A Photographer, Her Client and the Power of Influence
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| MobilityTalks® International at The Washington Auto Show®. |
Since its
inception in 2017, I've had the honor of photographing MobilityTalks®
International, a landmark conference that developed from MobilityTalks®, which began
in 2015.
Sponsored by The
Washington Auto Show®, MobilityTalks® International is a conference on emerging
trends connecting drivers with city infrastructures for safer and smarter
transportation. It focuses on the future of mobility, which lies at the
intersection of government and industry.
Forward-thinking government leadership from around the world and industry
innovators come together to address best practices related to the development
and regulation in the field of new mobility.
While handshakes,
smiles, audience participation and award presentations were being documented
via my Nikon and lenses, I paid close attention to the presentations, the
discussions, the statistics and projected trends in mobility. After all, with this much brainpower in the
room, I wanted a bigger takeaway than a catalog of pretty pictures, LOL!
Well, my takeaway
landed me a seat on the City of Griffin's Steering Committee for the 20-Year
Comprehensive Plan, where I was able to sway the powers that be to include a
connected transportation system as one of the goals, and establish policy to
increase infrastructure that supports electric cars and other future transportation
needs. All of this because of MobilityTalks® International at The Washington Auto Show®.
The page
numbers in the document and the actual number of pages differ, but the pages
numbered 6 and 12 reflect the aforementioned.
Decisions
made - based on my influence - will affect my community for the next twenty
years. Twenty years ... that's pretty powerful, indeed.
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