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

Special Guest Speaker

The Honorable Ian Bowles
Secretary for Energy and Environment, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA

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-Guan 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, Hong Kong, China
- Ventilation by thermal buoyancy for better urban environment