According to David Reid, director of the Imagine Festival at the Catapult, the Imagine Festival has been created so leading minds from UK industry, academia and government can reveal how they believe the way we move people and goods across the world will change over the next 5-10 years.
The event will be held on the 11 and 12 June at Transport Systems Catapult’s Imovation Centre in Milton Keynes and will examine how a diverse range of technologies, from visualisation to robotics, can help address a huge variety of problems, spanning congestion, pollution and wider societal trends such as the growing and ageing global population, the rapid depletion of traditional energy resources and increasing urbanisation.
Speakers at the Festival include: Simon Smith, Director of Passenger Service Design,
Event sessions will look at: driving change, how autonomous vehicles and robotics are transforming the future of roads, personal transport, and freight and the impact it will have on the future of mobility; rail revolution, from real-time information to sentiment mapping and how the rail industry is responding to customer demands; big data and transport - from smart cards to real-time passenger information, how can data be used to improve how we travel?
“From driverless vehicles and smarter trains, to harnessing the power of big data to create more seamless journeys, this event represents a unique opportunity to encourage the joined-up thinking required to position the UK at the forefront of the emerging Intelligent Mobility market. It’s an industry estimated to be worth US$1.3 trillion by 2025, creating jobs and a securing long-term economic growth in the UK,” says Reid.
“As champions of Intelligent Mobility, the Catapult and its partners are taking responsibility for changing the way we all look at transport as a seamless system spanning road, rail, air and sea,” continued Reid. “To do this our thinking has to cut across and go beyond the traditional boundaries of this industry. This is why we created Imagine Festival. It’s a way to explore new ideas from a huge spread of sectors. That includes anyone with an interest in technology and innovation that could have an impact including SMEs, entrepreneurs, innovators, technologists, business leaders, academics and policymakers.”
