Better Bike Share

2021 National Shared Mobility Summit
2021-07-06 08:00 - 2021-07-27 17:00 (America/Denver)
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.

Unurbanist Assembly 2021: Healing & Atonement
2021-06-18 10:00 - 2021-06-19 10:00 (America/Denver)
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.

Walk/Bike/Places 2021
2021-06-15 08:00 - 2021-06-18 17:00 (America/Denver)
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!

Cycling for Sustainable Cities
2021-05-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver)
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.

Bicycle Leadership Conference
2021-04-13 10:00 - 2021-04-15 12:30 (America/Denver)
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.

2021 National Bike Summit
2021-02-28 13:00 - 2021-03-03 21:00 (America/New_York)
The 2021 National Bike Summit will take place online, February 28 – March 3, 2021, with daily convenings beginning at 1pm ET / 10am PT. This year’s theme is “Bikes: Our Vehicle for Change” in recognition of the power of bicycling to move us forward, even in the most challenging of times.
Preview the agenda and register here.
Pricing:
General Admission $180
League Member $60
Summit Youth Scholarship (Age 21 and under) FREE

Transportation Inflection Reflection
2021-02-17 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Denver)
This one-hour virtual event features a panel discussion with four important voices and thought leaders who will share their insights on the deep, systemic changes that are happening and need to happen to push the transportation system towards sustainability and equity. It is moderated by the Shared-Use Mobility Center’s new CEO, Benjie de la Peña.

Panelists include:

• Benjie de la Peña, CEO, Shared-Use Mobility Center
• Ashwini Chhabra, Co-founder & Principal, Electric Avenue
• Stefanie Brodie, PhD, Research Practice Lead, Toole Design
• Alissa Walker, Urbanism Editor, Curbed
• Adonia Lugo, Interim Chair of the MA in Urban Sustainability, Antioch University Los Angeles

Designing Cities 2020: Virtual Convening
2020-12-02 08:00 - 2020-12-10 17:00 (America/New_York)
Designing Cities 2020: Virtual Convening will be held online from December 2 to 10. NACTO will spread out programming over a few hours per day, with a focus on candid, practical, city-led small group discussions.
NACTO will be able to offer:

Free viewing of plenary sessions by the general public
Free access to highly interactive discussion cohorts and workshops for staff at NACTO member agencies
Sponsored content including wellness/social events, demonstrations, and case studies featuring public-sector partnerships
A NACTO member-led (lightly curated) content experience which will allow member agency staff to propose, vote for, and host sessions during the convening.

Check their site soon to register!

Hindsight Conference
2020-11-12 08:00 - 2020-11-13 17:00 (America/Denver) | Some name, 155 Water St
COVID-19 has amplified our nation’s structural inequities as evident in racial disparities in deaths, access to care, income distribution, and police brutality against Black lives. This year’s Hindsight Conference calls on planners and policy makers to center racial justice in our understanding of health and the environment. Join us and take action towards centering the Black and Brown existence in health, joy, creativity, and healing. Submit your ideas for a session under this year’s theme — Our Health, Our Future.
The two day, virtual event from November 12-13, 2020 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.

Facing Race: A National Virtual Conference
2020-11-10 08:00 - 2020-11-12 17:00 (America/Denver)
“Facing Race: A National Virtual Conference is presented by Race Forward, a national non-profit working to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. A unique collaborative space for racial justice movement making, Facing Race is the largest multiracial, inter-generational gathering for organizers, educators, creatives, and other leaders.
For over 15 years, Race Forward has brought you an incredible conference experience that has hosted over 4,000 attendees to convene, organize and mobilize for a more equitable future. Previous Facing Race National Conferences have been held in Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Chicago, Dallas, Oakland, New York, and Detroit.”

