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FEBRUARY 16 DAY ONE |
Eastern Standard Time/UTC-05:00 |
MAIN STAGE
| 8:05 - 8:25 EST | Opening Address & Keynote
WATCH |
Riccardo Puliti, Vice President for Infrastructure, World Bank
Ani Dasgupta, President & Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Alok Sharma, President, COP26, UK |
| 8:25 - 9:30 |
Plenary 1 - Leveraging Transport for a Sustainable Recovery
WATCH |
H.E. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, Egypt
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mayor of Mexico City, Mexico Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), India Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister of Transport, France Anna Bjerde, Vice President, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank |
| 9:30 - 9:55 |
Fireside Chat on Building Back Better
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Annie Petsonk, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation
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| 9:55 - 10:05 | Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
| 10:05 - 11:05 |
Plenary 2 - Greener, More Integrated, and Competitive Logistics
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Andrea Meza Murillo, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica
Juanita Maree, Chief Executive Officer, South African Association of Freight Forwarders (Presentation) Mitch Jackson, Chief Sustainability Officer, FedEx Corporation Jaya Verma Sinha, Additional Member Traffic, Railway Board, India |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
| 11:20 - 12:20 EST |
1. Reimagining Public Transport to Meet Climate Goals
WATCH |
Franz Drees-Gross (Moderator), Infrastructure Regional Director, World Bank
Benjamin Welle, Director, Integrated Transport & Innovation, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities (Presentation) Eduardo Reis, Presidency's Advisor, SPTrans, Brazil Maruxa Cardama, Secretary General, SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport Gail Jennings, Transport and Mobility Research Consultant Javier Garduño, Head of Planning, Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development, Government of Mexico (Presentation) Georges Darido, Lead Urban Transport Specialist, World Bank |
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2. Leapfrogging Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Mobility (delivered by the Inter-American Development Bank) WATCH |
Nestor Roa (Moderator), Chief of the Transport Division, Inter-American Development Bank Presentation
Susana Morales, Undersecretary of Mobility Policy, District Mobility Secretariat, Bogotá, Colombia Stephen Perkins, Head of Research and Policy Analysis, International Transport Forum of the OECD Ana Wollmann Zornig Jayme, Public Financing and Investment Advisor, Institute of Research and Urban Planning of Curitiba Carlos Mier y Terán Ordiales, Deputy General Director of Investment Banking, National Bank of Public Works and Services, Mexico |
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3. Urban Freight: How to Deliver Reduced Carbon Emissions? WATCH |
Rosemarie Cramer (Moderator), Advisor International Sustainable Logistics, The Netherlands Enterprise Agency, The Netherlands
Henrik Gudmundsson, Senior Consultant at CONCITO, Denmark Tu My Tran, Head of Sustainable Mobility and Global Coordinator, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Daizong Liu, China Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities; Director of Communications, WRI China Verena Ehrler, Chair of the Community of Interest on Zero Emission Urban Freight, Transport Decarbonisation Alliance |
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4. Investing in Sustainable Urban Mobility for Africa WATCH |
Ibou Diouf (Moderator), Transport Practice Manager, West Africa, World Bank
Hongye Fan, Transport Specialist, World Bank (Presentation) Edward Andrew Beukes, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank Tariye Gbadegesin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment Ltd. Tony Dufays, Director, International Business Development, Keolis Hassan Sulemana Tampuli, Deputy Minister for Transport, Ghana Diep Nguyen-Van Houtte, Senior Manager of the Global Infrastructure Upstream Team, International Finance Corporation |
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| 12:20 - 12:35 | Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
MAIN STAGE
| 12:35 - 13:35 EST |
Plenary 3 - Inclusive Transport Systems That Support Climate Action
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Christian Brand, Associate Professor in Transport Energy
and Environment, University of Oxford (Presentation)
Khalid Alhogail, President, International Association of Public Transport Alice Nicollet, Chief of Staff for Deputy Mayor of Paris for Transformation of the Public Space, Transportation, Mobility Kelly Larson, Program Director, Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety Bronwen Thornton, Chief Executive Officer, Walk21 Foundation |
| 13:35 - 13:50 | Vision Zero Challenge Award Ceremony
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Matthew Baldwin, Deputy Director-General for Mobility and Transport, European Commission
Zoleka Mandela, Global Road Safety Ambassador, Zoleka Mandela Foundation Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Acting Director of Urban Mobility & Director of Health & Road Safety, WRI Ross Center For Sustainable Cities Manuela López Menéndez, Secretary of Transportation and Public Works, Government of the City of Buenos Aires Jussara Bellavinha, Traffic Safety Coordinator, BHTRANS, Belo Horizonte Jorge Muñoz Wells, Metropolitan Mayor of Lima, Peru Rafael Kotaseg Hernandez, General Director, Institute of Mobility and Land Development, Yucatán, Mexico |
