Global Mobility Call 2024 gets closer: Madrid’s event highlights an international approach to the future of sustainable mobility

The Ifema-backed exhibition Global Mobility Call is set to highlight its international approach with an increase in participation from different countries, allowing the challenge of developing sustainable mobility to be addressed globally through globally renowned leaders, companies and organisations, the organizeres say.

Sustainable Bus (like in 2022) is media partner of the event, together with our sister media Sustainable Truck & Van. Our upcoming November 2024 issue will be in distribution in Madrid.

Global Mobility Call to go live in Madrid

For the third edition from 19 to 21 November, the event organised by IFEMA MADRID and Smobhub will welcome more than 450 speakers, many from different countries, who will take part in the 115 debate and keynote tables, and close to a hundred companies, corporations and startups from all over the globe. 

In this edition, GMC will have participation from organisations of international importance such as WWF, UN-Pacto Mundial, UN-Habitat, PIARC, C40, Slocat, GIZ, and the International Energy Federation, who, among others, have confirmed their collaboration. 

The conference will also benefit from high-level international speakers, including Chris Barton, founder and creator of Shazam; Joseph McMonigle, Secretary General of the International Energy Federation (IEF); Richard Irvin, mayor of Aurora (Illinois), USA; Eileen Vélez, Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP); Karla González Carvajal, head of gender equality in the Global Transport Division of the World Bank. Louis Zacharilla, CEO Intelligent Community Group New York; Mark Collins, Head of Future Transport / Director of ITS UK; Benjamin de la Peña, CEO Shared-Use Mobility Center. Chicago; Helene Chartier, Director of Urban Planning and Design at C40; Shin-pei Tsay, Director Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics of Boston.

Other leaders are also to participate, such as Valentina Galasso President of the PIARC International Committee on Network Operation and ITS, Partner at Deloitte, Italy; Stefan Di Bitonto, Deputy Director Mechanical & Electronic Technologies Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI); Thierry Delmas, CEO Singular Logistics; Sam Li, Senior Innovation Officer, Transport Strategy and Transport for Greater Manchester, UK.

World cities attending Global Mobility Call in Madrid

As a new feature, the third edition of the Global Mobility Call highlights the significant presence of many cities from all over the world who are to share their advances in mobility, urban planning and investment.

Cities such as Stuttgart, Copenhagen, Brussels, Bologna, Milan, Krakow, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Bordeaux, Budapest, Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati, Aurora, Portland, Krakow, Istanbul, Guimaraes, Barcelos, Crete, Athens, Valdivia (Chile), Hermosillo (Mexico), Montería  (Colombia), as well as others from Costa Rica, the United Kingdom and Ireland, will be represented at the largest sustainable mobility event held from 19 to 21 November at IFEMA MADRID.