Shaping the urban age
Shaping the urban age
Selected as a speaker at Smart City Expo Kuala Lumpur 2025, this intervention reflects growing recognition in Southeast Asia 🌏. It explores how public–private partnerships (#PPP) can drive integrated city platforms, resilient infrastructure, and digital solutions, linking people-centric federated urban platforms with a systemic vision of urban sustainability.
Cities today face urgent challenges — from climate change to rapid urbanisation and inequality — while innovation creates solutions once unimaginable. What matters now is transforming bold ideas into scalable impact, which is why I am honoured to serve on the jury of the QBE Insurance AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge 2025, hosted by Leading Cities, the world’s leading program for urban resilience and smart city innovation.
This week in Kuala Lumpur, a high-level ASEAN workshop led by ERIA, in collaboration with CITYNET AP and the ASEAN Secretariat, explored sustainable urban development — highlighting how digital tools, resilience, inclusivity, and responsible data governance can shape future-ready cities.