What will it look like to get people back to work when the world starts moving again? Hear from leaders in government, private sector and think tanks discuss: potential guidance governments may give employers; employer plans for office configuration and scheduling to allow employees to safely come back to work; the impacts of COVID-19 and the economic effects of shutdowns on public transit and what that will mean for commuting.

Introduction: Noam Bardin, Chief Wazer

Speakers:
Robert H. Cary, PE, L.S., Chief Deputy Commissioner, Virginia Department of Transportation
Tom Maguire, Director of Sustainable Streets, San Francisco MTA
Katie Monroe, Partnerships, Transit
Steven Higashide, Director of Research, Transit Center
Tom Harrington, Global Commute Solutions Leader, Intuit

Moderator: Dani Simons, Head of Public Partnerships, Waze
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    Chief Wazer
    Noam Bardin has served as CEO of Waze since March 2009, building the company to become one of the world's most talked-about startups through its acquisition by Google in June 2013. Noam continues to lead the global Waze team within Google to help Wazers around the world enjoy faster, safer drives, and launched Waze Carpool to enable drivers and riders to work together to end traffic. Hailed as one of Business Insider's 100 Stars of Silicon Valley, Noam previously co-founded Deltathree inc., a leading international VoIP service provider, where he worked in senior leadership for 10 years in a variety of positions including Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and VP of Operations. Prior to Deltathree, Noam served as CEO of Intercast Networks. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Hebrew University and a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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    Chief Deputy Commissioner, Virginia Department of Transportation
    Robert H. Cary, P.E., L.S, who started his career with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) in 1992, was named chief deputy commissioner of the agency in January, 2018.

    Cary was named VDOT’s Chief of Innovation in March of 2017. In this position he served as VDOT’s executive leader responsible for bringing innovation to every aspect of VDOT’s business.As chief of innovation, he managed VDOT’s Transportation Research Council, Office of Private-Public Partnerships, and Strategic Technology Initiatives Office.

    Cary has more than 29 years of experience in transportation design, project development and strategic leadership. He is a registered professional engineer and licensed surveyor and has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech. He began his career with the agency as a transportation engineer and rose through the roles of district Location and Design engineer, Preliminary Engineering manager and served as the district engineer in three of VDOT’s districts across Virginia.
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    Director of Sustainable Streets, San Francisco MTA
    Tom Maguire joined SFMTA as Director of Sustainable Streets in 2014 after serving as Assistant Commissioner at the New York City Department of Transportation, where he oversaw New York’s Bus Rapid Transit, Freight Mobility, Peak Rate Parking (PARK Smart), and Alternative Fuels programs, and directed the effort to implement congestion pricing in Manhattan in 2007-2008. He has also worked in the private sector at the engineering and design firm Arup. He holds a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and a B.A. from Rutgers.
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    Global Commute Solutions Leader, Intuit
    Tom Harrington is the Global Commute Solutions Leader in Intuit’s Workplace organization.

    Intuit is growing! In growing globally, Intuit recognizes the responsibility to provide responsible commute alternatives for workers. Tom manages these programs in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. He provides programs in cities with great public programs like San Francisco, Cambridge, Woodland Hills, Santa Monica, London, and Edmonton as well as where there is a need to grow more opportunities like Reno, Plano, Tucson and San Diego. Tom is a board member of the newly formed Mountain View Transit Management Association.

    Tom’s been with Intuit Workplace for nearly ten years, preceded by a one year stint in Intuit Procurement and the five previous years at Intuit managing the outsourced assembly and distribution of Intuit product in Supply Chain. As a Certified Purchasing Manager, Tom has more than thirty years of materials experience with the likes of Synopsys, Southwestern Bell Communications (SBC), SRI International, Lockheed and Peterbilt Motors Company. Tom is an active member of the Northern California Chapter of the Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT).
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    Director of Research, Transit Center
    Steven Higashide is Director of Research for TransitCenter, a New-York-based foundation that supports innovations in urban transportation across the country. He directs TransitCenter’s research aimed at measuring American attitudes toward public transit, and develops policy guides and workshops that help cities enact transit-supportive policy. His research has been widely cited by mainstream and industry media, including the Washington Post, Vox, and Wired. In 2016 he was named to the Association for Commuter Transportation’s “40 Under 40.” He was previously senior planner for the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, where he watchdogged Connecticut state transportation policy and helped pass laws protecting transportation funding and vulnerable road users. Steven holds a B.A. from New York University and a Masters in Urban Planning from NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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    Partnerships, Transit
    Katie is responsible for shared mobility partnerships at Transit, bringing options like bikeshare, carshare, and scooters into the app. Transit is a multimodal transportation app helping millions of people get from A to B in more than 200 cities worldwide.

    Prior to joining Transit, Katie helped launch Indego, Philadelphia's bike share program, and worked on new mobility policy at the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston. Katie holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Haverford College, and a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School.
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    Head of Public Sector Partnerships at Waze
    Dani shapes the way Waze and Waze Carpool work with cities to help end traffic by working together. She is formerly the global head of corporate communications, political strategy and corporate social responsibility at Motivate, a 700+ person international urban transport company that powered nearly 60,000 bike share bikes on four continents. She served on the company’s executive team and reported to the President & CEO.

    Dani was part of three-person leadership team to launch Citi Bike, the nation's largest bike share program. She previously served as the Director of Strategic Communications for the NYC Department of Transportation, where she was an original organizer for Summer Streets which closed over 7 miles of NYC streets to auto traffic and opened them up to tens of thousands of people to walk, bike and play.

    She has a Masters of Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and the Environment.
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