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February

The first visit of Harvard Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Founding of Future City Summit.

August

The first Future City Summit Annual Meet hosted in campus of The University of Hong Kong.

October

Awarded Global Partnership Seed Fund from Vice President Office of The University of Hong Kong.

APRIL

Future City Summit was registered as "Limited by Guarantee" as non profit organisation in Hong Kong

AUGUST

Future City Summit Annual Meet 2017 was held in campus of The University of Hong Kong with the theme "Fast Forward to 2030: The New Land of Opportunities and Crisis"
MoU Signing Ceremony in Future City Summit Annual Meet 2018 in Guangzhou with Russ Earl Malangan. Acceleration Partner of Launchgarage(The Philippines), Aditya Dave. Representative of The Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) of IIT(India) and Andy Ip, Managing Director of Gungho Space(Mainland China)

JANUARY

Proposed the first bottom-up development model, first ideation of venture capital of the group. consolidation of portfolios and emerging future cities network with all stakeholders.
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AUGUST

Future City Summit Annual Meet 2018. with the main theme of ''Rise Again Little Dragon" and "Once Upon A Time in China ', was held in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Foshan with the support of Cyberport Hong Kong, Guangdong Zhujiang(Pearl River) Investment Holdings and The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Establishment of Emerging Future Cities Network in Guangzhou with 12 other stakeholders from Cambodia, Palestine, Singapore, Hong Kong. Sri Lanka and The Philippines.
Director of Public Private Partnership by Youth, Shadman Sadab, with the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006, Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank, in the development program "Public Private Partnership by Youth Manila" in March 2019.

JANUARY

Ir. M.A. Dezire Mulyani, M.Si

Director of Denpasar Goverment Tourism Office

Ir. M.A. Dezire Mulyani, M.Si

Director of Denpasar Goverment Tourism Office

Development Program series "Public Private Partnership by Youth" in Bali with partnership of Denpasar Mayor Office, Tourism Department, and Global Shapers Community Denpasar Hub. Establishment of Emerging Future Tourism Cities Network in Denpasar.

MARCH

Development Program series "Public Private Partnership by Youth" in Manila with partnership of Launchgarage, YY Goshti and Social Business Youth Alliance with Prof. Muhammad Yunus.
Establishment of Emerging Future Cities Social Business Network in Manila.
Due Diligence of the first company portfolio of venture capital of the group, PearlPay

JULY

Development Program series "Public Private Partnership by Youth" in Bangkok with partnership of National Innovation Agency, Shark Tank Thailand, and Glowfish.
Establishment of Emerging Future Cities Network Bangkok Agenda.

AUGUST

Future City Summit Annual Meet 2019 was held in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, with Chicago University, University of Chicago Booth Business School and Chicago Booth Angels Network.
Establishment of Greater Emerging Future Cities Network in Shenzhen with the witness of Hong Kong Deputy to 13th National People's Congress (NPC) and Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong, Shenzhen Qianhai Authority.
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The first partnership program with Singaporean based NGO, Choson Exchange for urban design and development project financing workshop in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, by Chief Strategy Officer, Ms. Peggy Tse.
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OCTOBER

First launch of Future City Summit Urban Insight Series in Melbourne, Australia.
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November

First partnership program with Choson Exchange, World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO) and 100 Resilient Cities for hosting Urban Innovation Forum in Singapore
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December

Name changing into "Good City Foundation", remaining "Future City Summit" as the brand name of the annual summit, forming the venture capital arm of the group, "Rainmaker Ventures".
Capital and portfolio consolidation into group structure

JANUARY

Development Program series Season II "Public Private Partnership by Youth" in Indonesia "Champion Indonesia", in Bali, Yogyakarta and Bandung respectively, with corresponding Mayor Office and Tourism Board.

DECEMBER

The 5th Anniversary and the 5th Annual Meet of Future City Summit was hosted in Hong Kong hybrid, sponsored by the InvestHK and Cyberport Hong Kong with the theme of "Global Post-Pandemic Recovery Agenda", co-hosted with the 4 local partners: Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme Scholars Association(HKSESSA), Dream Impact(DI), Impact Circles (IC) and Global Solutions Foundation(GSF).

The 5th Annual Meet welcomed and received over 34,000 live traffic from 49 nationalities online-offline, with a series of thought-leadership dialogues with influential figures such as Stephen Phillips of InvestHK, Petrider Paul(Tanzania) of African Union Youth Advisory Council, Tita Larasati (Indonesia) of Indonesia Creative Cities Network, and Retnam Shanmuga of ASEAN Smart Cities Network, along with multiple side sessions.

As an overall achievement, a global-scale moonshot ecosystem composed of 22 countries with members in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East and Africa pledged at the closing ceremony to collaborate with members of Emerging Future Cities Network formed in 2018 and international high-level communities such as ASEAN Smart Cities Network and G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance. A 10-year agenda objective was then set forth to impact 100 emerging cities of 500,000 population each through digital urban innovation, advanced public policy and governance entrepreneurship.

Good City Foundation is currently Institutional Partner of the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance (GSCA) on Technology Governance, secretariat by the World Economic Forum for nominating promising and open city government for engaging to the Alliance for urban transformation.

Good City Foundation is a non-governmental non-profit multilateral development organization focused on the facilitation and growth of local government projects, startups, businesses and other potential projects in different emerging cities of the world.

Private Sector Committee (Advisory Council) of ASEAN Smart Cities Network, endorsed by Ministry of Construction, Vietnam

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