North America 2018

Portland, Oregon, US

May 5–7, 2018

May 5, 2018

8:00 am

May 7, 2018

1:00 pm

Welcome to Urbanism Next's 2018 North America Conference. By following the links in the conference schedule below, you can access presentations, recorded videos, and information about all our speakers.

Presentations

Monday, March 5, 2018

8:00 am

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9:00 am

Registration

Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Ballroom 201/202

Monday, March 5, 2018

9:00 am

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12:15 pm

Morning plenary speakers

Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Ballroom 201/202

Monday, March 5, 2018

12:15 pm

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1:45 pm

Lunch

Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Ballroom 201/202

Monday, March 5, 2018

1:45 pm

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3:15 pm

Session #1 concurrent panels

Oregon Convention Center

Monday, March 5, 2018

3:15 pm

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3:30 pm

Break

Monday, March 5, 2018

3:30 pm

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5:00 pm

Session #2 concurrent panels

Oregon Convention Center

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

7:30 am

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8:30 am

Registration

Oregon Convention Center

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

8:30 am

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10:00 am

Session #3 concurrent panels

Oregon Convention Center

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

10:00 am

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10:15 am

Break

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

10:15 am

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11:45 am

Session #4 concurrent panels

Oregon Convention Center

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

11:45 am

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1:30 pm

Lunch on your own / Travel to workshop

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

1:30 pm

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5:30 pm

Workshops

Various locations

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

5:30 pm

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7:00 pm

Happy hour

Basecamp Brewing Company

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

8:00 am

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9:00 am

Registration

Oregon Convention Center

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

9:00 am

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1:00 pm

Closing Plenary

Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Ballroom 201/202

Welcome to the National Urbanism Next Conference

9:00 am

Welcome to the City of Portland

9:15 am

A Second Chance: Building Livable Communities with the Future of Technology

9:30 am

Learning from the Past for a Better City of the Future

9:50 am

The Future of Shared Mobility

10:10 am

The Evolution of Transit in the time of AVs

10:30 am

Re-Imagining Retail in an E-Commerce World

11:10 am

Planing for the People: How Emerging Technologies Can Help or Harm the Most Vulnerable

11:50 am

Nightmares and Dreams of our AV Future

12:45 pm

Autonomous Vehicles Financial and Budgetary Implications for Cities

1:45 pm

A107

Critical Perspectives and Recent Work on the Travel Behavior Implications of Autonomous Vehicles

1:45 pm

A105

How Can Urban Planning Engage with the AV Revolution

1:45 pm

A106

Low Speed Mobility in a New World

1:45 pm

A108

Low Speed Mobility in a New World

1:45 pm

A108

Making Smart Cities Equitable

1:45 pm

A103/A104

Are Stores Doomed? Urban Retail in the E-Commerce Age

3:30 pm

A103/104

Beep: Science Fiction - Built Environment Professionals Foretell Our Possible Futures, Shaped by New Technologies

3:30 pm

A109

Dystopia or Utopia: What Do We Need to Guide Us to a Positive Outcome?

3:30 pm

A106

Effective Decision-Making for Freight-Efficient Land Uses

3:30 pm

A108

Pricing as a Demand Management Tool

3:30 pm

A107

Streets, Sidewalks, Stoops: Propellers, Wheels, and Batteries

3:30 pm

A105

A Shared Future: How the Sharing Economy Impacts the Future of the City

8:30 am

A105

Impacts of Technological Change on State and Local Budgets

8:30 am

A109

Living Streets

8:30 am

A103/A104

Navigating Regulatory Potholes Impacting Technology and Mobility

8:30 am

A108

Planning for Retail in an On-Line World

8:30 am

A107

The Role of Transit in an Automated Future

8:30 am

A106

Equity Impacts of Shared/Electric/Connected/Autonomous Vehicles

10:15 am

A107

Long Range Thinking and Systems Change: Three Examples from the Bay Area

10:15 am

A109

Planning for an Automated Tomorrow, Beginning Today

10:15 am

A106

Reshaping Cities in a Post-Parking World: A Real Estate Development Perspective

10:15 am

A105

Reworking Our Malls and Retail

10:15 am

A108

The Future of the Curb

10:15 am

A103/A104

An AV for Everyone: Shared Mobility and Equity

1:30 pm

Metro, 401

Build It and They Won't Come: The Parking Revolution

1:30 pm

OCC, A107

Building a Street of the Future: A Playbook of Action for Delivering Green, Complete and Smart Cities

1:30 pm

OCC A106

Designing for the Future Livable City: How Do We Put People First in Street Design?

1:30 pm

UO White Stag

Emerging Technologies and the Future of Street Design

1:30 pm

Metro 370 A/B

Framework Design for the Next Generation

1:30 pm

SERA

Friends or Foes? AV, Bicyclists, and Pedestrians: What Do We Need to Know, and How Will We Learn It?

1:30 pm

UO White Stag

Futureproofing Development in the OSMI District

1:30 pm

OSMI

Land Valuation Impacts

1:30 pm

OCC A109

Parking and the Future of Mobility

1:30 pm

OCC A103/A104

Pedestrian Interrupted: The AV Impact on Tampa's Quest for a Walkable Downtown

1:30 pm

OCC A108

Scenario Planning for an Uncertain Future

1:30 pm

OCC A105

The Price to Pay for Easy AV Travel

1:30 pm

Lloyd Center Tower

Transit Agency Focus in an Era of New Mobility

1:30 pm

UO White Stag

Where'd All the Money Go? Opportunities for Local Government Finances

1:30 pm

ECONorthwest

Set the Stage: What We Heard

9:00 am

Strategic Communications and Emerging Technologies

9:20 am

What Happens Next: Industry

9:40 am

What Happens Next: Research

10:20 am

What Happens Next: Professionals

11:00 am

What Happens Next: Governing

11:40 am

The Last Word

12:20 pm

Speakers

Ted Wheeler

Mayor
City of Portland

Rep. Earl Blumenauer

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Oregon's 3rd District

Jeffrey Tumlin

Executive Director
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)

Susan Shaheen, PhD

Adjunct Professor & Director of Innovative Mobility Research
UC Berkeley

Laura Bliss

Journalist
CityLab - Bloomberg News

Matthew Dickens

Senior Policy Analyst
American Public Transportation Association

Sharon Feigon

Founder and Executive Director
Shared-Use Mobility Center

Alan Lehto

Director of Business Planning & Asset Management
TriMet

Joshua Schank

Chief Innovation Officer
Los Angeles County Metro

Adam Ducker

Managing Director
RCLCO

Noel Johnson

Principal
Cairn Pacific Collaborative

Philip Bretsch

Senior Manager, Investments
Regency Centers

Matt Hoffman

VP of Innovation
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.

Sahar Shirazi

Policy and Planning Lead, AVs and Emerging Mobility
WSP

Robin Chase

Co-Founder
Zipcar, Veniam & SharedMobilityPrinciples.org

Donna Davis, PhD

Assistant Professor and Director of the Strategic Communicatio MA Program
University of Oregon School of Journalism

Debs Schrimmer

Transportation Policy Manager
Lyft

Stonly Baptiste

Co-Founder and Partner and Partner at Urban US, Investment Partner at Urban-X Accelerator by BMW / Mini, Teacher at University of Chicago Booth School of Business