Ningbo Supply Chain and Innovation Institute China (NSCIIC) hosted a launch event for the book The Future of The Car and Urban Mobility by Dr. Venkat Sumantran, Professor Charles Fine and Dr. David Gonsalvez, on October 25, 2017 in Ningbo, China (see the feature article A Framework for Driving Change in Urban Mobility for more details).
The event featured two keynote speeches and a roundtable discussion and attracted many attendees from academia, the car industry, government, consulting companies and the media.
In his opening remarks, Professor Liu Shaoxuan, Director of the NSCIIC, commented on the development of the Chinese automobile market and urban mobility. Dr. Venkat Sumantran, Chairman of Celeris Technologies and former Chief Executive of TATA Motors along with Dr. David Gonsalvez, CEO and Rector at the MIT’s Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain and Innovation, gave keynote speeches on the mobility topic.