Dr Paris Hadfield is a Research Fellow in Urban Innovation at the Melbourne Centre for Cities of the University of Melbourne and has spent the past six years researching urban climate policy and energy transitions. Her PhD research identifies how local government and community organisations in Australia, the UK, and Sweden are financing renewable energy development in new ways. This research highlights how financial innovation achieves socially inclusive outcomes. Paris leads an action research project with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy and Ironbark Sustainability on city climate action, research, and innovation priorities at a regional scale, globally, to inform the Innovate4Cities climate research and action agenda.

I am a doctor researcher from the Brunel University of London currently working on the European funded project Green DC. I am doing data analysis for the data centre from an operational management perspective. Our goal is to minimise the energy consumption of the data centre based on the implementation strategies of the existing infrastructure.

Cora has 20 years experience advancing community and organizational sustainability. She has worked on award winning plans and has been contracted and appointed to advise on municipal, regional and corporate climate action and sustainability initiatives. Her work focuses on helping communities and businesses identify a path to a sustainable future through the development of collaborative processes and the application of science-based planning and strategy frameworks. She has extensive background in climate action, sustainable consumption and waste management; focusing on planning, strategy and inventory development. Previously Cora was the Manager of Integrated Resource Planning & Stakeholder Engagement at the Sheltair Group (now Stantec) and was also staff at the Recycling Council of Ontario. She served on the Capital Regional District Roundtable on the Environment and was the founder and past President of Connecting Environmental Professionals in Vancouver. Her work was recognized in 2021 by being featured on the Business in Vancouver BIV500 list -leaders who have a notable impact on British Columbia's communities, industries and economy. She is now manager of Ecocity Initiatives for the Centre for Ecocities at the BC Institute of Technology; Principal of her own consulting firm and a Senior Associate with OneEarth.

Nourhan Hamdy is a Ph.D student at Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria in Italy. She studies Urban Regeneration and focuses on investigating the forces that design the regional geography of innovation flows. Nourhan is a part of the team that works at the CLUDs Lab which is part of the PAU Department of the Università degli Studi Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria. CLUDS Lab mainly focuses on the physical and spatial transformations of cities and territories generated by the ongoing socio-economic dynamics. It operates in the field of urban regeneration and local sustainable development with the aim to understand the complexity of local dynamics by exploring new data-driven approaches. Nourhan also is a member of SOUND Project which is funded by the National PRIN Program 2017 (Progetti di Ricerca di rilevante Interesse Nazionale – Italian Minister of University Research and education – MIUR). Her contribution to SOUND project lies in setting up an analytical process that is based on network analysis to understand traded industry Clusters' performance and highlight the spatial implications in knowledge dynamics.

Marilyn Hamilton PhD Founder Integral City Meshworks; author Integral City Book Series, co-host Cities Rising for Regenerative World/Humanity Rising & curator Urban Hub 20, City Change in VUCA World serves cities and their ecoregions as Gaia’s Reflective Organs. Inspired by the Master Code of Care for Self, Others, Place and Planet, she is Ubiquity U faculty for Master Regenerative Action. CEO, COO, CFO and CIO in private & NFP sectors. She is Ambassador for World Unity Week, and Findhorn & Urban Arena Europe Fellow; residing in Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland. www.integralcity.com

Dr Qiyao Han is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at Nanjing Agricultural University. She worked at Queen’s University Belfast as a research fellow from 2019 to 2021. She holds a doctoral degree in architecture and a master’s degree in landscape architecture. Her PhD project developed an approach to visualise the process of forest migration under climate change and explored the potential of large-scale urban afforestation to promote the ecological process. Qiyao’s research interests lie in nature-based solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation, multi-scale urban resilience to climate change, ecosystem services and benefits delivered by green infrastructure, afforestation and reforestation for carbon neutral cities, and biodiversity conservation in cities. Her research intends to explore the relationship between nature and urbanisation, the role that nature could play in urban environments, and the ways to insert nature into the urban matrix. Her study often uses mapping-based approaches to understand the complexities of urban systems and a research-by-design methodology to tackle wicked problems related to climate change. Her work has been published in the journals Landscape and Urban Planning, npj Urban Sustainability, and Forests.

Brice Hanberry is a Research Ecologist for the Rocky Mountain Research Station of the Forest Service. She is interested in disturbances, land use, and climate change.

Elie Hanna is an agricultural engineer majored in landscape design from the Lebanese University/Faculty of Agronomy in Beirut. Currently resident in Zaragoza/Spain, he is a full time PhD student in Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología-CSIC. Zaragoza/Spain, his thesis is focused on studying the structural and functional aspects of green infrastructure components in urban zones and their contributions to city (Zaragoza) sustainability.

