Sep 07, 2016
Airbnb, a key player in the new sharing economy, has recently established the role of Chief Employee Experience Officer who oversees the company’s “workplace as an experience™”—and they’ve even trademarked it—who carefully orchestrates the physical, emotional, intellectual, virtual, and aspirational elements of the work experience to inspire employees. It’s been a big hit with employees,…
Sep 06, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. Placemaking: Building the Community Through Urban Tech considers the role that communities in the age of Urban Tech play in physically and socially altering cities. “The most important use…
Sep 06, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. How will people and technology collide to open up new pathways for energy creation and management at the city scale?People Powered Cities set its sights on how the relationship…
Aug 26, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. “Our societies are physical manifestations of our technological developments, but also our social structures,” said Fahd Al-Rasheed. The New Urban Lifestyles panelists grouped a diverse range of experts to…
Aug 26, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. With seemingly exponential innovations in Urban Tech and urban planning, what opportunities exist to expand the “Sharing Economy” in our cities? Sharing is Caring, Trust is Key provided a…
Aug 17, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. “Technology is no longer a question of just who can take part, it is also who wants to take part,” said Jenviev Azzolin on the topic of Inclusive Urban…
Aug 17, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. With Urban Tech pushing public transport towards deeper mobility convergence, Mobility as a Service set out to examine what it will mean for the future design and strategy of…
Aug 15, 2016
We need innovative solutions for our planet’s increasingly crowded cities — and we need them fast. Around the globe, one million people — the equivalent of an entire medium-sized city — move to urban centers every week. This pace of urbanization is picking up, putting relentless pressure on transport systems, infrastructure and services, and health…
Aug 12, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. Will Urban Tech democratize the tools citizens can use to develop cutting-edge ideas and technologies? Empowering the Innovators provided a forum to discuss how technology can be used to…
Aug 10, 2016
This post is part of our Age of Urban Tech discussion series, following the fifth edition of the New Cities Summit in Montréal in June 2016. The capacity to produce massive volumes of data to astonishing levels of specificity enables tech experts and entrepreneurs to understand what works and what cities need. Yet, access to…
Aug 09, 2016
Hardly a week goes by without shocking news of a disaster in a city with implications for its future development and, often, for other cities as well. Think of the recent Grenfell Tower fire in London, raising questions about high-rise living elsewhere in London, but also in the Gulf, in Asia and in North America.…
Aug 08, 2016
My training in political science and experience in development taught me to avoid making predictions. But there is one prediction I feel secure making: in the very near future, cities will become equally or more important than the classically defined ‘state.’ By mid-century, cities will rise to the level of primary economic, labor, political, educational…
