Claudio Orrego

Urban regeneration is no longer only about renewing buildings or infrastructure, but about reshaping everyday life in the city. This session will explore how cities can reclaim and redesign neighborhoods and public spaces to make them more livable, inclusive, safe and resilient, bringing together governance, planning, design, investment and innovation to create lasting public value.

How are Latin American cities scaling digital transformation? This co-organized brings together representatives from municipalities across the region to share lessons on governance, financing, and institutional design. Through practical experiences, the session will explore how cities are moving from innovation pilots to develop sustainable urban digital policies, strengthen institutional capacity and ensure long-term impact.

Housing pressures increasingly unfold at metropolitan scale, requiring coordination across municipalities, levels of government and sectors. Drawing on the work of the National Housing Crisis Task Force, Bruce Katz will reflect on the US housing crisis and emerging responses, while Claudio Orrego will bring the perspective of the Santiago Metropolitan Region. The dialogue will explore how metropolitan leadership can align housing, land, infrastructure, and investment around shared territorial goals, and build the institutional cooperation and cross-sector coalitions needed to move from fragmented action to coordinated delivery.