• Welcoming remarks by Mrs. Rosa Iervolino Russo, Mayor of Naples
• Riccardo di Palma, President of the Province of Naples
• Antonio Bassolino, President of the Region of Campania
• Representative from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Representative from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage
• Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Under–Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT

• World Habitat Awards by Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF), UK
• UN-HABITAT Scroll of Honour Awards

Q&A Session with award winners and members of the press.

• Chair: Joe Ravetz, Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University

• Cities, cultural heritage and development
  

Chair:
Francesco Caruso,
Italian Ambassador to Sweden

Speakers:
Luigi Fusco Girard, "Federico II" Naples University

Javier E. Ramos Guallart, Secretary General for Housing Policy,
Ministry of Housing Policy, Madrid

Ray Bondin, Chairman of the International Scientific
Committee for Historical Cities, ICOMOS, Paris

Xavier Greffe, Director of the Doctoral School of Economics,
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

Joseph King, Sites Unit Director, International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), Rome

Bruno Discepolo, President of S.I.RE.NA. - CITTA'
STORICA SCpA, Naples

Malouch Slaheddine, Director General of the Urban Renewal Agency, Ariana, Tunisia

Anna Myalk, Director of the Federal Agency for the Protection of Monuments, Vladivostock, Russia

• Cities and creativity
  

Chair:
Guido Trombetti, Rector of "Federico II" Naples University

Speakers:
Amedeo Lepore, Bari University

Dominique Heron, Special Advisor to the Senior Executive, Veolia Winner of the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour

Grazia de Grazia, Councillor for Community Relations, Executive Secretary of the City Council, Ministry of Cities, Brasilia Winner of the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour

Johannesburg Housing Company, Winner of the BSHF World Habitat Award

Peter Nijkamp, Chairman of the European Heads of Research Councils, (EuroHORCs), The Hague

Jaime Lerner, Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil

Ambrogio Prezioso, President of the National Association
of Building Constructors (ANCE), Italy

Gaetan Siew, President of the International Union
of Architects (UIA), Mauritius

• Cities, conflict and reconstruction
  

Chair:
Antonio Bernardini, Minister in charge of Multilateral Cooperation Strategies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy

Speakers:
Anna K. Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Nairobi

Nicholas You, Strategic Advisor UN-Habitat, Nairobi

Ligia Ramirez, SIRP-Serbia Programme Chief, Head of UN-Habitat, Belgrade

Building Construction Improvement Programme, Winner of the BSHF World Habitat Award

Stefano De Caro, Regional Director of Landscape and Environmental Heritage, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Italy

Smiljko Kostic, Mayor of Nis, Serbia

Charles Boumendil, Director of Marcella Amenagement, Marseilles, France

Closing session – The future of cities

Chair:
Massimo Milone, Deputy editor of Tgr Campania (regional television news), Rai Italia

Rapporteurs:
Antonio Bernardini, Minister in charge of Multilateral
Cooperation Strategies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy

Francesco Caruso, Italian Ambassador to Sweden

Guido Trombetti, Rector of “Federico II" Naples University

Speakers:
Stefano Boeri, Director Domus, IUAV University, Venice

Benedetto Gravagnuolo, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture,
"Federico II" Naples University

Leonardo Benevolo, City planner and architectural historian