The world's leading architects and urbanists will speak at 100+ TechnoBuild

Representatives of leading architectural firms and the most renowned urbanists of the world will become speakers of the VIII International Forum and exhibition 100+ TechnoBuild. The event will be held from October 5-7, 2021 at the Yekaterinburg-Expo International Exhibition Center.

Preparations for the forum and the exhibition are in full swing. The business program continues to take shape, so only a small part of the star speakers are presented below, who will hold lectures, master classes and meetings with open dialogues for everyone.

Patrick Schumacher is the CEO of Zaha Hadid Architects (UK), one of the strongest architectural and design bureaus in the world. Patrick has been with the company since 1988, and since 2013 he has been a partner and co–author of all Zaha Hadid Architects projects. The bureau's projects are ahead of their time in many ways. In 2010, Patrick, together with Zaha Hadid, received the Stirling Prize of the Royal Institute of British Architects for outstanding achievements in architecture (a project of the Italian National Museum of Art and Architecture of the XXI Century in Rome).

Gil Penalosa is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the non–profit company 880 Cities (Canada), as well as a special representative of the association of the international representative organization of urban parks, public spaces and recreational areas World Urban Parks. In 2020, Gil was included in Planetizen's list of the 100 most influential urbanists, and in 2019 he received the annual World Urban Parks Annual Distinguished Individual award in Australia.

Sergey Choban is the head and managing partner of the SPEECH Bureau, one of the most famous architects in Russia, successfully working in the West. According to the architect's designs, museum, residential and office buildings have been realized in Germany, Italy, and Russia. He has dozens of international architectural awards in his collection. For example, he designed the tallest building in Europe, the Federation complex in Moscow City (now the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg has taken over the championship), the Coca-Cola headquarters in Berlin, the Russian pavilions on the world EXPO signs in 2015 (Milan) and 2020 (Dubai, it will be held in 2021) and many other facilities.

Fadi Jabri is the Executive Director for the CIS, the Middle East, North Africa and India of the Nikken Sekkei Architectural Bureau (Japan), one of the top largest in the world. Among the company's most famous projects is the Central Japan International Airport (Centrair), located in the ocean on an artificial island with an area of 470 hectares.

Piero Pelizzaro is the Director of Sustainable Development in Milan (Italy), as well as one of the most competent experts in the world on climate change issues. In particular, he is an adviser to the Italian Minister of Environment and Land and Sea Protection on urban adaptation to climate change, a member of the Mayors Adapt working group (established by the European Commission to also work on urban adaptation to climate change), a member of the Advisory board of the European Union Ramses FP7 research program, a member of the working group on the implementation of the FIRe 2016 project. within the framework of climate policy.

The full list of speakers and the business program will be published on the official website of the forum and exhibition. forum-100.ru . The 100+ TechnoBuild itself will be held in a combined offline and online format from October 5-7, 2021 at the Yekaterinburg-Expo IEC.