Why attend?

The Metropolis Annual Meeting to be held in Johannesburg between 16 and 19 July 2013 will be a unique exchange and networking opportunity that brings together:

• Government leaders 
  
• Urban planners 
• City managers
• Urban management experts
• International organizations and NGOs 
• Academics
• Other important urban stakeholders from around the world.

Those in attendance will able to hear the testimonies and recommendations made by diverse cities and other metropolises desire to build a caring, sustainable and just response to the urban communities by implementing policies in fields as different as: 

•  Financing
•  Food and resource resilience
•  Gender 
•  Housing
•  Informal economy 
•  Metropolitan Governance
•  Mobility
•  Public-Private Partnerships
•  Smart cities
•  Social Cohesion 
•  Urban Safety

The event will also be a chance to learn first-hand about the groundbreaking public policies implemented by the City of Johannesburg.