What happens when AI meets the human scale? 

In this fireside, Angie Mendez moderates a conversation between Gehl, leading developers and city administrators on how technology can become a shared language for better urban decisions – not just a faster way to produce more plans. Better data can help us test more possibilities, understand consequences earlier and challenge assumptions that have often relied on instinct. But better models still require judgment.

Together, the panel explores where AI, public-life data, behavioural insight and local knowledge can improve decisions on land use, mobility, amenities, density and public space – and which decisions should remain grounded in experience and an understanding of how people live. The question is not whether data can make cities smarter, but whether we can use it to make planning more relevant, more precise and more human.