Agenda: Silicon Valley Bike Summit, August 6 & 7
This year’s virtual Bike Summit will be a treat for new and returning participants. The Summit will kick-off with a keynote speaker on both days followed by sessions on various topics, virtual bike ride, poster presentations, networking opportunities between participants and so on. Below is the detailed agenda. Stay tuned for information on speakers. Register here. Click here for Speaker info. #SVBikeSummit
Day 1, Thursday Aug 6, 2020
8:30 am: Connect to Zoom
Attendees will receive their online meeting links in Eventbrite reminder emails 2 days, 2 hours, and 15 minutes before the conference starts. Please do not share these links with anyone else.
Do sign in early to sort out connection issues and socialize in break out rooms with other attendees before the main conference starts. Make new friends!
9:00 am: Welcome: Why do people make the transportation choices they do?
Shiloh Ballard, President & Executive Director @bikesv
Kevin Fang, Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University/Mineta Transportation Institute @MinetaTrans he/him/his
SVBC and MTI partnered to conduct a public opinion poll at the beginning of the year and will share the results of why people make the transportation choices they do.
9:30 am: Keynote: Toks Omishakin, Caltrans Director @CaltransHQ he/him/his
Toks Omishakin was appointed the 33rd Director of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Omishakin’s transportation vision for California features a safe, sustainable and multimodal transportation system that builds on strong local partnerships. Before joining Caltrans, he worked at the Tennessee Department of Transportation for 8 years to make TDOT one of the best DOTs in the country. Prior to that he served as Director of Healthy Living Initiatives in the Nashville Mayor’s Office prior to that.
10:00am: Break
10:10 am: Session 2: Slow Streets
The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to reevaluate many aspects of society, including how we use our streets and how we move around our cities. More people are walking and biking in their neighborhoods and driving less. People are realizing how pleasant the streets can be without constant traffic, speeding cars, and air pollution. Cities around the world are experimenting with opening up streets to people walking, biking, scooting, and playing. Speakers from Redwood City, Oakland, Pasadena, and Bend, OR will discuss the ins and outs of their shared/slow/safe streets pilots, how to overcome challenges, and how to sustain the benefit of these experiments in the long term.
Moderator, Giselle Hale, Council Member, City of Redwood City @gisellemarie she/her/her
Noel Pond-Danchik, Transportation Planner, City of Oakland @OakDOT she/her/her
Laura Cornejo, Director of Transportation, City of Pasadena she/her/her
Robin Lynn Lewis, Transportation Engineer, City of Bend, Oregon @CityofBend she/her/her
Jessica Manzi, Senior Transportation Coordinator, City of Redwood City @RedwoodCity she/her/her
11:00am: Break
11:10 am: Session 3: Bringing Everyone to the (Virtual) Table: Outreach and Engagement
Outreach is key to the success of any transportation project and plan. A city must have buy-in and support from the community that a project impacts for it to succeed. In normal times, ensuring equitable engagement can be a challenge. In the time of COVID19, it is even more crucial that people of all backgrounds are included in decisions that will affect them. Advocates and government reps will discuss successful mobilizing tactics pre and post COVID, including the importance of virtual engagement and ensuring citizens have equitable access as well as strategies for gaining the support of a wide group of private, non-profit, city, county, and state organizations.
Moderator, Jennifer Fierman, Senior Planning Associate, Alta Planning + Design @altaplanning she/her/hers
Erika Rincon, Community Health Planner, San Mateo County Health @GetHealthySMC she/her/hers
Seema Lindskog, Board Member, Walk Bike Cupertino @WBCupertino she/her/hers
Jennifer Shearin, Board Member, Walk Bike Cupertino @WBCupertino she/her/hers
Eduardo Gonzalez, Program Manager, Youth Leadership Institute @YLInstitute he/they
12:00 pm: Lunch: Learn about Summit Award winners & Networking via breakout groups
Learn about the Summit 2020 Award Winners for the three categories Person, Project and Program of the Year. (compiled by Fehr & Peers)Breakouts: One of the goals of the Summit has been networking and we’d be using this space on the agenda to encourage the same between participants. We’ll breakout into randomized groups to get to learn about each other and foster some interesting discussions.
1:00 pm: Session 5: Equitable Approaches to Safe Routes to School Programs
By now, most bicycle advocates in the Bay Area are familiar with Safe Routes to School programming and the activities that come with it: golden sneakers contests, walking school buses, and a suite of other encouragement and educational events. However, there are a number of players in the Bay that are trying new approaches to deepen the role of youth engagement in active transportation, diversify the players and partners that are included in these conversations, make sure messaging crosses language barriers, and ensure equity is a key part of the active transportation program. Questions and topics the speakers will be addressing include:
Involving youth of color in local planning processes and city politics
Conveying the importance of youth engagement and advocacy to agencies and decision makers
Using data to determine where programs should focus
Speakers:
Moderator, Beth Martin, Senior Planner, Alta Planning+Design @altaplanning they/them
Jose Palma, Safe Routes to School Coordinator, City of Palo Alto @cityofpaloalto he/him/his
Vanessa Castro, Safe Routes to School Project Specialist, San Mateo County Office of Education @SMCOETweet she/her/her
James Rojas, Founder, Place It @placeitplanning he/him/his
Joelle Alley, Director Earth Team Program @ETNetwork she/her/hers
1:50 pm: Break
2:00 pm: Session 6: Virtual Bike Tour of Palo Alto
Palo Alto city staff will take us on a virtual ride to showcase some of their best bicycle infrastructure which makes them one of the most bikable cities in the Bay Area. The staff will talk about pros and cons of various projects, the challenges they’ve faced, discuss proposed projects and so on during this session. The ride route is here and the here is the detailed description with slides for you to experience on your own time.
