NACTO-GDCI hosts bi-monthly webinars exploring the latest solutions to urban planning, design, and policy challenges. No matter the topic, our webinars feature real-world examples from global experts so that city practitioners can learn directly from their peers.
Recordings and presentations can be found at the links below. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date on future webinars.
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Upcoming Webinars:
Rethinking School Streets in the Time of COVID-19 | Part Two
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Past Webinars:
Speakers: Colby Takeda, Senior Manager, Blue Zones Project (Honolulu, HI); Maria Truñó i Salvadó, Commissioner of Education in the Deputy Mayor for Culture, Education, Science and the Community (Barcelona, Spain); Sam Balto, Physical Education Teacher (Portland, OR); Kori Johnson, Program Support Manager, Safe Routes Partnership (Washington, DC)
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Speakers: Becky Bavinger, Global Public Health, Bloomberg Philanthropies; Cecilia Vaca Jones: Executive Director, Bernard van Leer Foundation; Natalie Draisin, Director, North American Office & UN Representative, FIA Foundation; Skye Duncan, Director, NACTO-GDCI; Susanna Hausmann-Muela, Chief Program Officer at Fondation Botnar
Moderator: Ankita Chachra, Senior Program Manager, Global Designing Cities Initiative
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Speakers: Pina Mallozzi, Vice President of Design at Waterfront Toronto, and Panuku Development Auckland
Moderator: Skye Duncan, Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Speakers: Leticia Sabino, founder and director of SampaPé! in São Paulo, and Aaron Paley, president, and co-founder of Community Arts Resources (CARS)
Moderator: Abhimanyu Prakash, senior program manager at the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Speakers: Alain Boulanger from Paris City Hall and Manuel Calvo from EstudioMC in Sevilla
Moderator: Nicole Payne, program manager at NACTO
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Speakers: Michael Krause, CEO of the Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU NPC) in Cape Town, South Africa, and Colombian Architect Giovanna Spera, Medellin, Colombia.
Moderator: Skye Duncan, Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Speakers: Jennifer Gardner, Gehl Institute, and Joe Chestnut, ITDP
Moderator: Fabrizio Prati, senior program manager of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Speakers: Michael Lydon, Principal of Street Plans Collaborative, and Skye Duncan, Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
Moderator: Melinda Hanson, former associate director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Session 1 Speakers: Aaron Villere, Senior program associate at NACTO, Azra Khan, World Resources Institute (WRI) India, and Pete Lipar, Slovenia
Session 2 Speakers: Aaron Villere, Senior program associate at NACTO, Annie Weinstock, BRT Plan
Moderators: Fabrizio Prati and Ankita Chachra, senior program managers of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Session 1 Speakers: Prof. Frank Ding, China Program Manager, Global Road Safety Partnership, China, Dante Rosado, Initiative Coordinator for Fortaleza, Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety, Fortaleza, Brazil, and Kathleen Ferrier, Policy & Communications Director, Vision Zero Network, San Francisco, CA.
Session 2 Speakers: Judy Fleiter, Global Manager, Global Road Safety Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland, and Dhyana Quintanar Solares, CEO of Nexity, former head of the Authority of Public Space and General Director of Transportation Planning of Mexico City, Mexico, and Paul Steely White, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives, New York
Moderator: Abhimanyu Prakash, senior program manager at the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Session 1 Speakers: Andreas Røhl, Gehl People, Denmark, and Juanjo Mendez, City of Buenos Aires
Session 2 Speakers: Robin Abad and Ilaria Salvador, City of San Francisco, and Amit Bhatt and Sarika Panda Bhatt, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Moderator: Skye Duncan, Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Session 1 Speakers: Darren Davis, Auckland Council, New Zealand, and Emily Weidenhof, Director of Public Space at New York City DOT, and Rob Adams, City of Melbourne, Australia
Session 2 Speakers: Daniel Firth, Stockholm, Sweden, Esther Kurland, London, UK, and William Vallejo, Bogota, Colombia
Moderators: Fabrizio Prati and Abhimanyu Prakash, senior program managers of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO
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Speakers: Dávid Vitézy, former CEO of the Centre for Budapest Transport, Hungary, Dr. Soo-Hong Noh, Yonsei University, South Korea
Moderator: Kate Fillin-Yeh, Director of Strategy at NACTO
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Webinar Recordings:
2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive information on upcoming webinars, and feel free to reach out (global@nacto.org) if you have an idea for a topic or speaker that may be of interest to our audience.