In 2025, InfraVision is exploring the theme Cities of tomorrow: reimagining urban infrastructure
In 2025, the Think Tank is examining how cities can secure their long-term resilience and sustainability by addressing questions such as :
How can cities rethink how they design and operate infrastructure to ensure they are ready to face megatrends such as rapid urbanization and the rise of climate-related events?
How can cities overcome the “tragedy of horizon,” i.e. aligning long-term infrastructure needs with short political cycles?
What actionable, infrastructure-specific levers can stakeholders – investors, private players, civil society – deploy now to accelerate the transition to adaptive cities?
How can governance ensure alignment among cities, governments, and investors for effective urban infrastructure policy?
And many more question, perhaps yours ?
Paris Infraweek was on the 4th of november 2025
We organized a series of workshops to gather informations on the cities of tomorrow
These workshops took the form of masterclass, webinar, a panels, odcasts, keynotes, and a student competition, bringing together experts, operators, investors, public officials, and academics around the future of urban infrastructure. These engagements contribute dto a new long‑form report, sponsored by Vauban Infrastructure Partners and developed with InfraVision corporate members in collaboration with Altermind, that blends academic expertise with business insights. It was presented during Paris InfraWeek on 4th November 2025 and is freely downloadable right here
Cities of tomorrow: reimagining urban infrastructure
Pathways toward integrated and adaptive urban infrastructure systems by 2050
Replay of the event
00:00:00 Introduction
Gwenola Chambon (CEO and founding Partner at Vauban Infrastructure Partners)
00:04:45 Keynote speech: Virginijus Sinkevičius
(Member of the European Parliament and former European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries)
00:21:15 Panel 1: Building cities for the long haul
Building cities for the long haul: urban infrastructure at the core of 21st challenges
Speakers: Reuven Carlyle (Former Washington State Senator), Jacques Darcy (Director at the European Investment Fund), Peter Haupt (CEO of Optimus Tower), Antoine Picon (Professor at Harvard University)- Moderator: Julia Sieger
01:04:10 Student competition – Award Ceremony
01:32:13 Keynote speech Ladeja Godina Košir
Founder and Executive Director of Circular Change
01:50:24 Panel 2: Ways forward
Ways forward: key levers to evolve towards adaptive systems of urban infrastructure
Speakers: Dominique Alba (CEO of Ateliers Jean Nouvel), Sébastien Fraisse (CEO of Indigo), Xavier Hürstel (Deputy CEO at ADP International), Paulo Moura (Deputy Director at IMREDD), Jon Phillips (CEO of Global Infrastructure Investors Association) – Moderator: Julia Sieger
02:34:48 Interview: Thomas Jolly
Artistic Director of the Paris 2024 Olympic Ceremonies, by Gwenola Chambon
02:49:33 Wrap up: Christophe Béchu
Mayor of Angers, former Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion
Pictures of the event
Pictures taken by Guillaume Galmiche
Here you will find all the workshop we did this year on our topic Cities of tomorrow:
Videos 2025 theme : Cities of tomorrow
Podcasts about Cities of Tomorrow
Listen to our podcast on all major platforms (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music)
Previous years researches
Leveraging on Vauban Infrastructure Partners & Altermind’s last four years of research
Cities of Tomorrow: reimagining urban infrastructure
Infrastructure & Inclusion
Circular Infrastructure
Social License to Operate
Infrastructure For Climate
