Reimagining Transportation from the Internet Up
Daniel L. Doctoroff
Chairman and CEO, Sidewalk Labs
Imagine you lived in a city completely wired for connectivity, with comprehensive data about where people want to go. How would you use this insight to reimagine a transportation system that's more affordable, equitable, and efficient?
That's the big question—and opportunity—facing cities as we stand at the cusp of a fourth revolution in urban technology, powered by digital innovations.
Daniel Doctoroff, chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs, gave his talk “Reimagining Transportation from the Internet Up” as part of Volpe’s Future of Transportation series. At Sidewalk Labs, they're developing new ideas about what that future might look like, and working with cities to bring those ideas to the streets.
About the Speaker
Daniel Doctoroff is chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs.
Doctoroff was president and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., the leading provider of news and information to the global financial community, until December 2014. During his tenure at Bloomberg, Doctoroff led the company through the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression by pursuing an aggressive strategy of investment, focused on enhancing the company’s core Terminal product, expanding into enterprise products and services, creating new businesses in government, law and energy, and building the company’s news operations, including its acquisition of Businessweek. During the seven years that he led the company, despite the financial crisis, Bloomberg’s organic revenues nearly doubled.
Prior to joining Bloomberg L.P., Doctoroff served as deputy mayor for economic development and rebuilding for the City of New York. With Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Doctoroff led the city’s dramatic economic resurgence, spearheading the effort to reverse New York’s fiscal crisis after 9/11 through a five-borough economic development strategy. This plan included the most ambitious land-use transformation in the city’s modern history; the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site; the largest affordable housing program ever launched by an American city; and the formation of new Central Business Districts and Industrial Business Zones. Doctoroff also oversaw the creation of PlaNYC, New York’s path-breaking sustainability plan.
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