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The experts attending the conference will focus on five themes that pertain to creating sustainable urban environments through innovation at the conference:

• City management and long-term planning for megacities of the future
• Transportation and water in the next 50 years
• Alternative energy usage
• Next-generation networking for the global citizen
• Living spaces for future "work-live-play"

In addition to Dr. Kaku, eminent specialists who will speak at Futuropolis 2058 include:

• Gordon Bell, principal researcher at Microsoft Research;
• Charles Zukoski, Ph.D., chairman of A*STAR's Science and Engineering Research Council;
• Ellen Brennan-Galvin, Ph.D. lecturer and senior research scholar at Yale University and the former Chief of Population Policy at the United Nations;
• Richard Register, president of US-based Ecocity Builders.

Technology experts from such Fortune 500 companies as Google, Nokia, Sony, and CISCO as well as other progressive companies such as Vestas, Cemex and Nanosolar also will attend.

Futuropolis 2058 will mark the grand opening of Fusionopolis, a "world-within-a-city" where a community of diverse talent meet, interact and work towards creating an innovative new world through science, technology and enterprise.

In the same spirit of promoting a meeting of great scientific minds across disciplines to create the future, Futuropolis 2058 aims to create a platform for experts to share their perspectives on how advances in science and technology will revolutionise the future. Futuropolis 2058 is itself a collaborative effort between Singapore's leading public research organisation, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), and the Fulbright Academy for Science and Technology (FAST). This is FAST's inaugural conference in Asia.

"Futuropolis 2058 is part of Singapore's aspiration to be a global knowledge creation and
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