PROGRAMME AGENDA 13 OCTOBER 2016
Welcome to the Cardiff Convention 2016
This event brings together some of the leading thinkers in city development to Cardiff, and gives us an opportunity to learn from the best, while helping us deliver our vision of becoming Europe’s most liveable Capital City.
We know that we are doing a lot right in Cardiff. Our city has continued to grow, and over 10,000 more people are in employment in 2016 than in 2015 according to the latest Government statistics1. Unemployment has fallen by over 2,5002. We’ve seen an increase in visitors of 5% meaning that over twenty million five hundred thousand people now visit the city annually3. However we also know that there is more that we can do to improve quality of life. Growth is good. But not at any cost. Not only do we need to mitigate the impact of growth, in terms of how it impacts on our environment as well as issues such as congestion, we also need to make sure that we can share in the benefits. We also know that not everyone has benefited from growth, and there is a need for growth to be inclusive. This is why we’re taking forward a broader approach to measuring our success, based on liveability - on how healthy, safe, green and fair our city is not simply on economic output.
It’s important that we recognise our success. Cardiff has established a reputation on the world stage as a great place to live, work and visit. The recent EU Urban Audit identified Cardiff as the UK’s most liveable city, with the 6th highest resident satisfaction of any European capital, so it is perhaps unsurprising that people want to live in the city. This growth is a sign of our achievements, but it brings its own challenges. In accommodating this growth, we must protect the very quality that is making people and business choose Cardiff in the first place - it’s liveability. Many of you will already be contributing to the development of Cardiff and today is a chance for those leading the future of the city to get together with those who have delivered elsewhere. It is an opportunity for us to forge new partnerships, develop new approaches, and to think creatively about how we deliver our vision of becoming Europe’s most liveable Capital City.
Comparison of April 2015-March 2016 with April 2014-March 2015 Annual Population Survey Employment Rate data. 2 Comparison of April 2015-March 2016 with April 2014-March 2015 Annual Population Survey Unemployment Rate data. 3 Latest 2015 TEAM data in comparison with 2014. 1
We are well positioned to deliver this, and today will take us another step forward. Mwynhewch eich diwrnod
Councillor Phil Bale Leader, City of Cardiff Council, Cardiff
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ThuRsDAy 13th OCTOBER
Cardiff Convention – Capital City Vision: Cardiff’s Future Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
08.00-08:30
Registration & Coffee
Main reception & Penderyn Awen Foyer 08:30-08:50
Welcome – Liveable City
Rehearsal Room 1
Allison Dutoit - Senior consultant and architect/urban designer, Gehl Architects Councillor Phil Bale - Leader, City of Cardiff Council, Cardiff 08:50-09:30
The Role of Education and skills in creating a ‘Liveable City’
Rehearsal Room 1
sir Alasdair Macdonald - Government Advisor on Education, London
09:30-10:10
using Public Transport Investment to Enhance urban Liveability
Rehearsal Room 1
Isabel Dedring - Global Transport Leader, ARUP
Electrification of the mainline between Cardiff and London by 2018 and of the Valley lines railway (Cardiff Metro) over the next 7 years
10:15-10:30
Coffee Breaks
Penderyn Awen Foyer 10:30-11:00
Cardiff’s Competitive Position as a sustainable European City
Rehearsal Room 1
Roel spee - Global Leader – IBM Plant Location International IBM Global Business Service, Belgium
11:10-11:50
The Future of Cities through the Transformative Power of Technology
Rehearsal Room 1
Newsha Ghaeli - Research Fellow and Project Lead Senseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts, USA 11:50-12:15
Wrap up discussion
Rehearsal Room 1 12:15-13:00 Lunch
Rehearsal Room 3
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For the afternoon , there will be a choice of 4 interactive workshops. Workshops 1 and 2
Workshop 1 - how Cardiff’s Cycle strategy can contribute to wellbeing and quality of life
Gail Bodley-scott - Strategic Planning, Highways, Traffic & Transportation City of Cardiff Council
The City of Cardiff Council is developing an ambitious new vision and strategy for cycling in Cardiff. High quality facilities for cycling are common in cities with a strong reputation for the quality of life they offer their residents. The number of people cycling in Cardiff is increasing and there is clear demand for better and safer routes. How can cycling contribute to wellbeing and quality of life in Cardiff? What are the opportunities to develop Cardiff as a cycling city? How do we address the challenges? This workshop will offer an outline of the work so far and provide delegates with the opportunity to make their own contribution to shaping the new strategy. Attendees of this workshop will be automatically registered for the Cardiff Cycle Tour on Friday 14th October, however attendees will be able to de-register if not convenient.
