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Apple co-founder to headline Future Transport Summit 2016

The New South Wales (NSW) Government’s two-day Future Transport summit, to be held in Sydney on 18-19 April, will be headlined by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance has announced. The technology summit aims to help uncover the next big ideas set to transform the transport system; Constance said the future is clearly being driven by technology and the government is not prepared to sit around waiting to see what that means for transport customers.
February 29, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
%$Linker: 2 Internal <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 4 9782 0 oLinkInternal <span class="oLinkInternal"><span class="oLinkInternal">RSS</span></span> Events (Diary) false /rss/events/ true false%>The New South Wales (NSW) Government’s two-day Future Transport summit, to be held in Sydney on 18-19 April, will be headlined by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance has announced.

The technology summit aims to help uncover the next big ideas set to transform the transport system; Constance said the future is clearly being driven by technology and the government is not prepared to sit around waiting to see what that means for transport customers.

The summit is part of a 12-month Future Transport program, which will also include a youth summit and new partnerships with incubators to stay across emerging ideas and products.

“We’ve got big data happening, Opal, ridesharing and the advent of the driverless car around the corner – I want to work with those in-the-know to get a better grasp of what's coming next and how we can adapt,” Constance said.   

Minister Constance also today revealed the official summit program, which includes workshops, insights and an 'Industry Ideas and Innovations Lab' where companies can pitch products and ideas that could improve transport and the customer experience.

Steve Wozniak said he was excited to be heading to Sydney for the summit to talk all things innovation, technology and transportation.

“Technology is moving so rapidly and if organisations want to remain relevant, they need to look to the future. If they simply keep doing things the way they've always been done, they risk getting blindsided by the latest disruptive technologies,” he said.

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