converging the sense of place

this is davos for sense of place, reimagining the urban century. sense of place's most global convergence, presenting global matters and local challenges.

mainstreaming sense of place in the urban century

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places are localities given meaning by human experiences in them.

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summit preface

Welcome to SoPlace 2.0, the world's congregation for sense of place main-stream, with world renowned speakers, diverse delegates, international media,

exhibitors, and visitors across the world.

The atmosphere will be energizing , challenging, and inspiring. The SoPlace 2.0 theme Mainstreaming Sense of Place in the Urban Century

advocates that the globalized emergent urbanism is an opportunity of our lifetime to reimagine our built and natural environment.

The Summit will explore how places can build resilience and improve quality of life by adopting sustainable sense of place to increasingly complex urban

challenges. SoPlace is a new age platform brought to you for mainstream impact which will provide perspective exchanges; the sharing of best

practices and innovative solutions; presentations for ground-breaking ideas; the making, management and marketing of places in attracting and retaining

talent, citizens, investors, and tourists.

SoPlace provides opportunities for incubating and networking to enact new ideas, innovation, and sustainable socio-economic reform. The Urban

Century demands and expectations placed on tomorrow's sense of place are unprecedented. In the developed world, urban-dwellers must find ways to deal with rapid development, chronic inner-city poverty and homelessness, massive over-consumption of energy and non-stop suburban sprawl. Upcoming mega-

cities in Asia, Africa and South America face the immense challenges of poverty, burgeoning populations, vast slums, housing demolitions and natural disasters.

tun (dr.) mohammed hanif bin omar (Deputy Chairman of Genting Group, President of Malaysian

Institute of Management and Malaysian Branch of Royal Asiatic Society) delivered the Keynote Address at the SoPlace 1.0 @

Putrajaya International Convention Centre, Malaysia

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HEAD OF STATE HALL GLOBAL SOPLACE LEADERS FORUM (10 APRIL 2015)

SOPLACE MASTERCLASS SERIES (11 - 16 APRIL 2015)

RE.ROUNDTABLE SERIES (11 - 16 APRIL 2015)

PLENARY HALL SOPLACE SUMMIT (11 - 15 APRIL 2015)

NATIONAL SOPLACE DIALOGUE (10 APRIL 2015)

ASEAN 2015 COMMUNITY FORUM (10 APRIL 2015)

Putrajaya International Convention Centre, Malaysias largest convention centre and one of the most iconic convention centres in Asia - located at Malaysias first Garden City inspired by Sir Ebenezer Howard, Putrajaya is the futuristic capital for the countrys Federal Government.

PUTRAJAYA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE, MALAYSIA

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over 200 speakers, 2,500 delegates, 500 media journalist, and 35,000 visitors will converge at the soplace summit.

PUTRA HALL + HALL 1 - 9 SOPLACE EXPO I - WORLD SMALL HOMES EXPO (10 - 11 APRIL 2015)

SOPLACE EXPO II - WORLD ECOSCAPE EXPO (10 - 12 APRIL 2015)

SOPLACE EXPO III - MYPLACE MYBRAND EXPO (14 - 16 APRIL 2015)

perdana hall WELCOME RECEPTION + SOPLACE HALL OF HONOURS (11 APRIL 2015)

SOPLACE LAUREATES NIGHT + SOPLACE PRIZE + SOPLACE CHAMPIONS + SOPLACE AWARDS (12 - 15 APRIL 2015)

The Urban Century marked a defining moment in human history. For the first time, more people were living in cities than in rural areas. Cities have always been the incubator of new ideas, economic innovation and social reform. But in the Urban Century, the demands and expectations placed on cities are unprecedented. How do people from vastly different cultures and economic circumstances learn to live together? This is the challenge at the very heart of all places in this new century.

The Urban Century will redefine the world landscape, an era of Great Reset. The world is still in the midst of an age of global 'placelessness' expansion when governments leading and invested heavily in building massive infrastructures, subsidising suburban development and rationalising city centres as locations for skyscrapers an age, in short, that was typical of the United States of America and the Western Europe after the Second World War and appears a lot like China now.

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FIRST SECTORGOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS, LEADERS, AND OFFICIALS

26%SECOND SECTORFOR PROFIT CORPORATIONS, CONSULTANTS/PRACTITIONERS

30%THIRD SECTORNON-PROFIT, RESEARCH, AND ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS

19%FOURTH SECTORSOCIAL AND IMPACT ENTERPRISES, LOCAL CHAMPIONS

15%

18%AMERICAS

20%EUROPE

50%ASIA-PACIFIC

12%REST OF WORLD

DELEGATE RATIO

TARGETED ATTENDEE GEOGRAPHY IN 2015 (SPEAKERS, EXHIBITORS, DELEGATES, AND VISITORS)

246 TARGETED CITIES IN 2015

23PLENARY SESSIONS Gain insights and opportunities.

Forge new partnerships and collaborations.

10 - 16 APRIL 2015

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US AT

secretariat@soplacesummit.com

who's attended and attending?Geographers, Leaders, Urbanists, Transitionists, Futurists, Planners, Architects, Geologists, Sociologists, Anthropologists, Communalists, Builders, Developers, Innovators, Designers, Scientists, Surveyors, Engineers, Specialists, Experts, Investors, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Globalists, Localists, Glocalists, Mobalists, Marketeers, Conservationists, Historians, Artists, Archaeologists, Diasporists, Cartographers, Environmentalists, Ecologists, Humanists, Naturalists, Planetists, Preservationists, Landscapists, Culturalists, Activists, Researchers, Diplomats, Economists, Creativists, Sculptors, Thinkers, Champions, Topographers, Geopoliticians, etc...

Developer Historian Botanist Innovator Researcher

Urbanist Expert Geographer Diasporist Architect