With the intent to integrate health and city building, Toronto Food Strategy builds connections across and within city divisions and between city government and community in order to create a healthy and sustainable food system for all.
TEL AVIV CITIES SUMMIT
Part of the DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival
Track Lead: Liora Shechter, Chief Information Officer, TEL AVIV
15:00-15:45: “Tel Aviv Yafo Municipality Annual Startup Pitch – Techno
15:45-16:00- 1:1 Interview with Dr. Avigdor Kaplan, Director General, Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services, Israel Government.
16:00-16:15: “Making Room For the Growing City”- Dr. Philipp Bouteiller,CEO, Tegel Projekt GmbH, BERLIN
16:15-17:00: “CityZone – Presenting The New Innovation Lab of Tel Aviv Yafo”
Moderator: Ophir Pines-Paz, Head of the Local government Institute, TAU, TEL AVIV
Panelists:
Liora Secheter, CIO, TEL AVIV
Dr. Philipp Bouteiller, CEO, Tegel Projekt GmbH, BERLIN
Barak Goldstein, Co-CEO, CityZoom, TEL AVIV
Prof. Irad Ben-Gal, TAU, TEL AVIV
Sagi Niv, CEO, Atidim, TEL AVIV
Eran Shir, CEO, Nexar, SAN FRANCISCO
17:00-17:15: “Announcement of the winner of Tel Aviv Yafo Municipality Startu
Track Lead: Michael Misrachi, Marketing Communications Manager, Tel Aviv Foundation & Omri Carmon, Local Strategic Partner, Resilience Plan, TEL AVIV
13:00-13:10: “Introduction”
Oded Gvuli, City Engineer, TEL AVIV
13:10-14:00: “Global Perspectives – TED-Style Talks”:
“Alternative Currencies”- David Siegel, Co-Founder & CEO, Pillar Project, LONDON
“The Sharing Economy”- Pierre Pelizzaro, Chief Resilience Officer, Milan Municipality, MILANO
“Creative Zones and Impact Investing”- George Dimarelos, Chief Resilience Officer and Deputy Mayor, City of Thessaloniki, THESSALONIKI
14:00-15:00: “Local Perspectives – Panel Discussion”
Moderator: Dr. Yoel Siegel, Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Consultant to UN-Habitat, JERUSALEM
Participating:
Yifat Solel, Chairperson of the Cooperatives Alliance for Social,
Economic and Environmental Justice and founder of OFEK,TEL AVIV
Yaron Neudorfer, CEO & co-Founder, Social Finance Israel,TEL AVIV
Narkis Alon, FoundeR, ZeZe, TEL AVIV
Moderated By: Eytan Schwartz, CEO, Tel Aviv Global & Tourism, TEL AVIV
09:00: “Good Morning Tel Aviv!” – Ron Huldai, Mayor, TEL AVIV
10:00: “Welcome to Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Annual Gathering”- Giuseppe Sala, Mayor, MILAN
10:15: “Blowing the Wind of Innovation” – Dr. Yossi Vardi, Serial Entrepreneur, TEL AVIV
10:30: “Municipal Challenges in Addressing Global Goals”
Moderator: Oren Nahari, Foreign News Editor & Chief International Commentator, Walla News & Member of the Public Council of SID- The Society for International Affairs Israel
Interviewing:
Mayor Ron Huldai, TEL AVIV
Lord Mayor Rohey Malick Lowe, BANJUL
Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, THESSALONIKI
Mayor Hanna Beata Grokiewicz-Waltz, WARSAW
Lord Mayor Thomas Kufen, ESSEN
11:30: “Agriculture Superheroes”
Alpha Sennon, Farmerpreneur, Founder & Executive Director, WHYFARM, SIPARIA
11:45: “Designing Future With Performance and Humanity”
Mounir Mahjoubi, Minister of State for Digital Affairs, France, PARIS
