11-13 November 2015 | MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts
@disruptmobility
#dmo15
The sustainable transformation of both energy and transport systems is a global challenge. The Disrupting Mobility Summit will explore the potential of disruptive technologies and services to enable ubiquitous zero-emissions smart mobility.
Significant efforts are under way to advance post-fossil mobility systems deploying alternative propulsion technologies and integrating renewable energy systems with smart city and smart mobility infrastructures. Simultaneously, digitalisation is catalysing new shared, multi-modal and on-demand mobility services, often peer-to-peer and outside established sectors. Traditional transport markets are in flux and new players are emerging with disruptive service offerings and technologies, blurring the boundaries between private and public transport. Autonomous – and aerial – vehicles and services will increasingly further reshape traditional transport provision and mobility choices.
The combined effect of these developments – and their interrelation with evolving urban design, public health and infrastructure paradigms – will have far reaching impact on how public transport, private mobility and logistics can be sustainably organized in the future. The summit will investigate the shaping of this post-fossil mobility space and examine sustainable pathways to fully decarbonising both public and private transport.
The Disrupting Mobility Summit will offer a platform for policy-makers, academics, technologists, entrepreneurs and a unique opportunity to engage with a diverse and international group of experts working at the vanguard of socio-technological change. It is organised as part of the Intelligent City Forum between the MIT Media Lab, U.C. Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), the Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change (InnoZ) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE Cities and LSE Enterprise).
Key topics:
- Innovating to Zero: Potential of disruptive technologies and services to enable ubiquitous zero-emissions smart mobility
- Megatrends disrupting mobility: globalization, megaregions, urbanization, demographic shifts, and climate change
- Technology disrupting mobility: the role of autonomous and connected vehicles, mega logistics, social networking, and smartphone apps
- Social Trends Disrupting Mobility: generational differences, lifestyle shifts, geo-socialization, and social technologies
- Governing for Disruption: legal issues, policies, and best practices around governing, taxing, and regulating disruptive technologies
- Designing for Disruption: design challenges and design solutions of future mobility systems
- Society: Role of technology as it empowers individuals and institutions to share and redistribute excess capacity of goods and services
- Cities: Implications for global urbanization and urban change that may emerge as a result of disruptive changes of mobility and transport systems
- Access: Environmental justice and equity issues pertaining to the access and mobility of special needs populations
Confirmed participants include Dan Doctoroff (Chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs), Edward Glaeser (Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University), Victor Mendez (US Deputy Secretary of Transportation), Janette Sadik-Khan (Principal at Bloomberg Associates and a former Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Transportation), Shoshana Zuboff (Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School) and Raffaello D’Andrea (ETH Zurich) and many others.
For more information on the programme, speakers and registration, visit the Disrupting Mobility website.