Craig Henritzy is an architect in Northern California whose work includes several Native inspired roundhouses: Napo-Cha, built in Napa- 1996, and Sun Hawk- 1998 for solar guru John Schaeffer. With others, Henritzy has promoted sustainable architecture. His solar design is complemented with the pioneering of ICFs- Insulated Concrete Forms; repurposed blocks that realize many curved and circular floor plans. Along with the roundhouse, in 2008 Henritzy journeyed to Guatemala to design an eco-retreat in the mountains above Antigua. Campanario de Panchoy, influenced by Mayan architecture, is a magic realism concept, 100% self-sufficient compound, that includes ground breaking organic farming. Research for Campanario has taken Henritzy to the far reaches of the Yucatan, Honduras, and southern Mexico. Ten years of teaching sustainable architecture in the San Francisco culminated in teaching engagements at Taliesin West- Frank Lloyd Wrights famous campus. Henritzy was one of the first teachers to introduce sustainable design for on-line learning. Henritzy’s writing encapsulate his experience in Guatemala: “The WaterHawk” and “The Jaguars,” describe mystical events in the shaping of Campanario. Most recently, he is completing work on Quest for Amerindia- historical fiction tracing bicycle journeys into Native lands, while uncovering the indigenous history of New York City.

Prabhasri’s research admires nature as a vital component of life and an integral part of cities. Incorporating ecosystem concepts in cities helps resolve many consequences and absorb multiple environmental and thermal shocks in the urban system while providing economic and aesthetical values. Her current research project focuses on sustainable, resilient and liveable cities; adapting cities to extreme and excess heat by strategic mitigation planning with Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The studies mainly focus on Australian cities, that are highly vulnerable to severe heatwaves and assess their capabilities of implying NbS or green infrastructure to make cities liveable and resilient.

Erwin Heurkens is an assistant professor in Urban Development Management. His research expertise lies in “sustainable private sector-led urban development projects” with a specialization in public-private partnerships and real estate development. Erwin studies the role private sector actors increasingly perform in making real estate, urban places and cities more sustainable. Therefore, he aims to understand private sector decision-making logics and strategic business drivers for developing and investing in sustainable urban projects, as well as the role public sector actors can play in stimulating such practices and behavior. Erwin has wide experience in international comparative research (mainly Anglo-Saxon countries, European research projects, and professional research for Dutch Ministries, municipalities, and companies. Currently Erwin participates in the TranCiBo project investigating transitional change towards circular construction practices, and the Stedelijke Transformatie project focusing on managing Dutch urban transformations.

Laura Hidalgo is a biologist by training, and holds a Master's Degree in Zoonosis and One Health from the Autonomous University of Barcelona as well as a Master's Degree in Infographics and Data Visualization from the BAU Design University. She has made a stay as a fellow at the Barcelona Provincial Council's Public Health Service and has worked as an environmental educator at the Barcelona Science Museum. She currently works at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, working as a research assistant for the Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative and as a project assistant for the RECETAS H2020 project.

David Hoff is a Canadian senior corporate affairs officer, board director and consultant who has shaped a 30+ year public affairs career in and around corporations, governments, associations, and the media. David’s experience spans from government policy strategies to international relations, from corporate / business development to philanthropy, from corporate communications to stakeholder relations, from 'start-ups' to large nation-spanning corporations, from policy analyst to media spokesperson. An avid traveller, David has visited over 50 countries on 5 continents.

Robert Home, Dr. Sc. Nat., is a social scientist who works at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in Switzerland in the Department of Socioeconomics. He has a special interest in the factors that enable or hinder innovation in organic agriculture, and in decision processes: why do people make the decisions that they do. Typical research subjects include farmers and farmers’ families, gardeners, urban residents, consumers, and cooks in restaurants. He is Australian and has lived in Switzerland since 2004.

For decades, futurist Libby Hubbard, aka Doctress Neutopia, has visualized a network of solar-powered arcologies on Earth and in Outer Space. For her, the rapid construction of climate-resilient arcologies using a robotic labor force is necessary for the survival and expansion of the human species into the Cosmos. Creating a political philosophy within an arcology provides us with a social blueprint on living together in a resource-based circular economy. Neutopia is completing a new book on her transformative vision, The Gaia Messiah Game. The manuscript outlines her utopian approach to arcology as a saving container for the life-support system on Earth. She is currently searching for a publisher for her work.