Civic hacknight #387 - Paris Marx and the Future of Transportation (IN-PERSON)

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Topic: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

• Silicon Valley made a lot of big promises for how it was going to improve mobility with big ideas like self-driving cars, flying vehicles, Hyperloops, and more. But more than a decade since they started promoting their ideas, they haven’t been able to deliver, and it’s become clearer than ever that relying on tech companies won’t address the problems in our transport system. Paris Marx will break down the problems with Silicon Valley’s approach and what we need to do to really tackle our mobility challenges.

Speaker: Paris Marx

• Paris Marx is the host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. Follow Paris on Twitter: @parismarx.

Join us in person:

• We're meeting at the Centre for Urban Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University (44 Gerard St. East). There will be a greeter at the front door and the venue is on the third floor. The venue is fully accessible.

Agenda:

• 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
• 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
• 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

Code of Conduct:

• http://civictech.ca/about-us

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:

• https://link.civictech.ca/chat

Accessibility:

• We're exploring ways to make our hybrid hacknights more accessible. At the moment we provide video and audio of the presentation through Zoom and automated closed captioning.

About Us:

• Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!

For more info:

• http://civictech.ca