Disrupting Mobility: A Global Summit Investigating Sustainable Futures

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A Global Summit Investigating Sustainable Futures
November 11-13, 2015, Cambridge, MA

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Early bird registration (before September 30, 2015) is now open for Disrupting Mobility. Disrupting Mobility will bring together around 350 mobility experts from different continents. The program will tackle current trends in mobility by attracting thought leaders from companies, governments and academia. The event includes:

  • Multi-track sessions that foster controversial discussions
  • Insights from other industries
  • A hackathon for those who rather act than talk
  • Networking events

Registration

Registration fees: $550

Early Bird (Registration before September 30, 2015): $375

Hackathon (November 6-8, 2015): $20

SUMMIT REGISTER HERE

HACKATHON REGISTER HERE

Venue

The Summit and Hackathon will be hosted at the MIT Media Lab, located at 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Organizers

Building upon the first Shared Use Vehicle Summit held in 2013, the 2015 Disruptive Mobility Summit is co-hosted by the University of California at Berkeley, MIT Media Lab, and the London School of Economics. The event organizers are mobility experts from leading universities, governments and companies:

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RYAN CHIN

MIT Media Lab

Ryan Chin is the managing director of the City Science Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. He conducts research on disruptive urban systems in the areas of urban mobility, live/work, building-integrated agriculture, and big data analytics. He is creating Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) Systems – a network of self-driving, shared-use, lightweight electric vehicles (EVs) for cities. He also developed MoD EVs including the GreenWheel, RoboScooter, Persuasive Electric Vehicle, and the CityCar – a foldable, electric, two-passenger vehicle. The CityCar is designed to meet European Union regulations for roadworthy urban EVs. Time Magazine named CityCar the “Automotive Invention of the Year” in 2007. Research on MoD systems led to the MIT Press publication of Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century by Mitchell, Borroni-Bird, and Burns in 2010.

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ADAM COHEN

Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

Adam Cohen is a research associate at the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Since joining the group in 2004, he has focused his research on shared mobility. He has co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. In 2008, he completed a dual Masters degree in city and regional planning and international affairs from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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WOLFGANG GRUEL

MIT Media Lab / Daimler

Wolfgang Gruel holds a dual appointment with MIT Media Lab and moovel, Daimler’s subsidary for innovative mobility solutions, to create outstanding mobility solutions for urban areas.  Wolfgang helped to build up car2go and the mobility platform moovel. While car2go is the world’s leading provider of flexible carsharing programs that is now available in more than 25 cities worldwide, the mobility platform moovel is offering customers the best options for traveling from point A to point B by combining diverse modes of transportation.

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FLORIAN LENNERT

London School of Economics / Intelligent City Forum

Florian Lennert is Director of the Intelligent City Forum. Intelligent City is a joint venture of the Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change (InnoZ) in Berlin and LSE Enterprise, the venture and innovation division of the London School of Economics (LSE). He also serves as an Associate Director of LSE Enterprise.

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SUSAN SHAHEEN

Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

Susan’s interest in environmentally- and socially-beneficial technology applications led her to focus her doctoral research on carsharing, linked to public transit in the mid-1990s. Today, she is an internationally recognized expert in mobility and the sharing economy and co-directs the Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. She is also an adjunct professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. She has authored 55 journal articles, over 100 reports and proceedings articles, four book chapters, and co-edited one book. Her research projects on carsharing, smart parking, and older mobility have received national awards.

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Program

HACKATHON (NOVEMBER 6-7, 2015)

NOVEMBER 6

5:00-6:00pm            Registration and light snacks served

6:00-7:00pm            Hackathon Kick-off (Introduction, guidelines, judging criteria, team formation)

NOVEMBER 7

8:00am-10:00pm     Hackathon day 1 (breakfast, lunch, dinner included)

NOVEMBER 8

8:00am-2:00pm        Hackathon day 2 (breakfast, lunch included)

2:00-5:00pm              Hackathon presentations, judging, and awards

DISRUPTING MOBILITY SUMMIT (NOVEMBER 11-13, 2015)

NOVEMBER 11

5:00-7:00pm              Kick-off reception at Zipcar headquarters (Boston)

NOVEMBER 12

7:30-8:30am              Registration & Breakfast

8:30-9:00am              Event Welcome

9:00-10:30am            Disrupting Mobility (Keynote Session)

Dan Doctoroff, Sidewalk Labs
Kent Larson, MIT Media Lab

10:30-11:00am           Morning Break

11:00am-12:30pm      Technology Disrupting Mobility

Edgar Blanco, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Sertac Karaman,  MIT Aero/Astro
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, MIT Media Lab

12:30-1:30pm           Lunch

1:30-3:00pm             Innovating to Zero (Parallel Session)

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, London School of Economics
Philipp Bouteiller, Tegel Project GmbH
Florian Lennert, InnoZ

                                    Social Trends Disrupting Mobility (Parallel Session)

Paul DeLong, Car2go
Shomik Mehndiratta, Uber
Susan Shaheen, U.C. Berkeley
Zachary Wasserman, Via

3:00-3:30pm             Afternoon break

3:30-5:30pm             Transforming Cities: Implications for an Urban Age (Parallel Session)

Edward Glaeser, Harvard University
Adam Greenfield, Urbanscale
Philipp Rode, London School of Economics
Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates
Anthony Townsend, NYU

Access & Mobility to Cross Income, Digital, and Land Use Divides (Parallel Session)

Tilly Chang, San Francisco County Transportation Authority
Ryan Croft, Transit Screen
Jeffrey Malz, SilverRide
Jennifer O’Brien, Hopista
Douglas Shinkle, National Conference of State Legislatures
Gerry Tierney, Perkins + Will

5:30-6:00pm            Posters session 6:30-10:00pm          Reception with award ceremony for Best Paper and Hackathon winners

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8:30-9:00am             Disrupting Cities (Keynote Session)

Raffaello D’Andrea, ETH

9:00-10:30am            Mobility and the Sharing Economy

Bob Burns, B-Cycle Emily Castor, Lyft Amanda Eaken, NRDC Justin Holmes, Zipcar Tim Papandreou, SFMTA

10:30-11:00am            Morning Break

11:00am-12:00pm       Governing for Disruption (Parallel Session)

John Clippinger, MIT Media Lab & Berkman Center
Nigel Jacob, City of Boston
Peter Marx, City of Los Angeles                     

12:00-1:00pm              Designing for Disruption (Parallel Session)

Ryan Chin, MIT Media Lab
Mitchell Joachim, TerreForm ONE
Chris Osgood, City of Boston

1:00-1:30pm                  Moving Beyond Disruption (Conference Conclusion)

Kaye Ceille, Zipcar 

1:30-2:30pm                  Lunch

2:30-5:00pm                 Company visits and campus tours (optional)

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