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All breakout, plenary sessions, and mobile workshops are open to all Summit attendees unless otherwise noted. Let us know you would like to partipate by adding it to your schedule here. Space in all Mobile Workshops is limited, so sign up quick! 

The Active Transportation Leadership Institute is designed for Summit attendees who are staff of local and/or state-wide advocacy organizations.

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The National Bike Summit is the premier bike advocacy event of the year for bike advocates and professionals! 

WITH NEW LEADERSHIP IN THE OVAL OFFICE, we need your voice FOR BIKES on Capitol Hill!  Congress will be in session to hear your voice.

This INSPIRING event builds our movement for 2017 and beyond. Focus will be on regional planning, national and local messaging, and the road map of our work together in advancing the bicycling movement. Networking opportunities, keynote addresses from top government officials, workshops highlighting innovative advocacy ideas, and an organized Lobby Day to bring our pro-bicycling message to our elected officials on Capitol Hill - experience it all during our few days together!

This year’s event will be held March 6-9, 2017 at the Renaissance Hotel in Downtown DC, located at 999 Ninth St. NW Washington, DC 20001. 

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Jacob DeGeal

The University of Baltimore
Assistant Professor of Integrated Design
Baltimore, MD
Jacob DeGeal is a multi-disciplinary designer focused on collaboration, communities, and code. While working as an in-house web designer at Illinois State University, he co-founded a bike advocacy organization. This led him to pursue his MFA at The University of Texas at Austin, where he studied the intersection of planning, community development, design, and technology. There created ChalkTalk, a participatory design methodology for designing sustainable transportation infrastructures. He then became a hybrid planner/designer at NelsonNygaard Consulting Associates in Boston, MA, working on multi-modal transportation projects with cities nationwide. He also won a 10-month public art residency through the city of Salem with his creative partner, Lauren Smedley, helping local businesses navigate the COVID-19 pandemic through creative queuing, placemaking, and wayfinding. Jacob is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Design at the University of Baltimore. His research focuses on how fabrication and design methodologies can influence human behavior in the built environment.