Chaired by Mr Lawrence Wong, Singapore's Minister for National Development, the 7th annual World Cities Summit Mayors Forum 2016 gathered over 92 mayors and city leaders to discuss the challenges they face and share practical experiences on innovative urban solutions.

As conversations revolved around ways to turn challenges into opportunities through actionable plans, city leaders expressed commitments to tackling complex city challenges with the 2016 WCS Mayors Forum Declaration.

@ WCS 2016: MAYORS FORUM Chaired by Mr Lawrence Wong, Singapore's Minister for National Development, the 7th annual World Cities Summit Mayors Forum 2016 gathered over 92 mayors and city leaders to discuss the challenges they face and share practical experiences on innovative urban solutions. As conversations revolved around ways to turn challenges into opportunities through actionable plans, city leaders expressed commitments to tackling complex city challenges with the 2016 WCS Mayors Forum Declaration. @ WCS 2016: MAYORS FORUM PUBLICATIONS The commemorative publication, City Portraits, was shared with forum participants. The carefully curated publication features case studies, challenges and best practices from participating cites and is now available online. The World Cities Summit Mayors Forum 2016 Report is now available online. It summarises the discussions at the Forum and city presentations from the cities of Rotterdam, Zhuhai, Melbourne, Gifu and Manila. The 8th World Cities Summit Mayors Forum will be held from 25 - 28 May 2017, and it will be hosted by the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2014 Laureate, Suzhou City, China. See more of Suzhou's remarkable transformation here. Share and forward this newsletter to your peers who will be interested in the latest WCS Mayors Forum news. @ WCS 2016: YOUNG LEADERS SYMPOSIUM Young Leaders show off their wrist activity trackers for the WCS 2016 Steps Challenge - a WCSYL initiative. At the WCS Young Leaders Symposium this year, an Open Mic Session was launched for Young Leaders to share some of their interesting projects and launch calls for collaborations for future projects, and some projects have come to fruition! Also for the first time this year, the Young Leaders, with the support of Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB), launched a WCS2016 Steps Challenge which encouraged city leaders to clock as many steps as possible during the Summit, measured by HPB's activity trackers. Look out for the WCS Young Leaders Symposium 2016 report coming out later this month, for more on the discussions, ideas and activities of the Young Leaders. REFER A PEER TO RECEIVE THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Sign up for the WCS newsletter to receive latest news updates or like what you read and know of a peer who will be interested in the WCS newsletter series? Share and forward this newsletter to subscribe to our mailing list.   CONNECT WITH US Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize Sponsor Patron Sponsors Platinum Sponsors Organised By Supported By Held In Event Organiser