Workshop 2 - how does a city embrace science and Technology
Gareth harcombe - Energy and Sustainability, The City of Cardiff Council
As cities grow, the challenges that arise in them become ever more complex and interdependent. Increased density of population places demands on city management, resource efficiency and quality of life, and new products, services and processes will be needed to address these demands. This seminar will look at how proactive collaboration between the public sector and the scientific community can ensure that the problems that cities face today can be turned into into the opportunities of the future.
Cardiff has a rising population - 26% growth over the next 20 years the highest out of all the UK core cities
14.35 - 15.50
Workshops 3 and 4
Workshop 3 - Measuring the Impact of sports Tourism
Richard Mason - Operations Director, Volvo Ocean Race
The Volvo Ocean Race’s position as a truly global, major sporting event has never been so apparent. In the 2014-15 edition, the boats made 11 stops across five continents, with over 2.4 million visitors entering the Race Villages around the world.
Cardiff is proud to be the only UK stop over for the 2017-18 edition and this workshop will discuss the economic impact of hosting a world-wide event in terms of how this effects social media leading up to the event, the different types of interaction with the public, the Race Village as well as discussing case studies such as Auckland.
Workshop 4 - health,Wellbeing and Design of Cities
Graham Marshall - ProSocial Place Living Environment Experts Sustainable communities are the foundation of attractive and resilient cities.
This workshop will explore the bond between place and mental wellbeing - remembering that there is “no health without mental health” – and the importance of embedding successful place-making and place-stewardship into the growth agenda for Cardiff. In the workshop we will generate a ‘common sense of place’ based on participant’s experience of the city and consider how a ‘well-design’ approach can transform this into a ‘common wisdom’ relevant to all stakeholders. It will be a mixture of discussion around challenging questions, the dispelling of some myths via contemporary research and a call to arms for the future of Cardiff.
16:00 – 16:30
Key Themes and Lessons to be Learned for Cardiff
Rehearsal Room 1
Chaired by Allison Dutoit
Close and Depart at Leisure
In 2016, 10,000 more people are in employment in Cardiff than in 2015
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CARDIFF CONVENTION WEEK - AssOCIATED EVENTs (10Th - 14Th OCTOBER) TUESDAy 11TH AND WEDNESDAy 12TH OCTOBER COINNOVATE CONFERENCE
Mercure Holland House Hotel, Cardiff
This event merges an open innovation conference with engaging workshops. Two days where investors and the academic, SME and industrial community will share best practice, pitch technologies and explore market led opportunities presented by world leading organisations. For more information please go to www.coinnovate.co.uk
FRIDAy 14TH OCTOBER
CARDIFF BREAKFAsT CLuB
The SSE SWALEC Stadium 07.30AM START
Book your place at the capital’s leading breakfast networking event with high profile speaker Mark Drakeford, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government in the Welsh Government, and the Welsh Labour Assembly Member for Cardiff West. www.cardiffbreakfastclub.com/booking
CARDIFF CyCLE TOuR 08:00 - 10:00
A cycle tour of the City of Cardiff for the attendees of the Cycle Strategy Workshop, Cardiff Convention 2016. The tour will be led by Sustrans (a UK charity enabling people to travel by foot, bike or public transport for more of the journeys they make every day) in partnership with Pedal Power, Gehl Architects and the City of Cardiff Council.
Explore Cardiff by bike with a cycle tour around Cardiff Bay. Discover how new infrastructure has connected communities and enabled cycling for everyday journeys, learn about opportunities to develop Cardiff as a cycling city through the emerging Cycle Strategy, and experience new perspectives of the city as you see it from two wheels.The route is mostly off road, flat and suitable for people of all cycling abilities. The tour will last approximately two hours, including plenty of time to stop for discussion along the way. There will also be a number of associated fringe events that will be circulated to all registered attendees for the conference.
BIOGRAPhIEs
Councillor Phil Bale
Leader City of Cardiff Council Phil Bale is the Leader of the City of Cardiff Council, the capital city of Wales and one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the UK.
After graduating from Aberystwyth University with a degree in International Politics, Phil spent the early part of his working life in the financial services sector. He later went on to study for a Masters degree in Corporate Governance at the University of London, before working in the office of an Assembly Member.
In May 2012, he was elected to serve on the City of Cardiff Council, representing the neighbourhoods of Llanishen and Thornhill where he grew up. In March 2014, he became the Leader of the City Council and his administration launched a new city vision for Cardiff to become Europe's most liveable capital city, building on the city's already great reputation as a high quality-of-life city.
As Leader, he has specific portfolio responsibilities for economic development and tourism. This includes major regeneration projects in the city, such as the redevelopment of Central Square, which includes a new office, retail and hotel development; a new headquarters for BBC Cymru, and a world class integrated transport hub.
He also recognises the need for Cardiff to work more closely with councils across South East Wales as part of a successful 'city-region' and has been a strong advocate for developing and securing a ‘Cardiff City Deal’ with the UK Government, which would bring up to £1.2bn in new infrastructure investment into the Cardiff Capital Region.
