Harvard Urban AI

🌟 Join Us at Harvard Urban AI's Inaugural Conference! 🌟 📅 Date: April 19, 2025 📍 Venue: Harvard Science Center, Hall C 🔖 Register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/gb6r6jHM (Please open in a browser environment) We are thrilled to introduce the speakers for Panel IiI: Urban AI, the Future? Michael Lawrence Evans (City of Boston) - Michael Lawrence Evans is the Director of the Office of Emerging Technology at the City of Boston. He leads the City's exploration and adoption of new technology to support more responsive and equitable services. Previously, he directed Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and led their civic technology portfolio. He also sits on the board of the Open Mobility Foundation and the advisory council for Northeastern University's Boston Area Research Initiative. Michael cut his teeth as a design technologist at Stamen Design and Code for America, where he was a member of their inaugural class of fellows in 2011 and served as a Google Summer of Code mentor. Santiago G. (City of Boston) - Santiago "Santi" Garces, driven by early experiences in his native Bogotá, Colombia, has dedicated his career to make government work better for people through technology, process, and design. As the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Boston. Santi served CIO in South Bend and Pittsburgh. Santi was named a Rising Star by Route Fifty, Executive of the Year by LocalSmart, and has received several awards for his work. A former Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum Fellow, he is a Data-Smart Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and a Senior Fellow with the Burnes Center at Northeastern and the GovLab, working with Beth Noveck to enable AI applications for social impact. Antoine Picon (Harvard University Graduate School of Design) - An engineer, architect, and historian, Antoine Picon is Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology and the French Academy of Architecture. He works on the history of the relations between the built environment and technologies. He has published extensively on this subject. Among his recent books: Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence (2015), The Materiality of Architecture (2021), and Natures Urbaines: Une Histoire Technique et Sociale, 1600-2030 (2024). Harvard Urban AI Conference is sponsored by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Whether you're an urban planner, tech enthusiast, policy advisor, or designer—don’t miss this chance to explore the future of urban innovation! We hope to see you in April!

🌟 Join Us at Harvard Urban AI's Inaugural Conference! 🌟 📅 Date: April 19, 2025 📍 Venue: Harvard Science Center, Hall C 🔖 Register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/gb6r6jHM (Please open in a browser environment) We are thrilled to introduce the speakers for Panel II: AI-Informed Urban Production Andrew R. Haas (Architectural Association) - Andrew Haas is a designer and educator whose work explores the evolving relationship between technology and the built environment. As Founding Director of the AA Visiting School New York, he co-leads a design program focused on computational urbanism and modular fabrication as tools for speculative architectural and urban futures. His professional experience includes roles at leading firms such as ZHA, BIG, KPF, and SOM. He currently teaches at Pratt Institute and has held academic roles at Harvard GSD, the Architectural Association, and Tsinghua University. Andres Sevtsuk (City Form Lab at MIT) - Andres Sevtsuk is an Associate Professor at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, leading the City Design and Development program and the City Form Lab. His research focuses on the influence of urban form on sustainable travel behavior and on public qualities of built environments--urban ground floors, main streets, and amenity location patterns. He has developed multiple software tools to model pedestrian activity in cities, recently involving Ai tools to map both sidewalks an social interactions that take place on sidewalks in cities around the world. Snoweria Zhang (Google Earth) - Snoweria Zhang is an architect, artist, and mathematician. She is currently a computational designer on Google Earth and an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her work focuses on the intersection of technology and urbanism. She is a licensed architect and practices in New York. Siqi Zhu (Sasaki) - Siqi brings a unique blend of expertise in planning, urban technology, and urban innovation to assist cities, developers, and institutions in tackling their most critical and strategic urban development challenges. As an Associate Principal based in Sasaki’s New York City office, he leads the firm’s planning and urban design practice in the city, as well as its growing Urban Technology practice. Siqi’s work in Urban Technology revolves around the design and implementation of purposeful, responsible, and value-aligned technology applications in cities. This panel will be moderated by Haozhuo Yang (Harvard University Graduate School of Design). Harvard Urban AI Conference is sponsored by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Whether you're an urban planner, tech enthusiast, policy advisor, or designer—don’t miss this chance to explore the future of urban innovation! We hope to see you in April!

