage of all the educational and networking opportunities that Brownfields 2008 will present. Whether you‚re a newcomer to the world of economic and environmental redevelopment, or a seasoned professional looking to make new connections and increase your business Brownfields 2008 offers something for you.
Date: 5 to 7 May 2008
Location: Cobo Center - Detroit, Michigan
Organiser: US. EPA and ICMA
Contact: Melissa Koenig
Telephone: +1 202-962-3632
Email: mkoenig@icma.org
Internet: www.brownfields2008.org
Brownfields 2008
Event: Fourth International Conference on Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation, Restoration and Development of Brownfield Sites. The meeting provides an international forum to discuss the problems facing the public and private sectors, the engineering and scientific communities in terms of the new land available for development purposes. The Conference will look at long term plans for the productive re-use of properties that have been abandoned or lie idle, in order to satisfy current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own requirements.
Date: 6 - 8 May 2008
Location: Cephalonia, Greece
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0)2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/brown08/index.html
3rd Innovation Conference Munich
Event: This conference is a follow up event to the conferences held in s‚Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 2007, and Stockholm, Sweden, 2006. The aim of this series of conferences is to foster innovation in the participating regions and to improve regional innovation policies by collaborating and sharing knowledge and experience throughout the regions.
The over 100 participants of the Innovation Society Conferences represent an impressive number of European Metropolitan Regions ˆ all of them leading economic and innovative centers in the European Union or, at least, significant economic centers in their home countries. The regions are the very locations where innovation takes place, they are the base of the competitiveness of the European Economy.
Based on the results of its predecessors, the Innovation Conference 2008 will focus on the concrete experience in the regions. The key note speeches will address the functional role of City-Regions in the innovation process, analyse the success and failure of the different innovation strategies and will try to give an answer to what is needed in the regions to make Europe more competitive.
Together with our regional and European Partners we developed four thematic workshops and one project-oriented workshop.
A. Strategies of Knowledge Regions: Attracting Talents and Mobilizing Competences
Overview on strategies of companies to attract talents and how public entities can support such strategies. Knowledge events and public awareness strategies.
Responsible Region: Munich Metropolitan Region
Contributions from: Munich, Manchester, Vienna, Barcelona
B. Fostering Innovative Products ˆ public procurement and lead markets
Overview on best practices what cities / regions can do to support the creation of lead markets and to facilitate the market entry for innovative products of regional companies.
Responsible Region: Budapest
Contributions from: Helsinki, Grand Lyon, European Commission
C. Innovation collaboration for future growth platforms
To further the understanding of how specialization and collaboration across businesses and regions can further both better exploitation of proven business models and exploration of new business models that contribute to sustainability in cities and regions.
Responsible Region: Stockholm
Contributions from: Munich, Eindhoven Open Innovation
D. Cross border regional Innovation
What can cities / regions do to make better use of the regional endogenous potential by facilitating cross boarder cooperation.
Responsible Region: Oresund Scientific Region
Contributions from: Rosenheim-Salzburg-Kufstein, Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen, Stockholm and the Baltic Sea
E. Co-operation and projects
Innovation projects of the partner regions will be presented.
Possibility to search projects partners and exchange ideas.
Responsible Region: Noord-Brabant
Date: 29 / 30 May 2008
Location: Munich, Germany
Organiser: City of Munich, Department of Labour and Economic Development
Contact: Dr. Raymond Saller
Telephone: 0049 89 233 213 32
Email: raymond.saller@muenchen.de
Internet: www.muenchen.de/wirtschaft
June 2008
Eco-Architecture 2008
Event: Second International Conference on Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature. Eco-Architecture ought to be in harmony with nature, including its immediate environs. Decisions have to be taken on ecological grounds concerning locations, siting and orientation, as well as the well-informed choice of materials. Eco-Architecture, wrongly seen by many in its origins as dull, inelegant and mundane, is providing imaginative and expressive solutions driven by a generation of highly creative designs. It has important cultural as well as architectural impacts. The Conference aims to provide a forum for discussing the many relevant aspects in the eco-architecture area.
Date: 23 - 25 June 2008
Location: Algarve, Portugal
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0)2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/ecoarch08/index.html
September 2008
Underground Spaces 2008
Event: First International Conference on Underground Spaces ˆ Design, Engineering and Environmental Aspects. The conference will discuss the structural and material characterization aspects as well as the trends regarding the utilisation of underground spaces (ranging from, classical excavations to subway constructions, underground sport halls, power stations, waste repositories, underground cities, and many others). In particular the conference will emphasise the environmental aspects, architectural characteristics and concepts that might be applied to make the underground space an integral part of the city planning and a healthy living environment.
Date: 8 -10 September 2008
Location: The New Forest, UK
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0)2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/underground08/index.html
Cityscape USA
Event: Cityscape USA 2008 ˆ Bridging US and Emerging Real Estate Markets ˆ will be a showcase for unparalleled investment opportunities in emerging real estate markets. Held in New York, it will be an opportunity for the US real estate industry to network with some of the most significant real estate investors and developers from the emerging world and to attract investment into US real estate projects and vehicles.
Cityscape USA attracts regional and international investors, real estate developers, governmental and development authorities, leading architects, designers, consultants and other senior professionals involved in the real estate industry.
Whether you are looking for development and investment opportunities, joint venture partners, or simply to discover the best way to penetrate the most talked about real estate markets in the world, Cityscape USA will provide you with the platform to achieve this.
Date: 9 to 11 September 2008
Location: Javits Centre, New York
Organiser: Institute for International Research
Contact: Faye Black
Telephone: +971 4 336 5161 ext 320
Email: faye.black@iirme.com
Internet: www.cityscape-usa.com
Sustainable City and Creativity:
Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives
Event: The aim of the meeting is to analyze in depth principles and practices of the creative city for the formulation of policy lessons and recommendations able to contribute to the building of a creative city.
In particular, it will be focused on the following issues:
1. what is a creative city; how the creative city actually works, which are the key features and the critical elements conditioning creativity; how ideas turn into urban innovations; the drivers stimulating a city to innovate, the barriers and the constraints;
2. which are the benefits of the creative city in terms of competitiveness, environment, welfare, social stability, quality of life, vitality;
3. which are the key assets, infrastructures and tools required to promote creative processes in cities towards competitive, sustainable and cohesive places, and how public policy can influence the creative city.
The Scientific Committee - composed by Sir Peter Hall, Tuzin Baycan Levent, Roberto Camagni , Giuliana Di Fiore, Francesco Forte, Luigi Fusco Girard, Klaus Kunzmann, Peter Nijkamp, John Rees, Pierluigi Sacco and Roger Stough - has been involved in order to identify the Meeting themes/contents
Date: 24 to 26 September 2008
Location: Naples, Italy
Organiser: Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp
Contact: Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp
Telephone: +39 335 455 988
Email: girard@unina.it
Internet: http://www.creativecity2008.eu/ocs or http://www.creativecity2008.eu/ocs/index.php/creativecity2008/index
The Sustainable City 2008
Event: Fifth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. The conference aims to address the many inter-related aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclusion and crime prevention. It is hoped that the meeting will build on the contributions made in previous conferences, which successfully managed to provide an international view of the problems facing modern cities and their solutions.
Date: 24 - 26 September 2008
Location: Skiathos, Greece
Organiser: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Alice Jones
Telephone: +44 (0)2380 293223
Email: enquiries@wessex.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/
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