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Sustainable Mobility
Getting Bengaluru Moving in cleaner, greener ways
Speakers
Can sustainable mobility solutions help Bengaluru grow in cleaner, greener ways? This panel brings together a diverse set of experts who will identify key challenges to sustainable urban mobility in Bengaluru. They will examine innovative solutions in walking, cycling, electric / hybrid vehicles to address these challenges, and propose policy interventions required to make these sustainable mobility modes a reality.
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About The Bengaluru Mobility Summit:
Bengaluru was recently ranked the most traffic congested city in the world. The majority of the city’s population prefers private transportation over public transportation. As a result, road infrastructure has been prioritised over other transportation infrastructure such as Namma Metro, suburban rail, cycle and bus lanes, etc. With the demand for transportation far exceeding the supply, commuters are forced to contend with a wide range of issues on a daily basis, including congestion, poor quality infrastructure, inadequate last mile connectivity, lack of multi-modal mobility, etc.
The COVID-19 crisis has created even more challenges. Safety concerns have affected how many people can be carried on a single bus and have increased people’s preference for private transport options. It is therefore timely to explore how to establish a more sustainable, efficient and integrated urban mobility system in the city.
The Bengaluru Mobility Summit aims to bring together policymakers and experts across different dimensions of urban mobility to discuss how these issues can be solved. The Summit is a 5-part series of non-political, policy-focused panel discussions around the the themes of urban mobility in post- COVID Bengaluru, Internet-enabled mobilty services, utilising public transport better
Speakers
Ashwin Mahesh
Dr. Ashwin Mahesh is a social technologist, urbanist and entrepreneur in Bengaluru. After a 15-year career as a polar climate scientist and an astronomer, he switched to social enterprise, with a focus on urban development and governance. He is a founder of the technology lab, Mapunity, which builds urban social networking platforms and tools. He has been an advisor to a number of government departments in their initiatives in the city – including BMTC, BBMP and the Traffic Police. He is also a co-founder of Lithium, which operates the first and largest fleet of electric cars in India.
Anjali Karol Mohan
Dr. Anjali Karol Mohan is an urban and regional Planner with a PhD in governance and public policy. Her research and practice over the past 27 years straddles development, institutional and policy frameworks, urban planning and management and information and communication technologies and development (ICTD). She is a visiting faculty at NLSIU Bangalore and the Takshashila Institution. As a partner at Integrated Design, Bangalore, she is involved in several projects both as a team member and a team leader. Since 1997, she has worked on all the Master Plans and Regional Plans for Bangalore
Chetan Maini
As an entrepreneur and technologist for 20+ years, Chetan Maini’s lifelong vision has been to create products and solutions to deepen the adoption of clean and sustainable mobility. Having invented the Reva in 1999, an electric vehicle much ahead of its time, he is globally acknowledged as a pioneer in the electric vehicle space. Chetan has spent over two decades working with electric, hybrid and solar vehicles in USA and India and holds over 30 global patents. Taking forward his relentless passion for transformative mobility run on renewable energy, Chetan and Uday Khemka of SUN New Energy Systems, a clean energy market leader, set up SUN Mobility in April 2017.
An authority and visionary on EVs, he has served on a number of Government boards set up to frame EV policies. He has also been a member of multiple boards such as India’s National Board on Electric Mobility (NBEM) formed by the Government of India’s Ministry of Heavy Industries & Enterprises. Chetan has received several accolades including the BBC Top Gear “Man of the Year” award; the Innovation award in Energy and Environment by The Economist in London; ET Auto GABS “Innovator of the Year” Award and the Frost & Sullivan India Start-ups – “Visionary Innovation Leadership Award”.
Sathya Sankaran
Sathya Sankaran is the bicycle mayor of Bengaluru. He is the co-founder of the non-profit Citizens for Sustainability (CiFoS), and Urban Morph, a mobility and clean energy consulting company.
M.V. Rajeev Gowda
Professor Rajeev Gowda is Ex-Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Karnataka. He has a B.A from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, an MA in Economics from Fordham University and a PhD in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and taught at the University of Oklahoma. Until recently, he was Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a Director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India. He has authored and edited books, scholarly articles and reports on policy issues. He has mentored start up companies and works on urban renewal and youth empowerment, among other areas of interest. He has been a Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow.
He is the Managing Trustee, Resurgent India Trust, which launched the Bengaluru Needs You initiative.
