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Bicycle Leadership Conference
2021-04-13 10:00 - 2021-04-15 12:30 (America/Denver) | DC
The Bicycle Leadership Conference (BLC) is the world’s leading conference for bicycle industry professionals. Join us for the opportunity to discuss the latest trends, network with fellow industry members and help shape the future of bicycling.
After a successful fully digital event in 2020, we are excited to bring you another Virtual BLC in 2021 to talk about the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in the bike industry, using data to build better bike businesses and continuing the momentum of bicycling well into the future.

Cycling for Sustainable Cities
2021-05-20 16:00 - 17:00 | DC
A new book outlines how to make city riding safe, practical and convenient for all. Join editors John Pucher and Ralph Buehler for a virtual presentation of their findings on May 20.
Cycling is the most sustainable means of urban travel, practical for most short- and medium-distance trips—commuting to and from work and school, shopping, visiting friends—as well as for recreation and exercise. Cycling promotes physical, social, and mental health, helps reduce car use, enhances mobility and independence, and is economical for both public and personal budgets.
This presentation explores how to make city cycling—the most sustainable means of travel—safe, practical, and convenient for all. Buehler and Pucher discuss the latest cycling trends and policies around the world and consider specific aspects of cycling. Taken together, the presentation demonstrates that successful promotion of cycling depends on a coordinated package of mutually supportive infrastructure, programs, and policies. Cycling should be made feasible for everyone and not limited to especially fit, daring, well-trained cyclists riding expensive bicycles.

Walk/Bike/Places 2021
2021-06-15 08:00 - 2021-06-18 17:00 | DC
The premier conference in North America for walking, bicycling, and placemaking professionals from the public and private sectors.
Walk/Bike/Places strives to be the most informative and progressive active transportation conference in North America. Produced by Project for Public Spaces, the event consists of 50+ participant-led breakout sessions and locally-led workshops, as well as opportunities for experiential learning by walking and biking through the streets and other public spaces of the host city.
In 2020, due to complications related to Covid-19, our in-person event in Indianapolis had to be postponed to 2021, and our 2020 program was brought entirely online. Due to the success and increased accessibility offered by that shift, 2021’s event will take place in Indianapolis as a hybrid event so that participants can take advantage of the benefits of both formats and plan their schedules accordingly given the continuous challenges posed by Covid-19.
Our hybrid program will feature everything you’d expect from our usual event including general sessions, dozens of breakout sessions, locally-led mobile workshops, and social hours, although we expect the in-person event to be more intimate and experiential — we will be getting outdoors as much as possible!

Unurbanist Assembly 2021: Healing & Atonement
2021-06-18 10:00 - 2021-06-19 10:00 | DC
We believe in a future rooted in Transformative Justice. On June 18, join a global community in creating a 23-hour community dedicated to confronting the legacy of racism in Urban Planning. Although the Thrivance Group will be streaming the event live from Savannah, Georgia, this is a completely virtual event.

What’s happening in our world today illustrates the extent to which our ideas about race and public space are constructed on harmful narratives that can be traced throughout our country’s existence. Last year, more than 8,000 people gathered because they desired to remake urban planning to be more equitable, anti-racist, joy-centered, and reparative for those who’ve been marginalized and harmed by it in the past. This year, join in as we continue to equip ourselves to sustain a movement that seeks a life of dignity and justice for all racialized people–especially in the built environment.

2021 National Shared Mobility Summit
2021-07-06 08:00 - 2021-07-27 17:00 | DC
Our existing physical, social, economic, technological, and institutional INFRASTRUCTURE(s) overwhelmingly favors private car ownership and private car use. This SYSTEM sustains itself at great cost to our households, to our communities, and to our planet. This SYSTEM drives the climate crisis, perpetuates inequality, and is hostile to community. The INFRASTRUCTURE(s) is rooted in racism and in social and environmental injustice.
At the Shared-Use Mobility Center 2021 National Shared Mobility Summit, we ask: “How might we shift the SYSTEM? The WHOLE SYSTEM!”
The 2021 Summit will be DISTRIBUTED through the entire month of July—4 hours every Tuesday (July 6, 13, 20 & 27). Each week we’ll start a conversation about how to precipitate the BIG SHIFT in a focus area: physical, informational, institutional, financial, policy and regulation, etc. We’ll spotlight success, and find early lessons—innovations that can scale—to help build a shared, equitable and sustainable future. Our sessions and speakers will share ideas on how to structure a system that actually works for our households, our communities, and our planet.

