Future Cities Forum's running order 'Global Tech Cities' at Cambridge

Image: The John Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park, courtesy Aukett Swanke

Future Cities Forum is looking forward to welcoming its contributors and guests to our 'Global Tech Cities' discussion event hosted by the Cambridge Science Park at the John Bradfield Centre.

It is an exciting time to be holding this conference with the new expansion plans announced by Trinity College, Cambridge, which is intending to invest over the next five decades into new infrastructure, net-zero workspaces - creating the 'Park of Science' .

The current Cambridge Science Park is a 150-acre site which houses more than 100 science and technology companies, that attract ambitious like minded entrepreneurs both from Cambridge and around the world, co-locating them in scalable, state-of-the-art facilities and connecting them to investors to help them grow.

Future Cities Forum is also grateful to the Mayor of Heidelberg, Prof. Dr. Eckhart Würzner for joining us next week, to share his plans for the city, in the 60th year of twinning between Heidelberg and Cambridge.

Heidelberg University is Germany's oldest and ranks among the world's top 50. It is second in Germany for its research quality. The city is number one in Germany for start-ups per capita and home to many leading scientific institutions, including EMBL, which also has a base on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton Cambridgeshire.

Future Cities Forum will be asking questions about best practice in supporting innovation companies in both cities against global competition and the importance of public/private investment in infrastructure.

Running order:

0930 Coffee and networking

1000 Introductions from Future Cities Forum, Co-founder, Heather Fearfield, and Cambridge Science Park, Director, Jane Hutchins

1010 Presentation by the Mayor of Heidelberg, Prof. Dr. Eckart Würzner

1015 Panel 1 ''Global growth of science and technology clusters: competition and collaboration'

Director of the Cambridge Science Park, Jane Hutchins, the Mayor of Heidelberg, Prof. Dr. Eckart Würzner , the Chief Executive of the Wellcome Genome Campus, Robert Evans, the Chief Executive of Cambridge City Council, Robert Pollock, and Artem Korolev, CEO. Mission Street, joined by Eugene Sayers, Head of Science at Sheppard Robson and Ross McWatt, Director at Scott Brownrigg - both firms have designed campuses / buildings on  Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire's most prominent science parks.

1100 Presentations by

Gary Clark, Principal and Managing Director, HKS London

Jessie Turnbull, Education and Campus Specialist, MICA Architects

Fred Pilbrow, Founding Partner, Pilbrow & Partners

1130 Panel 2 'UK government ambitions for infrastructure and investment in Cambridgeshire'

Peter Freeman, Chair of Cambridge Growth Company, Daniel Johns, Managing Director of Water Resources East, Neil Madgwick, Director of Connections at UK Power Networks, Cllr Bridget Smith, Leader of South Cambridgeshire District Council, Christopher Chappell, Operations Director Construction at Mace Group and Mark Malcolm, New Reservoirs Programme Director, Anglian Water

1215 Lunch and networking.

1300 Close

Image below: The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) campus, Heidelberg, courtesy Future Cities Forum.