Future Tense: How Will Self-Driving Cars Reshape Our Cities?

As high-tech entrepreneurs and local governments seek to pave the way for a “smart” urban future, major cities from Pittsburgh to Phoenix have become laboratories for the driverless car revolution.

Cities are driving the transition to the age of autonomous transportation, and they will in turn be transformed by it, much like the last automotive revolution of the mid-20th century proved instrumental in designing our great American cities, not to mention our daily lives.

Join Future Tense, transportation planners from Phoenix and Pittsburgh, representatives from Waymo, Lyft, Intel, and Toyota, and leading academic researchers for a discussion of the technological revolution now unfolding on our city streets.

11:30-12:00pm: Designing the Transition to Autonomous Mobility 

Michael Crow 
President, Arizona State University

Tekedra Mawakana 
Vice President, Global Head of Policy & Government Affairs, Waymo


12:00-12:45 pm: Paving the Road for Smart Cities 

Marjorie Dickman 
Associate General Counsel, Global Director, Internet of Things and Automated Driving Policy, Intel

Grady Gammage, Jr. 
Senior Fellow, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University Founder, Gammage and Burnham

Eric Anderson 
Transportation Director, Maricopa Association of Governments

Moderator: Wellington Reiter 
Executive Director, University City Exchange, Arizona State University


12:45-1:30pm: What Does Our Driverless Future Look Like? 

Karina Ricks 
Director of Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, City of Pittsburgh

Robert Grant 
Senior Director of Global Public Policy; Head of Autonomous Vehicle Policy, Lyft

Ken Laberteaux 
Senior Principal Scientist, Future Mobility Research, Toyota

Moderator: Laura Bliss 
Staff writer, CityLab

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