🏙️ Built with Intelligence: When Cities Start Thinking
🏙️ Built with Intelligence: When Cities Start Thinking
📍 Ba 1220, Bahen Centre for Information – University of Toronto
🗓️ August 14th | ⏰ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
🎟️ Free • RSVP Required
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept; it’s already redefining how we design, govern, and experience urban life. But what happens when we stop planning around the city, and instead ask the city to think for itself?
Join us for an evening of curiosity, imagination, and bold ideas as we explore the role of AI in shaping the next generation of smart cities. From Japan’s Woven City to a hands-on mock trial reimagining a Canadian city, might evolve if intelligence were built into its infrastructure from the ground up. This session blends global vision with local creativity.
Featuring insights from Nilofar Khaleghi, creative director at Lynx Art and urban futurist, this evening will be part showcase, part simulation, and part open-floor conversation..
Whether you’re in urban planning, real estate, data science, engineering, or just wondering what our cities might become, this event is for you.
🤖 Why Attend?
• Dive into Woven City: one of the world’s boldest smart city experiments
• Participate in a mock trial, imagining AI in a Canadian city context
• Connect with peers across real estate, AI, policy, desig,n and beyond
• Contribute ideas to the growing AI Collective Real Estate & Civil vertical
• Enjoy open-floor dialogue, reflections, and light refreshments
👥 Who’s It For?
• Students, alumni, and faculty across real estate, urban systems, and engineering
• Professionals working in city-building, planning, data, and design
• Anyone curious about the real-world impact of artificial intelligence on where we live and how we shape it
🚨 Space is limited, and interest is already building.
If this topic sparks your curiosity even a little, be sure to grab your seat early and bring your voice to the conversation.
Let’s imagine what happens when our cities start thinking for themselves.
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As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!
Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 70,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
All attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective are subject to our Code of Conduct.
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Lynx Arts is a creative studio and cultural strategy firm based in Toronto, combining human insight with artificial intelligence to shape the future of branding, storytelling, and design.
We collaborate with founders, curators, and creators to craft brands that are not only visually stunning but also meaningful, data-driven, and culturally resonant. From luxury and wellness to art and emerging tech, Lynx Arts integrates in-depth research, AI-powered tools, and artistic sensibility to transform ideas into intelligent experiences.
We don’t just keep up with the times; we design the narratives that define them.