November 3, 2026
16:30 - 19:30
Welcome / Registration
Registration
18:00 - 19:30
AIVP Governance
General Assembly
TBC
Corinne LALLEMANDDirectrice Générale Adjointe Pôle Secrétariat Général Membre du Comité de DirectionAIVP
19:30 - 21:15
Networking
Welcome cocktail
November 4, 2026
07:30 - 09:00
Welcome / Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:45
AIVP's Perspective / Ceremony
Opening ceremony
TBC
Corinne LALLEMANDDirectrice Générale Adjointe Pôle Secrétariat Général Membre du Comité de DirectionAIVP
09:45 - 10:15
Keynote
Port cities steering global transitions
10:15 - 10:45
Keynote
The European Commission’s Net Zero and Clean Growth ambitions for port cities
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45
Keynote
Port City Economies: Time for a New Perspective!
11:45 - 12:15
High level panel
Round table : Investing Together: Ports and Cities Delivering the Environmental, Energy and Societal Transition
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch
Networking Lunch
13:45 - 14:45
Parallel session
Long-term waterfront visions: lessons from port-city transformation projects
13:45 - 14:45
Parallel session
Port-city planning tools: integrating territory, land use and waterfront development
13:45 - 14:45
Parallel session
Empowering the identity of port city communities: crafts, culture and heritage
15:00 - 16:00
Parallel session
New approaches to port-city planning: contemporary projects and forward-looking strategies
15:00 - 16:00
Parallel session
Planning for resilience: local strategies for climate-ready port cities
15:00 - 16:00
Parallel session
Blue spaces in port cities: welcoming re-emerging leisure uses while ensuring safe coexistence
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:45
Parallel session
The role of ports and cities in bridging biodiversity protection and community engagement
16:30 - 17:45
Parallel session
Building governance frameworks for the port-city interface: from norms to practice
16:30 - 17:45
Parallel session
The port-city energy ecosystem: collective pathways to decarbonisation
18:00 - 18:30
AIVP's Perspective / Ceremony
AIVP Prize Antoine Rufenacht Ceremony
18:30 - 19:30
Networking
AIVP Prize Antoine Rufenacht Cocktail
November 5, 2026
07:30 - 09:00
Welcome / Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
Keynote
Health at the heart of transitions: building resilient, inclusive and sustainable port cities
09:30 - 10:30
High level panel
Round table : Port Cities and Public Health: From Pandemic Preparedness to Everyday Wellbeing
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00
High level panel
Round table : Developing Resilience: Port-City Strategies for a Changing Climate
12:30 - 13:45
Lunch
Networking Lunch
13:45 - 17:15
Visit
Visits
20:15 - 22:45
Dinner
Gala dinner
November 6, 2026
07:30 - 09:00
Welcome / Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
Keynote
Keynote Carlos Moreno :Reimagining the port city at a human scale: proximity, quality of life, and environmental transitions
09:30 - 10:45
High level panel
Round table C40: Competing uses for limited land: How can we improve port city planning?
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30
High level panel
Port City DebateWhat future for port-city territories in 2050?
12:30 - 13:00
AIVP's Perspective / Ceremony
Closing ceremony
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Networking Lunch
14:00 - 17:45
Visit
Visit
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