Keynote Speaker

Robert Lempert is a principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition. His research focuses on risk management and decision-making under conditions of deep uncertainty, with an emphasis on climate change, energy, and the environment. Dr. Lempert is a chapter lead author for the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and he wrote the book on decision making under uncertainty — literally.

His insights into robust decision making have formed the foundation of travel modeling community’s recent efforts to develop more useful forecasts that account for risk and uncertainty in a systematic, quantitative manner, including a lot of the work we will discuss at ITM. He has extensive experience in communicating complex technical issues in an approachable manner, and we look forward to learning from his experience and global leadership on transforming uncertainty into opportunity, vulnerability into resilience, and abstract models into concrete results.

Many thanks to Jeffrey Newman for making this keynote happen.

Types of Sessions

These are brainstorms, and will be informed by submissions received

Lectures

Lecture on a foundational topic important for travel analysis, but one which either does not have a broad understanding in the field or whos general understanding should be updated.

Code-Along Tutorials

Open-laptop tutorials where participants can code-along, software-carpentry style.

Debates

Debate on an approach, innovation, or hot topic in the industry.

Workflow Panels

A riff on a 'stack share' to share effective processes you use to get work done, and highlight gaps.

Discussions on Innovations

Presentations with synopses of longer-format papers (which hopefully everyone has read). Assigned discussants who have researched each innovation ahead of will offer feedback and get the discussion rolling.