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Our annual conference dedicated to the sustainable development of Romanian cities and regions is already at its 12th edition and has consolidated its position as a top event for the business environment, urban development & architecture and the public administration.
Encouraging the sustainable development of the country, promoting measures to increase the attractiveness for new investments and stimulating the country’s competitiveness are essential factors for us. Cities of Tomorrow offers a platform for the exchange of ideas, concepts and know-how between the public and private sectors, with the ambition of creating the proper context for partnerships and projects leading to concrete actions and results.
CITIES OF TOMORROW REGIONAL brings to the public eye the concept of the post-infrastructure city or city beyond infrastructure. This emphasizes tackling challenges that extend simple construction and physical development, focusing on solutions and innovations that contribute to a sustainable lifestyle in the urban environment and bring added value. “Beyond infrastructure for sustainable urban living” represents a commitment to go beyond physical infrastructure, taking a holistic approach to create sustainable and resilient cities. This involves integrating advanced technologies, promoting sustainable mobility, strategic urban planning, energy efficiency, circular economy and social equity to ensure a healthy and prosperous urban environment for future generations.
Continuity, maintenance and education are key elements for a sustainable and prosperous city.
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Hilmar von Lojewski has been an alderman for urban development, construction, housing and transport for the Association of Cities of North Rhine-Westphalia and the German As-sociation of Cities since 2012. He studied spatial planning and urban and regional planning in Dortmund and Ankara until 1988 and graduated as an engineer in urban planning. Hilmar passed the higher technical public service exams in Frankfurt/Main 1991, worked as a freelance planner in Dortmund and as a planning consultant for German Technical Cooperation in Kathmandu, Nepal until 1994. Until 2000 he had joined the city of Dresden as a department head in the urban planning office. In the Berlin Ministry for Urban Development, he was responsible for the departments Urban Planning and Projects, Public Investment Controlling and the Supreme Building Control Authority of the federal capital. From 2007 to 2010 he worked as a program director for the German Development Cooperation in the Program for Sustainable Urban Development in Syria.
Raluca Munteanu joined IULIUS Company in 2012. She has accumulated experience in the field of both marketing and retail, working in the shopping center industry over the last decade.
Raluca Munteanu’s current role within the IULIUS Company is to facilitate the implementation of numerous group-wide strategic initiatives, as well as to identify new opportunities. She is engaged in all the phases that precede the starting of new projects in the portfolio of IULIUS Company, as early as drafting the initial concept and all the way to designing the development strategy.
Flavia Boghiu is the Deputy Mayor of Brașov, sociologist by profession, with 10 years of experience in community assistance, running her own health care company, establishing and running a non-profit social assistance organization for the elderly.
As Deputy Mayor, she is responsible for domains such as culture, education, social services, public transport, energy efficiency and urban planning. She believes that politicians and elected officials must constantly stay in touch with citizens and remember that each of their decisions directly affect people’s lives, so they must be part of the decision-making process not just once every four years, when elections take place.”
David Sim, Author “Soft City”, Partner Softer Sweden
Ruxandra Beşe took over the position of Head of Development Nhood Romania in 2014. Ruxandra is responsible for the development and expansion strategy of Nhood Romania, in line with the 2030 Vision and the role assumed by the Urban Actor involved in the transformation and regeneration of cities through mixed use projects. Previously, she was Development Director for Decathlon, a French sports equipment company, where she handled the expansion of the store network in Romania.
Marius Perșenea has 20 years of experience in national and international financing and has been part of the IULIUS team since 2017. IULIUS company is the largest developer
and operator of mixed-use urban regeneration projects in Romania, with an operational portfolio comprising more than 310,000 sqm of retail premises and 242,000 sqm of class A office spaces.
Marius is currently the Chief Operating Officer for the development arm of IULIUS, with a focus on securing group funding. Over the years, Marius Perșenea was involved in cross-border corporate real estate transactions exceeding EUR 1.7 B in 7 countries
across the EU, US, and Japan, with institutional or private investors. He also held various positions in transaction management, risk management, and debt capital markets departments with regional and global financial institutions.
