Floating Cities: Combating a Global Housing Crisis

This event took place on Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 10:00 AM UTC.

Venue: Austin Convention Center, Room 18CD Aria Bendix, Marc Collins Chen, Henry Elkus, Itai Madamombe In the next decades, climate change, rising sea levels, and rapid population growth will converge to displace an estimated 1.5 billion people by 2050, creating an unprecedented global housing and humanitarian emergency. The imperative to rethink and radically re-imagine human habitation has never been more urgent than it is now. In partnership with UN Habitat, OCEANIX is developing a solution: the world’s first real-world prototype for scalable and sustainable floating cities. In this panel, Aria Bendix will speak to Henry Elkus, founder and CEO of Helena, and OCEANIX co-founders Marc Collins Chen and Itai Madamombe about the future of cities, creating equitable and sustainable solutions to global challenges, and setting ethical precedents for the development of our oceans.