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Cities of Tomorrow webinar

City Science

Wednesday
September 23, 2020
11:00am — 12:30pm ET

The Office for Science and Technology (OST) of the French Embassy is pleased to invite you to our new webinar series on Cities of Tomorrow which will explore the future of French and American cities and the importance of security and trust in the digital age.

Join us for free on Sep. 23, 2020 between 11:00-12:30 (EST) for an opportunity to discover exciting urban projects, engage with French and American experts in the field and build new connections!

For the launch event, Kent Larson (Director of the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab), Philippe Chiambaretta (Architect-Urbanist and Founder of French architecture firm PCA-STREAM), and Nigel Jacob (co-founder of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in the City of Boston) will talk about the iconic Champs-Elysées renovation project, a successful French-American collaboration.

Claude Marin-Lamellet (Deputy VP for International Relations at Université Gustave Eiffel) will give an overview of the newly-formed Université Gustave Eiffel, a French multidisciplinary university open to the world that specializes in research on the cities of tomorrow. 

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