Future Cities Africa

Listen to thought leaders and stay at the forefront of trends, projects, innovations, challenges and opportunities impacting the future of African Cities. Discussions cover a broad range of sectors and topics from technology, digital transformation, built environment, energy, mobility, climate change, finance & governance, resilience, citizen centric services and more.

• Un-Visioning the Future of Cities
• Smart City Strategy and Artificial Intelligence as the ‘New Electricity’
• South African Cities Network on Urban Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion
• Trends and Technologies Impacting Cities, Business and People
• Leading the Green Recovery with Green Building Council South Africa
• Digital Council Africa and Why All Local Municipalities Need Good Connectivity
• The Future is Linked to How We Relate to Machines
• Don’t Get Knocked Out of the Ring: Reinvent Yourself and Your Community
• Digital Projects and the Role of Technology at the City of Cape Town
• Digital Twins: a Fitbit For Cities & Innovative Lean Principles
• Smart & Sustainability Initiatives at Waterfall City
• Authentic Conversations and Cities with Deep Human Connection
• Living Future Collaborative SA & Thinking Beyond Our Current Actions
• Bridging the Digital Divide, Big Data and Removing Siloed Operations
• Redefining Urban Mobility in Africa
• Development and future technologies post Covid-19
• Impacts of Covid-19 in Mauritius and the important role of technology
• Impacts of Covid-19 on architecture and how cities will change
• Impacts of Covid-19 on the Konza Technopolis in Kenya
• Improving service delivery to citizens and digitising cities to succeed in the future
• African Cities are not declared dead!
• Experiences from Moscow in digital transformation

How do we unvision African cities?
Geci Karuri-Sebina offers a provocation that challenges our normal ways of planning cities - how can we use futures studies to become more comfortable with the unknown ahead?

UFS Reflections Series webinar: Urban living post-COVID-19
Prof Ivan Turok, Dr Geci Karuri-Sebina and Thiresh Govender will offer insights on the de-densification of cities.

Pandemic City 3.0
The South African Cities Network and the Wits School of Governance hosted this webinar - interactive Mind-Lab on cities and pandemic: impacts, responses, and ways to get from crisis to transformation.

Future Cities Post COVID 19
In this webinar, our panel of experts shared their insights on what the future holds for the built environment and those that live, work and play within it.

Trowers talks podcast: The future of cities in a post Covid-19 world
Partner Amardeep Gill interviews Luke Hillson, Design Director at Barton Willmore about the future of cities in a post Covid-19 world.

Building Better Cities After Covid-19
What we can learn from the coronavirus crisis about building livable and inclusive cities of the future.

The Future of Cities After COVID-19
This virtual panel discussion focuses on the potential for the COVID-19 pandemic to influence the development, demographic, and environmental trends of the future.

Build Back Better: Cities at the Frontlines of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery
As governments reassess priorities and consider stimulus packages, the imperative for more resilient, inclusive, green cities is greater than ever. Building back better can accelerate both the recovery and resilience of cities. This requires a different approach to how investments are allocated, prioritized and designed, putting cities, settlements and communities at the heart of these processes.

Future Cities Post COVID 19 | BritCham Singapore
In this webinar, our panel of experts shared their insights on what the future holds for the built environment and those that live, work and play within it.

COVID-19 and the future of cities
Stephen Engblom is head of Global Cities at AECOM - he talks to NLA's Peter Murray via the internet (Zoom) from his house in Twin Peaks overlooking San Francisco. They discuss how cities are responding to COVID-19 and the impact the virus will have on our attitude to urban living.

The Future of Cities: Urban Life and Work Beyond COVID-19
Join Interim Dean Kenneth Corts as he welcomes Professors Richard Florida and Shauna Brail to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on cities, with particular focus on what this means as businesses prepare for the future of work.

Future of Cities : The New Normal Post-Covid 19
Future of Cities : The New Normal Post-Covid 19

The Future of Cities with Wafic El-Assi from UBER
With social distancing measures becoming the new norm, Covid-19 has altered life as we know it. For many of us, a crowded commute, busy streets, and the buzz of city life were expectations. Cities have weathered pandemics in the past, and have always emerged more resilient than before. Wafic El-Assi, an UrbanTech enthusiast, ex-Data Scientist and current Strategy & Operations Manager at Uber, sheds light on mobility, communication and urbanization trends that could shape cities in a post-covid world.

Remote Work And The Future Of Cities
Remote Work And The Future Of Cities

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