Schedule

REGISTRATION

WELCOME FROM STANFORD AND OPENING

Michael Lepech
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness, Stanford University

Lynn Hildemann
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,Stanford University

James O. Leckie
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness, Stanford University

Yanbin Chen
Vice President and the Secretary General of the International Towns Federation, Vice Chairman and the Secretary General of China’s Urban-townization Promotion Council

PLENARY SESSIONS

• Kevin Rudd
  Honorary Chair of International Towns Federation, the 26th Australian Prime Minister
• George Papandreou
  The 182nd Prime Minister of Greece
• Thomas Ridge
  First U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania  
• Steven Chu
  Professor of Physics, Stanford University, Co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy
• Xinli Zheng
  Executive Vice President, China Center for International Economic Exchanges and Former Deputy Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee
• Marcus Feldman

  Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Director, Morrison Institute for Population Biology and Resource Studies, Stanford University

FORUMS

Forum I: Sustainable Energy Provision and Natural Environment

Forum I will focus on topics ranging from energy resource and generation technologies, to the impacts of electrification of the economy, to urban-focused opportunities for addressing climate change.

Moderator: Yi Cui, Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Panelists:

• Arun Majumdar, Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University, Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Co-Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy
• Fan Dai, Director, California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley
• Dalong Zhong, Chief Scientist, NICE Solar Energy Ltd., China Energy Investment Corporation
• Stan Kolar, Director of Europe and Asia Programs at the Center for Clean Air Policy

Forum II: Sustainable and Smart Technologies at City Scales

Forum II will focus on topics ranging from the value proposition of smart city and smart town technologies, to the optimal set and scale of smart city technologies, to preventing the creation of a greater digital divide globally.

Moderator: Michael Lepech, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness, Stanford University

Panelists:

• Anne Kiremidjian, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Stanford
• Sameer Sharma, Global GM (Cities & Transportation) for IOT Solutions, Intel
• Hamid Hadibeik, Chief of Staff to CEO, Plug and Play
• Stephen Zoepf, Chief of Policy Development, Ellis & Associates
• Wei-Wu He, Chairman and CEO, Human Longevity, Inc

Forum III: Our Changing Towns: Innovation and Globalization

Forum III will focus on topics ranging from the need to balance globalization opportunities with cultural preservation, to preventing “brain drain” from smaller urban centers, to best practices for improving the lives of citizens by leveraging innovation and globalization.

Moderator: Jie Wang, Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness, Stanford University

Panelists:

• Todd McKean, Director of Supplier Sustainability - Asia, Apple
• Eunse Lee, Managing Director, Techstars - Korea
• Bruce Cain, Charles Louis Ducommun Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West
• Chengyu Xiong, Professor, Tsinghua University

CLOSING PLENARY

Zhirong Hu, Founder of Zhongshan Science & Technology Town and Chairman of International Young Leaders Club

Michael Sheahan, Mayor of the City and County of Limerick, Ireland 2019 – 2020

John Lee, Mayor of the City of North Las Vegas

CONSENSUS SESSION AND FORUM MANIFESTO

Michael Lepech
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness, Stanford University

Kevin M. Rudd
Honorary Chair of International Towns Federation, 26th Australian Prime Minister

CLOSING

DINNER (Ticket Invitation Only)

LOCATION: Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel

Address: 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94301