The final day of Velo-city 2019 ends with a comprehensive discussion on the city of today!

After tackling concepts of the City of the Future and 4 days of having cycling at the core of our discussions, we will highlight the main insights and experiences of Velo-city Dublin to talk about the City of Today. Here, we will bring up the present situation of our cities and question if we would really like to go the way developments are taking us. Experts from other regions of the world will discuss important topics of development such as inclusion, access, gender and how to create and work towards the City for All.

The topic of this plenary session is an essential aspect under all conference sub-themes: ‘Environment and Infrastructure’, ‘Health and Social’, and ‘Technology, Intelligent Transport Systems and Data Analytics’.

In this plenary session leanings from previous days of the conference will be discussed by:

Mariel Figueroa (Tembici)  is the Country Manager of Tembici Argentina, company in charge of the new Bike Share System of Buenos Aires. She has as main responsibility the comprehensive management of the company in the country. Mariel is known to be passionate about transportation and urban mobility and has a strong belief that the bicycle is a powerful tool of social transformation that improve people's quality of life. She worked as a General Coordinator of the Bike Share System "Mi Bici Tu Bici" in the city of Rosario, Argentina, and developed activities in the public sector as a member of the Strategic Projects Management Area in the Entity of Mobility of the same city.

Philippe Crist (International Transport Forum) is Advisor for Innovation and Foresight for the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). His work focuses on disruptive urban mobility scenarios, including automated driving, and examines how car-based and active mobility, public transport and taxis must adapt to these. He leads ITF work on data science how to leverage new and rapidly growing data sources to improve transport decision-making and is investigating how policy and regulation might adapt to an increasingly algorithmically-driven world. He is also a recognised world expert on cycling safety and policy, and in 2016 he won the Danish Cycling Embassy's Leadership Award for Cycling Promotion.

Raluca Fiser (World Cycling Alliance) founded in 2009 Green Revolution Association, the first Romanian NGO of urban ecology that implements measures underlying the building of a green city. Expert in strategic management and communication, she is coordinating CSR projects for more than 7 years. As Managing Partner. In 2007 she launched the first Romanian media organization on environmental business and legislation, called Green Report. She is also responsible for business development and implementation, strategy & communication, liaison with partners and strategic networks including governments, industry and civil society as well as securing the NGO’s funding.

Janez Koželj (Ljubljana University/ City of Ljubljana) was born on 18 August 1945 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Having taught Urban design at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana, he has been the protagonist of the contextual approach to town planning. Since 1995 his interest has been shifted to the strategic issues of the contemporary urban design. Focusing his research on the contemporary city, he relates site analysis findings to his built projects. He received many national and international awards for architecture. Since 2006 he is Deputy Mayor of the City of Ljubljana, responsible for urban and traffic planning, urban design and environment protection. The main task of his office is to introduce the policies regarding the sustainable transformation of the city.

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'Closing Ceremony - The City of Today' Plenary will take place on Friday, June 28th 2019 at 14.15-15.45.
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