Rolling With It: Empowering Shared Micromobility
2021-10-27 11:00 - 2021-10-28 16:30 | DC
The NABSA Annual Conference is the leading global venue for bikeshare, shared micromobility, and transportation leaders, practitioners, equipment providers to tackle important issues facing the industry. Join us for the 2021 Rolling With It: Empowering Shared Micromobility Virtual Conference to learn, network, and chart the future of shared micromobility.
The two-day conference serves as a convening space for shared micromobility professionals and features a variety of topics and speakers. Participants will have access to keynote presentations, breakout sessions on topics ranging from transit integration to climate impact, a virtual exhibitor booth, and networking opportunities.

The (Virtual) Bicycle Leadership Conference (VBLC)
2021-11-02 - 2021-11-03 | DC
The Bicycle Leadership Conference (BLC) is the world’s leading event for bike industry professionals to learn, network and grow the industry.
Join PeopleForBikes November 2-3, 2021, for two days of business intelligence, dynamic keynotes, training sessions and discussing critical issues facing the bike industry. Network with fellow industry professionals and learn from PeopleForBikes’ interactive continuing education program.
This event is open to all members of the bike industry interested in making biking and the bike business better for everyone.

Hindsight 2021: Re-emergence Re-Imagined
2021-11-04 - 2021-11-05 | DC
Hindsight is an annual conference on urban planning through an equity lens, organized and run by the American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter’s Diversity Committee (DivComm). Each year, Hindsight selects a theme, often around a significant urban planning and equity-related milestone, to not only shed light on the discriminatory history of planning and its role in shaping today’s inequitable places, but also to highlight planning as a means of achieving more inclusive, just, and equitable communities. This year will be Hindsight’s fifth and final year.
The two day, virtual event will take place from November 4-5, 2021. Hindsight will focus on diversity and social equity not solely as a topic at a conference, but as a lens through which all planning and community development should be implemented.
Hindsight 2021: Re-Emergence Re-Imagined
As we slowly emerge from a global pandemic, 2021 continues to challenge us to balance the duality of gratitude and grief in the world. There has been greater hope inspired by community mutual aid and resourcefulness, new leadership, as well as the country’s reopening. However, economic recovery and access to vaccines remain unequal; police brutality and violence on Black, Brown, Asian, Trans, and Disabled lives continues; and militarization abroad persists. It has become undeniable that the experiences of oppressed peoples around the world are interconnected and rooted in white supremacy, racial capitalism, and U.S. imperialism. At this year’s conference, we acknowledge the collective resistance and ingenuity sprouted in the midst of grief and call to re-imagine our communities’ re-emergence.
Our liberation, self-determination, and autonomy are possible. In this fifth and final year of Hindsight™, let us create space to re-imagine what an equitable future truly for us and by us looks like, to guide our re-emergence. We call on planners and policy makers to shatter the failed systems that perpetuate racism and ableism, and, together with communities, build the foundation needed for us to collectively thrive. Like a seedling emerging between the cracks, let us root into the resistance and solidarity of our ancestors and manifest a future of our wildest dreams–where the impossible is possible.

