Women Driven Mobility YQG Breakfast 2024

Join WEtech Alliance, Build a Dream, and partners on Thursday, October 17th from 8-11 AM at Mackenzie Hall for our 3rd Annual Women Driven Mobility YQG Breakfast, where we’ll explore the theme, "Innovative Urban Transportation: Smart Vehicles and Sustainable Cities."

Get inspired by our keynote speaker, Josipa Petrunic, as she dives into the latest advancements in zero-emissions transit technologies and the future of sustainable transportation. Gain valuable insights into cutting-edge projects and strategies to empower and elevate female leaders in the field.

This event, born from our 2020 partnership with Women in Mobility Detroit, now Women Drive Mobility, continues to celebrate our cross-border region and its pivotal role in the world of mobility.

Don’t miss this chance to connect with fellow professionals, learn from experts, and be a part of the movement driving change in the mobility sector.

Keynote Speaker:

• Josipa Petrunic, President & CEO of CUTRIC

Ticket includes:

• Light breakfast + freshly brewed coffee & hot tea selection, or fruit juices.
• Networking and connecting with other mobility professionals, leaders and students

Sponsors and Partners: Invest WindsorEssex, Government of Canada, Province of Ontario, City of Windsor, Build a Dream

• 8:00 am – 8:45 am: Networking Breakfast + Coffee/Tea

• 8:45 am – 9:00 am: Welcome / Introductions

• 9:00 am: Introduction of Keynote Speaker

• 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Keynote Presentatoin by Josipa Petrunic

• 10:00 am – 10:30 am: Moderated Q&A by Anneke Smit

• 10:30 am – 10:35 am: Closing Remarks

• 10:35 am – 11:00 am: Networking

About Josipa Petrunic

As the President & CEO of CUTRIC, Dr. Josipa Petrunic is leading the formulation of national transportation and energy systems analyses, including battery electric vehicles (BEV), hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and zero-emissions transit technologies.

As one of Canada’s leading experts in Zero-Emissions Bus (ZEB) innovation deployment projects, Dr. Petrunic has designed, developed and launched the Pan-Canadian Electric Bus Demonstration & Integration Trial (Phases I-II), the Pan-Canadian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration & Integration Trial (Phase I) and the Canadian National Smart Vehicle Demonstration & Integration Trial (Phase I).

In 2014, Dr. Petrunic developed Canada’s first methodological framework for an interdisciplinary physics-, mathematics- and economics-based modelling tool. TRiPSIM™, Canada’s first electric bus modelling tool, helps Canadian public fleets determine how zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) would operate in their communities and the extent to which they would generate operational savings. Now in its third generation and branded as Rout∑.i™ 2.0, more than two dozen transit agencies in Canada and the United States have relied on it to plan their full-fleet, vehicle- and block-based electrification deployments.

Dr. Petrunic has created Canada’s most interdisciplinary ZEB Consulting Team specializing in all salient variables associated with battery electric bus (BEB) powertrains, hydrogen fuel cell electric bus (FCEB) powertrains, renewable natural gas-powered compressed natural gas (CNG) powertrains, low- and high-powered charging systems, energy storage, smart controls, scheduling optimization, lifecycle cost analyses (LCAs), lifecycle emissions analyses, and facilities design.

ABOUT OUR MODERATOR

Anneke Smit is founding Director of the Centre for Cities (C4C) at UWindsor and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law. She is cross-appointed to the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER). Dr. Smit currently serves as Special Advisor to the Provost at UWindsor, shepherding the development of a new United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise on urban sustainability in collaboration with Wayne State University (the Detroit-Windsor UN RCE). With research and teaching interests in housing and land use, and cities broadly, her work intersects with the transportation sector in many ways. She is the co-lead of the Parks Canada-funded UWindsor National Urban Park Hub and a member of the new C4C Housing Systems Innovation Lab.

Host or Publisher WEtech Alliance