MOVIN’ON SUMMIT 2019:
FROM AMBITION TO ACTION
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CONFERENCE REVIEW: MOVIN’ON SUMMIT
MOVIN’ON SUMMIT 2019:
FROM AMBITION
TO ACTION From June 4th to 6th 2019, the Grandé Studios in Montréal hosted the third edition of the Movin’On Summit, a global summit for sustainable mobility. Sustainable Business Magazine’s Daniel Sluckin attended.
Sustainable mobility is one of the great creative challenges of our time. Globally, the transportation sector is the second largest overall emitter of CO2, tied with manufacturing and construction and behind only electricity and heat production. In places like Québec, where renewable energy has been widely adopted, transportation is the largest overall emitter. Yet human life as we know it today depends upon a diverse array of transportation options – from commuter transport to fresh produce logistics to waste collection – and every method of transportation presents its own set of sustainability challenges. 2 | URECON / LOGSTOR
The annual Movin’On Summit in Montréal hosts innovators and thought leaders in sustainable mobility. The Movin’On Summit engages directly with these challenges, encouraging the cross-pollination of ideas,
knowledge, and inspiration between large businesses, small tech start-ups, academics, and public-sector decision makers. The descendent of the Michelin Challenge Bibendum, which was created in
1998, the Movin’On Summit is produced by the Movin’On Sustainable Mobility Fund in partnership with Montréal-based business events organizer C2 International. The 2019 Movin’On Summit brought 95 speakers and 5,000 attendees together for two-and-a-half days in June at the Grandé Studios to discuss the future of mobility. Attendees were able to participate in experimental labs and working sessions, as well as view some of the latest mobility technology, much of it not yet available on the market. The event was organized around five key themes: Decarbonization and Air Quality, Innovative Technologies, Goods Transportation and Multimodality, Multimodal Urban Transit and Society, and Circular Economy. Present for this year’s event were Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montréal, Luis Alfonso
De Alba, Mexican diplomat and special envoy for the 2019 Climate Summit, Pierre Cannet, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) France Interim Co-Director, and Florent Menegaux, incoming CEO of the Michelin Group, who summarized the overall theme of the summit as ‘From Ambition to Action’. Michelin themselves used the event to announce their airless, puncture-proof
Uptis tire, which will be available for new General Motors consumer vehicles by 2024. Michelin estimate 200 million tires a year are discarded because of punctures. The Uptis tire will require less maintenance and will only need to be retreaded, not replaced. Also announced at the 2019 summit was that Accenture’s Frugal Mobility Solutions for a Sustainable Future program, intended to study how to achieve better mobility solutions using fewer resources, has been developed into a Frugal Mobility City Index, which measures the magnitude with which cities are embracing and implementing frugal mobility solutions, and a Frugal Mobility Observatory to list potentially replicable frugal solutions for use by entrepreneurs and municipalities. Nicolas Beaumont, Senior Vice President for Sustainable Development and Mobility at Michelin told Sustainable Business Magazine: “Making mobility more sustainable is good for us. Our brand has value. It’s recognized globally.” Of the mobility sector, Mr. Beaumont said: “Seeing what’s happening helps you see the future. We cannot work alone. The benefit of Movin’On for Michelin is we are recognized as a trusted partner all over the world.” Florent Menegaux, new CEO of the Michelin Group, told us: “If you want to build momentum, you need unity in theme, time, and subject. Montreal has been accommodating and supportive and we have a strong partner here.” The next edition of the Movin’On Summit will take place in Montréal from June 3rd – 5th 2020. Read more about the upcoming summit and previous Movin’On Summits at: summit.movinonconnect.com c
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