Leon Higgins (right) with Craig Nevill-Manning.
On May 9, as part of the three-day Smart Cities 2018 event in New York City, Leon Higgins hosted a panel called "Reimagining Urban Planning."
Introducing the speakers, Leon said, "This panel is about reimagining urban planning in the smart city context, in a world where we've got a lot more data pools and we've got the opportunity for way more analytics, where change is fast, the things we design today may be redundant tomorrow, where culture matters and we don't necessarily have data for it, and things need to be repurposed."
Participants in the panel included David Ehrenberg (President, Brooklyn Navy Yard Corporation), Diane Hoskins (Co-CEO, Gensler), Seth Pinsky (Executive Vice President and Fund Manager, Metro Emerging Markets, and Public Affairs Director, RXR Realty), and Craig Nevill-Manning (Head of Engineering, Sidewalk Labs).