Planet Renaissance: Future Lock In Not Lock Down

Emerging Knowledge
3 min readOct 7, 2021

Covid-19 can stop us from gathering, but not from learning and making the world a better place. Supercharging the much needed global revisit of collaboration on critical Future City Summit is hosting its 6th Annual Conference oncoming 14th — 16th December 2021 in Hong Kong and Guangzhou(Greater Bay Area of Mainland China) virtually with the main theme 「Planet Renaissance: Future Lock In Not Lock Down」, in partnership of strategic organisation such as the World Economic Forum (IoT and Urban Transformation), ASEAN, St. Gallen Symposium and African Union Youth Advisory Council, sponsored by Invest Hong Kong (Foreign Investment Department of HKSAR Government) and Tsangs Group (Single Family Office in Hong Kong).

Future City Summit Annual Meet 2021 is calling out urban tech projects submissions and recruiting interested young leaders in policies, technologies, corporates, academic and non-profits and parties to register, celebrate and co-create the new thoughts of collaboration for sustainability in emerging Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

Interested Partners and Individuals may apply through the link:

https://futurecitysummit.org/delegate-form/

Echoing the Green Economy Global Agenda first coined by Prof. Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, the Summit would be hosted with hybrid experience of virtuality in Hong Kong and Guangzhou (minimal physical experience) with new summit experiential features such as virtual reality and 360.

This year, the summit adhered to the Green Economy Agenda by assembling 300 guests & delegates from urban development, real estate, urban technologies, related private sector and industry leaders, including senior executives and young professionals with the following highlights:

  • Keynote Session with senior representatives of Hong Kong SAR Government, Mainland China and the World Economic Forum (IoT and Urban Transformation):

The Honourable Bernard Charnwut Chan, GBM, GBS, JP, Convenor of the Non-Official Members of the Executive Council and the President of Asia Financial Holdings

Jeff Merritt, Head of IoT and Urban Transformation; Member of the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum

  • Panel Discussions with the 32 top-notch industry thought leaders in the African Union, Ministries in Southeast Asia, South Asia and newly expanded regions such as Switzerland and North America.
  • Planning For Good Cities Roadshow with 7 highlighted cities and regions in Hong Kong on urban transformation and digital governance in cities, with special highlights of Shenzhen-Qianhai and New Territories North (NTN) in Hong Kong. (Cross-border smart city and liveable city planning).

At the year of this anniversary, we would like to invite you to be part of our curation of the summit and speak for the potential development, future city and entrepreneurship in the context of emerging Cambodia.

Interested Partners and Individuals may apply through the link:

https://futurecitysummit.org/delegate-form/

For further information, please follow:

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