Track Lead: Hagit Ulanovsky, MUFPP-TLV 2018 Program director & Guy Deknuydt, Urban Food Policy, Environmental Authority Tel Aviv Yafo Municipality, TEL AVIV-YAFO & Omri Carmon, Local Strategic Partner, Resilience Plan, TEL AVIV-YAFO
Moderator: Uriel Babczyk, Director of Sustainable Building & Planning TEL AVIV-YAFO Municipality
13:15-15:00: “Sharing Best Practices”:
Efrat Makin Knafo, CRO, TEL AVIV-YAFO, “Securing a Well Balanced Diet across the city”
Jean-Claude Dardelet, Vice Mayor, TOULOUSE, “Building Resilient Communities through the Use of Food Programs”
Guido Montanari, Deputy Mayor, TURIN, “How the new Turin Urban Plan can contribute to a more sustainable food urban system”
Konstantina Karydi, Associate Director City Resilience Delivery, 100
Resilient Cities, LONDON, “Resilience and Wellbeing“
Makoto Sekiyama, Director General of the Global Network International Affairs Bureau, YOKOHAMA, “Supplying Healthy Food after Earthquakes”
Stelios Diakoulakis, Deputy Regional Director for Europe (C40 Cities), C40, ATHENS, “Food Systems and Resilience Communities”
Barbara Emanuel, Manager Toronto Food Strategy, TORONTO, joint with Eleni Myrivili, Deputy Mayor for Urban Nature, Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation, ATHENS, “Food Must be a Key Component of Any City’s Resilience Strategy”
15:00-15:30: Discussion Panel: “Is Food a Key Component of a Cities Resilient Strategy?”
Moderator – Orli Ronen, Head of the Urban Sustainability and Innovation Lab, Porter School for Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University, TEL AVIV-YAFO
Manuel Antonio Alculate Lopes De Araujo, Mayor, QUELIMANE
Dov Chernichovsky, Chair of the National Nutrition Security Council, JERUSALEM
Piero Pelizzaro, CRO, MILAN
A Roundtable Session by invitation only
Track Lead: Hagit Ulanovsky, MUFPP-TLV 2018 Program director & Guy Deknuydt, Urban Food Policy, Environmental Authority, TEL AVIV
Moderator: Ayal Ronen, Architect, Department of city planning, TEL AVIV
13:00-14:00: “Short Introduction Talks”:
“SwitchMed program”- Luc Reuter, Sustainable Lifestyles, Cities and Industry, UNEP
“Opening remarks”- Galit Cohen, MoEP Deputy Director General, Ministry of Environmental Protection, JERUSALEM
“Innovation in Public Procurement”- Avi Blau, Director, Afeka Institute of Circular Engineering and Economy (AICEE), TEL AVIV
“Purchasing of sustainable food”-Chloe Waterman, Senior Food Campaigner, Friends of the Earth (USA), WASHINGTON D.C.
“Seoul’s challenges for public food procurement innovation”- Eunsook Moon, Member of Seoul Food Citizen Council & Head of Consumer Policy Institute, SEOUL
“Local regional co-operations in food logistics “- Valérie Nicolas, International Strategy Adviser the National Association of French Regions, Régions de France, PARIS
“Comprehensive Sustainable Food Procurement in Kfar Saba”- Itay Tsachar, CEO, Kfar Saba Municipality, KFAR SABA
“Solutions of Nordic countries”- Mads Frederik Fischer-Møller, Senior Adviser at Food Policy & Leader of Nordic Food Policy Lab & Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic Council, COPENHAGEN,
14:00-15:30- Roundtable Discussion Topics:
Track Lead: Gidi Schmerling, Director of Media and Communication, TEL AVIV
“Dining Art: The Impact of Art and Technology on Creating New Thinking About Food – Food For The Body and Food For the Soul”.
