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7th International Forum on the FutureCity Initiative

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Applying SDGs to The Invigoration of Localities

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From Registration Desk /1F, by escalator- Analyzing 5-years of FutureCity Initiatives,and Focusing on Internationalization and Future Measures ‒

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Poster Session: Panel Layout① Shimokawa Town
② Kashiwa City
③ City of Yokohama④ Toyama City
⑤ City of Kitakyushu
喫煙室⑥ Kesen Regional FutureCity⑦ Kamaishi City
⑧ Higashimatsushima City
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⑪ Obihiro City
⑫ Chiyoda City
⑬ Iida City
⑭ Toyota City
⑮ Kyoto City
⑯ Minamata City
⑰ Niigata City
⑱ Mitake Town
⑲ Amagasaki City
⑳ Kobe City

㉑ Nishiawakura Village㉒ Matsuyama City
㉓ Niseko Town
㉔ Ikoma City
㉕ Oguni Town
㉖ Iwanuma City
㉗ Sakai City
㉘ Yusuhara Town
㉙ Miyakojima City
㉚ Tsukuba City

*Honoriﬁcs and titles omitted, in no particular order.
*Please be advised that agenda, speakers, time schedule may be subject to change.

㉛ Cabinet Oﬃce 1㉜ Cabinet Oﬃce 2㉝ Cabinet Oﬃce 3㉞ Cabinet Oﬃce 4㉟ Cabinet Oﬃce 5㊱ Cabinet Oﬃce 6㊲ Cabinet Oﬃce 7㊳ Cabinet Oﬃce 8㊴ Cabinet Oﬃce 9

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Opening Remarks

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Hiroshi Kajiyama

Minister of State for Regional Revitalization

Kenji Kitahashi

Chairman, Promotion Council for the “FutureCity” Initiative (Mayor of Kitakyushu City)

Hiroyasu Akiyama

Mayor of Kashiwa City

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Welcome Speech

後方通路 Applying SDGs to The Invigoration of Localities
Keynote Lecture

Masato Koumura

10:30

Director General, Oﬃce for Promotion of Overcoming Population Decline and Vitalizing Local Economy in Japan, Cabinet Oﬃce, Government of Japan

Session I The Promotion of SDGs in Localities, following The FutureCity Initiative
Coordinator

Shuzo Murakami

Panelists

Kenji Kitahashi

Mayor of Kitakyushu City
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Professor ,Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University

Gino Van Begin

Secretary General, ICLEI −Local Governments for Sustainability

Norichika Kanie

President, Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation (IBEC)

Aisa Kirabo Kacyira

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Poster tour

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Coordinator

多目的■Junichi Fujino Principal Researcher, Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies (IGES)
Senior Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)

He is an advisory committee member of “FutureCity Initiatives” by Cabinet
Oﬃce Japan since 2013. He actively joined concept making process of“FutureCity Initiative” during Oct.2010 and Feb.2011 and evaluation
process in Nov 2011 to select “FutureCity” . His expertise is to develop
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projects focused on not only Japan/Japanese cities but Asian country and自販機
cities such as Iskandar Malaysia, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh, Hai
Phong, Da Nang, Bandung, Semarang, Phnom Penh and others. He
received his B.S/M.S/Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University ofTokyo. He has joined National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
since 2000. Currently he serves as a senior advisor to ICLEI Japan, acommittee member of Urban Planning and Sustainability Commission andchair of LCS WG under The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic
and Paralympic Games (TOCOG), etc. He will join UNFCCC/COP23 in Bonn.

喫煙室■Presentation materials can be downloaded from International Forum page ofthe follwing website.
http://future-city.jp/

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We will broadcast the forum on NIKKEI CHANNEL , Nikkei s video content portal site after the forum (free of charge).

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Coordinator

Junichi Fujino

Atsushi Deguchi

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Takenori Noda
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Ryoko Gotoh

Alejandro Echeverri

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Principal Researcher, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Senior Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)什器置場

SessionⅡ Promotion of SDG Partnerships among Local Governments - Public-Private-Academic Collaboration in Kashiwa City ‒シ ア ター

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United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat

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Hiroyasu Akiyama■About video streaming of the Forum

Secretariat of International Forum on the “FutureCity” Initiative

Supported by: Nikkei Inc.

