The Clean Mobility Forum, hosted by the Clean Mobility Options Program (CMO) Administrator team and funded by the California Air Resources Board, will be held on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at The California Endowment Center in Los Angeles, CA from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT.
The Clean Mobility Forum will be a one-day in-person event focused on clean mobility topics and discussions. There will be an option for virtual attendance for keynote speeches and most sessions. The forum will be composed of a keynote plenary, panels, workshops, and a closeout plenary and reception. Attendees will have the opportunity to network and connect in person with clean mobility project awardees, experts in the field, and other potential partners, as well as learn about and share project lessons and successes.
See below for a look at the Schedule of Events!
Registration closes on September 26th!
Early, no-fee registration is currently available to Clean Mobility Equity Alliance members, nonprofits, local governments, nonprofit mobility providers or tribes only.
To receive your no-fee registration promo code please email [email protected]. Private sector registration is available for $70.
Zoom links will be shared with virtual participants a week before the event. Virtual events are identified in the Schedule of Events below.
A discounted rate of $130 is available until September 8th!
A hotel block has been reserved for Clean Mobility Forum attendees at The Biltmore Hotel.
Please book your rooms as soon as possible as space is limited!
8:30-9:30 am
Breakfast and Registration
9:30-10:00 am
To be delivered by Sydney Vergis, Ph.D. (Deputy Executive Officer – Mobile Sources & Incentives, California Air Resources Board)
10:00-11:00 am
In order to provide free and discounted transportation services to the community, clean mobility programs must be strategic in how they approach funding for long-term sustainability. In this session, attendees will get the opportunity to listen to different points of view from project teams and technical assistance groups on strategies to make informed decisions for identification and implementation of long-term strategies. Topics will include strategies to get more funding; how to approach showcasing projects; strategies to gain and maintain local support; and working with limited staff capacity.
Panelists:
Dennis Gakunga (City of Chula Vista),
Creighton Randall (Mobility Development, Inc.),
Sparky Harris (City of Sacramento),
Steffani Charkiewicz (Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District)
Moderator:
Will Sowers (ZipCar)
11:00-11:30 am
Networking Break
11:30-12:30 pm
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Want to learn about the tools and approaches that center historically marginalized community voices in the efforts to identify problems and define shared mobility and transportation solutions? Are you hoping to build community awareness and ownership of clean mobility strategies and solutions? This session will spend time highlighting the opportunities and challenges around helping underrepresented communities participate in bringing clean mobility projects to their communities. After a short presentation by Marquita Price, Principal at Hood Planning Group to get the conversation started, participants will spend time in small group dialogue to further explore outreach and engagement strategies to try.
Facilitator:
Marquita Price (Hood Planning Group)
Innovative funding sources, like CMO, provide a down-payment for new, clean shared mobility services, while also building in key components like community engagement and evaluation. But once that funding dries up, how can projects continue to serve their communities in a sustainable way? Building on the previous session, participants will hear from Denee Evans, Transportation Services Project Manager for the City of Richmond, before breaking into groups based on travel mode to share and brainstorm things they can do to keep their service relevant and solvent.
Panelists:
Denée Evans (City of Richmond)
Facilitator:
Joey Juhasz-Lukomski (Shared-Use Mobility Center)
Although electrification in the transportation sector is mainly focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, this session will highlight other benefits transportation, and in particular micromobility, can provide to communities. Participants will hear from the CMO Program Administrators on how the program strives to consider additional goals in shared mobility projects and how to measure these goals and outcomes.
Facilitators:
Lauren N. McCarthy (Shared-Use Mobility Center)
Pete Lauer (Shared-Use Mobility Center)
Improving regional mobility and transportation access is a multi-partner effort. Are you curious about how regional entities think about expanding services, create more connectivity, and leverage resources to improve riders’ experience with a transit service? The Thinking Collaboratively panelists will be sharing their knowledge of the opportunities they see to integrate shared and or micromobility to create a comprehensive transit network, and offer insights into how they leverage regional collaboration and coordination to expand and improve mobility services.
12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Join us for a thought-provoking session that explores the principles of stories and storytelling. We will reflect on storytelling as a way to build relationships founded on trust and collaboration, respecting the agency and ownership of narrators in shaping their own stories. In the context of hyper information, meaningful engagement, interactions, and representation can be a powerful tool for sustainable change. Discover strategies to ensure ongoing informed consent, transparency, and the sacred representation of complex narratives. This session will provide actionable insights into how to create stories that resonate, inspire, and bring about positive change within communities.
Facilitators:
Shalem G Lopez (Pueblo Planning)
Natalia Perez-Bobadilla (Shared-Use Mobility Center)
This session will explore what the purpose of data collection is and how data can inform decisions for various stakeholders in micromobility. Participants will hear perspectives from two actors involved in the data evaluation. Although projects of CMO are at various stages, participants will learn about the challenges, lessons learned, and strategies moving forward.
Panelists:
Miriam Pinski (Shared-Use Mobility Center)
Joe Martin (Via)
Tribal and rural communities are working to increase transportation access in ways that fit the context of their lives and locations. This session will have presentations from leaders in tribal and rural communities about their efforts with clean mobility projects. Participants can expect to be part of a shared learning opportunity on the innovations, challenges, and promising directions for rural and tribal mobility.
Panelists:
Gloria Huerta (MioCar)
Shasta Gaughen (Pala Band of Mission Indians)
Moderator:
Josh Meyer (CivicWell)
Transportation equity centers on framing a vision where all individuals, regardless of their positions in life, have the mobility options to prosper and live a comfortable life. In this session, participants will get the opportunity to self-evaluate how well their program/project/planning process is addressing equity. Afterwards, participants will be a part of a visioning session where they will discuss and share with others how equity is being addressed in their program/project/planning process, as well as discuss barriers in doing so. Participants will leave this session with inspiration, goals, and actions to better address transportation equity in their communities.
Facilitator:
Brytanee Brown (Emergent Labs)
2:30-3:00 pm
Networking Break
3:00-4:00 pm
The impact of clean mobility projects and needs assessments is most clearly understood through the stories and feedback told anecdotally from community members and on-the-ground staff working directly with service users, vehicles and other equipment. Participants will get the opportunity to hear about stories from community members and service users of existing clean mobility programs that have launched in California. Participants will be able to glean lessons learned from the projects and understand the impact of the services from the perspective of the community members being served.
Panelists:
Melisa Walk (Pacoima Beautiful)
Shirin Sadrpour (LADOT)
Raúl Ureña (City of Calexico)
Angelina Rahimi (Aura Planning)
Moderator:
Benjie de la Peña (Shared-Use Mobility Center)
4:00-5:00 pm
The three managers from the three partner organizations that make up the CMO Program Administrator team will share closing words highlighting CMO and its evolution, lessons taken from the forum and share the importance of peer to peer learning, strengthening partnerships and the Clean Mobility Equity Alliance.
Keynote Speakers:
Cesar Hernandez (Calstart)
Lauren N. McCarthy (Shared-Use Mobility Center)
Josh Meyer (CivicWell)
*Indicates events with a virtual attendance option.
The Clean Mobility Forum will have over 50+ clean transportation state program awardees, mobility operators, and other community partners and stakeholders joining from all across California. By sponsoring the Clean Mobility Forum, you can demonstrate leadership and commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment. You will also have the opportunity to interact with participants and showcase your organization.
We hope you can join us in making the Clean Mobility Forum a great success by becoming a forum sponsor!
For inquiries about sponsorships, contact Diana Voss-Gonzalez at [email protected].
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