June 11-13, 2012 - Toronto
Keynote Addresses
 Ken Greenberg
Principal, Greenberg Consultants Inc.
Opening Keynote Address (Tuesday Morning)
Ken Greenberg is an architect, urban designer, teacher, writer, former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto, founding partner of Urban Strategies Inc., and now Principal of Greenberg Consultants.
For over three decades he has played a pivotal role on public and private assignments in urban settings throughout North America and Europe, focusing on the rejuvenation of downtowns, waterfronts, neighborhoods and on campus master planning, regional growth management, and new community planning. Cities as diverse as Toronto, Hartford, Amsterdam, New York, Boston, Montréal, Washington DC, Paris, Detroit and San Juan Puerto Rico have benefited from his advocacy and passion for restoring the vitality, relevance and sustainability of the public realm in urban life.
With over three decades of experience, he has managed large multi-disciplinary staff and consultant groups for both the public and private sectors. He applies a holistic approach to city building, crossing traditional boundaries and working in team settings collaborating with many talented professionals from a variety of disciplines. In each city, with each project, his strategic, consensus-building approach has led to coordinated planning and a renewed focus on urban design. He is the recipient of the 2010 American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Award for public design excellence
and the author of Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder published by Random House.
 Stephen Lewis
Ryerson University in Toronto
Gala Dinner Keynote Address (Tuesday Evening)
Stephen Lewis is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. He is the board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which is dedicated to turning the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and he is co-founder and co-director of AIDS-Free World in the United States. In 1988, Mr. Lewis chaired the first international conference on Climate Change, which drafted the first comprehensive policy on global warming. As Professor in Global Health, Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Stephen taught a senior undergraduate class from 2007-2010 entitled
“The Health Impact of Global Climate Change.”
Mr. Lewis is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Emeritus Board Member of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. He serves as a Commissioner on the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, created by the United Nations Development Programme with the support of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Mr. Lewis is the author of the best-selling book, Race Against Time. He holds 34 honorary degrees from Canadian universities and in June 2010 he received an honorary degree from Dartmouth College in the United States, and has received
numerous awards and distinguished honours throughout his varied career.
 Dr. Ray Cole
University of British Columbia
Keynote Address (Wednesday Morning)
Dr Ray Cole is Professor and past-Director in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he has been teaching environmental issues in building design for more than thirty years. Dr Cole was selected as a North American Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor for “sustained commitment to building environmental research and teaching” in 2001.
In 2003 he received the US Green Building Council’s Green Public Service Leadership Award. Dr Cole was the recipient of the 2008 Sustainable Buildings Canada Life-time Achievement Award and the 2009 Canada Green Building Council’s Life-time Leadership Award. He is a past Director member of the Canadian Green Building Council and holds the UBC designation of Distinguished University Scholar.
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