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Organizers: Cabinet Oﬃce, Government of Japan
Promotion Council for the “FutureCity” Initiative(Hotel & Residences Building 2F, Kashiwa-no-ha Campus
178-4 Wakashiba, Kashiwa-city, Chiba)Vice Dean, Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Mayor of Kashiwa City

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Mayor of Kamaishi City
CEO, URBANWORKS Inc.
Director, the Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (URBAM), EAFIT University

SessionⅢ Case Studies: Applying SDGs to Invigorating Localities in Japan and Overseas
Coordinator

Kazuhiko Takemoto

Professor, Director of the United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

Panelists

Masashi Mori

Mayor of Toyama City

Hironori Hamanaka
Stephen Hilton

Concluding
Session Shuzo Murakami
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Atsushi Deguchi

Kazuhiko Takemoto

Chair, ICLEI Japan, the special research advisor, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Director, Bristol Futures Global Fellow, University of Bristol

7th International Forum on the FutureCity Initiative

7th International Forum on the FutureCity Initiative

SessionⅡ Promotion of SDG Partnerships among Local Governments - Public-Private-Academic Collaboration in Kashiwa City ‒The International Forum on the “FutureCity” Initiative is an international conference that welcomes experts and representatives
from cities in Japan and abroad to engage in discussions aimed at resolving environmental problems and issues related to thesuper-aging society, which are challenges faced by countries across the world.
This year, which marks the 7th session of the International Forum, is based on the theme “Applying SDGs to The Invigoration of
Localities ‒ Analyzing 5-years of “FutureCity” Initiatives, and Focusing on Internationalization and Future Measures ‒”. Taking into
consideration the results of the “FutureCity” initiative achieved to date, delegates at this Forum will discuss the basic approach
toward promoting eﬀorts to achieve the SDGs by local governments in the invigoration of localities, from both the perspectives ofdomestic implementation and international cooperation, and consider the future direction for such eﬀorts.

Opening Remarks

Keynote Lecture Applying SDGs to The Invigoration of Localities■Hiroshi Kajiyama Minister of State for Regional Revitalization■Masato Koumura Director General, Oﬃce for Promotion of Overcoming Population Decline■Kenji Kitahashi Chairman, Promotion Council for the “FutureCity” Initiative(Mayor of Kitakyushu City)

Welcome Address■Hiroyasu Akiyama Mayor of Kashiwa Cityand Vitalizing Local Economy in Japan, Cabinet Oﬃce, Government of Japan

Since joining the Ministry of Construction in 1979, Mr. Koumura hasserved as Counsellor, Cabinet Secretariat; Director, Management
Planning Division, Urban Renaissance Agency, or UR (Incorporated
Administrative Agency); Director, General Aﬀairs Division, Minister's
Secretariat, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism(MLIT); Assistant Vice-Minister, Minister's Secretariat, MLIT; Vice
President, Japan Housing Finance Agency (Incorporated Administrative
Agency); and Councillor, National Resilience Promotion Oﬃce, Cabinet
Secretariat.

Session I The Promotion of SDGs in Localities, following The FutureCity Initiative

Implementing local government SDGs is not easily achieved when relying solely on the capabilities of local
administrative bodies. It also requires forming powerful partnerships with local stakeholders in the
public-private sector and academia, and creating organizations and mechanisms to drive forward thesepartnerships and implement the SDGs.
An example of such a partnership is the Urban Design Center Kashiwa-no-ha (UDCK ), which is a
public-private sector and academia collaboration that has been promoting the “FutureCity” Initiative inKashiwa City (host of this year's Forum) for the past ﬁve years. UDCK has come into the spotlight recently asa model organization driving forward urban development in its “partnership” capacity of a public-private
sector and academia collaboration. So far 16 of such urban development centers have been set up
nationwide.
This session will introduce and discuss several activities and case studies of various private sector and NGO
initiatives, such as those in Kashiwa City, which are related to the “FutureCity Initiative”, disaster recovery
and revitalizing slum areas, etc. The discussions are aimed at sharing views on the necessity and potential ofpartnerships for promoting local government SDGs, and gaining a deeper knowledge of the organizations andmechanisms required for building powerful partnerships.

■Takenori Noda Mayor of Kamaishi City

■Ryoko Gotoh CEO, URBANWORKS Inc.

■Alejandro Echeverri Director, the Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (URBAM), EAFIT University

Born in 1968. Kashiwa City native.
Graduated Tsukuba University (College of International Studies) in 1992,
and joined Bain & Company in the same year. Appointed executive
managing director of Four Seeds Corporation in 1995. As a consultant,held various posts at a range of companies from 1997 onwards.
Began current position in November 2009 (now in his second term).
Currently honorary president of the Kashiwa Reysol supporters
association.

