The World Congress is coming

This story first appeared in the June issue of EVtalk– CLICK HERE to download the magazine FREE

Every three years the ITS World Congress comes to Asia-Pacific, and this year the world’s largest annual event for Intelligent Transport Technologies and emerging transport and smart city technologies will be held in Singapore in October.

ITS New Zealand is creating opportunities for New Zealand organisations to get involved.

The ITS World Congress attracts thousands of people representing businesses, governments and academia.

It is an opportunity to showcase leading transport and smart city innovations, expertise and the business and investment opportunities that exist for international companies.

As in 2016 and 2017, ITS New Zealand will be there, committing significant investment to help our members and New Zealand organisations to make the most of this important annual opportunity.

Our New Zealand expo space has up to eight spaces for organisations and businesses to exhibit.

This creates a cost-effective opportunity to get international profile, by our partnership with ITS Australia and ITS Asia-Pacific.

The expo stand is in a prime location, beside leading global organisations and the conference catering space, for highest visibility.

The four-day congress, October 21-24, encapsulates eight themes.

These include connected vehicles, standardisation, sustainable smart cities, transport safety, multimodal transport, pricing and travel demand management, cybersecurity, big data and crowdsourcing.

The programme will include plenary sessions, workshops and will attract some 10,000 delegates and attendees.

So, to make the most of networking opportunities, ITS are hosting events for members, officials and exhibitors.

The events will be both at the stand, as well as exclusive offsite VIP events for members and exhibitors.

In conjunction with the congress, several themed events will be running.

Among them are the ISO TC 204 Plenary and Working Groups Meeting on standardisation of ITS, a MaaS Forum, an Autonomous Mobility Summit and more – some of these are invitation-only.

ITS New Zealand president Mohammed Hikmet is a member of the ITS World Congress Programme Committee as well as being on the ITS Asia-Pacific board, which has helped to ensure that New Zealanders are represented through the programme, as speakers and moderators.

ITS Asia-Pacific is also running an extensive eight-day ITS Youth Leadership Programme.

ITS New Zealand has selected Amelia Samandari and Amy Strang, both from the University of Canterbury.

The programme will see them meeting ITS leaders, innovators and participating in an “ideathon” competition.

Get in touch if you would like to find out more about exhibiting at or attending the ITS World Congress.

We will also be providing updates for our members and those subscribed to our database.

Visit here for the ITS World Congress preliminary programme.