Charles Landry is an author, speaker and international adviser on the future of cities best known for popularising the Creative City concept. His book The

Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators became a movement to rethink the planning, development and management of cities. He has chaired multiple urban innovation juries including The European Capital of Innovation Award – iCapital, New Innovations in the Creative Economy (N.I.C.E.) and Actors for Urban Change. In this lecture, he will outline the challenges and opportunities for the creative city in the post-pandemic era.