Bicycle Leadership Conference
2022-03-21 08:00 - 2022-03-23 17:00 | DC
The in-person Bicycle Leadership Conference returns to sunny California March 21-23, 2022, for three days of discussions on the most important issues facing bicycling and the bike industry. Plus, inspiring keynotes, educational sessions, networking and, of course, spectacular bike rides.
Keynote speakers include the extremely popular Guy Raz, host of NPR’s top-rated podcasts “How I Built This” and “Wisdom From The Top” and best-selling author Polly LaBarre, founding member of Fast Company and co-author of “Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win.”
Additional topics will cover new riders and consumer behaviors, trade and tariff issues, global supply chain and labor challenges, diverse talent attraction and retention, public lands issues and all things electric bicycles — access, legislation, regulations, incentives and battery recycling. A detailed agenda and list of speakers is coming soon.

All Together Now: Collective Action for Shared Mobility
2022-05-17 - 2022-05-18 | InterContinental Hotel, 505 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, 60611, United States
Shared mobility is fundamental for a sustainable, equitable future, but we need to work together to make it work. We need to take collective action.
Together—public agencies, private companies, non-profits, community groups, and advocates—we can find the values, interests, and goals we have in common. We can share resources and insights that benefit the public good. Ultimately, we can extend decision-making power and give everyone a seat at the table.
The 2022 National Shared Mobility Summit is where we can all come together.
SUMC is working to replace car-centric transportation with people-focused shared mobility to fight climate change, promote equity, and strengthen community.
At the Summit, we want to offer the opportunity to take steps collectively to meet these goals. At speeches, workshops, panels, and field trips, we will try to break down silos and bridge gaps. To lay the groundwork for successful partnerships and mobilize toward multimodal transportation systems. We will explore new technologies that promise it all, and from behavior change to funding, we can begin to address the challenges that hold us back.
With focus and collaboration, we can take action.

Designing Cities 2022: Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville
2022-09-07 - 2022-09-10 | DC
The NACTO Designing Cities Conference brings together 900 officials, planners, and practitioners to advance the state of transportation in cities.
NACTO’s Designing Cities Conference is the premier forum for policymakers and practitioners working in urban transportation, with city practitioners at its core. Hosted annually in a NACTO member city, Designing Cities brings together 900 participants working at all levels of city government to shift the paradigm for city streets. This conference is highly tailored, interactive, and effective at convening leaders across North America to focus on a defining policy goal: designing, building, and managing streets as places for people. And with street design, the proof is in the pavement; that’s why Designing Cities’ signature WalkShops focus on real projects on the ground in cities, dedicating programming hours to in-depth experiential and real-world learning opportunities.
This conference is NACTO’s peer network in action and the strongest example of NACTO fulfilling its core mission to build a strong network of peers and foster open communication and collaboration between cities.

Micromobility America
2022-09-15 08:00 - 2022-09-16 17:00 | Craneway Pavillion, 1414 Harbour Way S, Richmond, CA, 94804, United States
Join micromobility’s top global builders, thinkers, and leaders in the world capital of tech.
Connect with everyone in the industry you need to meet over the course of two days, from founders and investors, to policymakers and journalists. Browse best-in-class solutions from both up-and-coming startups and established players that are transforming the entire urban mobility ecosystem. Join industry insiders as they share announcements, insights, and analysis. Past speakers include Kara Swisher, Benedict Evans, Travis VanderZanden, Janette Sadik-Khan, Andrew Yang, and more.

Webinar: Mobility for the People
2022-09-21 11:00 - 12:00 | DC
Equity requirements in shared micromobility programs have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, but our understanding of the scope and breadth of these requirements has been relatively limited. To address this gap in understanding, researchers collected documentation about 239 shared micromobility programs from the U.S. and have compiled all the data into an online, interactive dashboard. In this webinar, they’ll discuss the kinds of equity requirements that are most prevalent, the strategies cities/agencies employ to operationalize equity, and the extent to which these programs are monitored and evaluated. They’ll present findings from their review of 239 U.S. programs, supplemented by five case studies.