Ms. Gotoh studied at University of Tsukuba and earned a masterʼ s
degree in design in 2003. She worked at an architectural design andurban planning company for 8 years, and has experience in many urban
development projects. In 2011, she became the founder and CEO ofURBANWORKS Inc.
She has set up several management organizations in the urban
development projects and has been managing them since. She joined
the foundation of Urban Design Center Kashiwa-no-ha (UDCK) in 2006
and has been working as a director. She also took part in the foundationof TX Entrepreneur Partners (TEP) in 2009 and has served as the General
Manager until she became a board member in 2017. She is also theco-founder and director of the board at UDC Initiative.

■Kenji Kitahashi Mayor of Kitakyushu City

■Norichika Kanie Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University■Masashi Mori Mayor of Toyama City

■Aisa Kirabo Kacyira United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat■Stephen Hilton Director, Bristol Futures Global Fellow, University of Bristol

July1986 First elected as a House of Representatives member
May
1994 Parliamentary Vice Minister of FinanceDec.
1996 Senior Director of Committee on Transportation
Aug.
1998 Chairperson of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment
Nov.
1999 Senior Director of Finance CommitteeNov.
2005 Local Government System Research Council member
Mar.
2006 Senior Director of the Special Committee on Administrative Reform
Feb.20, 2007 Mayor, City of Kitakyushu
Feb.20, 2011 Mayor, City of Kitakyushu（2nd Term as Mayor）
Feb.20, 2015 Mayor, City of Kitakyushu（3rd Term as Mayor）■Gino Van Begin Secretary General, ICLEI −Local Governments for Sustainability

Gino Van Begin is ICLEI's distinguished Secretary General.
Gino has served as the ICLEI Regional Director for Europe since 2002 and as
ICLEI's Deputy Secretary General since 2007. Gino has consistently andcomprehensively worked over the last 15 years towards ensuring ICLEI's quality
as a responsible, professional, non for proﬁt, local government organization in
Europe and worldwide.
Gino has been a member of the EU Expert Group to the European Commission
on the Urban Environment from 2003-2006, and a member of the European
Commission's Jury on the European Green Capital.
Before joining ICLEI in 2000, Gino worked as advisor and as Team Leader at the
EU-funded Environmental Centres for Administration and Technology in
Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg, Russia for seven years. From 1987 to 1993, he
was a legal advisor at the European Commission's DG Environment, General
Secretariat and DG External relations.
Trained as a lawyer from the University of Brussels, Gino speaks Dutch, French,
English, German and Russian.

Norichika Kanie is a professor at the Graduate School of Media Governance,
Keio University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at United Nations University
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNI-IAS). Before joining Keio,
he worked at the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, and Department of Policy Studies, The University of
Kitakyushu. He was also a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow of theEuropean Commission and visiting professor at SciencesPo, Paris. Amongothers he serves various committees and steering groups, including: a scientiﬁcsteering group member of the Earth Systems Governance project; co-chair of
Future Earth SDG Knowledge Action Network (KAN); member of the SDGs
Promotion Headquarters, the SDGs Promotion Round-Table, Government ofJapan; and, expert member of the Promotion of Overcoming Population
Decline and Vitalizing Local Economy in Japan, Cabinet Oﬃce. His research
focuses on international relations and earth system governance. During 2013
to 2015, he was a project leader of the "Project on Sustainability Transformation
beyond 2015 (POST2015)", with support from the Environment Research andTechnology Development Fund, Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira of the Republic of Rwanda is the Deputy
Executive Director of UN-Habitat and United Nations Assistant
Secretary-General providing critical leadership to promote sustainable
cities and human settlements globally. Previously, Dr. Kacyira held
various government positions including as Governor of the Eastern
Province of Rwanda, Mayor of Kigali and an Elected Member ofParliament. Dr. Kacyira is also a former President of the Rwanda
Association of Local Government Authorities, former President of theEastern African Association of Local Government Authorities, and former
Vice President of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa.

