Public Speaking

Mustafa is a public speaker in English, Swedish, and Arabic. He is very familiar with speaking on a physical stage and also digitally. Mustafa is very comfortable speaking in front of a very small or a very large audience. His audience record so far is speaking in front of 1300 people physically and 1500 people digitally. He speaks on topics related to:

• Placemaking
• Making Cities for People (social sustainability in urban planning and design)
• Future Cities
• Child-Friendly Cities
• Finding passion and a career model
• Storytelling and presenting ideas

Read the list at the end of this page of Mustafa’s public speaking activities

Moderator

Mustafa is moderating (English, Swedish, Arabic) workshops, small and large events, summits, and conferences within topics related to:

• Placemaking
• City development, planning, and design
• Architecture
• Innovation
• HR, Talent attraction, passion, career

Read the list of Mustafa’s public speaking activities below.

A selection of speaking/moderating

Get in touch

Mustafa is available for moderating, public speaking, lecturing & leading workshops on topics that are related to urban planning and the design of livable cities. Email info@mustafasherif.com or send your message below:

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List of activities

Public Speaking
Topic. Event/Place

• Child-Friendly Cities and Co-Creation, Symposium, Al Ahsa City, KSA
• Child Friendly cities, message – The Art of Urban Story Design, Vienna, Austria
• Placemaking movment, Köpcentrum och butiker, Fastighetsvärlden, Stockholm, Sweden
• Placemaking and children, Placemaking Europe Week, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• PLACExNordic, The Place Attractiveness Conference, Uppsala City, Sweden
• The Open (the) Debate, Placemaking conference, Brussels, Belgium
• Future cities for people or for AI. Yearly conference of PMI, Istanbul, Turkey
• Welcoming 450 new students to the Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
• Accessible and inclusive architecture and Cities, Open House EU festival, Lisbon, Portugal
• Local Governance Symposium 2024, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Child-Friendly Cities, Architects without Borders, Stockholm, Sweden
• Personal branding for Placemakers, Placemaking EU Week, Pontevedra, Spain
• Storytelling and Pitching ideas, Hack Her Health Hackathon, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Female Leader Engineer Day 2023, Stockholm, Sweden
• SDG 11. Solna Gymnasium school Erasmus + program, Solna, Sweden
• Storytelling and pitching technique, Hack Her Health, Göteborg, Sweden
• Kurs om att söka medel och skriva ansökningar, Arkus stiftelse och förening, Sveriges Arkitekter 2023, Stockholm, Sweden
• Barnvänliga städer. Berghs Schgool of Communication, Stockholm, Sweden
• Barnrättsperspektivet inom fysisk planering och stadsutveckling. Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner
• Barnvänliga städer, connecting place to people. ElinderSten, Stockholm, Sweden
• A Smart City for Children. STRUCTUM PROJEKT AI
• A Future City for Children. KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The master’s program in Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden
• Planning Child-Friendly Cities. KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Sustainable Urban Planning and Design Master’s program. Introduction course, Stockholm, Sweden
• En breddad arkitektroll?. Sveriges Arkitekter. Kurs Steg 1 Arkitektrollen, Stockholm, Sweden
• Cities for Children and Podcast. Kunskapsdagen Betonggalan, Stockholm, Sweden
• Hitta din passion. Samhällsbyggnadslänkens dag, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• The Future of Urban Planning. Urban Planning Program, LTH Lund University, Lund, Sweden
• Planning Cities for People. Social Innovation Summit Event 2021
• Podcast och stadsplanering. Utställningen Jävla Kritiker, Stockholms Arkitektur Förening
• How to mentor kids?. Hack for Kids 2020 by UNICEF and the Swedish Institute
• How to get help from Mentors during the Hackathon?. Hack for Earth EXPO 2020
• Urban Planning and Our Future Cities. AFRY Food and Pharma Event
• Almunai Night for Career Advice, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• How to empower Youth?. AFRY Youth Panel Event
• Presentation skills. AFRY E-Learning course
• Introduction of Mentoring program, AFRY, E-Learning course
• Passion and Mission. AFRY Future Stars Program
• Passion and Mission. AFRY HR Team
• From video games to urban planning. Enbacksskolan Tensta visit at AFRY HQvideo games

