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World Cities Forum 2024

The policy platform that presents the future vision of a sustainable city

The World Cities Forum is an city-led policy platform in which cities take the lead in addressing and presenting solutions to problems facing cities such as rapid urbanization, climate change, low birth rates, and aging population.

World Cities Forum was initiated in 2019 with the launching of Goyang City Forum, where urban policy stakeholders, international experts, and citizens came across to diagnose and provide direction for the policies of Goyang City.

Goyang City has strengthened the role and functions of the forum by reflecting and incorporating the proposals presented at the forum into its actual urban policies, focusing on the urban regeneration climate and environments, and lifelong learning.

The Goyang City Forum, which began by sharing the excellent policy exemplars from overseas cities in 2022, expanded its function to a global policy platform that discusses common challenges and presents directions for development beyond Goyang City from 2023, entitling itself as the World Cities Forum....

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Speakers

World Cities Forum 2024

Strengthening Cities and Sustaining the Future
: Innovation and Solidarity

Dong-Hwan, Lee

Goyang Special City Mayor

Alan Mallach

Urban Planning Expert

Sam Richards

Professor, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Gino Van Begin

Secretary General, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability

Ganbold Baasanjav

Head of the UNESCAP East and North-East Asia Office

Karl-Olof Andersson

The newly appointed Swedish Ambassador to South Korea (‘24)

Jung-Mo Lee

"Science Broker," Former Director of Gwacheon National Science Museum

Fernando Vilariño

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Damien KOPP

Director, RebootUp Pte Ltd

Bruno Goncalves Lara

Institute of Research and Urban Planning of Curitiba(IPPUC), Brazil

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Forum Schedule

World Cities Forum 2024

OPENING CEREMONY

10:00-10:30(GMT+9)

Opening Ceremony

KEYNOTE SPEECH

10:30 – 11:20(GMT+9)

Keynote Speech 1, 2

SPECIAL SESSION

11:20 – 12:10(GMT+9)

[Global Summit] Solidarity and Collaboration for Sustainable Cities

SESSION 1

13:30 – 15:20(GMT+9)

Cities and Future Technologies (AI)

SESSION 2

15:20 – 17:20(GMT+9)

Cities and the Environment

CLOSING CEREMONY

17:20 – 17:30(GMT+9)

Closing Ceremony

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