In early June, Ann Arbor streets swelled with people participating in Ann Arbor SPARK’s Tech Trek. We checked in with "Mobility Row" to learn about Ann Arbor’s mobility-based businesses and startups.
At AutoSens in Detroit, people from all over the world engaged in conversations about safety, standards, and the future. We talked with Shawn Brovold with 3M Connected Roads, Abhay Rai with Visteon Corporation, and Ana Dalsnes Storsaeter with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration.
Amateur adult soccer club LK St. Clair is growing. With its mission to make soccer affordable and accessible to everyone who wants to play, it’s getting noticed by economic development organizations close to home in Macomb County.
To educators and engineers at the 2019 Center for Advanced Automotive Technology conference, Jeff Lowinger of Eaton Corp. detailed how EVs will dominate the market, and why engineers need broader, more flexible training and experiences.
Damian Porcari, director of the Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office in Detroit talks about the patent’s role in U.S. history, about women inventors, and, of course, about patents for mobility innovations. Listen and learn about "The Real McCoy."
Dearborn’s goal to become a multimodal city is rolling forward and picking up speed. Two years after its debut, we learned how the city's bike share program is gaining momentum.
We’re talking with Rob Stead, managing director with Sense Media about AutoSens, an automobility sensor-related conference happening in May at the Michigan Science Center in Detroit. Listen and learn about a unique AV Hackathon for kids and a convening of the IEEE Standards Association P2020 working group, all happening beginning May 11, 2019.
Michigan was a destination at SXSW 2019, from official programming at Michigan House, to Michigan Mobility Day, and a strong presence at SXSW Job Market. Learn how Komal Doshi from Ann Arbor SPARK, Seun Phillips from PlanetM, and Justin Robinson from the Detroit Regional Partnership shared Michigan’s mobility story in Austin.
Nationwide, students from low-income families tend not to apply to selective colleges. When University of Michigan researchers found the same trend here, they set out to encourage high-achieving students to apply. And it worked.
Mobility talent development stretches across the entire mobility infrastructure. Listen as we chat with Elaina Farnsworth, CEO of The NEXT Education, a Michigan-based company that is preparing workers to support the dynamic and rapid-growing mobility ecosystem.
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