MIAMI, October 27, 2022 – Future of Cities, a multi-sided real estate platform, venture ecosystem, and think tank pioneering and popularizing regenerative development practices, and Hub Culture, the technology ecosystem network, announce “The Global Impact Series” to be held during COP 27 on November 8 at the Hub Culture Climate Pavilion at Park Regency Sharm El Sheik Resort. 

“The Global Impact Series is about creating positive momentum for tangible and immediate change on both a global and community level,” said Tony Cho, Founder and CEO of Future of Cities. “Climate change and its impacts are an existential threat. That’s why borderless collaboration, accelerated innovation, and accelerating the ability to scale solutions is so important and what the Impact Series will help do.”

Starting at 3:00 PM local time, “Global Impact Series” guests will enjoy a series of forward-looking, action-inspiring discussions to address urban living and building, equity, and sustainability issues. The series will close with a musical experience and cocktail party featuring Eli Light.

“Hub Culture has hosted over 60 Pavilions and spaces throughout the world during key moments of negotiation for innovation, including at historic COP meetings in Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Marrakech, Madrid, and Glasgow. In addition to our own climate solutions like Ven and Ven Oxygen, carbon tokenization, land and biodiversity conservation and trying to amplify the stories of climate solutions, indigenous leadership and technical progress, our experience points to collaborative partnerships as a primary means of achieving impact around climate goals. The Global Impact Series is designed to accelerate this mission to scale meaningful climate action,” said Stan Stalnaker, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Hub Culture.

Confirmed talks and panelists will include: 

• Biophilic Design Solutions for a Sustainable & Resilient Built Environment
  - Roksana Ciurysek-Gedir – Founder, PossibleX
  - Stefano Boeri, Architect

• Regenerative Development in Action
  - Moderator Ann Rosenberg – SVP, Sustainable Development, Wood   
  - Tony Cho, CEO and Founder, Future of Cities
  - Mikolaj Sekutowicz, CEO and Founder, Impact One
  - Mikkel Bulow-Lehnsby, Founder & Chairman, NREP
  - Bedeir Rizk, CEO, Paragon Developments
  - Alex Allard, Mata
  
  
• Social Media, Activism, Music and Peaceful Protesting as Tools for Systems Change
  - Alice Aedy, Co-Founder, Earthrise Studio
  - Nat Kelly, Activist
  - Emily Collins, Creator, Rave Revolutions
  - Sophie Schnapp, Earth Percent
  - Eduardo Castillo, Co-Founder, Habitas

• Achieving Net Zero by 2045
  - Henk Rogers, Founder, Blue Planet Foundation
  - Francisco Benedito, CEO, ClimateTrade
  - Patricia Ellen da Silva, Co-Founder, Aya Earth Partners
  - Carlos Zegarra, Director, Sachamama

• The Global Redesign: The Intersection of Regenerative Agriculture, Community Creation & Storytelling
  - Steven Brooks - Eterna & The World Makeover
  - Keith Agoada, CEO and Co-Founder, Producers Trust
  - Satya Tripathi, Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet

Additional event partners include Mata and Impact One, who recently announced a partnership with Future of Cities to create an alliance to identify, evaluate, test, fund and deploy new climate technologies at the projects around the globe. 

For more information on “The Global Impact Series” and sponsorship opportunities, please contact [email protected].

About Future of Cities:

As the challenges cities face mount, Future of Cities was created to reimagine how we live, work, play and learn. Future of Cities is a mission-driven consortium invested in transforming the built environment by adopting environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies to improve the quality of urban living across the globe. With a goal to impact 1 billion people through a new sustainable urban design logic and the co-creation of regenerative cities of the future, Future of Cities is a multi-pronged platform that includes: real estate investment and development, a venture ecosystem and public advocacy. The organization is composed of global advisors, subject matter experts, technology partners, investors, policymakers, local municipalities and governments, leaders of nonprofit organizations, businesses and corporations that have committed to adopting strategies and a regenerative development framework that will accelerate the transition to a more sustainable urban future.  

To learn more about the Future of Cities, visit www.focities.com.