Charging Ahead for Micromobility Policy
2022-09-30 10:30 - 11:30 | DC
Hear from the Congressional Bike Caucus and leaders in micromobility at a virtual briefing on the policy and funding opportunities ahead that support biking and micromobility. From infrastructure to incentives, bike lanes to public charging, the infrastructure bill and other programs offer cities and states a unique moment to invest in a micromobility future.
Moderated by NABSA’s Sam Herr, the panel will include:

Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), founder and co-chair of the Congressional Bike Caucus
Dr. Jennifer Dill, director of Portland State University’s Transportation Research and Education Center
Caroline Samponaro, vice president of transit, bikes and scooters at Lyft
Harriet Tregoning, director of the New Urban Mobility alliance (NUMO)

SHIFT'22: Moving the Bicycle Industry Forward
2022-10-04 08:00 - 17:00 | DC
Join PeopleForBikes in Bentonville, Arkansas, for a dynamic, peer-to-peer gathering surrounded by a can’t-miss week of bicycling events, including UCI World Cup cyclo-cross races, Outerbike Bentonville and the Life Time Big Sugar gravel race.
Over the course of three days, SHIFT‘22 participants will network, attend educational sessions and ride world-class mountain and gravel trails, exploring the lush forests and scenic backroads of Northwest Arkansas. By bringing current and future leaders together, we’re moving the bicycle industry forward.
There are a limited number of scholarships available for BIPOC, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and advocacy partners to attend SHIFT‘22. Please contact Ashley Seaward for questions and information on how to apply.

¡Vamos! Let's Go: Defining the Future of Micromobility Together
2022-10-25 - 2022-10-27 | DC
For the first time ever, the North American Bikeshare and Scootershare’s annual conference will be held in Latin America. Mark your calendars — we’ll fill in more details here as they become available.

Critical Mass Summit
2022-11-04 - 2022-11-05 | DC
Critical Mass Summit is a two-day event hosted on Friday, November 4 as an in-person or virtual experience based at Mt Sequoyah in Fayetteville, AR, and online through Zoom Events. Saturday, November 5 is available for full-weekend, in-person participants providing recreational opportunities around Northwest Arkansas concluded with the first Critical Mass Ride in Fayetteville.
This year’s event has expanded to include all gender identities to deliberately bring existing stakeholders and decision-makers to the same room as the marginalized community to remove barriers to participation in the active transportation conversation.

Smart Growth America's Equity Summit
2023-02-07 09:00 - 2023-02-09 12:00 | DC
What is the Equity Summit?
The Equity Summit—SGA’s largest event of the year—is a virtual gathering of thought leaders and practitioners who work to ensure that racial equity is a key priority in any smart growth approach.
By prioritizing equity, smart growth practitioners can dismantle the systems and policies that produce or exacerbate existing racial inequities, create new tools to serve communities, and uplift the ideas and insights from new voices and leaders working to build thriving communities.
The Equity Summit 2023
It is more important than ever that equity is at the forefront of any smart growth approach. With the passage of the trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure deal and the largest-ever investment in the fight against climate change through the Inflation Reduction Act, there is substantial funding and a real opportunity to address past wrongs and ensure that changes to the built environment benefit everyone.
EXPLORE THE EQUITY SUMMIT AGENDA AND SPEAKERS
Across three days, the 2023 Equity Summit will examine these opportunities and discuss how to ensure equity is at the forefront of every decision through the lens of three themes:
Day 1 | Equitable Community Development:
Empowering communities by dismantling exclusionary zoning, supporting wealth-building among historically disenfranchised communities, and prioritizing attainable housing.
Day 2 | Reconnecting Communities:
Rethinking transportation to support and repair communities that continue to be harmed by divisive infrastructure and car-dependent design.
Day 3 | Equitable Decarbonization:
Ensuring that the benefits and costs of cutting emissions in the transportation and building sectors are equitably distributed across society.
Each day of the Equity Summit will focus on one of these important themes with expert- and practitioner-led keynotes, panels, and discussions, highlighted by the event’s overarching summit keynote from Joy Bailey Bryant.

