Opening Plenary

• Funding our Future: Protecting & Enhancing Transit & Active Transportation in a Shifting Landscape

  With funding sources in flux, transportation leaders will discuss threats to critical infrastructure, programs, and services and efforts to protect, preserve, and enhance transit and other active transportation options.

Morning Sessions

• From Barriers to Belonging: Centering Identity, Expanding & Reshaping Bike Culture

  Biking should be for everyone—but systemic barriers often leave BIPOC communities and people with disabilities underserved and unsafe on our streets. Hear from leaders building spaces that reflect and celebrate community, increase accessibility, and empower people to ride with confidence and pride. Discover how inclusive programming is shifting the culture of biking—one pedal stroke at a time.

• Reclaim the Streets: Strategies for Car-Free Spaces

  Roads make up nearly 30% of urban land, the vast majority of which is allocated for the movement and storage of automobiles. Hear from organizers, government staff and business leaders leading efforts to maximize the benefits of this public infrastructure for economic development, community, connection, and climate action—and how you can contribute to the movement in your own community.

• Pedals, Pavement & Place: Why Transportation Justice and Housing Justice Go Hand in Hand

  Homelessness along sidewalks, trails, and other public rights of way is a symptom of the overall housing and transportation challenge. Public agency representatives and advocates will share their experiences and insights, as well as strategies and actions to effectively and humanely address this complex issue.

• Morning Bike Ride (Eastside Tour)

  Join us for a guided tour through one of the region’s fastest-growing employment centers while discovering newly completed connections to the Bay Trail and Centennial Trail. Along the way, learn how South San Francisco is leveraging a Community Facilities District to fund multimodal transportation improvements east of Highway 101. Meet at the Bike Valet station 10 minutes before the session begins.

Afternoon Sessions

• Next Gen Biketivists: Youth Leading the Way

  Meet emerging youth leaders pedaling change in their communities and learn about the creative strategies and homegrown tactics they are deploying to champion environmental justice and active transportation. Come for the wisdom, stay for the inspiration—these next-gen biketivists are proving that the future of mobility is already in motion.

• Thinking Outside the Bike Lane (Hands-On Communications Workshop)

  What messaging can you use to reach new audiences and secure bigger wins? This workshop helps to strengthen communication and engagement skills. Attendees learn how to more effectively identify potential partners, recruit and collaborate with them to strengthen their campaign. Led by Justin Hu-Nguyen of Bike East Bay and Carter Lavin, author of If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy

• From Chaos to Coordination: Leveraging Tech for Safe Streets & Vision Zero

  E-bikes, e-scooters, and other electric micromobility devices are rapidly growing in popularity and reshaping urban travel—but they’re doing so on streets designed for cars, not people. At the same time, changing commute patterns are contributing to an increase in reckless driving. How can technology bridge the growing street safety gap in Silicon Valley? This session explores the opportunities and challenges of tech innovations like e-bikes and San Jose’s automated speed safety camera pilot program. Panelists will examine how cities can integrate technological innovation while prioritizing vulnerable roadway users, equity, and Vision Zero goals. Join advocates, researchers, and industry experts as they reimagine safer, smarter streets in a rapidly changing mobility landscape.

• Afternoon Bike Ride (Eastside Tour)

  Join us for a guided tour through one of the region’s fastest-growing employment centers while discovering newly completed connections to the Bay Trail and Centennial Trail. Along the way, learn how South San Francisco is leveraging a Community Facilities District to fund multimodal transportation improvements east of Highway 101. Meet at the Bike Valet station 10 minutes before the session begins.

Closing Plenary

• Awards Ceremony

  • Professional of the Year

  • Project/Program of the Year

  • Elected Bicycle Champion of the Year

• Grassroots Urbanism and Community Building (PechaKucha) 

  Government action can take many years and resources, can lack creativity, and be very bureaucratic, stifling new ideas. Learn how community residents decided to create the change they wish to see in the world by taking matters into their own hands.