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대전환 시대, 미래를 위한 도시혁신

The Great Transformation Era, Urban Innovation for the Future

October, 30th - 31st, 2023

KINTEX 3F Grand Ballroom

Concept Note

World Cities Forum 2023

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 2023

The Great Transformation Era, Urban Innovation for the Future

Lee, Dong Hwan

Mayor of Goyang Special City

Johan Ödmark

Senior Consultant at
A Beautiful Soup
Fomer CEO of
Kista Science City

Samuel Richards

Professor of the
Penn State University

Michael Jones

Reader in Music Industries at the University of Liverpool
(Present via Zoom)

Yang Yunho

Professor of Dongguk University

Ulf Nehrbass

CEO of the Luxembourg Institute of Health

Kim Dongeog

Professor of Neurology, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital

Piyushimita Thakuriah

Distinguished Professor of Rutgers University, USA
(Present via Zoom)

Christopher Pettit

Director of City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Bruno Ávila Eça de Matos

Expert in Digital Twins and
i-Team Director in the City of Amsterdam

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Forum Schedule

World Cities Forum 2023

OPENING CEREMONY

10.30(Mon.)
14:00 - 14:30 (GMT+9)

OPENING CEREMONY

KEYNOTE SPEECH

10.30(Mon.)
14:30 - 15:30 (GMT+9)

Keynote Speech · Special Conversation

SESSION 1

10.30(Mon.)
15:45 - 17:55 (GMT+9)

CULTURE : CULTIVATION OF CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND URBAN GROWTH

SESSION 2

10.31(Tue.)
10:00 - 12:10 (GMT+9)

ECONOMY : DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEM AND URBAN ECONOMY

SESSION 3

10.31(Tue.)
13:00 - 15:10 (GMT+9)

MOBILITY : SUSTAINABLE SMART MOBILITY

SESSION 4

10.31(Tue.)
15:20 - 17:30 (GMT+9)

URBAN PLANNING : DIGITAL URBAN PLANNING

General Discussion

10.31(Tue.)
17:40 - 18:30 (GMT+9)

General Discussion

CLOSING CEREMONY

10.31(Tue.)
18:40 - 18:50 (GMT+9)

CLOSING CEREMONY

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Thnak you for your keen interest to World Cities Forum 2023.
Again, we will return with in-depth cooperation between international cities in 2024.   

World Cities Forum 2023 Secretariat