14 June 2022 Business News

THE WORLD CONGRESS ON SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY GLOBAL MOBILITY CALL KICKS OFF IN MADRID

Global Mobility Call is bringing together the world’s top sustainable mobility leaders from businesses and institutions. Key international actors across all sectors are sharing visions and ideas and forging alliances that will define the future of sustainable mobility.

 
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  • International experts such as Jeffrey Sachs, Michio Kaku, Uri Levine, Carlo Ratti, outline the key features of the mobility of the future.
  • Some of the top representatives and decision-makersintervening are Adina Valean, EU Transport Commissioner; Young Tae Kim, President of the ITF; Eric-Mark Huitema, head of European car makersassociation (ACEA); Patrick Mallejaq, head of the World Road Association and Pedro Sánchez, President of the Spanish Government.

Madrid - 14 June 2022 - The Minister of Transport of Spain, Raquel Sánchez, and José Vicente de los Mozos, Chairman of IFEMA MADRID, opened Global Mobility Call today in Madrid. The congress will showcase major international mobility solutions and will bring together all stakeholders with the goal of boosting decarbonization, connectivity and digitalisation, building on the opportunities offered by post-pandemic recovery plans.

Spain is committed to leading the global race for sustainable mobility by convening all economic sectors and institutions driving the transformation of mobility. This is the goal of Global Mobility Call, the world congress on sustainable mobility organised by IFEMA MADRID and Smobhub, and sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, that takes place in Madrid until 16 June.

The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, said that Global Mobility Call "is set to become the first reference point for the mobility of the future", at a time when it is essential "to share ideas and experiences in pursuit of a sustainable mobility that will allow us to face the colossal challenge posed by climate change and that requires everyone’s efforts ".

The Chairman of IFEMA MADRID, José Vicente de losMozos, said that the goal of Global Mobility Call is "set to bethe world landmark event in sustainable mobility" and "the top business platform for projects that will transform sustainable mobility" driving join initiatives among all sectors, institutions, regulators, companies, SMEs and entrepreneurs.

Juan José Lillo, co-founder of Smobhub, recalled that "new social habits and digitalisation have quadrupled the movement of people and goods globally", accelerating the transformation of transport, a sector that is in the spotlight due to the need to achieve the national decarbonization targets under the Parisclimate Agreement. “At Global Mobility Call, we have created an agenda that emphasises the word Call in its name, which is a call to action", he said.

The meeting, held at a key moment of post-pandemic recovery and in the midst of an energy crisis, will drive the sustainable mobility debate as the great lever for change in the new economy, bringing together large companies, corporations and multinationals from the industrial sectors that are active in the development of sustainable mobility. Some of the companies present are Bolt, Cabify, Europcar Mobility Group, Iberia, Renfe, Adif, Renault Group - Mobilize, Etra, Indra, Net4things, Accenture, Deloitte, EY, and McKinsey & Company; Iberdrola, Repsol and ProLogium; Santander Consumer Finance or Mapfre.

Strong institutional support comes from King Felipe of Spain, who chairs the Congress’ honorary committee, the Spanish Government, with the participation of President Pedro Sánchez and the Ministers of Transport and Mobility, Raquel Sánchez, and of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, as well as international institutional representatives such as Adina Valean, Commissioner for Transport of the European Commission; Young Tae Kim, President of ITF; Eric-Mark Huitema, President of ACEA; Patrick Mallejaq, Secretary General of PIARC; and representatives of POLIS, WWF, WHO and IDB.

Michio Kaku, Uri Levine, Jeffrey Sachs, Carlo Rati, will feature, as well as some of the best European and international public-private collaboration projects in the context of the European Recovery Plan, such as PAsCAL, Gaia-X, One Planet Cities, SMarta, 5G-MOBIX EU, and major researchsuch as AIL: Automotive Innovation Lab, Renewables Now, Center for Future Mobility and es.movilidad.

Global Mobility Call is organized around the key mobility challenges: New Urban Planning, Economic Development & Regulation, Sustainable Transportation, Tech, Data & Innovation, and Future Society, which integrates three major movements with an impact on society: New Generation, Rural Challenge, and New Economy. In addition, there will also be a forum dedicated to Latin America.

Madrid, Spain June 14, 2022

  1. EXTERIOR OF GLOBAL MOBILITY CALL EVENT AT IFEMA’S VENUE

  2. ATTENDEES OUTSIDE VENUE

  3. EXTERIORS OF GMC VENUE

  4. VENUE / GLOBAL MOBILITY CALL SIGN

  5. VARIOUS OF GMC ATTENDEES 

  6. ATTENDEES LISTENING TO MOBILITY FORUM

  7. (SOUNDBITE) (SPANISH) (ENGLISH FROM “How far…”) CO-FOUNDER OF SMOBHUB JUAN JOSE LILLO SAYING:

“If we have seen how the world has changed in the last 20 years, it is not comparable to what will change in the next 10 years. The future mobility scenario and model will depend on the intensity of this collaboration in resources, technology, regulation and investment. The question now is how far and how fast we want to go to reach the next level of the transformation of the sustainable mobility model.”

