Euro-Asia - Collaborative Advantages | Poon King Wang | Christina Jäger | Vladimir Bataev | FCS2021

[ Euro-Asia Dialogue: Collaborative Advantage over Ideological Differences @ FCS2021 ]

The world is in the reshuffle of independence and interdependence with the strikes of the global pandemic, trade conflicts and rapid digitalisation. Economies are struggling for dual circulation to adjust the global supply and demand over their domestic resilience. With widespread, sustained declines in fertility, the world population will likely peak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by 2100. By 2050, the increase in global food demand (102%) would be 1/3 greater than the hypothetical scenario of all countries growing (78%), greater than the extent of the increased rate of global food supply. The global food pressure drives world leaders to rethink the model of global collaboration under a new normal.

The following panel discussion is conducted in partnership with St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland, echoing to the Main Theme of the Symposium "Collaborative Advantage". We will explore the evolving intrinsic natures of collaboration models across regions and countries: 1) A Sustainable Transformation, 2) Responsible Innovation and Technology and 3) A New Social and Generational Contract.

Panel Speakers:

- Mr. Vladimir Bataev, Managing Partner of Zaz Ventures | Belarus and The Netherlands
- Ms. Christina Jäger, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Yunus Environment Hub | Germany
- Mr. Poon King Wang, Director of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) | Singapore

Moderator:

- Mr. Yannick Miller, CFO and Head of Community & Partnership of St. Gallen Symposium | Switzerland

[ About Future City Summit Annual Meet 2021 ]

The planet earth, our global society, has been facing a wide range of impacts and consequences that we have never seen before. According to a UN Habitat report released by 2021, 1 in 8 people in the world currently live in slums or experience slum-like conditions in their surroundings. Over the next 15 years, more than 3 billion people (out of 8.5 billion projected population by then) will face similar housing and liveability challenges. Worsening the global urban slum phenomena, the persisting global pandemic has permanently redistributed the global population from dense capital cities and urbanised districts to 2nd & 3rd tier cities and the suburbs. Restricted travel, cordoned geographical areas and domestic lockdown policies across the globe have impacted labour supplies, public finances, social groups dynamics and economic recovery policy, hence the demand for urban technologies, public policies and new normal smoothening urban planning with stronger effective leadership as an integrated global health and economic policy.

Echoing the Green Economy global agenda first coined by Prof. Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, the 6th Annual Future City Summit is being planned with the theme: “Planet Renaissance: Future Lock In Not Lock Down”(“一場地球復興運動”), to be hosted in Hong Kong and Guangzhou City in the Greater Bay Area of the Mainland China, on 15th - 16th December 2021. The simultaneous Future City Summit African Forum will be hosted in a designated city in Africa on 15th December.

The 2-Day 6th Annual Conference of the Future City Summit (“FCS2021”) aims to explore the most pressing development challenges of habitat liveability and sustainability from the perspectives of 1) urban technologies; 2) public policy and governance; 3) lifestyle and humanity; and 4) planet biodiversity and the climate, with a focus on regions including emerging Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

The annual conference will be hosted in Hong Kong and Guangzhou (live-streamed in Greater Bay) in a hybrid format with estimated 200 nominated delegates, 5,000 live-stream participants and 200,000 digital engagements through social media, from across 50 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and America, with public policy backgrounds in urban development, real estate, urban technologies (FinTech, ConstructionTech, PropTech, EdTech and others), and related private sector and industry leaders, including senior executives and young professionals. The Annual Conference would be organised through formats including keynotes, panel discussions and regional Forums, along with Key stakeholder roundtables, technology roadshows and city government meetings, namely: Tech For Good Cities Roadshow and the Planning For Good Cities Roadshow respectively, based on the scenarios brought by the flagship Bootcamp Accelerator for Mayor Offices in Southeast Asia (BAMO).

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