| 13:50 - 14:50 | Networking & Exhibition Hall Open |
FEBRUARY 17 ASIA-PACIFIC IN FOCUS |
Singapore Standard Time/UTC+08:00 |
MAIN STAGE
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11:30 - 11:45 SST (22:30 – 22:45 EST, February 16) |
Welcoming Remarks & Reflections
WATCH |
Mari Pangestu, Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank
Ani Dasgupta, President & Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute |
| 11:45 - 13:15 |
Plenary 4 - Transport for a Green, Resilient and Inclusive
Asia-Pacific
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H.E. David W. Panuelo, President of the Federated States of Micronesia
Anies Baswedan, Governor, City of Jakarta, Indonesia Yerlan Koishibayev, Deputy Chairman for Logistics, Kazakhstan Railways Huiping Yan, Chief Financial Officer, ZTO Express Thara D., Additional Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, India |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
| 13:30 - 14:30 SST |
5. Financing E-Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities WATCH |
Gerald Ollivier (Moderator), Lead Transport Specialist, World Bank
Jen Oh, Lead Transport Specialist & Infrastructure Program Leader China, Mongolia, and Korea, World Bank (Presentation) Benedict Eijbergen, Transport Practice Manager, East Asia and Pacific, World Bank Kartik Gopal, Senior Industry Specialist – Electric Vehicles, International Finance Corporation Akshima Ghate, Senior Principle, India Branch, RMI Chaitanya Kanuri, Senior Manager of Electric Mobility, Sustainable Cities and Transport, WRI India Xiaoshi Liu, Executive Deputy Secretary-General, China EV100 Mahua Acharya, Chief Executive Officer, CESL |
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6. Integrating Transport and Logistics in the Age of COVID WATCH |
Fang Xu (Moderator), Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank
Wan Chee Foong, Regional CEO Middle East South Asia and Head of Group Business Development, PSA Ren Shuai, Head, Capital Markets, G7 Networks Inc. Bharath Palukurthi, Chief Operating Officer, New Business Units, Ninja Van Shobhit Singhal, Chief Transport Officer, Gojek Uttam Garodia, Chief Financial Officer, BlackBuck Supee Teravaninthorn, Director General, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank |
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7. Korea's Approach to Carbon-Neutral Transport (delivered by the Korea Transport Institute and the City of Changwon) WATCH |
Jaehak Oh (Moderator), President, Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)
Sungmoo Huh, Mayor, Changwon City, Korea (Presentation) ChoongYeol Ye, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) (Presentation) Jeong Whon Yu, Professor, Department of Transportation Systems Engineering, Ajou University Seonghwan Kim, Senior Deputy Director, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), Sejong, Korea Bianca Alves, Senior Urban Transport Specialist, World Bank Jee-Sun Lee, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank Thierry Desclos, Director of Project for Multilateral Organizations and Development, CEREMA, France Jason Michael Allford, Special Representative (Country Manager), World Bank Group Korea Office Bank |
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8. Green Mobility and Post-COVID South Asian Cities (delivered by Uber) WATCH |
Shin-pei Tsay (Moderator), Global Head of Cities and Transportation
Policy, Uber
David Vega-Barachowitz, Associated Principal, WXY Amit Bhatt, Director of Integrated Urban Transport, WRI India Ridhi Darolia, Lead, Public Policy, Uber - India South Asia Shomik Raj Mehndiratta, Transport Practice Manager, South Asia, World Bank |
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| 14:30 - 15:30 | Networking & Exhibition Hall Open |
FEBRUARY 17 DAY TWO |
Eastern Standard Time/UTC-05:00 |
MAIN STAGE
| 8:00 - 8:15 EST | Welcoming Remarks & Reflections
WATCH |
Stientje van Veldhoven, Vice President and Regional
Director for Europe, World Resources Institute
Binyam Reja, Acting Global Director for Transport, World Bank |
| 8:15 - 9:15 |
Plenary 5 - Resilient Mobility: Future-Proofing Transport Against Crisis
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François Bausch, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Luxembourg
Roger Mbassa Ndine, Mayor of Douala, Cameroon Ma. Sheilah Gaabucayan-Napalang, Assistant Secretary, Planning and Project Development, Department of Transportation, Philippines |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship Award WATCH |
Holger Dalkmann, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sustain 2030
Ramon Muñoz-Raskin, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank Tamara Kerzhner (Awardee), PhD Candidate, Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley Susan Gichuna (Awardee), PhD Candidate, Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi, Kenya Wei Wei (Awardee), PhD Candidate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
| 9:45 - 10:45 EST | 9. Building Resilience in Transport Project Design WATCH |
Paul Noumba Um (Moderator), Infrastructure Regional Director, World Bank
Astrid Haas, Independent Urban Economist Júnia Soares, Director of Planning of the Secretary of Infrastructure, Santa Catarina Province, Brazil Céline Bonhomme, Director for Research, Innovation and International Affairs, CEREMA, France Cédric Malaval, Project Manager, International Business Development, Setec International Bernard Obika, Senior Technical Director, High-Volume Transport Applied Research Programme |
