September 30
Day 1 Events
* Available virtually.
8:30 – 9:30 AM
Breakfast and Registration
Foyer
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Welcome and Land Acknowledgment*
Galleria
Speakers:
Jaime Lemus, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD)
Isaac Bojorquez, KaKoon Ta Ruk Band of Ohlone-Costanoan Indians of the Big Sur Rancheria
Raquel Williams, Wilton Rancheria
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Opening Plenary*
What Does Leadership Look Like Right Now?
Galleria
The conditions surrounding community-centered work are changing. Funding uncertainty, shifting political priorities, capacity constraints, and evolving community needs are forcing organizations across sectors to make difficult decisions about where to focus, how to adapt, and what progress looks like.
This opening plenary brings together leaders from community organizations, public agencies, and the clean mobility field for an honest conversation about leading through uncertainty. Rather than focusing solely on success stories alone, speakers will reflect on the challenges they are navigating, the tradeoffs they are making, and the strategies they are using to sustain impact, build partnerships, and remain accountable to the communities they serve.
Attendees will leave with fresh perspectives on leadership, resilience, and collaboration, along with a stronger understanding of the skills and relationships needed to advance meaningful change in an increasingly complex environment.
Moderator:
Speakers:
Clarrissa Cabansagan, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
11:00 – 11:10 AM
Break
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
Morning Breakout Sessions
Where Projects Get Stuck: A Joint Problem-Solving Session with Agencies & Implementers*
Galleria
This session focuses on the systems-level challenges that emerge as clean mobility projects move from planning to launch, with an emphasis on improving coordination among implementers, public agencies, utilities, and funding partners to advance project delivery.
Using real-world project examples and facilitated discussion, participants will examine common implementation challenges, explore opportunities for stronger coordination across stakeholder groups, and identify practical strategies for advancing projects more effectively. Attendees will leave with actionable insights that can help inform project delivery, navigate implementation bottlenecks, and strengthen cross-sector collaboration.
Moderator:
Speakers:
EV Infrastructure in Practice: From Planning to Installation to Operations
Meeting Room East
This session equips project stakeholders and partners including communities, local governments, nonprofits, and fleet operators with the knowledge needed to plan, deploy, and manage EV charging infrastructure.
Through practical examples and facilitated discussion, participants will explore key decisions and common challenges across planning, installation, and operations, while identifying strategies and partnerships to support successful project delivery. Attendees will leave with a stronger understanding of the EV charging infrastructure development process and the critical milestones that shape project success.
Moderator:
Erlin Martinez, Catalyst Mobility
Speakers:
Rethinking Success: Data, Evaluation & Community Impact Without Harm
Meeting Room West
This session focuses on data collection, evaluation, and reporting practices that better align with community priorities while meeting program and funding requirements. Through practitioner case studies and facilitated peer exchange, participants will explore innovative approaches to measuring impact, reducing extractive data practices, and redefining success beyond traditional metrics.
Speakers will share innovative strategies, lessons learned, and the outcomes they’ve seen from shifting evaluation practices to better reflect community experiences and priorities. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss challenges with peers, exchange ideas, and leave with practical guidance for strengthening evaluation practices while advancing more equitable and community-centered outcomes.
Moderator:
Speakers:
Joey Juhasz-Lukomski, The LEAP Institute
Angel Pippins-Lopez, City Heights Community Development Corporation
12:30 – 1:15 PM
Lunch
1:15 – 2:00 PM
Poster Session + Guided Networking
Galleria Balcony
Learning in Practice & Building Connections: Project Showcase and Guided Networking presented by Miocar
This mid-day session offers two complementary opportunities for participants to learn, connect, and exchange ideas. The Poster Session will feature clean mobility projects, research, and implementation efforts from across California, providing opportunities for direct conversations with presenters about lessons learned, challenges, and outcomes.
At the same time, a facilitated networking space will help participants build relationships with peers, practitioners, community leaders, public agencies, and other stakeholders through guided discussions and shared-interest connections.
Participants are encouraged to engage in one or both experiences, leaving with new insights, practical ideas, and relationships that can support future collaboration beyond the Forum.
Speakers:
2:00 – 3:15 PM
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Who Gets to Ride? Designing Mobility Systems That Deliver on Equity*
Galleria
This session focuses on how program design decisions influence who benefits from clean mobility investments and who may face barriers to participation. Participants will explore how factors such as cost, eligibility requirements, geography, language access, and cultural relevance shape access, adoption, and long-term outcomes.
