The following speakers will present at the conference. More speakers will be added as confirmed.

Keynote Speaker

Christopher Kennedy
Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
- Urban metabolism

Plenary Speaker

Douglas M. Brugge
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Traffic pollution and human health

Linda Davies
Imperial College, London, UK
OPAL - Open Air Laboratories

Francisco Escobedo
University of Florida, USA
- Urban trees and sustainability

Roy Harrison OBE
University of Birmingham, UK
- Air quality in urban environments

Marc Imhoff
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
- Gray Wave of the Great Transformation: A Satellite View of Urbanization, Climate Change, and Food Security.

Jan Kleissl
University of California, San Diego, USA
- Urban heat island mitigation

Ingo Kowarik
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- Biodiversity in urban environments

Frauke Kraas
University of Cologne, Germany
- Megacities of the world

Bradley Rowe
Michigan State University, USA
- Ecoroofs (green roofs)

Yong-Yuan Zhu
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Urbanization in China: Problems and prospects

Young Research Scientist Award Winners

Mark J. Potosnak
DePaul University, USA
- Urban carbon dioxide concentration and flux measurements from a building rooftop in Boston, Massachusetts

Christof Gromke
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland
- Urban air quality in street canyons with avenue-like tree planting

Lina Yang
The University of Hong Kong City, Hong Kong, China
- Ventilation by thermal buoyancy for better urban environment