Regenerative Cities 2025: Imagining the Future We Want – Webinar – 20 August 2026

Reimagining Urban Futures: Cities 2050

The ISRM Sri Lanka Chapter is proud to host “Regenerative Cities 2025: Imagining the Future We Want” Webinar as part of the Global Webinar Series in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Futures, De Montfort University (UK) and the Centre for the Study of Wicked Problems.

As a lead-up to the 2nd Annual International Conference of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, this distinguished webinar series will convene global experts, academics, policymakers, industry leaders and practitioners to explore the opportunities and challenges shaping the future of our cities and communities.

Reinventing Urban Futures: Regenerative Cities for a Resilient Planet

Cities are increasingly on the front lines of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Climate disruption. Geopolitical uncertainty. Housing crises. Technological transformation. Growing inequality. Public health threats. Erosion of trust.

At the same time, cities remain humanity’s greatest laboratories of innovation, resilience, and possibility.

This three-part global webinar series brings together urban thinkers, city leaders, practitioners, researchers, and communities to explore a fundamental question:

How can we move from vulnerable cities to regenerative urban futures by 2050?

Together, we will examine the risks shaping our cities today, the resilience strategies needed tomorrow, and the regenerative urban futures we must begin building now.

WEBINAR >>REGISTER HERE VIA ZOOM

Regenerative Cities 2050: Imagining the Future We Want

• • Thursday 20 August 2026

• • 10:00 (UK) | 14:30 (Sri Lanka)

• • Hosted with the ISRM Sri Lanka Chapter

Key Questions

• • What does a thriving city look like in 2050?

• • How can cities live within planetary boundaries while enhancing human wellbeing?

• • What role will technology, nature, culture and communities play in future urban life?

THEMES

• • Climate Resilience & Planetary Health

• • Regenerative Urbanism

• • Social Cohesion & Community Resilience

• • Nature-Based Solutions

• • Urban Governance & Strategic Risk

• • Innovation, AI & Smart Cities

• • Youth & Intergenerational Futures

• • Circular Urban Economies

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• • City leaders and policymakers

• • Urban planners and designers

• • Academics and researchers

• • Sustainability practitioners

• • Strategic risk professionals

• • Community leaders

• • Students and young professionals

• • Innovators and entrepreneurs

Free and Open Worldwide

One Conversation. Three Regions. A Shared Urban Future.

ORGANISERS & PARTNERS

• • Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM)

• • Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), De Montfort University

• • Centre for the Study of Wicked Problems

• • International Conference on Reinventing Urban Futures: Regenerative Cities for a Resilient Planet