Welcome
Our Panelists, Moderators and Speakers

MOC:
Mallora Rayner
Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Branding & Communications Officer, World of Walas
Official Opening:
Dr. Klaus Otto Schmidt
Consul General of Germany
Brent Hardt, PhD
Consul General of the U.S.A.
Sarah Kirby-Yung
Deputy Mayor and City Councillor, Vancouver, BC
Bill Peduto
Mayor of Pittsburgh, PA
Thomas Westphal
Mayor of Dortmund, Germany

Moderator:
Jiwon Lee
Global Food Program, ICLEI
Panelists:
Alessa Heuser
Office for International Relations, Sustainable Development, City of Dortmund
Shelly Danko+Day
Urban Agriculture and Food Policy Adviser, City of Pittsburgh
Meg O'Shea
Senior Manager, Economic Transformation, City of Vancouver

Moderator:
Dr. Mais Jafari
Department of Urban Renewal, City of Dortmund / Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund University
Panelists:
Michael Ableman
Co-Founder of Sole Food Street Farms, Vancouver
Jan Westra
Business Development, Priva, De Lier, The Netherlands
Rolf Morgenstern
Urban Farming Expert, Department of Agriculture, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Dortmund

Dr. Martin Frick
Deputy of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Food System Summit 2021