Washington Bike, Walk, Roll Summit
2020-10-05 08:00 - 2020-10-09 17:00 (America/Denver)
2020 SUMMIT FOCUS AND NAMING CHANGE:
“The Washington Bike Summit is now the Washington Bike, Walk, and Roll Summit. We’ve renamed the summit to reflect a big goal: to create a space where advocates and professionals discuss and advance the often overlapping but sometimes distinct and different needs of people who bike, walk and roll.
We believe this change is crucial in building a just transportation system, and inclusive advocacy movement across the state. We want to harness the intersectionality of planning, advocacy, and education for all types of active users to realize a transportation system that works for all – regardless of how we get around.
Becoming the Bike, Walk, Roll Summit marks an evolution and a goal, and one we might not achieve in year one. The summit will hopefully serve as the start of a longer process of integrating conversations surrounding biking, walking, and rolling. In making this change, we recognize that this summit will not be perfect, and this serves as the first step in a longer journey to true intersectionality and shared space.
Active transportation advocacy is a space that belongs to all users of active transportation, and should be a place in which bicycle, pedestrian, and disability advocates can learn from and share with each other and plan for a future that works for all of us.”

Together, We Keep Moving Virtual Conference
2020-09-30 13:00 - 2020-10-01 18:30 (America/New_York)
NABSA’s 2020 annual conference has gone virtual! Like the rest of the world, NABSA has had to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. We recognize that these adjustments also apply to our members and conference attendees. We owe it to you to proceed with an event that brings together the greatest minds in bikeshare and shared micromobility in a safe, affordable way.
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 to learn, network, and chart the future of bikeshare and 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 breakout sessions on topics ranging from open data and privacy to community engagement and marketing.

Bicycle Leadership Conference
2020-09-29 00:00 - 2020-10-01 00:00 (America/Denver)
The Bicycle Leadership Conference (BLC) is the world’s leading conference for bicycle industry executives. This is the opportunity to network and shape the future of bicycling.
Attend for inspiration and education on topics such as: sustaining bicycling’s unprecedented momentum, e-bike access, technology and the latest data trends, and diversity, equity and inclusion training for your business.
This online adaptation of PeopleForBike’s traditional bicycle industry executive conference will include an interactive networking experience and two exciting keynote speakers – Birkenstock CEO David Kahan and StoryBrand’s Kristin Spiotto. The agenda will also feature talks on diversity, equity and inclusion in the bike industry, e-bike market adoption, sales and ridership data, and continuing the momentum of the current boom in bicycling.
> View the event details here.

Webinar: A National Scan of Bike Share Equity Programs: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
2020-09-16 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Connecting with cities and bike share operators from across the United States, Portland State University conducted a nationwide scan on what programs and initiatives were running to address equity in bike share. The report “National Scan of Bike Share Equity Programs” documents responses from over 70 bike share systems. This resource will help cities and operators navigate the range of actions that have been implemented to make bike share systems more equitable, examine successful strategies employed across the U.S., and understand how those successes (and challenges) are being measured and articulated. In doing so, we hope the report helps bike share systems learn from the experiences of others, innovate, and more quickly move toward greater equity. The research team will be joined by a bike share operator to discuss what they learned, best practices, and where they see the future of bike share equity programs headed.

Walk/Bike/Places
2020-08-03 11:00 - 2020-08-07 17:30 (America/New_York)
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 nearly 100 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.
Due to COVID-19, this year Walk/Bike/Places will take place entirely online. The program will still feature a wide range of breakout sessions, as well as the more inventive session formats you have come to expect from Walk/Bike/Places. Along with reduced registration fees, they hope that this shift online will also reach an even broader audience.

Sample Event
2020-06-02 08:00 - 2020-06-06 17:00 (America/Denver) | Some name, 155 Water St
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec a diam lectus. Sed sit amet ipsum mauris. Maecenas congue ligula ac quam viverra nec consectetur ante hendrerit. Donec et mollis dolor. Praesent et diam eget libero egestas mattis sit amet vitae augue.
Nam tincidunt congue enim, ut porta lorem lacinia consectetur. Donec ut libero sed arcu vehicula ultricies a non tortor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean ut gravida lorem. Ut turpis felis, pulvinar a semper sed, adipiscing id dolor.
