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2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities

June 6-8, 2018

Solving the world’s biggest challenges takes time.
Start with three days in Chicago.
Big issues. Big ideas. Global cities.

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2017 Chicago Forum

Wednesday, June 7
Thursday, June 8
Friday, June 9

2017 Speakers

Speakers include business innovators, education visionaries, cultural luminaries, and civic pioneers.

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2017 Workshop Reports

Global leaders, including mayors, CEOs, artists, and policy experts, explored solutions to complex policy issues confronting global cities at workshops during the 2017 Chicago Forum. The discussions and outcomes are summarized in a series of brief reports that also will guide conversations throughout the year leading up to the 2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities.

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2017 Agenda

DAY 1:
Wednesday, June 7

Pre-registration
Optional Tours
Opening Program
Dinner Reception

DAY 2:
Thursday, June 8

Breakfast
Plenaries
Lunch
Working Groups and Plenaries
Night Owl Session

DAY 3:
Friday, June 9

Breakfast
Plenaries
Closing Lunch
Adjournment

PLENARIES

Discover how global cities attract the world’s most ambitious people and innovative companies.

WORKING GROUPS

Identify best practices for tackling security issues, educating tomorrow’s workforce, and using big data to solve big problems.

NETWORKING

Share ideas for growing investments, curbing climate change, integrating immigrants, and reducing violence.

Detailed 2017 Agenda

Wednesday, June 7

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Registration

Park Hyatt Chicago, Lower Level, 800 North Michigan Avenue

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Pre-Forum Tour: Motorola Solutions Innovation Center

Motorola Solutions Innovation Center, 500 West Monroe, 42^ndFloor

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Pre-Forum Tour: Motorola Solutions Innovation Center

Motorola Solutions Innovation Center, 500 West Monroe, 42^ndFloor

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Pre-Forum Tour: United Airlines' Network Operations Center

United NOC, Willis Tower, 233 South Wacker Drive, 27^th Floor

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Registration and Reception

Art Institute of Chicago, Stock Exchange Room, 230 South Columbus Drive

6:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.

Welcome

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Ivo Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times

6:45 p.m. - 7:55 p.m.

PLENARY: Open Cities, Closed Borders: A Response to Globalization

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

How do we balance the tension between progressive urban policies and increasingly insular national agendas? How can global cities decrease the growing divide between cities’ and regional populations? How can collective action among a nation’s cities transform their national policies on issues such as immigration, climate, and trade? Are the urban elite out of touch with today’s realities?

Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sweden

Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Former Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Eduardo Paes, Former Mayor, Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

John Tory, Mayor, City of Toronto, Canada

Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Moderated by Ivo Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Opening Dinner & Night Owl Cocktails

Art Institute of Chicago, Griffin Court, 159 East Monroe Street

Rahm Emanuel, Mayor, City of Chicago, Illinois

Thursday, June 8

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

Art Institute of Chicago, Stock Exchange Room, 230 South Columbus Drive

9:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.

PLENARY: Combating Climate Change

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Cities currently account for 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions – what are the priorities for adapting existing city infrastructure to reverse this trend? How can private sector innovations lead the effort in global cities to combat climate change? How much do cities need the cooperation and collaboration of national governments in order to realize their local climate action ambitions/goals?

Pan Jiahua, Director General, Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Patricia de Lille, Executive Mayor, City of Cape Town, South Africa

Carlo Ratti, Director, SENSEable City Lab, MIT Urban Planning

Jennifer Scanlon, President and CEO, USG Corporation

Moderated by Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times

10:10 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

FLASHTALK: Powering Global Cities

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Karen Weigert, Senior Fellow on Global Cities, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

10:20 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Break

10:40 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

FLASHTALK: City Diplomacy

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Ian Klaus, Nonresident Fellow, Global Cities, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

10:50 a.m. - 12 noon

PLENARY: Planning for Disruption, Promoting Resilience

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

What are the infrastructure demands and who are the stakeholders needed to be engaged to be a resilient city in the 21st century? How can cities prepare for, prevent, or most effectively respond to the natural and man-made disasters our cities will face? How can local, national, and international agencies better coordinate to improve resilience and security?

Megan Clifford, Director, Strategy and Innovation, Global Security Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Bernard Hogan-Howe, Former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Services, London

Martin Kimani, Director, National Counter-Terrorism Center, Kenya; Special Envoy CVE

R. David Paulison, Former Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Board of Trustees, UL

Thomas Tighe, President and CEO, Direct Relief

Moderated by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, US News Editor, Financial Times

12 noon - 12:10 p.m.

