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Summit almost sold out
Due to an overwhelming response, the summit is almost sold out. At present only a few e-tickets for both days remain available. We can offer to place your name and request on the reserve list. The conference organisation will inform you within 2 days if you can participate at the Rotterdam Global Urban Summit. Thank you for understanding.

Why should you attend?
• Be inspired to work on the challenges of the city of the future such as accessibility, international connections, sustainability and high-quality knowledge development.
• Become acquainted with practical examples of how to approach sustainable urban area development in an integral way.
• Make the jump in scale from sustainable buildings to sustainable urban development.
• Meet a broad range of colleagues in your profession, public and private, all of whom are experts in the field of urban development. This will guarantee that you gain a treasure trove of practical experience.
• Meet in a practical interactive way on concrete practical cases, giving you a foothold for your own situation.
• Become acquainted with state-of-the-art examples of high-quality area urban development in the city of Rotterdam.
• Receive input for a practice-oriented agenda for high quality sustainable urban area development, which will be further elaborated in the months following the conference in a common ‘community of practice', giving you feedback at the same time.

Who should attend?
Various fields of study are welcomed at the conference, e.g. city managers, urban governors and policy makers, architects and planners, climate and transport experts, and representatives from the business community. It is clear that this conference will produce interesting, unexpected and high profile combinations and contacts. The conference is geared to participants at the decision-making and managerial levels.

Why Rotterdam?
Rotterdam is the second biggest port of the world with a total transhipment of 420 million tons. Rotterdam's goal is to realize 50% reduction of CO2 emissions in comparison with 1990 by 2025 (Rotterdam is a member of the Clinton Climate Initiative), in the city as well as at the port. Furthermore Rotterdam will be climate proof in 2025, which is a significant task for a low-lying delta and port city. In Rotterdam we refer to these ambitious, tall orders as ‘reinventing Rotterdam'.