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Wednesday June 11, 2008, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
at Rackham School of Graduate Studies
at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
Hosted by SMART / CARSS, University of Michigan
Free and open to the public

Welcome: Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan

Panelists include:

Sue Cischke, Vice President for Safety and Sustainability, Ford Motor Company
David Berdish, Manager, Sustainable Business Development, Ford Motor Company
Niel Golightly, Vice President, Downstream Communications & Sustainable Development, Shell International Petroleum Company Limited
Val Stoyanov, Managing Partner of Internet Business Solutions at Cisco Systems
Paul Morris, Vice President of Sustainable Planning & Development, Cherokee
Robin Chase, Founder and Former CEO of ZipCar, and CEO of GoLoco
Ashwin Mahesh, CEO, Mapunity India, and professor, Indian Institute of Management

Panelists are asked the question: How does New Mobility / sustainable transportation mean business for you, and how do you envision the future of the New Mobility industry globally?

Background:

By 2020 over two thirds of the planet will be living in city regions. This has profound implications for how we think about and implement transportation in a world of accelerating globalization, congestion, climate change, demographic shifts (including aging populations), and economic disparity.

The good news is that innovation is flourishing around the world. It is evolving beyond the quest for silver bullet solutions and technical fixes towards more multi-faceted, connected, customized, practical, affordable, and systems-based solutions, opening up entirely new solution spaces and related business and employment opportunities.

“New Mobility Means Business” will take a journey into the near and not so near future, profiling how new services, products, transport modes, energy sources, technologies, and designs are converging to provide urban transportation portfolios that work for people, the planet, and the economy.

The panel is part of a two-day workshop hosted by SMART / CARSS at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It will bring together scholars, business leaders, entrepreneurs, transportation professionals, and public officials from around the world to share knowledge and experience, to support collaborative research, and to build a business and innovation network with the aim of accelerating sustainable urban transportation implementation in cities around the world. Participants of this workshop please click here for more information.

For more information on the public panel contact Raye Holden, rholden@isr.umich.edu

To get involved in SMART, contact Susan Zielinski, Managing Director of SMART at susanz@isr.umich.edu.

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