DATE: 6:30-8:30 p.m., June 11, 2008.

EVENT: University of Michigan researchers and industry executives from around the world will explore how “New Mobility Means Business” at a panel on emerging markets in sustainable urban transportation.”

Sue Cischke, vice president for safety and sustainability, Ford Motor Co., will deliver the keynote address before the panel discussion. Panelists are Ford Motor Executive Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr., Cisco Systems Managing Partner Val Stoyanov, Royal Dutch/Shell VP Niel Golightly, Cherokee Vice President Paul Morris, GoLoco CEO (and founder of Zipcar) Robin Chase, and Mapunity India CEO Ashwin Mahesh.

Topics include how new mobility/sustainable urban transportation mean business for individual companies and for the future of the global new mobility industry.

PLACE: University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Central Campus, 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor.

SPONSORS: Ford Motor Co., Royal Dutch Shell, U-M SMART, Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transportation, a project of CARSS, The Center for Advancing Research & Solutions for Society, at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR), and the U-M Erb Institute.

For more information about the panel discussion, contact Susan Zielinski, managing director of SMART, at susanz@isr.umich.edu