FLASHTALK: Standardizing Data

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Patricia McCarney, CEO, World Council on City Data

12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

Art Institute, Terzo Piano, 159 East Monroe Street

2:05 p.m. - 2:10 pm

FLASHTALK

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Demetrius Amparan, Communications Manager, A Better Chicago

2:10 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.

PLENARY: Liveable City, Healthy World

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

How do global cities manage wellbeing and deliver the living conditions needed to create a thriving, healthy ecosystem? How does urban design contribute to equity of access for diverse populations? What examples are there of cities leading healthcare reform? How do we ensure new urban development reflects the research to create happy cities?

Robert Doyle, Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne, Australia

Charles Montgomery, Founder and Principal, Happy City

Michael Nutter, Former Mayor, City of Philadelphia; Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia SIPA

Fernando Straface, Secretary-General of Government and Foreign Affairs, City of Buenos Aires

Jay Walder, President and CEO, Motivate

Moderated by Julia Stasch, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

3:20 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.

Break

3:40 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

FLASHTALK: The Night Mayor

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Ella Overkleeft, Cofounder, Night-Mayor Foundation, Amsterdam

3:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

PLENARY: Cultural Evolution

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

How do cities keep cultures of the past alive, vibrant, and relevant while ensuring resources are available to nurture and support the emergence and growth of new city culture? How do artists use art, theater, and music to provoke a new dialogue about diversity and inclusion? How does public art transform the public’s understanding of global realities and redefine the use of public space? How does new technology help to increase access to the cultural heritage of cities – both across city neighborhoods and from the city to the regional?

Brendan Carr, Lord Mayor, City of Dublin, Ireland

Jeanne Gang, Founding Principal, Studio Gang

Theaster Gates, Founder, Rebuild Foundation; Director, Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago

Mary Miss, Founder, City as Living Labratory; Artist in Residence, New York City Department of Design and Construction

Oussama Rifahi, Board Member, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture

Moderated by Caroline Daniel, Partner, Brunswick Group

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Next Generation at the Chicago Forum Reception

CCGA Conference Center, 130 East Randolph Street, Lobby Level

9:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.

Night Owl Session

NoMi Outdoor Garden, Park Hyatt Chicago, 800 North Michigan Avenue

Friday, June 9

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

Art Institute of Chicago, Stock Exchange Room, 230 South Columbus Drive

8:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

PLENARY: The Urban Crisis

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

What policy priorities are needed for global cities to drive more sustainable and inclusive prosperity? How does today’s technology revolution affect how cities build a strong, enduring, middle class? How are cities providing access to the skills and training needed for city youth to fill the jobs of tomorrow? Can global cities grow a thriving creative class without a new urban crisis perpetuating small areas of affluence aside much larger areas of disadvantage?

Richard Florida, Professor and Author, The New Urban Crisis

Mark Hoplamazian, President and CEO, Hyatt Hotels Corporation

Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to Former President Barack Obama; Chair, White House Council on Women and Girls

Denis Mizne, CEO, Lemann Foundation

Claudio Orrego, Governor, Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile

Moderated by Edward Luce, Chief US Commentator and Columnist, Financial Times

9:40 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

PLENARY: The Future Economy

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

What is the role of private capital and public-private partnerships in shaping the future of cities? How are technology, innovation, and data transforming urban economies? Will the workplace disruption of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technological advances, also change how capital markets operate and how profit and risk are calculated? How successful have efforts been to recast measures of growth to focus on sustainable, inclusive prosperity? How will the growth of global cities in the developing world shape the global economy?

Linda Jojo, Executive Vice President and CIO, United Airlines

Adriana Krnáčová, Mayor, City of Prague, Czech Republic

Gerald Lawless, Chairman, World Travel & Tourism Council; Head of Tourism and Hospitality, Dubai Holding

Steven Levitt, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Carl Schramm, University Professor, Syracuse University

Phillip Woolley, Partner, Grant Thornton

Moderated by Caroline Daniel, Partner, Brunswick

10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

FIRESIDE CHAT: Globalization 4.0

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Patricia de Lille, Executive Mayor, City of Cape Town, South Africa

Keith Williams, President and CEO, UL LLC

Moderated by Ivo Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

BREAK

11:30 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

FLASHTALK: Designing a Border Town

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Fernando Romero, Architect and Founder, Fernando Romero Enterprise

11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

PLENARY: The 2017 Urban Challenge: Global Migration and Refugees

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

With over 65 million refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide, and little over 105,000 of UN-assessed refugees resettled annually, what can global cities to do to help solve this crisis? What can be learned from the different experiences of cities responding to the immediate needs of refugees and cities working on long-term integration efforts of economic migrants? How are global cities transforming the language of crisis into one of opportunity? How do we turn best practice into global action now?

