FUTURE CITY SUMMIT 2021
FUTURE CITY SUMMIT
Virtual Conference Series on Artifial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design
Event Date: 20.05.2021-21.05.2021
Event Time: 12:30 – 20:00 (GMT+3)
Participant Profile: AEC professionals and students
Certificate of Participation: Digital Certificate
Event Language: English
Webinar Detail:
We see a future where cutting-edge technologies impact how cities shaped and operated and where these dramatically improve built environments and the living quality, sustainability, health and happiness of its inhabitants.
Future City Summit explores technological trends in the development of future cities. What are cutting-edge methods and technologies in city planning and urban design that will shape the design of our future urban environments? How will the application of AI, IoT, automation, smart and green technologies shape how we live, work and operate in future cities? We aim to explore emerging trends and discuss new applications engaging citizens in the planning process. In particular, we are interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) its technologies, implementations and impacts on urban planning and design.
The themes are:
- AI History/Theory in Urban Design and Planning
- AI Tools/Methods/Techniques
- Using AI in city analysis
- Using AI in city performance
- Using AI in generating new city layouts/forms
- Using AI in the experience/perception of cities
Speakers

Patrick Janssen
Associate Professor at National University of Singapore
Jennifer Downey
Director of Innovation, TURNER Co.
Thiyagarajan Adi Raman
Tech Lead, Sasaki
Likai Wang
Research Fellow, Nanjing University
Amrit Dhir
Director of Business Development, Google Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet
Justin Kollar
Associate Planner and Urban Designer, SASAKİ
Scott Penman
Design Technologist, Sasaki
David Newton
Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Hasan Kurtuluş
CEO, Proofstack
Snoweria Zhang
Urban Innovation Architect, KPF
Özgün Balaban
Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Delft
Reza Alaghehband
CEO, Co-Founder at Envio
Imdat As
Director, CIDDI Future City Lab ITU
Prithwish Basu
Principal Scientist, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Wanyu He
CEO, XKool Technology
Thomas Schroepfer
Professor and Founding Associate Head of Pillar, Singapore UTD
Jaakko Kaidesoja
CEO, Co-founder at Imagine
Mark Burry
Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne UT
Jose Pinto Duarte
Professor of Architecure and Landscape Architecture at Penn State
Satyajit Dwivedi
Director, Global Practice, Process Sensor and IOT, SAS
Geoff Kimm
Research Fellow, Smart Cities Research Institute, SUT
Neil Leach
Visiting Professor at Harvard University GSD
Elçin Sarı
PhD Candidate,Researcher, METU
Aldo Sollazzo
Founder and Director, Noumena
Sinan Küfeoğlu
International Outstanding Research Fellow, TUBITAK
Angelos Chronis
Head Of City Intelligence Lab, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Cengiz Erbaş
TUBİTAK Research Professor, Hacettepe University