As the world navigates a complex landscape shaped by economic shifts, external shocks and the rise of AI, #TTDC26 will emphasize the pivotal role of transport in catalyzing development that creates jobs, builds resilience and reaches everyone.
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The 2026 theme, "Powering Jobs and Growth," emphasizes transport's foundational role in delivering essential public goods. Effective transport systems underpin vibrant economies by connecting markets, getting people to jobs and increasing productivity. Beyond economic benefits, modern transport systems also advance safety and environmental goals.
Digital tools, ride-sharing apps, smart traffic systems and electric vehicle networks are making transport faster, cheaper and cleaner, while expanding access. As countries invest in modern transport systems, businesses can reach customers, workers can access jobs and goods can move efficiently, creating the foundation for economic growth and private sector investment.
Transforming Transportation 2026 will be moderated by Femi Oke, Journalist and Founder of Moderate The Panel.
Structure
#TTDC26 is a comprehensive, week-long program with two core forum days on March 10 and 11 and additional side events and partner meetings throughout the week. The main forum days will include 5 plenary sessions, 12 parallel technical sessions (organized into 4 streams), networking events and a knowledge exhibition.
The plenaries will set the stage and frame the global conversation, while parallel sessions will allow participants to delve deeper into specific areas.
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Side Events & Partner Meetings
Please note some side events require separate registration and/or are invite only.
Full Agenda
MARCH 10 DAY ONE |
Eastern Standard Time/UTC-04:00 |
MAIN STAGE
| 7:30 - 8:45 Preston Lobby |
Registration | |
| 8:45 - 9:00 Preston Auditorium |
Welcome Address | Nicolas Peltier‑Thiberge, Senior Adviser, World Bank Group, Transport and Logistics Ani Dasgupta, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute |
| 9:00 - 9:20 Preston Auditorium |
Opening Keynote Address | Paschal Donohoe, Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer, World Bank Group |
| 9:20 - 10:20 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 1 - Transport As a Driver of Economic Growth
This session focuses on how transport infrastructure and transport services unlock economic growth and jobs. |
Pablo Bereciartua, Minister of Infrastructure and Mobility, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina Rachmat Kaimuddin, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Coordinating Ministry for Infrastructure and Development, Indonesia Philippe Labonne, President, Africa Global Logistics (AGL) Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Hector Morales, Managing Director and Chairman, Infrastructure & Energy Capital, Latin America, Macquarie Capital |
| 10:20 - 10:40 Preston Auditorium |
Insights From the Ground | Oleksiy Kuleba, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration and Minister for Communities and Territories Development, Ukraine (virtual) Anna Bjerde, Managing Director of Operations, World Bank Group |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 2 - Mobilizing Private Capital for Transport
This session explores private capital pathways in the transport sector, including challenges, opportunities, and innovative structures, with perspectives from the public and private sectors. |
Bertrand Heysch De La Borde, Director, Transport and Logistics, World Bank Group Omri Gainsburg, Partner & Chief Operating Officer, Americas, Meridiam Joseph Hurst-Croft, Chief Executive Officer, ARC Ride, Kenya Anura Karunathilaka, Minister, Ministry of Ports & Civil Aviation, Sri Lanka Melinda Machado, Vice President, Funding (Treasury & Capital Markets), Element Fleet Management |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS (in parallel)
| 13:30 - 14:30 Preston Auditorium |
Session 1 - Funding the Next Generation of Urban Mobility (hosted by IADB) | MODERATOR Ana Maria Pinto, Transport Division Chief, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) OPENING REMARKS Agustina Calatayud, Lead Transport Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Claudia Diaz, Secretary of Mobility, Bogotá, Colombia Mohamed Mezghani, Secretary General, International Association of Public Transport (UITP) Michael Pellot, International Business Development Director, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), Spain |
MC 13-121 |
Session 2 - Transport Innovations to Accelerate Economic Growth (hosted by KOTI) | MODERATOR Nicolas Peltier‑Thiberge, Senior Adviser, World Bank Group, Transport and Logistics OPENING REMARKS Hee Cheol Shin, Vice President, Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) PRESENTER Sunghoon Kim, Associate Research Fellow, Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) PANEL Henrik Lundorff Kristensen, Chief Consultant, City of Copenhagen Taehyung Kim, Chief Director, Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) Panchula Rathnayake, Project Director, Road Development Authority, Sri Lanka Heather Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) Marco Yamaguchi, Manager, Non-Sovereign Infrastructure Finance Division, Infrastructure and Urban Development Department, African Development Bank CLOSING REMARKS Keshab Kumar Sharma, Secretary, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Nepal |
MC 2-800 |