Through practitioner examples and facilitated peer exchange, attendees will examine strategies for designing programs that better meet the needs of diverse communities while balancing operational, funding, and climate objectives. Speakers will share lessons learned, approaches that have improved participation and access, and challenges they have encountered along the way. Participants will leave with practical insights and peer-informed strategies for creating more equitable, accessible, and community-centered mobility programs.
Moderator:
Speakers:
Beyond the Pilot: Scaling Clean Mobility Projects That Actually Last
Meeting Room East
This session brings together practitioners who have successfully navigated the transition from pilot projects to long-term programs to share lessons learned, key decisions, and tradeoffs encountered along the way.
Through case studies and a facilitated discussion, speakers will highlight real-world experiences related to funding, staffing, operations, partnerships, and program governance. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss common challenges with peers, explore practical strategies and resources that support long-term sustainability, and consider approaches for scaling programs while staying grounded in community needs and equity goals. Attendees will leave with actionable insights, peer-informed recommendations, and a deeper understanding of what it takes to build clean mobility programs that last.
Moderator:
Nidia Erceg, Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz)
Speakers:
Dr. Cassandra Little, Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce
Gregory Barfield, Fresno Area Express (FAX)
Policy in Action: Engaging Decision-Makers for Equitable Mobility
Meeting Room West
This session focuses on a core skill: turning your organization’s work and community impact into a clear, compelling story that helps decision-makers understand why your program matters and understand your proven impact. Participants will get a brief grounding in how California’s legislative process works and why educating legislators early and often is critical to securing sustainable wins for clean mobility access.
The bulk of the session is hands-on. Learning to develop a simple, repeatable message formula, participants will work in small groups to shape their own story and call to action, then practice delivering it confidently and get peer feedback. The session closes with a conversation about coalition-building, how to define your role, tell your story alongside others, and keep building relationships with decision-makers well beyond this forum.
Speakers:
3:15 – 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Closing Plenary*
Galleria
From Conversation to Collaboration: Advancing Clean Mobility Together
This closing plenary brings participants together to reflect on key themes, lessons, and opportunities that emerged throughout the day and identify how those insights can translate into collective action beyond the Forum.
Through facilitated discussion and small-group collaboration, participants will connect around shared priorities, explore opportunities for partnership, and identify concrete actions that can advance clean mobility and transportation equity in their communities and across California. Discussions will be grounded in the challenges and opportunities surfaced throughout the day, with an emphasis on sustaining momentum, strengthening networks, and building on the collective expertise in the room.
Attendees will leave with new connections, shared priorities, and clear pathways to stay engaged through ongoing collaboration opportunities, including CMEA working groups and other efforts advancing equitable clean mobility across the state.
Moderator:
Katherine Stubbs, emergent labs
Speakers:
4:30 – 5:00 PM
Break
5:00 – 7:00 PM
Reception
Clean Mobility Forum Reception
Join us to continue conversations and networking.
The reception will be held at Coin-Op Game Room located at 908 K St, Sacramento, CA.
October 1
Day 2 Events
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Breakfast and Registration
Foyer
9:00 – 9:45 AM
Opening Plenary
Galleria
What You Won't See on the Tour
Every project tells a story, but not all of it is visible from a site visit. The partnerships, tradeoffs, community relationships, funding decisions, and implementation challenges that shape a project are often hidden behind the final outcome.
This candid conversation brings together practitioners and community leaders to discuss what happened behind the scenes, what surprised them, and what they wish others understood about delivering clean mobility projects. As participants prepare for the Forum’s field experiences, speakers will offer practical insights and critical questions to help attendees look beyond infrastructure and programs to better understand the decisions, relationships, and conditions that made them possible.
Participants will leave with a deeper appreciation for the realities of project implementation and a stronger framework for learning from the projects they will visit throughout the day.
Speakers:
Thomas Orville, CalEPIC
9:45 – 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Field Trips
Clean Mobility in Action: Site Visits & Learning Labs
The Forum’s on-site field trips give participants the opportunity to experience clean mobility projects firsthand and learn directly from the practitioners and partners behind them. Attendees will leave with practical insights, real-world examples, and ideas they can apply to their own work.
Community Designed Transportation: Green Alleys and the Greentech Mobility Hub
Field Trip Host Organization: Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
This field trip will highlight two community-driven projects in North Sacramento that improve transportation access and economic mobility. Forum attendees will travel by bus to the Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean and Green Alley Project, which revitalized underutilized residential alleys into cleaner, safer, and more welcoming spaces with permeable pavers, repaired fencing, new shade trees, decorative bollards, and public art. Forum attendees will be able to walk through some of the residential alleys and learn how this project was carried out.
