Calgary’s mayor is headed to Houston to satisfy with power and political leaders about her metropolis’s place as an power and know-how metropolis.
Mayor Jyoti Gondek attends CERA Week and the World Power Cities Partnership (WECP) in Houston, after which South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas.
“I can be attending the (WECP) normal assembly to have some conversations concerning the commonalities that we see as cities around the globe in relation to power,” Gondek instructed reporters Tuesday afternoon.
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She famous that she intends to satisfy with representatives of different orders of Canadian governments and officers from around the globe.
“There are additionally superb alternatives to attach with folks on the bottom within the place I go to to speak about their experiences as they develop their cities as power cities. So I stay up for assembly with my colleagues from everywhere in the world,” stated the mayor.
There are 19 WECP member cities around the globe from international locations similar to the UK, Denmark, Australia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. Calgary’s first involvement was throughout a 1995 signing ceremony in Houston, as an observer, and joined a yr later.
Gondek will sit on the WECP mayoral panel on Wednesday together with the mayors of Houston, Texas, Perth, Australia and Esbjerg, Denmark.
Her itinerary contains attending the Canadian Power Funding reception, conferences with 10 Canadian local weather know-how corporations, sitting down with the president of the WECP and Esbjerg mayor Jesper Frost Rasmussen, visiting the Consul Normal of Canada in Dallas Susan Harper and attend a panel entitled “How cities are main the change”.
The online game Minecraft can be featured in Gondek’s journey, however not as a participant. Calgary’s mayor will take part within the SXSW panel “Reimagining Cities – Civic Engagement in Minecraft.”
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Gondek stated she appears ahead to speaking about Minecraft as a instrument to teach younger folks and spark curiosity in metropolis constructing.
She additionally plans to attend workshops on synthetic intelligence, digital actuality, gaming and music manufacturing.
“It is a actually good probability to point out them that Calgary can be an important place to be, and to study concerning the host metropolis,” she stated.
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