In September 2014, Phil led Cardiff into membership of the UK Core Cities Group and, working with the Leader of Newport City Council and the Mayor of Bristol, he has also been instrumental in the launch of 'Great Western Cities', an exciting new cross-regional collaboration between Cardiff, Bristol and Newport, which is intended to support shared priorities in areas such as regional public transport investment and city resilience.
Gail Bodley-scott
strategic Planning, highways, Traffic & Transportation City of Cardiff Council Gail Bodley-Scott is a land use and transport planner who joined the Transport Policy Team at City of Cardiff Council in 2008. She has been responsible for the cycling programme since 2014. Gail is currently working on the development of a new Cycle Strategy and Cycle Network Plan for Cardiff, in addition to the delivery of cycle infrastructure schemes and meeting the duties under the Active Travel Act
Cardiff has seen an increase in visitors of 5% with over 20,5000,000 now visiting the city annually
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Global Transport Leader ARuP Isabel Dedring leads Arup’s global transport business. Having spent many years working at the heart of London government, she played a central role in demonstrating the power of well-designed public transport and sustainability programmes to drive economic development, community regeneration and improvements to local residents’ health and wellbeing. Isabel’s work at Arup includes advising clients on the development of robust financing mechanisms for transport infrastructure schemes and on using transport initiatives to support wider urban and regional development goals. Prior to joining Arup this year, Isabel was London’s deputy mayor for transport and, earlier in her career, spent six years as a leader at Transport for London.
Allison Dutoit
senior Consultant and Architect/urban Designer Gehl Architects Allison Dutoit is an Architect and Urban Designer who has held various roles with Gehl Architects in Copenhagen, with responsibility for the delivery of complex teams and remits, from inception to implementation. Whether working with Masterplanning Frameworks, and public space networks or the design of a public space, her focus is on our everyday interactions and the ability of small invitations to foster new relationships, cultures, and qualities. At the heart of all the challenges is a passionate belief in community, service and the power of people focused places. Projects include Strategic Regeneration work in Glasgow, Transport and Development frameworks in Bristol, Leeds and London and new developments in Germany, France and the US. With Gehl, Allison is working with Cardiff Council on their Cycling Strategy. She currently combines this work with a position at the University of West England, Bristol.
Allison has practiced and taught in the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley.
Newsha Ghaeli
Research Fellow and Project Lead senseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Newsha Ghaeli is exploring the future of cities through the transformative power of technology. She is a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Project Lead at the Senseable City Laboratory where she promotes data-driven design and investigates the creative application of sensors in urban systems to build responsive, resilient, and efficient cities.
Newsha has collaborated on work with the United Nations Climate Change Summit, the United States Department of Energy, and consulted for the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KA-CARE). In 2015, Newsha was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper: a group of leaders under the age of 30 charged with catalyzing social change in their communities. Newsha is currently leading Underworlds, a multi-departmental project investigating the urban microbiome.
40% of the workforce has a degree or equivalent, one of the highest in the UK
Gareth harcombe
Energy and sustainability The City of Cardiff Council
Gareth manages the Council's Energy and Sustainability Team and has responsibility for delivering a range of renewable energy projects, energy efficiency and retrofit activity, and wider sustainable development work. As part of this work he’s developed a growing portfolio of research and innovation projects in collaboration with academic, government and commercial partners. These externally funded projects have succeeded in developing new products and processes for energy efficiency and energy management and supported a range of SME’s and academics in translating ideas into live demonstrators. A Town Planner by background, he’s worked in various roles at the Council for over 25 years.
sir Alasdair Macdonald
Government Advisor on Education Alasdair was Headteacher of Morpeth School in Tower Hamlets for 21 years up to August 2013. During that period, attainment at the school rose significantly and OFSTED inspections in both 2007 and 2013 rated Morpeth as Outstanding. The school was featured as one of the 12 schools in the OFSTED publication "Achieving against the odds" as well as being the London Evening Standard's first ever "Most Improved School".
Prior to this Alasdair worked in a range of roles in schools in London but also in Malawi and Papua New Guinea. He was a member of the Department of Education's Headteacher Reference Group and was asked by the Secretary of State to lead a national review of Personal, Social and Health Education. In 2003 he was awarded the CBE and in 2009 he was Knighted for services to education, both in Tower Hamlets and nationally. He is currently working for the Welsh Government as Advocate for the Pupil Deprivation Grant and also as one of the 'Champions' on the Schools Challenge Cymru programme. He is also working as a Headteacher Mentor in several Local Authorities and carrying out research into Education in Prisons.