Moderator, Sandhya Laddha, San Mateo County Advocate, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition @BikeSV she/her/hers
Rosie Mesterhazy, Safe Routes to School Coordinator, City of Palo Alto Office of Transportation @RMesterhazy she/her/hers
Ken Joye, Chair, Palo Alto Bicycle Advisory Commission he/him/his
Sylvia Star-Lack, Transportation Manager, City of Palo Alto Office of Transportation @bikedoula she/her/hers
2:50 pm: Wrap-up (Review Day-1 Preview Day 2) & Closing Remarks – Shiloh Ballard
3:00 pm: Happy Hour networking via breakout groups
Every Summit includes a Happy Hour and the Virtual Summit is not going to deter us from conducting one! After the end of Day 1, you can grab a drink and engage with fellow participants on topics of your choice.
Day 2, Friday, August 7, 2020
8:30am: Connect to Zoom
Attendees will receive their online meeting links in Eventbrite reminder emails 2 days, 2 hours, and 15 minutes before the conference starts. Please do not share these links with anyone else.
Do sign in early to sort out connection issues and socialize in break out rooms with other attendees before the main conference starts. Make new friends!
9:00 am: Welcome Address with Shiloh Ballard, President & Executive Director and Interview of Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese @DaveCortese he/him/his
Supervisor Dave Cortese has been on the Board for over a decade, with four years as Board President. Prior to that he served eight years on the San Jose City Council. In his various roles from being a former Chair at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to a member at the Valley Transportation Authority, he has strived to look for inventive ways to make the County environmentally friendly and to increase use of mass transit. Growing up in San Jose, as part of a family that has been active in civic, cultural and business activities for generations, his deep local roots and love for this county fuel his passion for public service.
10:00am: Break
10:10 am: Session 8: Rethinking the 5 “E’s: Equity in Active Transportation
The 5 E’s (evaluation, education, encouragement, engineering, and enforcement) have long been used as a framework for bike and pedestrian design and safety. Over the past few years, Equity has been added to the E’s concept. But is that enough? Non-profits, government agencies, and consultants are now rethinking the E approach by adding and taking away E strategies. They are also figuring out how to incorporate equity in a deeper way - defining equity criteria and best practices for operationalizing these criteria, reexamining the role of enforcement in street safety, and focusing on how to incorporate ethics into engineering.
Moderator, Melissa Cerezo, Senior Transportation Planner, VTA & Board Member, SVBC @CerezoMelissa she/her/hers
Jonathan Yuan, Toole Design @tooledesign they/them
Heather Eastwood, Community Health Planner, San Mateo County Health @GetHealthySMC She/her/hers
Demi Espinoza, Senior Equity & Policy Manager, Safe Routes Partnership @SafeRoutesCA She/Her/Hers
11:00am: Break
11:10 am: Session 9: The Future of Micro-mobility
Almost every day, it seems like there’s a new announcement about bike and scooter share. At the same time, bike and scooter share has been very popular while we are sheltering in place. Bike and scooter share offer an outdoor & individual transportation option. How can cities, companies, and other agencies ensure the continued success and growth of these tools to give people more transportation choices? How are current systems adapting to the current situation?
Moderator, Dave Snyder, Executive Director, California Bicycle Coalition @dave_bikes he/him/his
Neal Patel, Community Affairs Manager, Lyft Bay Wheels @baywheels he/him/his
Andrea Arjonaamador, Transportation Specialist, San Jose Department of Transportation She/Her/Hers
Sam Sadle, Sr. Director of Government Relations at Lime @limebike he/him/his
12:00 pm: Lunch: Networking via breakout groups
Breakouts: One of the goals of the Summit has been networking and we’d be using this space on the agenda to encourage the same between participants. We’ll breakout into randomized groups to get to learn about each other and foster some interesting discussions.
1:00 pm: Session 11: Pecha Kucha: bikeway designs
Pecha kucha is a presentation style in which each speaker has a presentation of 20 images shown for 20 seconds each for a total of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. This is a high energy, fast-paced session. Speakers will discuss the topics below:
Parking and Mountain View’s Work to Build Protected Bikeways on ECR
What could a bicycle superhighway network look like in Santa Clara County?
Quick build during crisis
Think Regional, Act Local: Envisioning a Regional Trail Network and Developing its Component Parts
Speakers:
Moderator, Amie Ashton, SVBC Board Member she/her/hers
Ria Hutabarat Lo Transportation Manager, City of Mountain View she/her/hers
Lauren Ledbetter, Valley Transportation Authority she/her/hers
Vignesh Swaminathan, CEO and President, Crossroad Labs he/him/his
Rachael Faye, Public Access Program Manager Peninsula Open Space Trust she/her/hers
1:50 pm: Break
2:00 pm: Session 12: COVID19 and its impact on the environment and transportation
For the past couple decades, the community has been focused on finding solutions to congestion, pollution, and the work and school commutes. Due to shelter in place, those problems have almost disappeared temporarily. What policy and funding decisions must we make now to shape the next decades and centuries for a more sustainable transportation and environmental future?
Moderator, Karen Philbrick, Executive Director, Mineta Transportation Institute she/her/hers
Doug Gordon, Co-host/Producer, The War on Cars @TheWarOnCars he/him/his
Toshi Shepard-Ohta, Principal Engineer - New Mobility, Metropolitan Transportation Commission @MTCBATA he/him/his
Nicola Szibbo, Program Manager - New Mobility, Metropolitan Transportation Commission @MTCBATA she/her/hers
Zabe Bent, Director of Design, NACTO @zabebent she/her/hers
2:50 pm: Wrap-up & Closing Remarks – Shiloh Ballard
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