Creating The Foundations For A Sustainable Society

We are building a place that has never been seen in a time when the world desperately needs new solutions and a more a resilient future. Orchid City is the world's first self-sustaining city blueprint. Here, we reinvent how we coexist with nature and with each other. It goes beyond just being a beautiful place to live. It is a home for those who want to live happy, healthy lives in harmony with the environment and the community around them. Orchid City offers the first affordable, physically, socially, and environmentally sustainable city blueprint in the world.

Tom Bosschaert

Tom is the founder and director of Except, and the visionary force behind its development. Tom founded Except at the age of 19 in 1999 with a mission to find systemic solutions for our societal challenges by combining science, business, design, and communication. In the past decades, he has developed several hundred projects globally, for groundbreaking sustainable cities, buildings, business, policy, and industry.

Ilse Berdellans Escobar

Ms. Berdellans is an Energy System Analyst of the Planning and Economic Studies (PESS) at the IAEA. PESS helps IAEA Member States make informed energy planning decisions. This support helps countries formulate their energy policy and make investment decisions, including updates to their Nationally Determined Contributions to meet the Paris climate change agreement and fulfilment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Andrii Gritsevskyi

Andrii Gritsevskyi is Unit head in the Planning & Economic Studies Section of International Atomic Energy Agency where his work is focused on developing and providing to Member States analytical tools and information on energy systems issues including nuclear power, sustainable energy development and the role of different energy supply and demand options, with particular emphasis on capacity building in energy-environment planning in developing countries.