Date : 7. 11. 2014

Venue : Seoul City Hall

Organizer : The Seoul Institute

Host : Seoul Metropolitan Goverment, The Seoul Institute

Themes :

• “Beyond Risk, Towards Safe Megacity”

• “Megacity, from Risk Society to Safe City”

Purposes

• Action of Megacity to Safe City

• Opening of Megacity Think Tanks Alliance (MeTTA)*1)

• Forum for Knowledge and Exchange Against Asian Urban Problems 
   

Key Participants

• Opening Speech  : Changhyun Lee, President of The Seoul Institute, Korea

• Congratulatory Speech: Sangjin Han, Emerituse Professor of Seoul National University, Korea

• Keynote Speech 1 : Dr. Ulrich Beck, Director of the Institute for Sociology at Munich University, Germany

• Keynote Speech 2 : Zhao Yandong, Deputy Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Society, China

• Intitute deputy director - (Tentative)

• Beijing : Yiling Pan, Vice Director of Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, China

• Shanghai : Zhang Yuxin, Director of Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute

• Seoul : The Seoul Institute

• Singapore : Center for Liveable Cities

• Ho Chi Minh City : Tran Anh Tuan, President of Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies