Hanna Maria van Zijp is Urban Planner at LINK arkitektur. Some of the most exciting projects she has worked with are ones that involve developing the everyday city. Hanna is very passionate about developing new strategies for inclusive urban mobility on both land and water in sustainable city regions. <br><br>Hanna Maria van Zijp is Urban Planner at LINK arkitektur. Some of the most exciting projects she has worked with are ones that involve developing the everyday city. Hanna is very passionate about developing new strategies for inclusive urban mobility on both land and water in sustainable city regions. Currently, Hanna is focusing on the correlation between walkability and public spaces in the urban and social fabric. She is very excited about working on the co-creation project #NordicPlacemaking, which aims to develop a placemaking toolbox for Nordic cities, all day, all year. Currently, Hanna is focusing on the correlation between walkability and public spaces in the urban and social fabric. She is very excited about working on the co-creation project #NordicPlacemaking, which aims to develop a placemaking toolbox for Nordic cities, all day, all year.

As sustainability coordinator for the real estate company of the City of Innsbruck, Elisabeth Meze is responsible for initiating and developing ideas and measures to make the city more resilient. <br><br> Her focus lies on citizen participation in various contexts, including urban gardening and neighbourhood projects, as well as on the intergenerational and intercultural development of parks and common rooms. Elisabeth also leads the EU project SINFONIA, which concentrates on high energy efficient refurbishment of schools and tenant homes.

Jason Thorne is a professional planner who leads the Planning and Economic Development Department at the City of Hamilton, Canada. He has worked on large regional planning initiatives like the Growth Plan and Metrolinx’s Big Move, on municipal scale land use and sustainability plans, as well as on rural development plans in West Africa and squatter housing upgrades in South America. <br><br> He oversees a team of 800 staff members, working across multiple portfolios including planning, building, development engineering, transportation planning, parking, arts, culture, and economic development. Best known historically as Canada’s industrial powerhouse, Jason and his team have helped to guide an urban renaissance in Hamilton that has gained national and international attention.

Henning works as senior advisor for construction products and sustainability at Skanska Norway. In his opinion, impact is everything. Building on the experience from digging into the painstaking details that make up the complete lifecycle of building and infrastructure projects, Henning is now advising on how to reduce the environmental impact as well as creating value. <br><br> Both at a framework and project level, locally in Oslo, nationwide and internationally. The construction industry is an essential player in a sustainable future, and we are now seeing a rapid transformation to make the necessary changes. The potential is huge!

Aasmund Bunkholt is Managing Director at Wood Focus Norway, a company providing information on the usage of wood for both professional actors in building and planning as well as consumers. They’re working to increase the use of wood in Norway in areas where wood material is a good and correct alternative. <br><br> Aasmund is engaged in sustainable urban development in several cities in Norway and in the Pådriv-network. As a chairman of the network, he’s focusing on social sustainability and looking forward to the transformation of certain areas in Hovinbyen/Oslo.

Birgitte Molstad is Environmental Director at OBOS, one of the largest developers in Norway. Birgitte works hard to make new developments and existing buildings more sustainable – focusing on energy usage, CO2, materials, and mobility. <br><br> She believes that the building sector plays an important role in solving climate change – in collaboration across sectors to finding the right and innovative solutions.

Manuela Ojan is a Sustainable Construction Manager at Heidelbergcement in Heidelberg, where she is trying to suggest solutions for durable and resilient cities, on a concrete basis. She’s excited for the application of digitalization in the design of the cities of tomorrow. <br><br> Manuela is curious about the new frontiers of environmental and climate protection, technology developments and progressive awareness raising at a societal and individual level.

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is Founding Partner at Snøhetta in Oslo. Snøhetta’s focus spans from recycled plastic products to parks and large-scale buildings and masterplans. <br><br> As part of the Powerhouse group, Kjetil & Snøhetta are currently involved in structures becoming emission free over a period of 30-40 years including equivalents in embodied energy of all building materials and transport, and equivalents in reuse/recycling of the structure. One of the most exciting upcoming projects is a subsea restaurant called Under: It’s both a restaurant and a research institute focusing on fish behaviour.

Maren Bjerkeng is Chief Development Officer at Aspelin Ramm, a property developer in Oslo. Maren is an advocate for sustainable urban development in the role as architect/developer. Her focus lies on large scale urban strategies for Oslo and how to implement these in a wide range of projects. <br><br> Some of the most fascinating upcoming projects are Landbrukskvartalet, Myntgata, and Parkveien, including their potential impact as key projects in the city development.

Magne Aanstad Bjertnæs works as a team leader at Sweco in Lillehammer. He is considered to be one of Norway’s top league specialist on wooden constructions. Magne has worked on the design of bridges, buildings, and constructions, with special emphasis on wood in constructions since 2005. Magne is currently working on the world's tallest timber building, the Mjøsa Tower in Brumunddal. <br><br> He has won the Nordic Wood Award for his work with large wood projects such as the 14-story building Treet i Bergen, and he was involved in the two last expansions on Oslo Airport Gardermoen. Magne is a graduate engineer from NTNU.

Jakob Schoof is the deputy editor-in-chief at DETAIL in Munich. During his 10 years at DETAIL, he focused mainly on sustainable architecture and has been responsible for the DETAIL green issues devoted to sustainability topics. <br><br> His main passion is the combination of aesthetics and sustainability (building-wise): Jakob is rooting for buildings that are both sustainable, energy efficient, and aesthetically pleasing – something that in his opinion is still all too rare.

Johanna Palomäki is the master planning architect in the city planning department of Lahti. She has done groundbreaking work at the city of Lahti, developing a continuous strategic planning process which utilizes interactive and digital planning methods. Her special interest lies in holistic planning, where citizens‘ health and well-being are a product of the quality of people’s everyday environments and mobility. <br><br> Currently, Johanna and her team are creating a city information model (CIM) of the strategic future goals of the five city centres of Espoo. Johanna believes that with place-based knowledge stored in and shared via a CIM, they can make a positive change in the city environment, and influence people to make wise everyday choices.

Christian Ringnes is the CEO of Eiendomsspar AS. Christian focuses on beautifying and making Oslo a nicer city for residents and visitors. <br><br> Christian has changed the city through the Ekebergparken, which is a large park, with woods, established paths and art. He and his team are currently working on several projects, like Urtegata 9, which consists of three buildings. The new buildings, Veksthuset and Drivhuset, are planned as environmental buildings with BREEAM-Excellent certification and energy class A.

Harald Vaagaasar Nikolaisen is Director General at Statsbygg, the Norwegian government's key advisor in construction and property affairs, building commissioner, property manager and property developer. <br><br> Harald and his team are currently focusing on the Citylife, smart use of energy, fossil-free construction areas. His aim is to build efficient and flexible buildings for the state with small climate footprint contributes to sustainable city development. Upcoming projects of Statsbygg are the governmental quarters in the centre in Oslo and the Lifscienceproject we are building for the University of Oslo.

Nicolas Ziesel is the Co-Founder of KOZ architectes and tries to open their regular commissions to grassroots activation. <br><br> Nicolas has been organising a Community Supported Agriculture group for 15 years, and he prefers building with wood. In his upcoming project, Nicolas tries to turn the Eiffel Tower site into a vibrant community space, which describes his passion to bring people, plants and animals together.

Panu Pasanen is the CEO of One Click LCA in Helsinki. He’s helping cities, companies, and governments to decarbonize the built environment. Currently, Panu is working on enabling effective carbon reductions in less developed countries. <br><br> He’s most excited about the upcoming Finnish building materials carbon regulation, to which he has also contributed. Panu is passionate about making lower carbon choices easier and is always on the lookout to find ways of facilitating that.

Prof., Dr. Harald Justnes is Chief Scientist at SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, Department of Architecture, Building materials and Structures. He is also Adjunct Professor in “Cement and Concrete Chemistry” at Institute of Materials Technology, Section for Inorganic Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. <br><br> His field of interest covers the chemistry of cement, concrete, admixtures and additives (including polymers) from production, through reactivity, to durability.

Dagny Thurmann-Moe is Colour Designer & Colour Planner for City Development at Dagny Fargestudio AS. Her work focuses on colours and materials and how they affect our surroundings. The projects Dagny is working on range from planning single buildings to newly developed areas and districts. <br><br> Dagnys aim is to develop cities that are human-oriented and esthetical. With her work, she strengthens the local identity and creates warm and inviting atmospheres.

Sonja Horn is the Executive Vice President of Property Management at Entra ASA. Entra ASA has put environmental leadership forward as one of three strategic pillars. Taking climate action within their sector is also an important measure in supporting Norway’s response to UNs sustainable development goals. Entra is committed to driving change in their industry through collaboration, innovation and sharing. <br><br> Sonja and her team accomplished remarkable achievements such as the Powerhouse Kjørbo, which is a refurbished office building, which over its lifetime will produce more energy than it consumes or the new build of an office building as the "Powerhouse Brattørkaia Trondheim"

Sara Polle is the Group Leader for Trafic at Sweco in Oslo. Their projects result in sustainable buildings, efficient infrastructure and access to clean water. Throughout her career as city planner and mobility expert, she has always been fascinated by how our public space is being used. Sara is excited to work on solutions where the physical characteristics of the environment invite to human behaviour which is safe and stimulate to micro-mobility.

Anja Koller is a journalist for topos - the international review for landscape architecture, urban design & urban development.  <br><br> Anja deals with issues that range from sustainable urban development to smart city living or urban resilience in the context of climate change. She and her colleagues always strive to make extraordinary people-centric urban development projects visible and give people a voice who shape cities into livable spaces. They strive to motivate their readers to think out of the box and get inspired to develop and design urban realms all over the world to the better.

Øyvind Arntsen is the Development Director at Mustad Eiendom, which is dedicated to sustainability and long term solutions. <br><br> Øyvind has changed his city through the developing master plan for „Lilleakerbyen“, a new city structure at Lilleaker, Oslo west. He is currently focusing on upcycling projects, circular economy and main energy supply.

Charles Landry is the Founder of Comedia and the Inventor of the Creative City concept. Its aim is to rethink how the city making works. <br><br> Charles is currently developing a creative bureaucracy movement, whose aim is to trigger a movement of bureaucrats who demand more from their work environments. His latest book is "The Civic City in a Nomadic World".

Tor Inge Hjemdal is an architect, currently CEO at Design and Architecture Norway DOGA. Previously founding partner at CONDITIONS, architectural manager at NAL. <br><br> Tor Inge has experience as a project manager of large scale projects and is a winner of international architectural competitions. He has experience from curating, moderating, lecturing, teaching and being a critique nationally and internationally and has received several grants and scholarships. In both 2010 and 2012, he was invited to participate in the Venice Biennale.

Trond Simonsen is the Head of technology and business support at Entra. Through collaboration, innovation and sharing, Entra is committed to driving change in its industry. One of their successful projects was refurbishing an existing office building into a “Powerhouse”, which over its lifetime will produce more energy than it consumes. <br><br> Trond feels fortunate to have the opportunity to work for a company which is fully engaged in taking climate actions and bringing its industry towards a climate neutral future. He has seen that working with a 360-degree approach towards sustainability, as a team together with partners, suppliers and competitors, gives results and drives change in his industry.

As a manager for ÅF Lighting, Morten Jensen strives to make a change to the better in our cities even in the dark hours. He works with lighting solutions where sustainability always is the #1 focus point. Morten focuses on how light can make all places available for everybody. Especially when it comes to safety and security, as well as universal design. <br><br> Morten is passionate about creating safe and happy places, where people like to spend their time even during dark hours. A new light concept from ÅF Lightings called Liquid Light priors the well-being and Joy as well as cutting the power consumption.

As Head of Urban development, Helena Paulsson heads up ÅF’s Future Cities initiative. She has many years’ experience of contributing to the sustainability of cities and urban areas as a landscape architect and urban developer. With a focus on utilising the cross-disciplinary capabilities of ÅF within energy, infrastructure, logistics and urban design, she is excited about the opportunities provided by digitalisation and innovation to tackle worldwide challenges. <br><br> Helena’s main passion and priority is liveability - creating attractive cities and places where everyone feels welcome and included.

Elise Sofie Rasmussen is Architect at the municipality of Bærum. She works on reducing the square meter usage in buildings, to create more energy efficient architecture. Less square meters built, equals lower material usage, less transport, less square meters to sustain etc. Currently, she focuses on creating safe and sustainable architecture for all users; the people working, learning and/ or living in these buildings. <br><br> Elise's passion lately, when it comes to design and sustainability, has been timber architecture. In Norway, more and more striking timer buildings, which are both user-friendly and sustainable, are being planned and completed.

