Apr 27, 2017
This Challenge brought 5 candidates from top engineering, architecture and design, and urban planning graduate schools from around the world to spend one week in October 2015 in King Abdullah Economic City, offering them a unique in-depth look into KAEC’s strategies, priorities and challenges. At the end of the week, candidates were given one main…
Apr 27, 2017
The NewCities Summit gathered top entrepreneurs, policymakers, corporate leaders, designers and thinkers to work together to improve life in cities. The sixth edition of the Summit took place in Incheon Songdo, South Korea from June 7-9, 2017 on the theme Thriving Cities: The Building Blocks of Urban Wellbeing. The new city of Incheon Songdo has…
Apr 26, 2017
The Jakarta Urban Challenge was a USD $20,000 contest championing the most effective solutions to mobility and traffic problems in Jakarta, one of the world’s most congested cities. NewCities and Connect4Climate came together ahead of the NewCities Summit 2015 in Jakarta to launch a challenge that would tackle this urgent problem by seeking out…
Apr 24, 2017
The WHO defines E-Health as “the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health”*. In 2012, we set up a Task Force to investigate the potential of e-health technology in cities. Our Task Force assessed the economic, social and clinical impacts of using e-health technology in an underserved urban area. We conducted our pilot…
Apr 22, 2017
3 finalists, 1 stage, $5,000 prize AppMyCity! is a contest for the world’s best urban app. Awarded every year at the NewCities Summit, it rewards new mobile applications that improve the urban experience, connect people, and make cities more fun, fair, vibrant, and sustainable places. We ran the contest in 2012 in Paris, 2013 in…
Apr 20, 2017
From 2014-2016, Cities on the Move assembled the most insightful voices from policy, industry, design, technology, architecture, economics and sociology, and from all regions to explore the many facets and changing nature of urban mobility. The thought leadership event was held on three occasions in Mountain View, California (2014), London (2015), and Tokyo (2016). On…
Apr 20, 2017
Montréal was the perfect stage for the NewCities Summit 2016 on The Age of Urban Tech. In cities everywhere, innovators are finding technological solutions to pressing urban challenges. We were honored to welcome 600 speakers, journalists and participants from 40 countries for inspiring discussions around how urban technology can work to the benefit of all.…
Apr 19, 2017
The urban boom is putting incredible pressure on cities to develop new and innovative models to finance urban infrastructure. On May 9, 2016, we organized a one-day event that convened leading thinkers to discuss innovative financing models in the tech age. Non-traditional actors including tech companies, architects and community organizations joined the conversation with financial…
Apr 18, 2017
Cityquest is a community of the builders of large-scale new city projects and their partners around the world. Cityquest comprises: Cityquest – KAEC Forum: The premier leadership event on the world’s largest and most innovative new city projects. The third edition took place on December 8-10, 2015. Impact KAEC Challenge: This Challenge brought 5 candidates…
Apr 17, 2017
How does Tokyo capitalize on the momentum of the 2020 Olympics to ensure its urban future? Cities as established as Tokyo rarely see the opportunity to redefine themselves. In the next five years the investments in Tokyo offer an opportunity to capitalize on forthcoming innovations to create livable space for citizens, and redesign urban infrastructure…
Apr 16, 2017
The fourth annual NewCities Summit, the leading global event on the future of cities, gathered 800 urban leaders and thinkers from 50 countries. The Jakarta meeting was the first time the Summit has convened in Asia. Seize the Urban Moment Cities at the Heart of Growth and Development The theme of the 2015 NewCities…
Apr 14, 2017
Two evening events at Autodesk Gallery pop-up, Paris In 2014, we teamed up with Autodesk to explore how evolutions in the creative industries are revitalizing the contemporary urban space. On October 14 and 22 we hosted two special events at the Autodesk Gallery pop-up in Paris, bringing together cutting edge designers and innovators from across…
