Thursday March 11, 2010
8:30 Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Chris Caplice, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
9:15 A Nation of Floridas: Aging, Changing Lifestyles & the New Future of Freight
Dr. Joseph Coughlin, MIT AgeLab
10:00 Break
10:30 After the Storm: New Challenges for the Global Economy in 2010-30
Sara Johnson, IHS Global Insight
11:15 Public Policy and Freight: History, Trends and Issues
Professor David Luberoff, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Transporting Bits and Atoms
Professor Neil Gershenfeld, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
1:45 Break
2:00 The New Age of Sensing
Professor Sanjay Sarma, MIT Mechanical Engineering
2:45 Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy
Professor Eric Brynjolfson, MIT Sloan School of Management
3:30 Break
3:45 Measuring & Managing Sustainability
Professor Jonathan Johnson, The Sustainability Consortium
4:30 Wrap Up
Dr. Chris Caplice
5:00 Adjourn
5:30 Social and Light Hors d'Oeuvres
Friday March 12, 2010
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Synthesis of Thursday’s Expert Sessions
Dr. Chris Caplice
9:30 Brainstorming Session: Key Driving Forces & Uncertainties
All Attendees & MIT Facilitators
10:30 Break
10:45 Translation and Mapping to Freight Flows
All Attendees & MIT Facilitators
11:30 Wrap Up and Preview of Next Steps
Dr. Chris Caplice
12:00 Lunch