10:00 – 11:00 Session 1: Global action: Cities mobilizing urban
transformation
Speakers:
• Kirsten Dunlop, CEO, EIT Climate-KIC (in-person)
• Matthew Baldwin, Mission Manager, DG Move & Cities
Implementation Lead (tbc - in-person)
• Aniruddha Dasgupta, CEO, WRI (in-person)
• Jürgen Czernohorszky, Executive City Councilor for
Climate, Environment, Democracy and Personnel, City
of Vienna (remotely)
11:00 – 12:00 Session 2: Social and governance innovation Speakers:
• Alexa Waud, Climate and Democracy Specialist, the
Democratic Society (in-person)
• Juha Leppänen, CEO, Demos Helsinki (remotely)
• Olli Bremmer, Strategy Director, Demos Helsinki
(remotely)
• Valentina Orioli, Urban Mobility, Infrastructure (and
other areas) Councillor, Comune di Bologna (remotely
- tbc)
• Anna Richardson, Councillor, Glasgow (in-person)
12:00 – 13:00 Session 3: Capital and finance innovation Speakers:4
• Jeremy Gorelick, Green Finance Institute (remotely)
• Tamara Singh, Board member of the People Centered
Internet, Advisor OMFIF (remotely)
• Divyata Ashiya, ex COO Goldman Sachs Merchant
Banking Division International (in-person)
• Ed Cox, Director of Inclusive Growth & Public Service
Reform, West Midlands Combined Authority (inperson)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 Session 4: Policy Innovation Speakers
• Santiago Saura Martínez de Toda, Councillor for
International Affairs and Cooperation / Concejal
Delegado de Internacionalización y Cooperación, City
of Madrid (remotely)
• Rogier Vandenberg, Global Director, WRI (tbc)
• Jean-Francois Mercure, Senior Lecture in Global
Systems, EEIST (carrot and stick – policies to accelerate
innovation and tech changes) (in-person)
15:00 – 16:00 Session 5: Innovation in collaborations with
businesses, social enterprises, and other civic
institutions: reshaping value chains for regional
jobs and skills
Speakers:
• Adam McVey, Councilor/Council Leader Edinburgh
(remotely)
• Katrien Rycken, Executive Director, Leuven 2030
(Belgium) (remotely)
• James Drinkwater Built by Nature, Laudes (tbc)
• Maya Færch, Built by Nature, Laudes (tbc)
16:00 – 17:00 Session 6: Climate entrepreneurship
ecosystems in African cities: creating a
supporting environment for transformational
change
Moderator: Tom Mitchell, Chief Strategy Officer,
Climate-KIC
Speakers
• Anandha Ponnampalam, CEO & Founder, Green Tec
Capital (remotely)
• Sara Fakir, Co-Founder, ideiaLab (remotely)
• Ruka Sanusi, Executive Director, Ghana Climate
Innovation Centre
• Gracia Munganga, Chief Operating Officer, Sustain
Solar
• Tareq Emtairah, Director, Department of Energy
17:00 – 18:40 Session 7: NBSO GHG accounting and subnationals
Questions for discussions include:
• Current work with regards to Cities
• What are the positive aspects that can be
replicated?
• What are the limitations and how can need-based and solution-based approaches help to
address the limitations?
Panelists:
• Martin Wainstein, Executive Director, Open Earth
Foundation (in-person)
• Professor Dr. Kim, University of Goyang/Goyang City
• Anna Stanley, Manager, Climate Action, World
Business Council for Sustainable Development (in-person)
• Catherine Atkin, Director Stanford Codex Climate Data
Policy Initiative (in-person)
