Please note that this webinar takes place between 14:00 GMT (UTC+0) to 15:30 GMT (UTC+0) so please check this in relation to the time zone you are joining from.
On World Town Planning Day, on 8 November every year, planners and communities all over the world come together to celebrate how good planning improves the lives of people and benefits society at large, creating places where to live, work and play together.
You are invited to join our special online webinar programme on as part of our pre National Planning Conference programme. There will be three webinars available including:
- Fostering innovation through planning (details below)
- Sustainability and Resilience through planning
- Equity and Social Justice through planning (available soon)
This webinar focusses on 'Fostering innovation through planning'
As many other fields, Planning will not go untouched by recent technological innovations. Communication has changed beyond recognition over the last 20 years. GIS has emerged as a transformative technology forming the backbone of spatial planning. Remote sensing has facilitated a leap in the way past institutional short fallings are being negated. The advent of artificial intelligence once again heralds a change in the way we as planners will be shaping the future of our cities and country sides, how exactly is anyone’s guess.
Innovation in Planning however is not uniform and technological innovation and their application will need to be tailored to the highly specific context of different geographies. In this talk we will hear voices from three continents exploring how technology is being used to help Planners making a positive impact on an urbanising world, under the threat of climate change.
Speakers and topics:
Welcome and Introduction
Hrvoje Cindric, Director, Middle East Planning Lead at Buro Happold
The Digital Task Force for Planning
Dr Wei Yang, Co-Founder & CEO of the Digital Task Force for Planning
Investments needed in order to manage data and gain benefits to Manage
Harry Quartermain, Head of Research and Insight at LandTech
An African Experience - Challenges and solutions in spatial planning in Zambia - the role of GIS in overcoming data shortages and enabling spatial planning.
Gilbert Siame, University of Zambia
The Data Desert
How technology is changing the way decisions are made in the rapid urbanising KSA/GCC, and improving the way cities are managed
Fawaz Alharbi, Director of Development at ROSHN I
