The 2021 forum set out to share trends and best practices for disaster resilience and sustainable city development, and to discuss where to go next. To limit the spread of COVID-19 it ran entirely online.
Date
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Format
Online broadcast
Theme
Safe Cities in the New Normal: Resilience, Sustainability, and Adaptability
The year before
A forum of the same name was held on 9 December 2020
Speakers on the forum homepage
These are the speakers shown on the forum's homepage in autumn 2021. The full running order was not preserved.
Speaker
Jae-Boong Choi
Biography
Jae-Boong Choi is a chair professor of department of service design and also a professor of school of mechanical engineering, Sungkyunkwan university. Jae-Boong is spending most of time in designing future service or product by combining various technologies. In particular, he is focusing on human behavior affected by the birth of smartphone. He defines the digital transformation (or the 4th industrial revolution) as the total change of social system due to the sudden change of human behavior after using smartphones. According to him, the new human race who is so called ‘Phono sapiens’ is creating new culture and ruling the new business as well. He wrote a book, ‘Phono Sapiens’ which predicts the future business trend and culture change in 2019 and will be published in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand in 2020 as well. Currently, he is delivering lecture to companies, government and NGOs regarding new culture created by phono sapiens. He is also a member of future education steering committee of Ministry of Education of Korea.
Keynote Address
Ki-moon Ban
Biography
Chairman of Presidential National Council on Climate and Air Quality (NCCA) (2019-2021)
Chairman of Boao Forum for Asia (2018-)
President of the Assembly & Chair of the Council of Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) (2018-)
Secretary General of the United Nations (2007-2016)
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin
Biography
As Global Resilient Cities Network’s Executive Director, Lauren oversees global efforts to strengthen cities in the face of the complex and interconnected challenges they face. Leading a Team of urban resilience professionals in London, Mexico City, New York, and Singapore in collaboration with Chief Resilience Officers in 40 countries, her work builds on the unique capacity, breadth and legacy of the 100 Resilient Cities Program to enhance the resilience of communities and critical infrastructure. She also serves as an advisor and spokesperson on urban resilience, sustainable finance, climate risk, stakeholder engagement, and urbanization trends.
Speaker
Shri Satyendar Jain
Biography
Served as Health and Industries Minister in the first AAP Government from 28th December, 2013 to 14th February, 2014.
In the previous AAP Government, he served as Health, Industries, Home, PWD, Power, Transport, Urban Development and Irrigation & Flood Control. He was elected for the third time from Shakur Basti Assembly Constituency in the recent Assembly elections held in February, 2020. He is currently in his third term as Minister in Delhi Cabinet.
Panel
Dmitry Svitaylo
Biography
Deputy Mayor of Vladivostok City
Deputy Director - Head of the Fire Service of the Main Control Directorate of the Primorsky Region for Fire Safety (2016-2021)
Far Eastern Fire and Rescue Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Primorsky Region, Russia (1997-2016)
Events before the forum
The forum site also ran a supporter recruitment and several participation events. All of them are closed. Records are on the Korean-language events page.
See also
The session structure and speaker lineup are documented for the 2020 edition, held a year earlier. 2020 forum