Graham Marshall
Built + Living Environment Expert
Graham studied landscape architecture and urban design in London during the 1980’s with an aspiration to spend a lifetime changing and improving places. As design team leader on Garden Festival Wales, and living in Blaina, he was struck by the mismatch between national regeneration policy and community need. Through the 1990’s, he focused on the emerging urban design agenda in London, working with leading practices on cutting edge projects and national policy development, with particular emphasis on movement, public realm and community engagement.
In 1999, Graham was a founding director of the governments pilot Urban Regeneration Company, Liverpool Vision, responsible for Development, Planning and Design of the city centre. In 2005, he established Maxim urban Design, a consultancy acting primarily as a design advisor to the public sector. During this period, he was also an urban design advisor to the London Development Agency and the Greater London Authority.
The UK’s most liveable city (Source: EU Urban Audit)
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Built + Living Environment Expert
In 2012, Graham established the Prosocial Place Programme with colleagues at the University of Liverpool where he is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the heseltine Institute for Public Policy & Practice and Visiting Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Psychology, health and society. Prosocial Place is now a social enterprise, set up to consider and design urban environments with the mental wellbeing of individuals, groups and communities at the forefront. The aim is to integrate evidence and practice so that urban planning, design, development and place stewardship can produce positive outcomes of sustainable communities and thus sustainable places.
Graham has been active on several regional Design Review Panels and is currently a Built Environment Expert with Design Council CABE, a Fellow of the Centre for urban Design and Mental health and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the International self-Care Foundation.
Carla Nebreda
Client services Manager Volvo Ocean Race Carla Nebreda is Client Services Manager for the Volvo Ocean Race - she looks after the relationships with the event's commercial stakeholders including sponsors, partners, suppliers and participating teams.
Having spent the first few years of her career at a leading sports marketing agency in Madrid, she first joined the Volvo Ocean Race family in 2011, working for one of the race teams, before joining the Race Organisation in 2012 as Brand and Marketing Manager. During this role she played a key part in the delivery of a world-class, content-filled interactive Race Village at the 11 host stopovers around the world.
She has recently returned to the Race in her new role after a year in Switzerland working for an International Sport Federation, during which she was part of the event team for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Miles Quitmann
Chief Business Development Officer Volvo Ocean Race Miles Quitmann is an adventurer and entrepreneur. He joined Volvo Ocean Race earlier this year as Chief Business Development Officer.
Miles has started, grown and sold various technology companies, whilst peppering his life with adventures outside the world of business.
In the late 1990s he completed a record-breaking three-year double and single-handed 30,000 mile sailing and climbing adventure from the UK to Antarctica and back. For 11 years he was a Trustee of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, which was pivotal in helping to save and restore both Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton’s huts in Antarctica.
Cardiff has an ethnically diverse capital where also in excess of 10% of the population can speak Welsh
Roel spee
Global Leader- IBM Plant Location International, IBM Global Business service, Belgium Roel Spee is global leader of Plant Location International (IBM-PLI) which is the global center of excellence in IBM Global Business Services for corporate location strategies and economic development services. Roel has close to 30 years of experience as location strategy and economic development consultant.
During his career, Roel has built up strong expertise in advising international companies in location choices for a broad variety of industries and investment projects (manufacturing plants, distribution centers, headquarters, R&D operations, shared services centers, data centers, etc). Besides being a key advisor to IBM internally, external clients include many market leading Fortune 500 companies as well as fast growing companies in new emerging industries and markets. He assisted corporate executives from international companies around the world with their strategic location choices for over 300 projects.
Roel also leverages his pragmatic experience working directly with international companies in their location selection projects for advising economic development organizations: developing and implementing both marketing strategies to attract new and retain present businesses, as well as economic development strategies for improving business conditions in their regions. Clients include over 100 economic development organizations worldwide, many of which have been assisted with multiple engagements.
Roel is one of the founding members of the Site Selectors Guild, and serves as advisor to the Board on ‘International Affairs’. He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Asset Management Council (IAMC).
Professor hywel Thomas
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Engagement Cardiff university
In this role he is responsible for the University's research activities and its engagement with innovation, including commercialisation and the broader economic impact of the University.
Professor Thomas is also a Professor of Civil Engineering, Director of the Geoenvironmental Research Centre (GRC) and a UNESCO Professor in the Development of a Sustainable Geoenvironment.
Previously Professor Thomas was the University's Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation and Engagement and Internationalisation (2010 to 2012). In this role he established strategy covering a diverse range of issues including technology transfer, student enterprise education and engagement with the University's stakeholders. He has worked on numerous special initiatives, leading the University's work in areas such as student employability, widening access and communication and marketing. He was the Link PVC to the Physical Sciences and Engineering Schools within the University, charged with advising the Vice-Chancellor on their strategic development. Prior to that role Professor Thomas was the Director of the School of Engineering, one of the University's largest Schools, from 2002 to 2010 and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, Innovation and Engagement from 2007 to 2010.
Over 70,000 students in the city
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