Australia’s largest and most influential conference on sustainability in the built environment, Green Cities 2014, will be held from March 18-19 at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne.
The conference, co-hosted by the Green Building Council of Australia and Property Council of Australia, will bring together world-leading sustainability specialists and innovators for discussion and debate.
Highlights include a presentation by director and principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Kent Larson on Cities of Tomorrow.
Larson will share his work on everything from stackable, electric cars to tiny, tardis-like apartments.
Sustainability strategies will be theme for presentations by four industry leaders who will reveal the secrets to their companies' success, and examine how to shift sustainability from a technical to a strategic business decision.
Speakers include ISPT CEO Daryl Browning, Hickory Group joint managing director, Michael Argyrou, Lend Lease COO, Dan Labbad, Mirvac CEO Susan Lloy-Hurwitz.
The Green Cities conference will also include a session on "Putting a Price Tag on Performance". Leaders from the UK, Singapore and South African green building councils, as well as the WorldGBC, will explore how we measure and monetise the previously unmeasurable – staff satisfaction, performance and health – and expand the business case for green building.
The "Talking ‘bout regeneration" session will uncover the massive opportunities for retrofitting existing buildings and hear outstanding case studies from around the globe.
Speakers include Lend Lease EMEA (UK) head of sustainability Pascal Mittermaier, US EcoDistricts program director Adam Beck, AECOM CEO of Buildings and Places, Sean Chiao, Swedish GBC and WSP Sustainable Cities director Ann-Kristin Karlsson.
The full program can be found at www.greencities.org.au