Session 3 - Regional Integration Through Transport Systems | MODERATOR Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Regional Director for Infrastructure, East Asia and Pacific, World Bank Group Waqas Anwar, Member for Infrastructure and Regional Connectivity, Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Pakistan John Banza, Minister, Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Jose Cordovilla, Program Lead, TYPSA Mark Major, Senior Strategy Director, Climate Centre by Kuehne Foundation Amadeu Nunes, Executive Secretary, Lobito Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (AFTTCL), Angola Binyam Reja, Practice Manager, Transport, Eastern and Southern Africa, World Bank Group |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:45 - 16:00 Preston Auditorium |
Session 4 - Smart Ports and Logistics for Sustainable Growth (hosted by ICEX) | MODERATOR Marcela Silva, Regional Director for Infrastructure, Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank Group Manuel Arana, Planning Director, Puertos del Estado Juan Manuel Díez, Head of Innovation, Port of Valencia Inés Ferguson, Director of Business Development, TYPSA; President, European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations (EFCA) Jan Hoffmann, Global Lead, Maritime Transport and Ports, World Bank Group Xavier Pascual, Global Director for Consultancy and New Technologies, SENER |
MC 13-121 |
Session 5 - Transport As a Catalyst for Jobs (hosted by CAF) | MODERATOR Nicolás Estupiñán, Director, Transport and Logistics, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) INTRODUCTION Angel Cardenas Sosa, Manager, Infrastructure for Development, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) OPENING CONVERSATION Stéphane Straub, Chief Economist for Infrastructure, World Bank Group Matthew Turner, Professor of Economics, Brown University, USA KEYNOTE Rafael H. M. Pereira, Senior Researcher and Head of Data Science, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil Tanya Bertoldi, Minister of Infrastructure of Neuquén, Argentina Maria Fernanda Ortiz Carrascal, General Manager, TransMilenio, Bogotá, Colombia Juan Carlos Parra Fonseca, General Manager, Quito Metro, Ecuador Manuela Francisco, Global Director for Fiscal Policy and Growth, World Bank Group |
MC 2-800 |
Session 6 - Railways As a Development Engine | MODERATOR Charles J. Cormier, Regional Director for Infrastructure, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank Group Lucie Anderton, Director of Sustainability and Coordinator of North America Region, International Union of Railways (UIC) Edgard Benozatti, President, Public-Private Partnership Unit, São Paulo, Brazil Pierre Pozzo di Borgo, Chief Industry Specialist, World Bank Group Shri Munna Kumar, Director, National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), India Stefan Volkanovski, State Secretary, Ministry of Transport, North Macedonia |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
MAIN STAGE
| 16:15 - 17:15 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 3 - Safe, Clean and Affordable Mobility
This session focuses on how transport systems can prevent road traffic deaths and reduce air pollution, while making travel to jobs and essential services affordable and reliable for everyone. |
Becky Bavinger, Global Public Health Department, Bloomberg Philanthropies Chandra Bdr. Gurung, Minister, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Bhutan João Matlombe, Minister, Ministry of Transport and Logistics, Mozambique Mohamed Mezghani, Secretary General, International Association of Public Transport (UITP) |
| 17:15 - 17:30 Preston Auditorium |
Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship Award Ceremony | MODERATORS Ramon Munoz-Raskin, Lead Transport Specialist, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank Group Holger Dalkmann, CEO, Sustain 2030 Shreya Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Center for Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India (virtual) Mienke Knipe, Ph.D. Candidate in Transport Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Canada |
| 17:30 - 19:00 MC C1 Main Dining Room |
Networking Reception |
MARCH 11 DAY TWO |
Eastern Standard Time/UTC-04:00 |
MAIN STAGE
| 8:00 - 9:00 Preston Lobby |
Registration | |
| 9:00 - 9:10 Preston Auditorium |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS | Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Türkiye (virtual) |
| 9:10 - 10:20 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 4 - Resilient Corridors for Sustainable Connectivity
The session examines how maintenance, multimodality and partnerships strengthen transport corridors to enhance resilience, growth and food security. |
John Banza, Minister, Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Jorge Bengue Calumbo, Secretary of State for Land Transport, Ministry of Transport, Angola Diego Diaz, President, Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF) International; International Managing Director, SNCF Group Prasanna Kumara Gunasena, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Transport and Highways, Sri Lanka Joseta Neufville-Wento, Manager, National Road Fund, Liberia Aleksandar Nikoloski, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government and Minister of Transport, North Macedonia CLOSING REMARKS Apostolos Tzitzikostas, European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, European Commission |
| 10:20 - 10:30 Preston Auditorium |
