Urban Movement Labs joins as a member of Smart City Works Venture Studio
15
FEBRUARY 2022
Smart City Works Venture Studio Announces Partnership with Urban Movement Labs as Agency Member
Washington, DC – February 15, 2022: Smart City Works Venture Studio (SCWVS) announced today that Urban Movement Labs (UML) will be joining as an Agency Member of the Smart City Works Venture Studio to further efforts regarding transportation technology innovation. The Smart City Works Venture Studio helps build startups focused on key urban challenges like transportation and mobility. The Studio’s offering includes identifying key trends and opportunities in infrastructure where technology and associated innovative processes can make a difference in how infrastructure is developed, deployed, and maintained in terms of quality, accessibility, equity, cost, and sustainability.
Urban Movement Labs (UML), a Los Angeles based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, provides a third space for collaboration, which prioritizes a community-first approach for local agencies, communities, and companies, to co-create and co-implement mobility technology solutions. UML’s aim is to match solutions to daily transportation challenges, then test them in real urban conditions within L.A.’s city limits in a way that provides community members with a sense of ownership via pilots that include community input and feedback.
Sam Morrissey, Executive Director of Urban Movement Labs, said, “We are doing all we can to embrace and leverage meaningful innovation for urban mobility. The partnership with Smart City Works Venture Studio will allow us to have access to emerging urban infrastructure innovation companies and to meaningful academic and industry research for proven methods and best practices for translating such innovation into scalable and repeatable solutions. Linking critical innovation to substantive execution is a crucial part of the equation, and we see Smart City Works Venture Studio as helping make that happen.”
“As we pull the levers of innovation for infrastructure, we know that these are the opportunities to make a real difference for the key players in the industry. We also recognize that assembling a membership of public agencies, corporations, and public-private partnerships can reveal a holistic assessment of where we are today and where the industry needs to move in the future, connecting that to the innovation we are supporting in the Studio. Having Urban Movement Labs as a part of this group adds a compelling voice for urban mobility to the benefit of all members,” said Tim McManus, Chair of the Smart City Works Venture Studio Board of Advisors and former McKinsey VP of Capital Projects. “Adding to that the input from the Columbia University Global Leaders in Construction Management Program underscores the need for ongoing learning and adaptation we all must continually pursue.”
About Urban Movement Labs
Urban Movement Labs is a first-of-its-kind mobility-innovation organization that links government, businesses, and community members to modern technology solutions to help solve transportation challenges in the City of Los Angeles. A collaboration between local government and innovators, Urban Movement Labs is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization where new transportation technologies are tested, proven, and brought to life. Urban Movement Labs aims to make Los Angeles the model city for safe, sustainable, equitable, and efficient movement of people and goods and replicate these learnings around the world.
Learn more at https://www.urbanmovementlabs.com
About Smart City Works Venture Studios
Smart City Works Venture Studios helps build startups for the cyber-physical infrastructure world by providing a team of experienced entrepreneurs who have substantial experience in IoT and infrastructure, product development, business planning, customer acquisition, finance and venture capital, as well as industry-specific expertise in smart cities, construction, smart buildings, mobility, energy and the environment. Smart City Works Venture Studio is a joint initiative between Smart City Works Venture Labs, a next generation business accelerator focused on urban infrastructure, and Rocket Wagon Venture Studios, the parent organization that provides the architectural cyber-physical framework including considerations regarding devices, security, privacy, data governance and ownership, communications, and a broad range of analytics, as well as shared legal and financial services, underlying operational systems, and corporate relationships.
Learn more at smartcityworks.rwvstudios.com
Similar Blogs
Smart City and Industrial IoT Expert Don DeLoach Convenes Panel Sharing Examples of Powerful Innovations as United for Infrastructure Week Kicks Off
For the first time in its 9-year history, the United for Infrastructure organization is hosting a week of virtual events, with more events on their calendar than ever. United for Infrastructure, a 501c4 non-profit, works to educate the American public and policymakers about the importance of infrastructure to the nation’s economy, workers, and communities. In partnership with the business community, labor unions, associations, think tanks, elected officials, and others, their mission is to contribute to the modernization of America’s infrastructure.
Smart City Works Venture Studio joins United for Infrastructure 2021, A Week of Education and Advocacy
Today, Smart City Works Venture Studio announced its participation in the annual national advocacy and educational event, United for Infrastructure 2021, that takes place from May 10 – 15, 2021. Across the country, businesses, labor organizations, and elected officials will come together to spread the message that the nation must #leadwithinfrastructure.
As Economic Recovery Dollars Are Designated for Infrastructure Improvements in the U.S., Smart City Works Labs Establishes a Venture Studio in D.C. with Rocket Wagon Venture Studios
The Biden Administration’s economic advisers are working with the U.S. Congress and business community to develop a $3 trillion package to boost the economy, reduce carbon emissions and address inequality, starting with a massive infrastructure plan poised to create jobs and fix the aging roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, transportation hubs and public spaces across the country.