UAB Sustainable Smart Cities Symposium

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host a Sustainable Smart Cities Symposium  on Thursday, February 16, 2012, from 8 am to 5 pm at the Doubletree Hotel, located in downtown Birmingham at at 808 Twentieth Street South. The free event will shine a spotlight on the innovative ideas of sustainability experts from around the globe in a multidisciplinary effort to make Birmingham a model of smart growth, healthy living, and sustainability.

For more information and to register, click here.

UAB Provost Linda Lucas, Ph.D., and UAB School of Business Dean David Klock, Ph.D., will moderate a panel discussion to include the following keynote speakers: 

  • Cathy Crenshaw, President and CEO of Sloss Real Estate
  • Oscar E. Diaz, Co-founder and President of Global Solutions Dynamic Plus (GSDPlus)
  • Frank Franklin, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of the UAB School of Public Health
  • Manuel Olivera, Regional Director of the C40 Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI)
  • Enrique Peñalosa, Former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia
  • Carlo Ratti, Director of MIT SENSEable Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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