Saturday, 10 May 2008 | Levent OZLER
Speakers Confirmed for IFA's 9th Global Conference in Montreal
The organisers have confirmed almost all key note speakers to IFA's 9th Global Conference on Ageing next September.
For instance the first plenary panel of the conference, on the morning of September 5, titled The New Paradigm - Ageing and Design, will bring together Dr. Chris Luebkeman and Ms Valerie Fletcher, in addition to Mr. Gordon Lishman, Director General of Age Concern in England.
Dr Luebkeman is director and leader of Arup's global Foresight & Innovation, a global design and business consulting firm. Based in London, UK, he is currently working with some of the world's leading corporations to develop scenarios to better understand the opportunities that change is creating in the built environment.
Ms Fletcher is Executive Director of the Institute for Human Centered Design in Boston, Massachusetts (formerly Adaptive Environments). The Institute's mission is to advance the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities. Valerie is currently overseeing projects ranging from universal design, at the urban scale, in public transit, mixed use development, and residential and school design.
Later that same day, delegates will have the pleasure of meeting Dr. Howard Bergman, a prominent scholar from McGill University, in Montreal, and immediate past President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society, Ms Ann Soden. Ms Soden is the Founding Chair of the National Elder Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), also based in Montreal. These highly regarded experts will speak during the plenary panel titled Innovations in the Canadian Environment.
Other speakers at the conference will be profiled in upcoming issues of the Newsletter. This is just a glimpse of what awaits delegates in Montreal in September.
Keynote speakers
Ms Enid Borden
Dr. Robert Butler
Mr. Mathew Cherian
Ms. Valerie Fletcher
Mrs. Irene Hoskins
Mr. Yoshinobu Ishikawa
Mr. Gordon Lishman
Mr. Robert Mcnulty
Ms. Ann Soden
Dr. Peter Walker
For a complete list of speakers, view the Preliminary Conference Programme.
Deadline for abstracts extended to May 30
Abstracts have been coming in at a fast pace, many from developing countries. In response to many requests, the submission deadline for abstracts has been extended to May 30.
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