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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