Takenori Noda was born in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture in 1953. After graduatingfrom the Senshu University Faculty of Law, he worked for Noda Gakuen Koutou
Kindergarten and was appointed its principal in 1988.
After his election as a member of the prefectural assembly in April 2003, hecontributed to the development of Iwate for four and a half years, while at thesame time continued to play his part in the ﬁeld of early childhood education.
He became Mayor of Kamaishi on November 18, 2007 (currently serving histhird term).
Since April 2011, he has served as chairman of the Iwate Prefectural Coastal
Reconstruction Alliance, and has also been contributing to the recovery of theearthquake and tsunami aﬀected coastal areas through his successive roles as amember of the Central Disaster Prevention Council Specialized Investigative
Commission between May 2011 and March 2012, and member for theInvestigative Commission regarding the state of national funding for disastervictims from October 2013 to September 2014.

Alejandro believes in the ethical responsibility of designers to contribute towards a
better society. He is cofounder and Director of URBAM, the Center for Urban andEnvironmental Studies, at EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia. His experience
combines architectural, urban, environmental projects and planning. He is a Loeb
Fellow from Harvard GSD and was given the Obayashi Prize 2016.
Between 2004 and 2008 as Director of EDU, the Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano of theMunicipality of Medellin, and then as the city's director of urban projects, he led theSocial Urbanism strategy to improve the most impoverished neighborhoods, withthe support and partnership of the city's mayor Sergio Fajardo; making Medellin a
blueprint for the future for other distressed cities worldwide.
Since 2010, from URBAM, he delves into the urban, environmental and social issuesof emerging developing countries, particularly those with weak political andinstitutional structures. He is also active in design through his studio, Alejandro
Echeverri + Valencia Arquitectos, focusing on projects with low environmental
impact for tropic regions. Alejandro has collaborated as a professor, lecturer andjuror in various international and national institutions.
His work has earned the Colombian National Architectural Award in 1996, the Pan-American
Biennale in Urban Design Award 2008, the Curry Stone Design Prize in 2009, the 10th
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design from Harvard GSD in 2013, among others.

SessionⅢ Case Studies: Applying SDGs to Invigorating Localities in Japan and Overseas■Shuzo Murakami President, Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation (IBEC)

Date of Birth March 19, 1953
Education:
B.A. The University of Tokyo, Department of Law, 1978

Professor in urban design and planning. Graduated from Doctoral
Course, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Doctor
of Engineering) in 1990. Taking present professor position in 2011 via
Assistant Professor at The University of Tokyo, Associate Professor andProfessor at Kyushu University. Having initiative for on-going urban
development in Kashiwanoha of Kashiwa City, renown as an advanced
smart city, as President of Urban Design Center, Kashiwanoha (UDCK)
since 2011. Active urban designer and practitioner who had worked formasterplan of Kyushu University New Campus and Island City in Fukuoka
City as well as one of organizers for Town Management Organization in
Tenjin and Hakata in Fukuoka City. Author of many publications.
Awarded as Grand Prix of IFHP International Student Design
Competition in 1987, and Ishikawa Award of City Planning Institute ofJapan in 2015 and 2016.

■Hiroyasu Akiyama Mayor of Kashiwa City

The Japanese government has been promoting the “FutureCity” Initiative as a pioneering program forregional vitalization. Under this Initiative, local governments and the national government work together toimplement a range of initiatives in areas such as the environment, aging, and realizing a low carbon society.
By making the “FutureCity” goals clearly visible and sharing them with citizens, the Initiative is producing
many successful examples of regional vitalization, including those with proactive citizen participation.
The Japanese government has set up the SDGs Promotion Headquarters for driving forward implementationof the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is centered on SDGs. One of the speciﬁc policies
cited is further promoting the “FutureCity” Initiative, which - along with SDGs - is built on the triple bottom
line of realizing environmental, social and economic sustainable development as its core principle. It is clearthat both the “FutureCity” Initiative and SDGs are highly compatible concepts, and so the government hopes
to leverage the synergy eﬀect of these two programs as it continues to develop the “FutureCity” Initiative
within the SDGs framework. The government anticipates this Initiative will be an eﬀective policy for regional
vitalization.
This session will review several examples of regional vitalization in Japan and overseas, including outcomesof the “FutureCity” Initiative. There will also be an exchange of views on the importance of introducing andintegrating SDGs in local government administration from here on, and policies for realizing that. Lastly,some time will also be set aside for debating the principles and goals of a new SDGs “FutureCity” Initiative(tentative name).