Moderating
Topic. Event/Place/year

• Everyday Adventure: Designing the City for Children, Placemaking Week, Reggio Emilia, Italy 2025
• ClimateNeutral Cities, AFRY Future Cities studio, Stockholm, Sweden, 2025
• Innovation Summit in the Social Housing Sector, The Kingdom of Bahrain, 2025
• Samhällsbyggnads dagar, a conference for Urban Planning and Design, Stockholm, 2024
• Placemaking Week Europe, Nordic Placemaking panel, Rotterdam 2024
• Placemaking Week Europe, Panel: Placemaking from Classroom to Universities, Rotterdam 2024
• Child Friendly Cities, Open House Architecture festival, and Centrum för AMP, Stockholm
• The City of Arts, Webinar series, Online, 2023-2024
• “Winter is coming.” Placemaking in the winter webinar, Online, 2024
• Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, Stockholm 2024
• Future Cities Studio webinar: Climate natural Cities, AFRY, Solna 2024
• Gesaltad livemiljö, Boverket, ArkDes, Stockholm 2023
• Arkitektur från insidan, Sveafastigheter, Stockholm 2023
• IFLA International Federation of Landscape Architects World Congress, Pre-Webinar, Stockholm, 2023
• Breakfast Broadcast Food and Life Science AFRY, Stockholm 2022
• Future Mobility Conference AFRY & SVEA, Stockholm 2022
• Cities for Children (Barn vänliga städer). AFRY Future Cities Studio, 2022
• Cities for People. Gather Deep Talk Audio festival on Clubhouse 2021
• Urban Planning & Society. Gather Festival in Stockholm 2021
• Lansering av tidning PLAN (Planering och pandemi) 2021. Föreningen för samhällsplanering
• Edible School Gardens and Urban Farming Event 2021
• Future of Smart Cities: a holistic approach, sustainability & smart solutions. Beamline Accelerator Event 2021

Interviews/Panel
Topic. Event/Place

• How to bring different communities together through placemaking, Placemaking Week Europe, Rotterdam
• Placemaking Sweden, Prata plats, Stockholm, Sweden
• Everyday Adventure: Designing the City for Children, Placemaking Week, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Sustainability and Placemaking, Studio Architecture Stockholm, Stockholm
• Learnings about liveable cities from Baghdad, Stockholm, Milan, and Parkly Finland
• Multidisciplinary Urbanists: Talent for Placemaking in Cities. Placemaking EU week in Spain
• Hållbart Byggande tidskrift, personlig intervju
• The Global Village, intervju för en reapport om svenskirakiers levnadsförhållanden i Sverige
• Drömstad och barnets perspektiv. PLANERA FÖR RETRÄTT. TIDSKRIFTEN STAD 35
• EXPO2020 visit. Dubai TV
• SDGs 2030 Goal 1 & 12. Panel. A sustainable Start ABLE Foundation
• SDGs 2030 Goal 6 & 11. Panel. A sustainable Start ABLE Foundation
• Planning Cities for People. Panel. Social Innovation Summit Event 2021
• How to empower Youth?. Panel. AFRY Youth Panel Event
• Communication and Urban Planning. Placemaking Pakistan
• Skills Development. Skill-insight Sweden storyboard
• Planning cities for people. The Swedish Institute of Russian
• Urbanistica Podcast. The Center for the Future of Places (CFP) at the ABE School at KTH
• A key element to success. Alkompis Newspaper
• Enabler of the Year Award. Alkompis Newspaper
• Best Bachelor’s Thesis Award. Alkompis Newspaper
• Success stories. Alkompis Newspaper

Podcast guest
Mustafa was a guest on the following podcasts:
Topic. Podcast name

• Integration challenges, Sveriges Radio
• Var ska Kulturen Bo?. Arwidsson Talks Podcast
• Child-Friendly Cities. Oracle Podcast
• Making cities for people. Urbanista Podcast
• Barnrätt stad Vs. Barn Vänliga stad. Barnrättpodcast
• Can a podcast change our cities?. Urbcast Podcast
• Planning cities for people. Audiovisual Podcast
• Belonging to our Cities. Create Belonging Podcast
• Urban Planning and Sustainability. The Master Pods Podcast
• Making friends with everyone. My worst Investment Podcast
• Child Friendly Cities. Hopeless to Hotspot Podcast