🌟 Join Us at Harvard Urban AI's Inaugural Conference! 🌟 📅 Date: April 19, 2025 📍 Venue: Harvard Science Center, Hall C 🔖 Register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/gb6r6jHM (Please open in a browser environment) We are thrilled to introduce the speakers for Panel I: Advanced Geospatial AI for Policy Advising Ramon Gras Alomà (Aretian Urban Analytics and Design) - Ramon Gras (Harvard’18, MIT’15, BarcelonaTech’10) is the CEO and Founder of Aretian Urban Analytics and Design, and Urban Design Researcher at Harvard University. Originally hailing from Barcelona, Ramon specializes in urban design, city science, architecture, civil engineering, and knowledge economy. Aretian develops Masterplan projects and software solutions to shape urban design and knowledge economy strategies around the world, from Boston and Lund, Sweden to São Paulo, Barcelona, and Cape Town. Fábio Duarte (MIT Senseable City Lab) - Fábio Duarte is the Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab. Duartehas published in Nature Cities, Nature Sustainability, and Science Robotics. His most recent book is Urban Play: Make-believe, technology and space, published by MIT Press. Gia Jung(Google Geo Sustainability) - Gia Jung is a Technical Lead at Google Earth AI, specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational design, and spatial technologies. With extensive experience across Fortune 500 companies and startups, she has pioneered AI-enabled software platforms that transform design processes. Valérie Lechêne (Urban Systems Lab) - Valérie is Assistant Director at the New School's Urban Systems Lab, advancing research in AI-driven climate risk modeling, urban nature-based solutions, and community co-production. At the Lab, she supports initiatives like ClimateIQ, which provides open-access hyperlocal climate risk data, and the NATURA Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-based Solutions. Benjamin Lewis (Harvard University Graduate School of Design University Center for Geographic Analysis) - Benjamin Lewis is the Geospatial Technology Manager at Harvard CGA. Ben designs and develops custom geospatial systems to support research. Before Harvard, Ben was a project manager with Advanced Technology Solutions of Pennsylvania, where he led the company in adopting platform independent approaches to GIS system development. This panel will be moderated by Han Na Kim (Harvard University Graduate School of Design) Harvard Urban AI Conference is sponsored by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Whether you're an urban planner, tech enthusiast, policy advisor, or designer—don’t miss this chance to explore the future of urban innovation! We hope to see you in April! #Harvard #UrbanAI #AI #Geospatial #Design #Planning #UrbanDevelopment #Innovation #Networking #Conference

🌟 Join Us at Harvard Urban AI's Inaugural Conference! 🌟 📅 Date: April 19, 2025 📍 Venue: Harvard Science Center, Hall C Harvard Urban AI invites you to our very first conference, where we'll explore groundbreaking ways artificial intelligence is reshaping urban development. Engage with leading experts, visionary thinkers, and innovative practitioners from academia, industry, and public sectors. 🔖 Register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/gb6r6jHM (Please open in a browser environment) 🎯 Event Schedule: ✅ 9:30–9:50: Check-in & Coffee ✅ 10:00–10:15: Opening Remarks ✅ 10:15–10:45: Keynote by Professor Antoine Picon (Harvard University Graduate School of Design) 🎤 Panel Discussions: 🌐 10:45–11:45 | Advanced Geospatial AI for Policy Advising Ramon Gras Alomà (Aretian Urban Analytics and Design) Fábio Duarte (MIT Senseable City Lab) Gia Jung(Google Geo Sustainability) Valérie Lechêne (Urban Systems Lab) Benjamin Lewis (Harvard University Center for Geographic Analysis) 🏙️ 13:00–14:00 | AI-Informed Urban Production Andres Sevtsuk (City Form Lab at MIT) Snoweria Zhang (Google Earth) Siqi Zhu (Sasaki) Andrew R. Haas (Architectural Association) 🚀 14:20–15:20 | Urban AI, the Future? Michael Lawrence Evans (City of Boston) Santiago G. (City of Boston) Antoine Picon (Harvard GSD) 🍷 15:50–17:00: Networking Reception – Build connections and exchange ideas with fellow urban innovators. Whether you're an urban planner, tech enthusiast, policy advisor, or designer—don’t miss this chance to explore the future of urban innovation! We hope to see you in April! This conference is sponsored by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University #Harvard #UrbanAI #AI #Geospatial #Design #Planning #UrbanDevelopment #Innovation #Networking #Conference