Tia Kansara is an award-winning entrepreneur, consultant and sustainability specialist. Moreover, she is the founder and director of Kansara Hackney Ltd, which is a leading consulting firm that is specialised in sustainable lifestyle and design.

She completed her first degree at the School of Oriental & African Studies in Economics and South Asian Studies and holds a Ph.D. from University College London. Furthermore, she is fluent in Gujarati, Japanese, Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, French, Arabic and English.

During her career she has worked with several leading companies, institutions and organisations like for example "Bloomberg", the "UK Prime Minister's Policy Unit", the "United Nations Conference on Trade and Development" or the "Club of Rome".

The topic of her speech is "The future city as experiment". In her speech she shows us how the future city might look like and give us examples of cities that managed it to exist in harsh environments through innovations concerning water and energy efficiency.

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