Shared Micromobility State of Industry: Global Roundtable Discussion
2023-02-21 12:00 - 13:15 | DC
The North American Bikeshare and Scootershare Association is launching its 2023 virtual event series with a Global Shared Micromobility Roundtable Discussion. For this event, NABSA is bringing together a group of industry experts to explore shared micromobility trends across the globe, highlight where there are similarities and differences, and discuss how we can grow shared micromobility together. Leaders from Céntrico, Cycling Industries Europe (CIE), ClimateWorks, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), and the North American Bikeshare and Scootershare Association (NABSA) will discuss this and more!

THE Climate ACTion Summit
2023-04-04 - 2023-04-05 | DC
THE (Transportation Helping our Environment) Climate ACTion Summit is a new in-person event. ACT will gather in Indianapolis, for 1.5 days of panels, interactive discussions, and tours focused on tackling the climate impacts of our transportation choices. Designed for transportation, sustainability, and climate change professionals working to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector, attendees will look at the use of TDM strategies to expand mobility options while reducing our dependence on personal vehicles. Together in small groups, participants will discuss fresh ideas, explore new strategies, and debate how we as an industry should work together to make sure what comes next is improved mobility within sustainable communities.
Key Information:

1 1/2 Days
150+ Attendees
4 Panel Sessions
10 Facilitated Discussion Tables
Networking Reception
Professional Tours

2023 National Shared Mobility Summit
2023-05-02 - 2023-05-04 | Merchant Mark Plaza, W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
To create a platform for collective action and accountability, SUMC convened the Shared Mobility 2030 Action Agenda which calls on the industry to establish a roadmap to making shared mobility more viable than driving a car. This call comes at an opportune time with the historic passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. Both offer opportunities to replace car-centric transportation with people-focused shared mobility that fights climate change, promotes equity, and strengthens community.
As we enter 2023, this call to action has been all the more pressing. Climate change plagues communities, traffic deaths remain horrifically high, and public spaces prioritize personal vehicles. We must build upon and hold ourselves accountable to advance shared mobility. Thus, this year’s conference theme is “All Together Now: Action + Accountability for People-Focused Mobility.”
Join SUMC this year for an opportunity for old and new friends in the shared mobility world to gather and evaluate where we stand on achieving our collective goals. With speeches, workshops, panels, networking, and field trips, attendees can learn about best practices in shared mobility that they can implement in their communities.

Designing Cities 2023: Denver
2023-05-15 - 2023-05-18 | DC
Now in its eleventh year, the NACTO Designing Cities Conference brings together 1,000 officials, planners, and practitioners to advance the state of transportation in cities. This will be our first spring conference! We are grateful to our host city, Denver, for paving the way (literally) in partnerships — with plenty of examples in the federal, state, regional, and private sector! In gathering as a community, we want to revisit our commitments made in Fall 2022 in Boston and measure the progress we’ve made in the 9 months since.

Growing Shared Micromobility: Connecting People & Places
2023-09-19 - 2023-09-22 | DC
The North American Bikeshare and Schootershare Association’s (NABSA) Annual Conference is the leading global venue for shared micromobility and transportation leaders, practitioners, operators, and equipment providers to tackle important issues facing the industry. This year, attendees will explore and learn from two cities in Ontario, Canada!
Come experience Hamilton and Toronto’s shared micromobility systems and street infrastructure firsthand during a mobile workshop, learn from and share ideas with shared micromobility peers at panel sessions, connect with exhibitors, hear an inspiring keynote speaker, and network with new and old friends alike from all over the world.
Additional information coming soon!