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10. Market-Based Strategies for Maritime Decarbonization WATCH |
Katharine Palmer (Moderator), Global Head of Sustainability, Lloyd’s Register & Shipping Lead, UN High Level Climate Champions Team COP26
Jan Hoffmann, Head, Trade Logistics Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD (Presentation) Yap Ong Heng, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Transport, Singapore Ingrid Sidenvall Jegou, Project Director, Global Maritime Forum |
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11. An Innovative Policy Approach for Sustainable Mobility WATCH |
Maria Marcela Silva (Moderator), Transport Practice Manager, Southern
Africa and Ethiopia, World Bank
Zeph Nhelko, Chief Economist, Development Bank of Southern Africa Vilosh Naidoo, Transport Sector Specialist & Maritime Economist, Development Bank of Southern Africa Itumeleng Makgobathe, Communication Manager and Public Affairs Manager, Michelin, South Africa Nhan Tran, Head, Safety and Mobility, Department of the Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization Nancy Vandycke, Program Manager, SuM4All & Lead Economist, World Bank (Presentation) |
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12. Safe and Healthy Transport Solutions for a Green Recovery
WATCH |
Claudia Adriazola-Steil (Moderator), Acting Director of Urban
Mobility & Director of Health & Road Safety, WRI Ross Center For
Sustainable Cities
Lucas Harms, Director, Dutch Cycling Embassy, The Netherlands Mariana Alegre, Executive Director, Lima Cómo Vamos Irene McAleese, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, See.Sense Felipe Targa, Senior Urban Transport Specialist, World Bank Beverly Ho, Concurrent Director IV, Department of Health, Philippines Becky Bavinger, Public Health Team, Bloomberg Philanthropies |
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| 10:45 - 11:15 | Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
| 11:15 - 12:15 |
13. People-Centered Urban Mobility: A Step to Decarbonization
WATCH |
Charles Joseph Cormier (Moderator), Infrastructure Regional Director,
World Bank
Karla Gonzalez Carvajal, Transport Practice Manager, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank (Presentation) Lena Smidfelt Rosqvist, Head of Research and Chief Executive Officer, Trivector Traffic AB (Presentation) Alberto Pérez, General Manager, ALSA Morocco (Presentation) Ashish Kundra, Principal Secretary for Transport, City of Delhi, India |
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14. Cross-Organizational Innovations in Data for Transport WATCH |
Aidan Coville (Moderator), Senior Economist, Development Impact
Evaluation Group (DIME), World Bank
Özhan Yilmaz, Sector Engineer/Smart Transport Specialist, European Investment Bank (Presentation) John Seed, Head of Project Preparation and Implementation, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Presentation) Sveta Milusheva, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation Group (DIME), World Bank (Presentation) Kate Vyborny, Associate Director, DevLab, Duke University (Presentation) Julieta Abad, Lead Tranport Specialist, Transport Division, Inter-American Development Bank (Presentation) Catalina Vanoli, Urban Transport Specialist / Data Scientist, Sectorial Knowledge Executive, CAF |
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15. E-Vehicles and Compact Cities: Why We Need Both (delivered by ClimateWorks Foundation & the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy) WATCH |
Rebecca Fisher (Moderator), Secretariat, Drive Electric Campaign and
Road Transport Associate Director, ClimateWorks Foundation
Heather Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy Cristina Albuquerque, Urban Mobility Manager, WRI Brasil Ross Center for Sustainable Cities Josh Whale, Chief Executive Officer, Ampersand Thierno Birahim AW, General Director, Dakar Urban Transport Executive Council for Sustainable Mobility, Senegal |
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16. Policy Best Practices for E-Mobility Adoption and Deployment WATCH |
Erika Myers (Moderator), Global Senior Manager, Electric Vehicles,
WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Muneeza Mehmood Alam, Senior Transport Economist, World Bank (Presentation) Francisco Lopez, Vice Minister of Energy, Chile Maya Ben Dror, Head, Automotive and New Mobility, World Economic Forum Lulu Xue, Urban Mobility Manager, WRI China |
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| 12:15 - 12:30 | Break | Networking & Exhibition Hall |
MAIN STAGE
| 12:30 - 13:30 EST |
Plenary 6 - Maximizing the Benefits of Zero-Emission Transport
WATCH |
Daniel Sperling, Founding Director & Professor, Institute
of Transportation Studies at University of California Davis
Jürgen Zattler, Director General, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany Steve Chang, General Manager, BYD SA Company Ashufta Alam, Deputy Director for International Climate Finance, UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Monica Araya, Distinguished Fellow, ClimateWorks Foundation Drive Electric Campaign |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Closing Remarks |
Binyam Reja, Acting Global Director for Transport, World
Bank
Rogier van den Berg, Acting Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | Networking & Exhibition Hall Open |