Eivind Selvig is Consultant, Partner & Chairman of civitas. Over the past 25 years, he has developed climate strategies and action plans for the Norwegian state and several Norwegian counties, municipalities, towns and private companies. Eivind also led the work with the Norwegian standard method for greenhouse gas calculations for buildings (NS 3720). <br><br> Currently, Eivind is working on a proposal for how to implement carbon limits for building materials in the Norwegian building regulation! He is excited about the upcoming strategic work on how towns and municipalities can transfer to the low and zero-emission society.

Viviana Rubbo is an architect, urban researcher and Co-founder of Urban Reports. Urban Reports is an international collective that uses photography as a tool to explore contemporary landscapes and raise awareness around the present and urgent spatial and social dynamics. Currently, Viviana is based in Rotterdam, where she cooperates with INTI – the International New Town Institute). Previously she has worked worldwide with the International Urban Development Association (INTA) and at the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP). Her interest is to keep challenging the complex urban and territorial development.

As Environment Adviser at Undervisningsbygg, Bodil Motzke is genuinely interested in the environment and is worried about the climate changes. She wants to make a difference in how we develop and build schools and make sure to act according to the climate targets of Oslo. <br><br> Bodil is excited about a new project in the FutureBuilt programme where they will reuse old bricks and granite for a new school building. Reused building materials, emission-free building sites and solar energy are topics that caught her interest in the past years.

Anders Lendager is architect, CEO and founder of Lendager Group. He has been immersed in the development and promotion of the concept of sustainability in practice and as an external consultant, keynote speaker and lecturer at larger events and conferences on environmental matters and resources. <br><br> Anders is recognized as a sustainability pioneer, who is known for pushing the boundaries to make Danish and international construction and design more sustainable. Anders is extending frontiers in projects that he is immersing himself in by exploring the myriad of possibilities in sustainable construction and strategic sustainable development. <br><br> Anders has mastered the art of rethinking the foundation for how we go about construction projects and for how to generate new methods for upcycling of materials. His pioneering spirit is strong when it comes to creating a sustainable tomorrow, where waste is an architectonic resource and where the built environment incentivizes a circular economy.

As Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Hai-Ying Liu is working in fields that contribute to the cities sustainable development. She dedicated her research work to environmental impacts and sustainability. Hai-Ying is currently focusing on urban sustainability, nature-based solutions, citizens observatories and improving health and wellbeing in cities.

Kristina B. Holmblad is a senior landscape architect at SWECO, with experience from a wide range of projects in urban settings - from residential areas to urban plazas and street design. <br><br> Kristina has over 15 years of experience and has a master’s degrees in Landscape Architecture from Norway and California. Kristina has also studied sociology, social psychology and photography. Her interest in peoples´ behavior combined with the aim to design a sustainable city for the future, gives her a broad view of the topic on how to create a secure and lively city with focus on peoples’ daily life.

Nils Ivar Nilsen is an experienced environmental consultant with more than 20 years of practice, working at Veidekke. Today, Nils works mostly as BREEAM Accredited Professional, where he achieved a “BREEAM Outstanding” certificate for the design at Horten VGS. <br><br> Nils is BREEAM AP for the 3 new buildings at Oksenøya Senter, Fornebu which will be “BREEAM Excellent”, Futurebuildt and NZEB.

Christian Sevaldsen has more than 20 years of experience within security and safety, from most fields of industries, such as buildings, transportation, road, landscape, health, or critical infrastructure. He is currently engaged as a group leader within Sweco, who’s key competence is within security. He also functions as a security advisor in various projects. <br><br> His main strength is his holistic approach and his ability to identify how measures can influence different stakeholders, different components, interactions, and the relationship to the whole, and if it meets the given criteria. Christian is passionate about the need for a good collaboration and early involvement between the involved parties to make secure and safe design.

Iwan Thompson is a landscape architect and founding partner of Lala Tøyen. He believes in cities planned and built for humans in all ages and positions. Iwan’s main responsibility is to talk about and focus on the debate towards the human and aesthetic perspective of city planning and building of city space. <br><br> Currently, Iwan is working on strategy plans for an increased urban life and car reduction in city planning. He is excited about continuing to work on the planning infrastructure for cyclist together with urban nature in Oslo.