ONLINE: Swimmable Cities Summit - Official Welcome & Opening Plenary

Can’t make it to Rotterdam? Don’t worry! Here’s a way to be part of the action.

Join us for the beginning of Day 2 (Technical Day) at the inaugural Swimmable Cities Summit in Rotterdam. We’ll welcome participants from around the world and hear from international speakers at the forefront of the urban swimming movement.

Official Welcome:

• Meike van Ginneken, Water Envoy for the Kingdom of the Netherlands

• Matt Sykes, Co-Founder & Convenor, Swimmable Cities

Opening Plenary – What makes a City swimmable?

• Vice Mayor Mr Pascal Lansink-Bastemeijer, City of Rotterdam (NL)

• Toby Robinson, Paris Olympian (Team Great Britain)

• Katie Pumphrey, Ultramarathon swimmer (Baltimore, USA)

• Oumaima Ouaissa, Youth leader (Oxfam Novib & Wavemakers United, NL)

• Paul Steinbruck, Pool Is Cool (Brussels, BE) 

The Co-Masters of Ceremonies will be Marilotte Stemmerdink (City of Rotterdam) and Adrian van der Linden (Ambassador, Swimmable Cities; & Leisurelands).

For more information, go the Summit event page:

https://events.humanitix.com/swimmable-cities-summit-2025-rotterdam

Tickets:

SC Signatories - 15 Euro

General Admission - 25 Euro

(With your ticket, you support our collective action, with a small % going back to Humanitix).


World Times:

Portland – 12am - Hang in there team!
New York – 3am - That's commitment!
Rio de Janeiro – 4am - That's incredible commitment!
London – 8am
Rotterdam & Paris – 9am
New Delhi – 12:30pm
Shanghai – 3:00pm
Melbourne –5:00pm

Organised by Regeneration Projects, the official incubator of the Swimmable Cities alliance, on behalf of the Steering Committee:

Ana Mumladze Detering, Pan European Urban Bathing Network & SVDK Vienna
Chris Romer-Lee, Thames Baths & Future Lidos
Sibylle van der Walt, Metz Ville d'Eau
Tim Edler, Flussbad Berlin
Matt Sykes, Regeneration Projects - Convenor

More info: hello@regenprojects.earth

Photo: Lantaren Venster, Rijnhaven, Rotterdam.