  1. PHOTOGRAPHERS AT MAIN AUDITORIUM

  2. (SOUNDBITE) (SPANISH) IFEMA PRESIDENT JOSE VICENTE DE LOS MOZOS SAYING:

“A platform that will allow us to connect and cross interests and projects between the regulator, large institutions, the private sector, with large corporations at the forefront, the startup world and also SMEs. The purpose of the event is to integrate all this multi-sector ecosystem to help public, local and regional institutions, as well as private ones, to undertake new projects and ideas that help them to improve people's lives.”

  1. VARIOUS OF EVENT AT MAIN AUDITORIUM

  2. (SOUNDBITE) (SPANISH) SPAIN’S MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT, MOBILITY AND URBAN AGENDA RAQUEL SANCHEZ SAYING:

“It will be digitalization, the one that will drive urban logistics, that last mile distribution  that must be more efficient and must have non-polluting fleets. And also intercity logistics for the automated management of massive shipments from one point to another in the country.” 

  1. MAN SPEAKING AT PHONE AT VENUE

  2. VARIOUS OF ZELERO’S HYPERLOOP

  3. SPEAKERS AT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION FORUM 

  4. VARIOUS OF SPEAKERS AT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION FORUM 

  5. ATTENDEES LISTENING TO SPEAKERS AND BUS IN THE BACKGROUND

  6. VARIOUS OF SPANISH ACTOR AND RAPPER EL LANGUI ON MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR

  7. VARIOUS OF ELECTRICAR CAR FROM MOBILIZE “LIMO”

  8. MAN SHOWING HOW TO CHARGE ELECTRIC CAR LIMO

  9. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) CEO MOBILIZE CLOTILDE DELBOS SAYING:

“People start to think that is very expensive to get a car, they are very disturbed about the transition from ICE (internal combustion engines) to electric, is more expensive, cities are even sometimes banning some types of car, so it’s more and more difficult to own a car and its very expensive. We strongly believe it’s going to move from ownership to usage and and we want to offer this possibility to people to have access to greener mobility, shared mobility, connected mobility, more affordable and more accessible mobility, that’s our vision.”

  1. VARIOUS OF INSIDE OF ELECTRIC CAR LIMO

  2. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) CEO MOBILIZE CLOTILDE DELBOS SAYING:“We launched Limo a few weeks ago, and actually more than Limo what we are launching is mobilised drivers solution. It’s a solution for drivers, taxi drivers, right/heeling drivers, where they don’t even have to own the car. We are not selling it, we are selling the service.”

  3. INSIDE OF ELECTRIC CAR LIMO

  4. MOBILIZE STAND 

  5. MAIN AUDITORIUM

  6. SENIOR ASSOCIATE MCKINSEY AND COMPANY RAFAEL WESTINNER SPEAKING AT STAGE

  7. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) SENIOR ASSOCIATE MCKINSEY AND COMPANY RAFAEL WESTINNER SAYING:

“Spaniards and Spain have a very important role with the first key effects, also being set up and built up in Spain, so with the future the whole landscape of industry players is changing.”

  1. ATTENDEES AT AUDITORIUM

  2. CEO FUNDACION METROPOLI ALFONSO VEGARA SPEAKING

  3. (SOUNDBITE) (SPANISH) CEO FUNDACION METROPOLI ALFONSO VEGARA SAYING:

“The truth is that there are already many people living in Segovia and working in Madrid, in this territory people live, work, access universities, sometimes have a second home for leisure, this is the functional reality beyond the administrative realities.”

  1. GLOBAL MOBILITY CALL SIGN

  2. VARIOUS OF LATIN AMERICA FORUM

  3. VARIOUS OF ATTENDEES AT LATIN AMERICA FORUM

  4. VARIOUS OF TECH, DATA & INNOVATION FORUM

  5. VARIOUS OF IBERIA CEO JAVIER SANCHEZ-PRIETO

  6. PHYSICIST AND FUTURIST MICHIO KAKU ON STAGE OF MAIN AUDITORIUM

  7. ATTENDEE LISTENING TO KAKU

  8. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) PHYSICIST AND FUTURIST MICHIO KAKU SAYING: 

"If we cannot stop global warming there is going to be massive disruption of societies on the planet earth, leading to mass migrations and possibly major wars. The United States Pentagon did a secret study of what would happen if global warming went out of control. And they said that the hotspot is between India and Pakistan, that mass migration of Pakistan into India would overwhelm India and India will respond with nuclear weapons."

  1. KAKU ON STAGE

  2. GLOBAL MOBILITY CALL SIGN

14 June 2022