General organisation
1. Executive Comittee
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Minister of Mobility: Pascal Smet [www.pascalsmet.be]
- ECF president: Manfred Neun [www.ecf.com]
2. Management Team
- Conference Director Velo-city 2009:
- Radjiny Schiltz
radjiny.schiltz@velo-city2009.com
- Radjiny Schiltz
- Brussels Mobility (AED):
- Bike Manager: Frederik Depoortere,
frederik.depoortere@velo-city2009.com
- Pierre-Jean Bertrand
pierre-jean.bertrand@velo-city2009.com
- Bike Manager: Frederik Depoortere,
- Programme Director:
- Tim Asperges
tim.asperges@velo-city2009.com
- Tim Asperges
- ECF: Velo-city Series Director:
- Bernhard Ensink
b.ensink@ecf.com
- Bernhard Ensink
3. Feedback Comittee
4. Expo Velo-city Committee
- Expo Project manager
5. Communication Comittee
- Conference Director Velo-city 2009
- Brussels Mobility (AED)
- ECF
6. Scientific Committee
The programme committee is responsible for the actual content of Velo-City 2009 and it decides on the topics, suitable speakers and organises the subplenary sessions in addition to plenary sessions. The committee follows an active selection process to find the best speakers for the conference.
The committee consists of the following members:
- Tim Asperges, Velo-city Programme Director
- Radjiny Schilz, Velo-city Conference Director
- Frederik Depoortere, Director of Cycling for the Brussels-Capital Region
- Dr. Bernhard Ensink, Manager of ECF
- Bernard Dehaye, representative of Brussels cycling associations, Manager of GRACQ
- Michael Koucky, Koucky & Partners AB, Sweden
- Ursula Lehner-Lierz, Velo:Consult, Switzerland
- Radomira Pliskova, CDV Transport Research Centre, Czech Republic
- Isabelle Lesens, Vélo-conseil, France
- Alex Sully, Transport Initiatives, UK
- Annick Roetynck, ETRA
- Prof. Dr. Helmut Holzapfel, Institute of Transport, University of Kassel, Germany
- Thomas Krag, Thomas Krag consulting, Denmark
- André Rysman, consultant Marketing – Qualitat, Brussels
- Haritz Ferrando, Bicicleta Club de Catalunya (BACC), Spain
Programme committee organisation chart
Core team
The core team is in charge of drawing up the programme for Velo-city 2009 and this is a task that is carried out on a daily basis. The team has the following main tasks:
- To draw up the programme, (select themes and topics)
- To select and instruct speakers
- To select and instruct subplenary sessions chairs
- To organise the call for papers
- To select abstracts and posters (from the responses to the call for posters)
- To prepare discussions for the plenary and subplenary sessions
Expert team
The expert team supports the core team by fine-tuning the programme and by looking for speakers. The team consists of 10 international experts on cycling policy and one external person from the world of marketing with no connection to transport or cycling policy. A brainstorming session took place with the expert team on 4 July 2008 in Brussels in preparation for the programme. After this meeting the team members were all entrusted with the task of finding potential speakers within their network. The expert team has the following main tasks:
- To fine-tune the programme
- To select speakers
- To select subplenary sessions chairs
Feedback team
One of the characteristics of Velo-city is the wide range of parties involved with the theme of cycling (in urban environments). So that we can reach as many of these parties as possible we also work with a more general feedback team during the preparation phase of the conference. This team suggests potential speakers and/or projects that can be added to the fixed programme. The feedback team has no influence on defining or changing the programme but will be informed directly about the programme’s content. The feedback team has the following main tasks:
- To be kept up to date on the programme’s content
- To select speakers