Dr. Sultan Hafeez Rahman, Executive Director of BIGD and Ms. Simeen Mahmud, Head, Gender Studies Cluster, BIGD attended a two-day long BIDS Critical Conversation 2017, held during 23 and 24 April, 2017 at a hotel in Dhaka addressing the “Bangladesh Journey: Accelerating Transformation”. Dr. Hafeez chaired a session titled Sustainable Cities in Bangladesh: Issues and Strategies, where Ms. Mahmud was a Distinguished Panelist at the session titled ‘Status of Women Entrepreneurship: What have we achieved?’. The event created an opportunity for the policy makers and a broad spectrum of academics, practitioners, experts and civil society members engaged in a genuine conversation on the current state of development and critical challenges for the future.