Forum attendees will then visit the Greentech Mobility Hub in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood where multiple project partners worked to transform an empty lot into a transportation hub designed to improve access to jobs, education, healthcare, and essential services through clean transportation options. Forum attendees will have the opportunity to see and learn about the features of the Mobility Hub including electric vehicle charging infrastructure, shared clean mobility services, student ride-hail and shuttle programs, and workforce development and green jobs training.
Community Resilience In Action: Innovative Community Partnership and Investment
Field Trip Host Organization: Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
This field trip will explore how innovative projects are accomplished through collaborative partnerships and thoughtful incorporation of community input. Forum attendees will travel by bus into South Sacramento through the recently updated Franklin Boulevard Complete Street Project to visit Louise Perez Resource Center and Nicholas Park.
Staff from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District will share the development process of the Louise Perez Resource Center Mobility and Resiliency Hub and how the project was designed to improve access to transportation, strengthen neighborhood resilience, and provide sustainable resources for residents in a historically underserved community. Forum attendees will also visit Nicholas Park where a collaborative partnership between the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, Southgate Recreation and Park District, Sacramento Tree Foundation, and SMUD came together to transform the park into a vibrant and accessible space for children and families.
Bridging Clean Mobility Corridors: Exploring Sacramento's Bike Infrastructure
Field Trip Host Organization: Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates (SABA)
Field Trip Transportation Partner: Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce’s Biz-Bikes
This field trip, led by SABA, will take Forum attendees on a guided bike tour through a route that stitches together bike infrastructure, urban parks, and riverfronts. This ride will show different infrastructure types in Sacramento and introduce participants to an urban and recreational cycling infrastructure model.
The Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce and Biz-Bikes program will provide e-bikes for participants. Along the bike tour, guest speakers from Biz-Bikes will be sharing some background on their program including project challenges or lessons learned related to bike infrastructure and operating a bike lending program.
Field trip participants must sign an electronic waiver that will be shared by SABA. If participants don’t have their own bikes, participants will be provided with an e-bike from Biz-Bikes.
From Steamboats to Streetcars: Exploring the Impact of Transportation Investment on Sacramento’s Downtown
Field Trip Host Organization: California Bicycle Coalition
Downtown Sacramento has served as a canvas for generations of transportation investments as modes fade into and out of popularity. From the handmade boats favored by the Nisenan people to traverse the converging Sacramento and American Rivers, to the steamboats and trains of the Gold Rush and early colonization of the area, transportation infrastructure has deeply impacted the built environment in what is now Downtown Sacramento.
Join California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director and lifelong Sacramentan Kendra Ramsey and additional guest speakers in a walking tour of the heart of Downtown. Eras covered will include the Gold Rush, the rise of the automobile, the pedestrian mall era and flight of retail to the suburbs, and the current revival of downtown as a cultural hub. The discussion will focus on the transportation landscape of each time, paired with the accompanying socio-political context and impact on the built environment.
The tour will be approximately 3 miles, walked at a leisurely pace with breaks; the route is flat and has moderate shade. Comfortable shoes and sun protection are suggested.
Innovation at Work: Visiting Cal EPIC, California’s Newest Clean Technology and Workforce Accelerator
Field Trip Host Organization: California Energy Power and Innovation Collaborative (Cal EPIC)
Field Trip Transportation Partner: Youth Transportation Organization (Yoots)
Cal EPIC provides training in careers supporting new energy and transportation technologies. Cal EPIC has a 33,000-square-foot Innovation Hub, located in Sacramento, that brings together startups, manufacturers, and workforce talent to build the energy and transportation technologies — with an EV and charger testing lab, manufacturing and prototyping facilities, and programs designed to move innovators from concept to commercial scale. Cal EPIC collaborates with a variety of nonprofit partners across the Greater Sacramento region, offers a variety of workforce development trainings, and provides resources to the community.
Join Cal EPIC and Orville Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, for a tour of their Innovation Hub. There will be a short introduction and discussion accompanied by coffee and snacks. Then forum attendees get the chance to tour the area with some demonstrations throughout. On the way back, forum attendees also get to hear about the Youth Transportation Organization’s Richmond Outdoor Zero Emissions program, which is the bus that will be used to transport field trip participants to and from the Cal EPIC venue.