Due to a late breaking scheduling change, this event will be postponed to a future date.

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How do you lead one of our country's biggest and greatest cities to a more sustainable future?  This event will give you the inside scoop.

Columbia's own Rohit Aggarwala is the Director of the NYC Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability within the Mayor’s Office of Operations. Aggarwala’s office is charged with creating a long-term sustainability plan to ensure New York City’s continued prosperity, growth, and health for the year 2030. On Earth Day 2007, PlaNYC was introduced. It involves 127 separate initiatives that include: housing an additional one million New Yorkers affordably; increasing access to parks, playgrounds, and open spaces; reclaiming brownfields; developing critical backup systems for the aging water network to ensure reliability; providing additional reliable power sources and upgrading existing power plants; and reducing water pollution so that waterways can be open for recreation.  Two years later, over two thirds of the initiatives are complete or on time.

Learn first hand how PlaNYC has been such a success.  Topics will include:

• Background on the genesis of the PlanNYC program and a perspective of the state of NYC at the time the program was launched.

• Overview of the main components of the program and how those were selected.

• Insight into the rollout and execution process - who was involved, communications, partnerships, contracts, etc.

• Discussion of the challenges encountered along the way and how those were overcome - lessons learned and opportunities missed.

• Description of the successes to date with a highlight on the part of the program that focuses on NYC schools like Columbia University.

• Services and tools used to support the program and how those were selected, i.e. carbon emission accounting and reporting.

• The role that performance management plays in the day-to-day management - what data is gathered, how is it used, who inputs, who analyzes, what happens if targets are not met.

• Advice to other cities looking to implement similar programs.