Academic Appointments/Experience:
2008-2012
Professor, Keio University (Graduate School of System Design and Management)
2006-2009
Advisory Professor, Tongji University
2003/06Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo
2001-2008
Professor, Keio University
1999/10-99/11 Visiting Professor, Technical University of Denmark
1985-2001
Professor, I.I.S., University of Tokyo
Professional Society and Committee Aﬃliations:
2003/07President, Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation(Present occupation)
2008/04-12/03 Chief Executive, Incorporated Administrative Agency Building Research Institute2005/11Foreign Member, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology
2005/10-11/09 Member, Science Council of Japan
2005/06-07/05 President, Architectural Institute of Japan
2004/03-09/12 Chairperson, Environment Committee, Council for Infrastructure,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
2003/07President, Institute of International Harmonization for Building and Housing
2002/05-10/07 Chairman, The Central Review Council for Kenchikushi
and other■Atsushi Deguchi Vice Dean, Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Local governments are ideally positioned as administrative organizations that are the most closely involved in
the daily lives of citizens. They implement extremely viable and eﬀective policies that take into account theactual history, culture, society, economy and other factors unique to a speciﬁc locality. Acting as
intermediaries between national institutions and local residents and industries, local governments work witha variety of stakeholders and make full use of these partnerships to address global and local issues.
Japan's “FutureCity” Initiative is a world-class pioneering program that is proactively aligned with theprinciples of SDGs. It focuses on the basic concept of continuously creating environmental, social andeconomic values, which includes addressing various issues in areas such as the environment, aging, andrealizing a low carbon society. The Initiative is also a promising program that draws on the results of existing
initiatives and applies them to issues associated with facilitating regional vitalization, which is one of thepriority issues for the Japanese government .
This session will review several leading case studies of initiatives for realizing SDGs in Japan and overseas.
There will also be time for exchanging views on developing and implementing speciﬁc policies for promoting
local government SDGs (tentative name).

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First elected to the Toyama Prefectural Assembly
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■Kazuhiko Takemoto Professor, Director of the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

Prof. Takemoto is Director of the United Nations University Institute for the
Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). He is concurrently a Visiting
Professor of the University of Tokyo, Integrated Research System for
Sustainability Science (IR3S), and Executive Secretary of Sustainable
Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Japan.
Prior to joining UNU, he developed policies on international environmental
cooperation and global environment, in particular, climate change andbio-diversity as Vice-Minister for Global Environment Aﬀairs (2008-2010) and asa Director-General of Environmental Management Bureau (2005-08).
He served for CBD/COP10 as its Alternate President (2010), CSD-18 as its
Co-Chair (2010), OECD/EPOC as Vice Chair (2004-07) and UNFCCC/COP3 asSpecial Assistant to its President (1997). He is a Council Member of theInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
He holds a PhD in environmental engineering from The University of Tokyo anda Master of International Public Policy degree from the School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.

■Hironori Hamanaka Chair, ICLEI Japan, the special research advisor, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Professor Hamanaka is the Chair of ICLEI Japan since July 2005. He is also
the special research advisor at the Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies (IGES). He served as the Chair of IGES Board of Directors from
April 2007 to June 2017. He was teaching at Keio University as a
Professor from 2004 to 2010, and previously served as the Vice-Minister
for Global Environmental Aﬀairs as well as other important positions at
the Ministry of the Environment.
While serving with the Government of Japan for more than 35 years, hedevoted his administrative career to intergovernmental negotiations inareas including the Kyoto Protocol and its implementing rules, and thedevelopment of national policies to implement the Protocol. Based on
his professional career, he served as a Co-chair of the Compliance
Committee under the Kyoto Protocol and the Chair of its Facilitative
Branch from 2006 to 2008. He gained a B.A. in Engineering from the
University of Tokyo in 1967.

Stephen is a leading ﬁgure in citizen-focused Smart Cities with 20 years
experience of developing and delivering city strategies.
Stephen was the founding Director of Bristol Futures, the Bristol City Council
Department responsible for Economic Development, Environmental Sustainability,
International Strategy, Urban Resilience and Digital Innovation. Bristol Futuresʼachievements include, the award of European Green Capital 2015; becoming a
Rockefeller Global 100 Resilient City and oﬃcial Government designations as a
Future City Demonstrator and a Super Connected City. Stephen led projects
ranging from Smart Energy Grids to Autonomous Vehicles and pioneered city work
on Open Data. Stephen was named Local Government Innovator of the year.
In 2016, Stephen established Bristol Futures Global, an independent
consultancy specialising in collaborative approaches to creating smarter,
greener, more inclusive and resilient cities. He also joined the University ofBristol as a Fellow of the Cabot Institute. Stephen volunteers as a non-Executive
Director of the leading local currency ‒ the Bristol Pound.
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