Vision Zero Cities
2023-10-18 - 2023-10-20 | New York University, New York University, Rosenthal Pavilion, New York City, 10012, United States
Vision Zero is not just a policy goal – it’s an imperative.
Vision Zero Cities brings together leading industry and policy experts, advocates, and elected officials from across the nation. Explore the challenges and opportunities facing us as we work to build a world with zero traffic deaths.
Transportation Alternatives is excited to host the 10th Annual Vision Zero Cities from October 18 – 20, 2023 at New York University in partnership with the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at NYU Wagner.
Vision Zero Cities convenes hundreds of leaders from around the world who are committed to creating safer streets for everyone. Together, we aim to foster the exchange of ideas, share innovative approaches to street design, traffic management, and policy, and explore strategies to enhance safety, equity, and resiliency in our cities.
The urgency for Vision Zero has never been greater. Expect dynamic programming with keynote speakers, field tours, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities with like-minded professionals. You will gain valuable insights, learn from international best practices, and discover cutting-edge solutions that can be applied in your own city or organization. Together, we can make a significant impact and strive towards a future where no loss of life or serious injuries occur on our streets.
Schedule:
Wednesday, October 18 – Virtual Sessions Online
Thursday, October 19 – Field Tours + Reception
Friday, October 20 – Full Day Conference at NYU

National E-Mobility Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference
2023-10-25 - 2023-10-26 | DC
This conference brings together a diverse array of mobility professionals, industry, and community leaders with varying backgrounds and perspectives.

The 2023 National E-Mobility Diversity Equity and Inclusion Conference is a hybrid event. This conference facilitates conversations about strategies and best practices with E-Mobility Diversity, Equity. and Inclusion.To provide greater access to community members and community-based organizations, our conference will be a hybrid event this year.
Oct 25th – Day 1 held online to provide community access nationwide
Oct 26th – Day 2 held at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Transportation inequities impact the most vulnerable populations, including frontline communities and communities of color. With over 1300+ attendees worldwide last year, this year’s E-Mobility Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Conference introduces new topics to a broader and more diverse audience.
The annual National E-Mobility Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (NEMDEI) conference was created in 2020 by EVNoire, national thought leaders in e-mobility best practices and e-mobility equity, and Forth, leaders in clean transportation and producers of the national Roadmap Conference.
EVNoire and Forth recognized a need for a national forum for conversation solely focused on centering equity in programs, policies, and practices related to e-mobility. Further, they saw a need to highlight and learn from diverse voices working across the e-mobility ecosystem and to create pathways for diverse professionals to engage with industry, communities, government, and nonprofits. To address these issues, the National E-Mobility Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference was born.
This one-of-a-kind conference is highly anticipated and continues to grow each year. It was critically important to have a led by the very communities at the focus of the dialogue. The 2023 NEMDEI conference will be presented by EVNoire and other partners and supporters. Forth remains a strong partner and supporter of the conference.

Best Practices for More Diverse and Inclusive Workplaces
2023-11-02 12:00 - 13:15 | DC
Join NABSA on November 2, 2023, for a roundtable event where we will hear from the organizations featured in the Building a Better Shared Micromobility Industry: Best Practices for More Diverse and Inclusive Workplaces toolkit. During this event, we will discuss practices these organizations are implementing, their experiences making changes, and their recommendations to help make shared micromobility workplaces more diverse and inclusive.
The toolkit is a comprehensive guide for organizations operating within the shared micromobility industry and offers invaluable insights into best practices for cultivating a diverse workplace and fostering a culture ingrained with the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
– Laura Mallonee (Facilitator), NABSA
– Julia Hamill, Hamilton Bike Share
– Taylor MacVittie, Vancouver Bike Share
– Doug McClintock, Red Bike
– Waffiyyah Murray, City of Philadelphia
– Lena Pereira, Bicycle Transit Systems

Mpact Transit + Community Conference
2023-11-05 08:00 - 2023-11-08 17:00 | DC
For nearly 30 years, Mpact Transit + Community has shaped the vision for transit-oriented communities, in which people of all backgrounds and abilities can connect with each other and reach the places they need to thrive. We’ve influenced policies, planning, and the way projects are delivered.
From the beginning, it’s focused on this idea: that for any new mobility or development project, the people involved should see the project as a way to advance the kind of community they want to live in. Achieving this is easier said than done. The Mpact Transit + Community Conference is the place to share both challenges and innovative solutions, to exchange best practices, and push for the next breakthrough.
The four days of the Mpact Transit + Community conference provide a diversity of ideas and approaches that boost your capacity to collaborate, innovate, communicate, and lead.

