| Chair: Þorsteinn Gunnarsson, Chief Executive Officer of Reykjavik City |
| Welcome by the Mayor of Reykjavík |
| Topic | Description | Speaker | | |
| Climate policy of Reykjavik City | Reykjavik City aims to be carbon neutral by 2040 and has recently commited to stretch that goal even sooner by being one of 112 EU cities carbon neutral and smart city by 2030. What are the challenges of Reykjavik City to be climate neutral? Does the transition towards climate neutrality support the focus in the municipal plan, green plan and the growth of the city? | Hrönn Hrafnsdóttir, Head of Climate Change unit | |
| The Captial Transport Pact | A brief overview of the Capital Transport Pact (CTP), a common vision and investment plan in the Reykjavik Capital Area transport network. An introduction to the origins, objectives, financing and the future of the CTP. | Árni Freyr Stefánsson, Director of the Department of Transport and Infrastructure at the Ministry of Infrastructure | |
| Panel | Hulda Hallgrímsdóttir, Project Manager, Economic and Urban Development | Dóra Björt Guðjónsdóttir, City councillor - Head of environmental and urban planning | Hrönn Hrafnsdóttir, Head of Climate Change unit | Karl Benediktsson, Professor of Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences |
| City for people | | | | |
| Reykjavik growing - the teenage city | Reykjavík is a young city and. It´s only a few years since the city was only a small town. The city is developing fast and is at the pivotal point of becoming a true city with all the benefits iof city life. How can we as designers and city makers grab the oppertunity of understanding and creating an identidy that makes the city a desireable and interesting place to live in? | Edda Ívarsdóttir, Urban designer | |
| Rainbow Certification - Creating a more Queer Friendly and Inclusive City | Reykjavík City has a strong Human Rights Policy that specifically mentions queer people, and the legal situation of LGBT+ people in Iceland is relatively good. But how do we go from strong frameworks to actual implementation? This presentation focusses on Reykjavík City’s on-going development of Rainbow Certification, what it includes, what changes it can bring about as well as the challenges of this ambitious project. | Svandís Anna Sigurðardóttir, LGBTIQ+ and Gender Equality Advisor | |
| My Neighborhood - Citizen participation in the digital world | Involving the citizens of Reykjavik in shaping our city and neighbourhoods through an online participatory platform. The City of Reykjavik has been running a democracy project called My Neighborhood since 2012. Over the last 10 years the project has been constantly changing and evolving in accordance with preferences and wishes of the residents, as well as a constantly changing digital world. This presentation will go into the challenges and changes which My Neighborhood has undergone to improve the project and reach a record turnout for the project in 2021. | Eiríkur Búi Halldórsson, Project Manager – My Neighborhood | |
| Panel | Hilmar Hildarson Magnúsarson, PM for International Affairs & Housing
| Edda Ívarsdóttir, Urban designer | Eiríkur Búi Halldórsson, Project Manager – My Neighborhood | Jón Gunnar Ólafsson, Postdoctoral researcher in media and communication |
