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NEW YORK — The Economist announced that United States Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, and others will participate in its upcoming Ideas Economy: Intelligent Infrastructure event. The conference, which will be held in New York City on Feb. 16-17, will focus on the global challenges and innovative solutions necessary for building intelligent infrastructure.

During the next several decades, the world will spend $30 trillion on infrastructure. Intelligent Infrastructure will explore how green architecture, geo-engineering, smart systems, and connectivity will allow countries and governments to create a smarter and stronger infrastructure. It also will focus on how cutting-edge development in this area can leverage the speed and vitality of private markets while at the same time including smarter government regulation.

“As the global population increases dramatically over the next 30 years, the demand for energy, water, transportation, financing, and education will rise,” said Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Global Correspondent for The Economist. “Intelligent Infrastructure will bring together some of the nation’s foremost experts to discuss the growing demand and how infrastructure can address that, as well as create jobs and stimulate economic activity.”

Participants already confirmed to take part in the conference include:

• David Bloom, chair, department of global health and population, Harvard School of Public Health
• Jonathan Bush, CEO, athenahealth
• John Campbell, CEO, Waterfront Toronto
• Neil Chambers, founder and CEO, ChambersDesign
• Henry Cisneros, former secretary of housing & urban development; chairman, CityView
• Richard A. Cook, partner, Cook + Fox Architects
• Tom Darden, executive director, Make it Right
• Dickson Despommier, emeritus professor, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
• Tristan d'Estree Sterk, architect, The Office for Robotic Architectural Media
• Edward Fenster, CEO and co-founder, SunRun
• Mark Gabriel, CEO, Halcrow Group
• Stan Gale, chairman and managing partner, Gale Management
• Frank Gehry, partner, Gehry Partners
• David Gelernter, professor of computer science, Yale University
• Bob Gilligan, vice president, GE Energy, Transmission & Distribution
• Nicholas Hann, executive director, Macquarie Capital Markets Canada
• Jack Hidary, founder, Jack Hidary Foundation
• Rebecca M. Henderson, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Harvard Business School
• Nick Jeffery, CEO, Vodafone Global Enterprise
• Mitchell Joachim, co-founder, Terreform ONE and Terrefuge
• Laurie Johnson, co-author, “Clear as Mud”
• David Keith, director, ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group, University of Calgary
• Syd Kitson, chairman and CEO, Kitson & Partners
• Zach Karabell, president, River Twice Research
• Parag Khanna, senior research fellow and director of Global Governance Initiative, New America Foundation
• Madhu Koneru, executive vice chairman, MEC Holdings
• Fred Krupp, president, Environmental Defense Fund
• Vivek Kundra, chief information officer, United States of America
• Steve Lewis, CEO, Living PlanIT SA
• Thom Mayne, founder, Morphosis Architects
• Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman, One Laptop per Child
• Richard G. Newell, administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
• Rene Obermann, CEO, Deutsche Telekom
• Amir Peleg, founder and CEO, TaKaDu
• Patrick L. Phillips, CEO, Urban Land Institute
• Robert Puentes, senior fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
• Iqbal Z. Quadir, founder and director, Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship
• Carlo Ratti, director, SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT
• Judith Rodin, president, The Rockefeller Foundation
• Saskia Sassen, Robert S.Lynd Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
• Andrew Shapiro, founder and president, Green Order
• KR Sridar, founder and CEO, Bloom Energy
• Simon Stevens, president, Global Health, UnitedHealth Group
• Brad Tirpak, managing director, Locke Partners
• Petra Todorovich, director, America 2050
• James Wilsdon, director, Royal Society Science Policy Centre
• Tim Wirth, president, United Nations Foundation
• Ken Yeang, chairman, Llewelyn Davies Yeang

The event is sponsored by CA and Halcrow, with supporting sponsorship from GM. InnoCentive is the Challlenge Partner for the Ideas Economy series.

For more information on the program, speakers, or to register for the event, visit http://ideas.economist.com.