Akel Biltaji, Former Mayor, Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan

Henry Cisneros, Chairman, CityView

Claudia González Romo, Chief of Advocacy, UNICEF

Khalid Koser, Executive Director, Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund

Moderated by Jamil Anderlini, Asia Editor, Financial Times

12:40 p.m. - 12:55 p.m.

FLASHTALK: Fragile Cities

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Robert Muggah, Research Director, Instituto Igarape

Misha Glenny, Former Central Europe Correspondent, Guardian and the BBC; Journalist and Author, McMafia

12:55 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive

Ivo Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

1:00 p.m. - 2:00p.m.

Buffet Lunch

Art Institute of Chicago, Stock Exchange Room, 230 South Columbus Drive

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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Archeworks

Argonne National Laboratory

Art Institute of Chicago

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Chicago Architecture Foundation

Chicago Botanic Garden

Chicago Children's Choir

Chicago Community Trust

Chicago Council on Science and Technology

Chicago History Museum

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

Chicago Public Library

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Sister Cities International

Chicago Urban League

Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

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City Digital

Civic Consulting Alliance

Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events

DePaul University

DuSable Museum of African American History

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Field Museum

Goodman Theatre

Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago

Illinois Institute of Technology

Illinois Science & Technology Coalition

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

John G. Shedd Aquarium

Lincoln Park Zoo

Loyola University Chicago

Metropolitan Family Services

Metropolitan Planning Council

Museum of Contemporary Photography

National Museum of Mexican Art

Northwestern University

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Pritzker Military Museum and Library

Robert R. McCormick Foundation

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

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University of Chicago

University of Illinois

World Business Chicago

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Argonne National Laboratory
Art Institute of Chicago
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Children's Choir
Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Council on Science and Technology
Chicago History Museum
Chicago Loop Alliance
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Chicago Park District
Chicago Public Library

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Sister Cities International
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Urban League
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
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DuSable Museum of African American History
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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LEAVE IT TO A CITY

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TO INSPIRE SOLUTIONS

TO THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS.

Save the Date 2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities

June 6-8, 2018

2017 Chicago Forum

2017 Speakers

Speakers include business innovators, education visionaries, cultural luminaries, and civic pioneers.

Eduardo Paes

Former Mayor, City of Rio de Janeiro

RIO DE JANEIRO

Helen Clark

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Administrator, UN Development Programme

NEW YORK

John Tory

Mayor, City of Toronto, Canada

TORONTO

Martin Wolf

Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

LONDON

Richard Florida

Professor and Author, The New Urban Crisis

TORONTO

Mark Hoplamazian

President and CEO, Hyatt Hotels Corporation

CHICAGO

Valerie Jarrett

Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama

WASHINGTON, DC

Claudio Orrego

Governor, Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile

SANTIAGO

Ivo Daalder

President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

CHICAGO

Rahm Emanuel

Mayor, City of Chicago, Illinois

CHICAGO

​Gillian Tett

US Managing Editor, Financial Times

NEW YORK

Carl Bildt

Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sweden

STOCKHOLM

Patrica de Lille

Executive Mayor, City of Cape Town, South Africa

CAPE TOWN

Carlo Ratti

Director, SENSEable City Lab, MIT Urban Planning

TURIN

Jennifer Scanlon

President and CEO, USG Corporation

CHICAGO

Fernando Romero

Architect and Founder, Fernando Romero Enterprise

MEXICO CITY

R. David Paulison

Former Director of FEMA

WASHINGTON, DC

Martin Kimani

Director, National Counter-Terrorism Center, Kenya; Special Envoy CVE

NAIROBI

Bernard Hogan-Howe

Former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Services, London

LONDON

Megan Clifford

Director, Strategy and Innovation, Global Security Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Robert Doyle

Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne, Australia

MELBOURNE

Julia Stasch

President, MacArthur Foundation

CHICAGO

Denis Minze

CEO, Lemann Foundation

Edward Luce

Chief US Commentator and Columnist, Financial Times

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2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities

Professor and Author,
The New Urban Crisis

President and CEO,
Hyatt Hotels Corporation

President, Chicago Council
on Global Affairs

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Former Prime Minister and
Foreign Minister, Sweden

VP, Programs and Strategic Content,
Chicago Council on Global Affairs