AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

In this session, participants will see how science data from such sources as NASA and NOAA, combined with local data inputs, can be used to both exponentially improve and accelerate net-zero carbon, climate positive and regenerative outcomes. Top-down professional planning and decision-making is a path well-trod, what could be possible and available when we can meaningfully engage broad-based "citizen-scientists?" When STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) students can be directly engaged in contributing to the creation of smart, circular-city outcomes? When community members can be empowered "architects" of a "bottoms-up" planning approach, where citizens become stakeholders in circular-city projects and programs by interactively participating in immersive, experiential simulations? Can this new class of media technologies help tell powerful new climate change solutions stories and effect transformational change?

In this webinar you will learn:

How science data rendered in immersive AR/VR can accelerate sustainability and climate change problem-solving in urban planning and design;
How AI-data-driven 3D modeling and simulation technologies such as digital twinning and AR/VR can create new awareness and understanding among all stakeholders at all levels in creating smart sustainable communities;
How any organization at any scale can benefit from AI analytics using science data to educate and skills-train for severe climate change/weather catastrophes (storms, floods, tornados, forest fires, etc.) with the greatest possible effect and scale;
What the top benefits to any enterprise or public-sector institution for sponsoring STEAM student and citizen-scientist projects using immersive, interactive, experiential simulations.

This is a panel discussion you won't want to miss!

May 5, 2021 at 9:30 am PDT, 12:30 pm EDT, 5:30 pm GMT

Brought to you by:

Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

Nik Gowing, Founder at Thinking the Unthinkable and International Broadcaster

In 2018 Nik Gowing co-authored (with Chris Langdon) “Thinking the Unthinkable”. In this era of a new disruption leaders reveal that they are ‘scared’, ‘confused’ and ‘overwhelmed’. Nik founded the ongoing, dynamic “Thinking the Unthinkable” project in 2014 on the new frailties for leadership, including from the new cyber realities. The huge global impacts of COVID-19 and the fast deepening realities of the Climate Emergency confirm all the project’s warnings to leaders. Nik was a main news presenter for BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London. For 18 years he worked at ITN. He was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996). He has been on the councils of Chatham House (1998–2004), the Royal United Services Institute (2005–present), the Overseas Development Institute (2007-2014), the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (1996-2005). Nik has been a Visiting Professor at Kings College, London and Nanyang University (NTU), Singapore. In 2018 advised the President of the UN General Assembly on leadership challenges. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-Economics.

Brenda Laurel, PhD, Principal, Neogaian Interactive

Brenda is a video game designer, researcher and advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games. She is a virtual-reality industry pioneer. She worked for Atari, Interval Research, co-founded the game development studio, Purple Moon, and served as an interaction design consultant for multiple companies including Sony Pictures, Apple, and Citi. Her current work focuses on STE(A)M learning, and the application of AR/VR within it.

Sheridan Tatsuno, Principal, Dreamscape Global

Sheridan is a Silicon Valley strategist, serial entrepreneur, and writer of fiction, business, and screenplays. With a background in urban planning, he now focuses on AR/VR for sustainable cities development. In his career, he has advised over 700 technology companies in the U.S., Japan, Asia and Europe.

Archie Kasnet, Founder and President, Regenerate, LLC

Regenerate uses systems thinking to drive market-based solutions for sustainability. Previously, Archie was vice president of sustainability of Altenex an Edison Energy company, a leading renewable energy marketplace an

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