Start Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
End Date: Saturday, February 16, 2008
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil

WRI, EMBARQ, CTS-Brasil, and CTS-Mexico will all participate in the upcoming World Conference on Development of Cities, to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, February 13-16, 2008. WRI, EMBARQ, and CTS-Brasil are also official Partners of the conference.

EMBARQ Network Participation:

Active Cities, Healthy Cities 2008
February 14, 2008

Luis Gutierrez, EMBARQ
Enrique Jacoby, PAHO
Michel Pratt, Disease Control and Prevention Center
Gerard Martin, Latin-America Studies Center
Diana Castro, Avina Foundation
Ricardo Montezuma, Humain City Foundation

Urban Transport and the Development of Cities
February 15, 2008

Luis Gutierrez, EMBARQ
Adriana Lobo, CTS-México director
Luis Antonio Lindau, CTS-Brasil director

What will the Sustainable City of the Future Look Like?
February 16, 2008

Nancy Kete, EMBARQ director
Steven Johnson, Wired Magazine
Bernhard Muller, director of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development. Charles-Mathieu Brunelle, Executive Board of Culture Montréal