World Urban Forum, Medellín, Colombia--Safe + Smart Cities: Harnessing Technology for Urban Resilience
“Safe + Smart Cities” will highlight policies and practices that integrate new smart city technologies and planning concepts with efforts to make urban areas more resilient to natural and man-made disaster.
Overview
“Safe + Smart Cities” will highlight policies and practices that integrate new smart city technologies and planning concepts with efforts to make urban areas more resilient to natural and man-made disaster. This event brings business and government leaders together with urban experts to examine the space where the realms of “safe” and “smart” cities intersect, bringing attention to opportunities for the private sector and civil society to fill this space and play a more active role in making their communities secure.
The digital age has ushered in a new era of urban innovation and entrepreneurship. Cities are using new technologies -- from data collection and real-time monitoring to sophisticated “control centers” -- to make urban performance more efficient and to enable new modes of coordination, decision making and participation. Yet these initiatives to develop and implement smart city technologies have been “siloed” from efforts to build urban resilience and reduce disaster risk. This networking event will present global best practices and evidence-based research to highlight integrated and comprehensive approaches that harness new technologies to make cities more secure, while simultaneously creating more efficient, sustainable and livable communities.
Speakers
Alfred Omenya
Ignasi Fontanals
Andrew Salkin
Luis Fernando Suárez Vélez
![Blair A. Ruble](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/images/person/blair_ruble.jpg)
Blair A. Ruble
Former Wilson Center Vice President for Programs (2014-2017); Director of the Comparative Urban Studies Program/Urban Sustainability Laboratory (1992-2017); Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1989-2012) and Director of the Program on Global Sustainability and Resilience (2012-2014)
Hosted By
Urban Sustainability Laboratory
Since 1991, the Urban Sustainability Laboratory has advanced solutions to urban challenges—such as poverty, exclusion, insecurity, and environmental degradation—by promoting evidence-based research to support sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities. Read more
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