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.
WEBINAR >>REGISTER HERE VIA ZOOM
- Thursday 20 August 2026
- 10:00 (UK) | 14:30 (Sri Lanka)
- Hosted with the ISRM Sri Lanka Chapter
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.
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?
SPEAKERS:
Maneesha Kaur is the Senior Executive for SCPH’s Policy, Advocacy and Strategy team. She has graduated with a Master’s in International Relations with a focus on Development and Climate from Johns Hopkins University. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and International Relations from Boston University in 2021. She is currently working on policy briefs on Pro-Social AI, fossil-free health and building out the Centre’s ASEAN portfolio. She has expertise in active mobility in disaster risk management for urban planning contexts in the Global South.
Iromi Perera is the founder and director of Colombo Urban Lab at the Centre for a Smart Future, a public policy think tank in Colombo. She works at the intersection of climate and economic justice, with a focus on development, dispossession and social protection in post war Sri Lanka.
Dr. Sahar Abdalrahman is an architectural engineer and lecturer at the Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University in the United Kingdom, specializing in sustainable building design and visual comfort.
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
