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RETHINKING GLOBAL TRAVEL: Designing more sustainable journeys from A to B
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RETHINKING GLOBAL TRAVEL: Designing more sustainable journeys from A to B
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RETHINKING GLOBAL TRAVEL: Designing more sustainable journeys from A to B

Join us on April 21, 2023

When Canada’s most innovative university and North America’s largest urban innovation hub share a passion for solving big problems – the sky’s the limit for new solutions.

This April, the University of Waterloo, in partnership with MaRS Discovery District, will bring together some of the world’s leading experts on sustainable aeronautics, electric and autonomous vehicles, clean energy and urban planning to reimagine the future of local and global transportation. 

Vivek Goel

Vivek Goel

President and vice-chancellor, University of Waterloo

Suzanne Kearns

Suzanne Kearns

Founding director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics, University of Waterloo

Yung Wu

Yung Wu

CEO, MaRS Discovery District

University of Waterloo logo with the MaRS logo on top of a collage of a train, car, and plane

Key takeaways
 

Number 1 with a briefcase and leaf icon

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL

changes under way across travel sectors

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ELECTRICAL VEHICLE ADOPTION

and impacts on energy, infrastructure and policies

Number 3 with airplane icon

AN OUTLOOK ON AUTONOMOUS

and sentient technologies and other big bets

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