Participating:
Dr. Amit Zoran, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Computer Science Hebrew University, JERUSALEM
Nir Meiri, Industrial Designer and Artist, Owner, Nir Meiri Studio, LONDON
Liron Tzanhany, Industrial Designer, Owner, Food-Forma Design Studio, Faculty Member of the B.Des program, H.I.T, TEL AVIV
Omer Polak, Artist and Designer, Owner, Studio Polak, BERLIN
Ariel Leizgold, A World Class award winning bartender, Entrepreneur and Owner of Cocktail Bars, TEL AVIV
Track Lead: Lior Meyer, Deputy CEO & Director of Tourism, Tel Aviv Global & Tourism, TEL AVIV
13:00-13:20: “A Sneak Peek to Tel Aviv Tourism Master Plan”
Lior Meyer, Deputy CEO & Director of Tourism, Tel Aviv Global & Tourism, TEL AVIV
13:20-14:00: “The Events Dimension”
Moderator: Sharon Landes-Fischer, Director of Strategy and Operations , Tel Aviv Global & Tourism, TEL AVIV
Participating:
“Paris Olympic Games 2024”- Penelope Komites, Deputy Mayor, PARIS
“World Pride”- Frank Van Dalen, Vice president, InterPride, AMSTERDAM
“Impact of international fairs, congresses and events”- Uwe Becker, Deputy Mayor, FRANKFURT
“We Make The City & AIDS Convention”- Geerte Udo, Associate Director Marketing Strategy, Amsterdam Marketing, AMSTERDAM
“Eurovision 2019”- Noa Sapir, Head of Tel Aviv Convention Bureau ,Tel Aviv Global & Tourism, TEL AVIV
14:00-14:50: “The Tech Dimension- Bar Talk”
Moderator: Tracy Yaverbaun, Chief Marketing Officer, Soho House & Co, London
“Are you talking to me? Artificial Intelligence in City Marketing”- Frans Van Der Avert, CEO, Amsterdam Marketing, AMSTERDAM
“Going Local Berlin”- Burkhard Kieker, CEO, VisitBerlin, BERLIN
“It’s Good To Be Back – Madrid’s Collaborative Visitors’ Loyalty Programme”- Miguel Sanz Castedo, General Manager of Tourism, MADRID
“The case of Thessaloniki – Human Needs: Digital Solutions?”- Spyros Pengas, Deputy Mayor on Tourism and International Relations, THESSALONIKI
“DigiTEL AVIV”- Yael Froman-Ideses, Digi-Tourist Project Manager, Tel Aviv Global & Tourism, TEL AVIV
14:50-15:00: “Walking Under Water, Flying Across the Sea – Coastal Tourism in Tel Aviv”- Yaron Klein, CEO, Atarim, TEL AVIV
Track Lead: Hagit Ulanovsky, MUFPP-TLV 2018 Program director & Guy Deknuydt, Urban Food Policy, Environmental Authority, TEL AVIV
Moderator: Lisa Sasson, Dietician and Clinical Professor, New York University, NEW YORK
13:00-13:45 Talks:
“Tel Aviv Urban Food Policy”
Mehereta Baruch Ron, Deputy Mayor, TEL AVIV
“Improving the food environment for better nutrition: how cities
can lead the progress of the Decade of Action on Nutrition”
Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition for Health and
Development, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva
13:45-14:15 Panel Discussion: Local food initiative & Cities networks
“World Burger – Getting Children Interested in Healthy and
Sustainable Food”
Wobine Buijs-Glaudemans, Mayor, OSS
“Project “INFORMA A SCUOLA”: Healthy Lifestyles Promotion to
Prevent Overweight Among Children in Primary School”
Alessandra Filippi, Deputy Mayor for environmental policies, MODENA
“Italian Healthy Cities Network”
Simona Arletti, President of Italian Healthy Cities Network, MODENA
“Toolbox For Evaluation of a City Food Policy and Programs”
Milka Donchin, Head of the Health Promotion Track, Israeli Healthy
Cities Network, TEL AVIV
14:15-15:00 Talks
“Indicators to be Included When Looking At How a City Delivers
Nutrition and Food Programs and Policies”
Becky Ramsing, Senior Program Officer, Johns Hopkins Center for a
Livable Future, BALTIMORE
“Nourishing the Nation’s Capital: Food Policy in Washington DC”
Spike Mendelsohn, Chair, DC Food Policy Council, District of Columbia
Washington DC
“New York Urban Food Policy”
Barbara Turk, Director of Food Policy, NEW YORK
15:00-15:30 “Panel Discussion: How To Evaluate a Nutrition Program On The
Municipal Level”
Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition for Health and
Development, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva
Ronit Endevelt, Director of Nutrition Division, Ministry of
Health Israel
Elliot Berry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, JERUSALEM
Reyes Tirado, Senior Scientist, Greenpeace, EXETER
16:00-18:00: Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Awards Ceremony
Presentations by 2017 Winners
Announcement of 2018 Winners