Sustainable Transport Award Ceremony | MODERATOR Heather Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 - 11:50 Preston Auditorium |
Plenary 5 - The Future of Transport in a Digital Era
This session explores how AI, digitalization, and e-mobility are reshaping transport systems to improve efficiency and sustainability, while fostering equitable job creation and future-ready skills. |
Alexandre Bayen, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Gregory Costamagna, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Gozem Elizabeth Jones, Head of Sustainable Transport, Research and Evidence Directorate, UK Government, Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office Gora Sarr, Managing Director, Conseil Exécutif des Transports Urbains Durables (CETUD), Senegal |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Reflections on Powering Jobs and Growth | KEYNOTE Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University Bertrand Heysch De La Borde, Director, Transport and Logistics, World Bank Group Rogier van den Berg, Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, World Resources Institute |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS (in parallel)
| 14:00 - 15:30 Preston Auditorium |
Session 7 - Safe Public Transport and E-Mobility Systems | MODERATOR Felipe A. Ramirez Buitrago, Director, Urban Mobility, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, World Resources Institute María Fernanda Ortiz Carrascal, General Manager, TransMilenio Enio Costa, Chairman of the Board, Angola’s National Land Transport Agency (ANTT), Angola Marilyn Glele Kakai, Head of Studies, Strategic Division, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Benin Andrea San Gil Leon, Executive Director, Global Network for Popular Transportation Ugyen Norbu, Chief Program Officer, Department of Surface Transport, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Bhutan Avi Silverman, Acting Executive Director, FIA Foundation, United Kingdom |
MC 4-800 |
Session 8 - Farm-to-Market Roads: Improving Connectivity and Accessibility | MODERATOR Renaud Seligmann, Director, Strategy & Operations, World Bank Group Dong Liu, Deputy Director General of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Ministry of Transport, People's Republic of China Abbie Noriega, Chief Impact Officer, FIKA Mobility, Rwanda Victor Hudson Seff, Chief Executive Officer, Tanzania Rural and Urban Roads Agency (TARURA) Muhammad Nawaz Sohoo, Secretary, Works and Services Department, Sindh, Pakistan Ansu Tumbahangfe, Head, TRAC4Change, Helvetas, Nepal |
MC 2-800 |
Session 9 - Pathways for Women and Youth in Transport Careers | MODERATOR Paula Manoela dos Santos, Urban Mobility Manager, WRI Brasil PRESENTER Gregory Costamagna, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Gozem Fei Deng, Practice Manager, Transport, South Asia, World Bank Group John Kidd, Associate Director, Head of Communications, International Road Transport Union Lesley Martin, Technical Legal Consultant, Transporte Masivo de Panama, Mi bus Rachel Moreau, Student, University of Rhode Island Lucia Zadro, Finance & Performance Management Business Partner, Siemens Mobility |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Coffee Break |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS (in parallel)
| 15:50 - 17:20 Preston Auditorium |
Session 10 - Unlocking Transport Investment Through De-Risking | MODERATOR Rudo Linda Munyengeterwa, Global Director of Transaction Advisory – PPPs and Corporate Finance, International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group Rallis Kourkoulis, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Grid Engineers, Greece Anthony Molle, Manager, Industries Department (MIGID), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group Jen JungEun Oh, Practice Manager, Transport, South Asia, World Bank Group Terence M Smith, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Smith’s Research & Gradings, United States Christoph Wolff, Chief Executive Officer, Smart Freight Centre, Netherlands |
MC 4-800 |
Session 11 - Resilient Infrastructure in Urban Settings | MODERATOR Franz R. Drees Gross, Regional Director for Infrastructure, West and Central Africa, World Bank Group Bianca Bianchi Alves, Practice Manager, Transport, Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank Group Savina Carluccio, Executive Director, International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure, United Kingdom Tenzin, Director General, Department of Surface Transport, Bhutan Nicolas Miravalls, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, ORIS Materials Intelligence Ben Welle, Director of Integrated Transport and Innovation, World Resources Institute |
MC 2-800 |
Session 12 - Active Mobility: Pathways to Jobs and Prosperity | MODERATOR Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Deputy Director, Global Urban Mobility and Director, Health & Road Safety, World Resources Institute Shelley Bontje, Knowledge and Partnerships Manager, Dutch Cycling Embassy, Netherlands Humphrey Kanyenye, Project Coordinator, Tanzania Rural and Urban Roads Agency (TARURA) Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, Mayor, Pontevedra, Spain Mirko Radovanac, President, Yugo Cycling Campaign (YCC), Serbia Nhan Tran, Head of Violence and Injury Prevention (VIP), World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland |
MAIN STAGE
| 17:20 - 17:30 Preston Auditorium |
Closing | Femi Oke, Moderator, Journalist and Founder of Moderate The Panel |