WE HELP YOU MAKE CITIES SUSTAINABLE.
Our mission is to support you to change your city for the better. That’s why we love to inspire, challenge, and connect you with the world’s most impressive urban change-makers. We do this through Europe’s largest events for urban sustainability, taking place in different cities and virtually, and through our global community of more than 50,000 CityChangers and 200+ organisations.
Speed up the transition to sustainable cities.
Join the movement.
URBAN FUTURE. Enabler of Sustainable Cities.
Why?
SUSTAINABLE CITIES
“Cities need to become more sustainable in order to help solve our environmental problems. Together we need to do anything we can to speed up urban transformation.” – Gerald Babel-Sutter, passionate change-maker, co-founder and CEO of Urban Future
Our story:
ACTION IN OUR DNA
Born out of a local urban mobility workshop in Graz, Austria, Urban Future has become the largest event for urban change-makers in Europe within just a few years. We started out as a small group of doers wanting to improve our city. You see, it has always been in our DNA to gather for action. It has simply changed shape – from a workshop in Graz to a global community of 50,000 urban change-makers.
How?
IMPACT BOOST
The Urban Future Live Events have given us first-hand experience of “how” changing cities is done by practitioners. With that knowledge we can help speed up the transition process. We talk about the HOW – without the “hot air” – providing an impact boost for sustainability experts to act now!
TOGETHER FOR BETTER CITIES!
The pain (main) point:
HOW TO DRIVE CHANGE?
10,000s of passionate experts who would like to transform their cities don’t act. There is a thirst for actionable know-how. An information vacuum on how to drive change. We saw this problem in 2014.
Today our community of 50,000 urban change-makers strive to create better cities. And by better we mean sustainable, just, social, and green.
It is the heroes in our cities, passionate about making cities better, who drive positive change. We know it’s a tough job. You need actionable know-how, inspiration, a network, and the right skills to transform your city for the future.
Together we formulate answers to burning questions. We provide impactful solutions, learn from each other, and share knowledge on how to convince others, change structures and behaviours, and focus on the right issues.
Together we work for transformation on the ground in cities all over the world.
Nice to meet you!
WE ARE THE FACES BEHIND URBAN FUTURE :)
CARO Babel-Seifter
Programme Assistant
JACQUELINE Maier
Programme Assistant
JACQUELINE Michelle Laure
Online Marketing Manager
MARIANO Trevino
Editor
CORNELIA Forsthuber
Young Leaders & Volunteers Coordinator | Partnership Manager
KARL Dickinson
Editor
LISA Gatterbauer
Head of Marketing and Communications
ELKE Babel-Sutter
Corporate Services | Expo Manager
MATHIS Hampel
Programme Director
GERALD Babel-Sutter
CEO | Programme Development | Strategic Partnerships
THOMAS Pucher
Partner & Co-Founder
JOSEPHINE Yilan Liu
Partner & Co-Founder
LINUS Fridberg
Partnerships Manager Nordics
ANTONELLA Bosio
Young Leaders Academy Core Team*
JOSÉ ROBERTO Lagunes Trejo
Young Leaders Academy Core Team*
MARTHA MARISA Wanat
Young Leaders Academy Core Team*
MATHIS Dippon
Young Leaders Academy Core Team*
*The Young Leaders Academy functions in close coordination with the Urban Future team, but the organisers are not employees or legal representatives of UFGC GmbH.