Through more than 60 conference sessions as well as plenaries and networking events, attendees delve into issues facing cities and regions everywhere, including climate change, transit-oriented development, housing affordability, and designing cities around transit and emerging mobility options. Sessions focus on planning, design, finance, communications, policy, community engagement, and innovations in technology. Through Mpact’s signature Mobile Workshops, participants experience the conference city first-hand and learn directly from local practitioners, leaders, and advocates how projects were done.

Smart Growth America's Equity Summit
2024-03-27 - 2024-03-28 | MLK Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, D.C., DC, 20001, United States
Save the date for the “2024 Equity Summit: Meeting the Moment.” The Summit gathers housing, transportation, and community development advocates and leaders to learn from one another and identify tools to advance racial equity through smart growth. The dynamic two-day program will be held in person for the first time on March 27-28, 2024, in Washington, DC, at the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
The Equity Summit will uplift strategies to advance racial equity in smart growth amidst growing political uncertainty in 2024 and beyond, as well as a shift away from explicit equity initiatives by elected officials, state agencies, and the private sector.

Why You Should Attend:
Smart growth practitioners must proactively integrate strategies to advance racial equity into their planning, transportation, and land use work, especially at the current moment. Over the last several years there has been increased attention and investment targeted at inequitable planning systems, but to date, these efforts have fallen short of our stated goals. In the face of capacity concerns, surface-level interventions to systemic challenges, and the recent Supreme Court decision effectively ending affirmative action, our movement is at a critical inflection moment.
What to Expect:
The event aims to connect movement leaders, identify key needs within the field, and build a community of mutual support and encouragement among practitioners who may be discouraged by resistance to meaningful progress. At the Equity Summit, we’ll present keynotes, fireside chats, panel discussions, small group sessions, and local organization “field trips.” These activities will allow participants to gain insights into the successes and challenges of racial equity projects in the smart growth space, emphasizing cultural organizing, lived experience integration, and inclusive wealth building.

2024 Designing Cities Conference
2024-05-07 - 2024-05-10 | Intercontinental Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza, Miami, FL, 33131, United States
The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) announced today that Miami-Dade County will host the 2024 Designing Cities Conference. The conference will take place at the Intercontinental Miami from Tuesday, May 7 to Friday, May 10, 2024.
The Designing Cities Conference brings together 1,000 officials, planners, and practitioners to advance the state of transportation in cities across North America. The 2024 event in Miami-Dade will be NACTO’s 12th conference, and the first held in the Southeast U.S. The conference is designed to equip city staff with the resources, information, and relationships to build safe, sustainable, equitable, accessible streets.
In line with this mission, NACTO is focusing the 2024 conference around the following themes:

Safety: Stemming North America’s roadway safety crisis.
Climate: Mitigating and adapting to the global climate crisis.
Equity: Building streets as social infrastructure that broadens access to opportunity and supports the physical and mental well-being of marginalized communities.
Sustainable Growth: Holistically accommodating and managing population growth and shifting travel patterns.
Regional Collaboration: Multiplying impact and addressing challenges by working regionally and together.

Learn more about why Miami-Dade County was selected as this year’s conference host and what you can expect from the 2024 NACTO conference here.

Ride, Thrive, Belong: Building Community Through Shared Micromobility Conference
2024-10-07 - 2024-10-09 | Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square, 1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Get ready to join NABSA and your fellow shared micromobility colleagues this October in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! The NABSA Annual Conference is the leading global venue for shared micromobility and transportation leaders, practitioners, operators, and equipment and service providers to tackle important issues facing the industry.
During this 3-day conference attendees will experience the shared micromobility system and street infrastructure firsthand, learn from and share ideas with shared micromobility peers, connect with exhibitors, hear inspiring plenary speakers, and network with colleagues from all over the world. Listed as one of the best places to bike in the country, Philadelphia also offers dynamic culture, historic sites, a beautiful river trail, art that transforms public spaces, and so much more!
