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
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Speakers
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
NOVEMBER 13
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)