Overview

January 12

It’s an exciting time for urban transit. While the early disruptions of the pandemic decimated transportation networks in many cities, transit leaders are ready to build back stronger and smarter. They’re eager for new solutions and new technologies that can transform the urban transit experience, making it safer, more effective and more efficient.

But transit agencies face numerous obstacles in maintaining and improving transportation efficiency. Building and managing programs from end to end requires interagency coordination from local transit authorities, state DOTs, finance departments, law enforcement, parking enforcement and more. It can be difficult to enable true collaboration from all those stakeholder – and difficult to even identity who the right stakeholders are.

Join us January 12 at 11am PT/2pm ET for a virtual discussion on empowering transit innovation through collaboration. Our panel will discuss several important topics, such as:

-- How to bring decision-makers together for ongoing improvements to transit
-- Outdated legislation and city ordinances that may hinder progress
-- Mobile perception systems and other IT innovations

Speakers

Holly Cooper

General Manager, Public Safety and Curbside Management, Conduent Transportation

Holly Cooper serves as global leader for public safety and curbside management at Conduent. With her career spanning more than 20 years, Holly is passionate about providing solutions that utilize analytics and automation to improve public safety and promote equity by reducing bias in public safety operations. She has built security projects for major data centers, industrial and commercial properties, as well as integrated solutions for schools and churches. Recently, Holly and her team partnered with the City of Chicago to implement data-driven programs to reform parking fines and enforcement, aiming to reduce the disproportionate financial impact on marginalized and low-income families. The City of Chicago Department of Finance received the 2021 Innovation Award of Excellence from the International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI) for this effort. Holly graduated from Indiana Wesleyan School of Business, acquired a technology degree from Purdue University and landed her first management position at age 22. She started working in the male-dominated construction industry and is an ardent supporter of causes that elevate women. She is an executive sponsor of Conduent’s Women’s Impact Network, where she mentors associates on achieving their personal and professional goals.

Jerome Horne

Director of Transit Leadership Development, TransitCenter

Jerome leads TransitCenter's strategies around increasing representative leadership and inclusive decision-making in the field, change that is essential to advancing TransitCenter’s mission to improve transit in ways that make our cities more just and sustainable. Additionally, he plays an important role in determining best practices of agencies on rider engagement and works closely with our agency practice and advocacy teams to identify cities to target for replication of those practices.

Angela Miller

US Public Transportation Market Leader for Deloitte Consulting LLP

Angela is a Mobility, Sustainability, and Technology professional with public and private experience both in the US and globally. Previous public transportation agency CIO/CTO/CSO and former member of Board of Directors for the American Public Transportation Association. Nearly 15 years of public sector, over 15 years mobility and transportation, and nearly 20 years of technology, environmental, and sustainability experience. Currently the US Public Transportation Market Leader for Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Renee Autumn Ray

Director of Industry Strategy, Hayden AI

Renee Autumn Ray is an urban planner who has worked with emerging transportation technology and policy issues for over a decade. She is the Director of Industry Strategy at Hayden AI, a leader in AI and Computer Vision based perception systems focused on autonomous traffic management. Renee also serves on the Transportation Research Board committees for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Innovative Public Transport Services and Technologies.

Dustin Haisler — Moderator

Chief Innovation Officer, e.Republic, Inc.

Dustin Haisler is the Chief Innovation Officer of Government Technology's parent company e.Republic. Previously the finance director and later CIO for Manor, Texas, a small city outside Austin, Haisler quickly built a track record and reputation as an early innovator in civic tech. As Chief Innovation Officer, Haisler has a strategic role to help shape the company’s products, services and future direction. Primarily, he leads e.Republic Labs, a market connector created as an ecosystem to educate, accelerate and ultimately scale technology innovation within the public sector.

Webinar

Empowering Transit to Innovate: Sharing Solutions, Strategies and Best Practices