WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER
| SESSION | TIME | PRESENTATION | ORGANISATION | SPEAKER |
| REGISTRATION 8:00 | ||||
| CONFERENCE OPENING | 9:00 | Institutional welcome | Government of Aragon / Zaragoza City Council | To be confirmed |
| Welcome from the founders of the International Motorcycle Safe Mobility Conference | DGT | Pere Navarro (Director General for Traffic) | ||
| ANESDOR | José Correia Luis (President) | |||
| Welcome from the organiser | Fundación Ibercaja | José Luis Rodrigo (Director General) | ||
| CONTEXT | 9:45 | Global overview | WHO World Health Organization | Etienne Krug (Director, Department of Social Determinants of Health) Video message |
| MOBILITY AND THE SAFE SYSTEM | 9:50 | Balancing motorcycle mobility, safety and job creation in emerging cities | World Bank | Said Dahdah (Program Manager, Global Road Safety Facility) |
INTERNATIONAL POLICY PERSPECTIVE Moderator: Antonio Perlot (ACEM Secretary General) | 10:10 | Motorcycle road safety in Europe: latest developments | ERSO European Road Safety Observatory (European Commission) | Mircea Ionescu (Policy Officer) |
| Motorcycle road safety in Latin America: latest developments | OISEVI Ibero-American Road Safety Observatory | Álvaro Gómez (Technical Secretary) | ||
| Motorcycle road safety in Africa: latest developments | ARSO African Road Safety Observatory | Benacer Boulaajoul (Director General) | ||
| Motorcycle road safety in Asia-Pacific: latest developments | APRSO Asia-Pacific Road Safety Observatory | Priti Gautam (Senior Transport Specialist and Road Safety Lead) | ||
| Motorcycle road safety in the Arab countries: latest developments | AIRSO Arab Integrated Road Safety Observatory | Adel Alghaberi (First Economic Affairs Officer, ESCWA) | ||
| Motorcycle road safety in the Eastern Partnership: latest developments | EaPRSO Eastern Partnership Road Safety Observatory | Tamar Sulukhia (Chair of the EaP RSO Secretariat) | ||
| Motorcycle road safety in the Western Balkans: latest developments | WBRSO Western Balkans Road Safety Observatory | Brikena Tare (Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy of Albania) | ||
| COFFEE BREAK 11:30 | ||||
SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY: THE ROLE OF THE MOTORCYCLE Moderator:José María Riaño (ANESDOR Secretary General) | 12:15 | United Nations Decade of Sustainable Transport 2026-2035 | UNEP United Nations Environment Programme | Annika Berlin (Project Manager) |
| Rightsizing: the role of the motorcycle in sustainable mobility | ACEM European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers | Antonio Perlot (Secretary General) | ||
| The Barcelona Motorcycle Observatory | Barcelona City Council | Carlos López (Mobility Strategy Department) | ||
| Motoristas por Barcelona | Jaime Alguersuari (President of the Barcelona Motorcycle Observatory) | |||
| LUNCH 13:20 | ||||
| PRESENTATION OF THE “PTW RIDERS’ GUIDE 2026: INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES FOR ROAD SAFETY” | 14:35 | Presentation of the project | CAF Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean | To be confirmed |
| DGT | Pere Navarro (Director General for Traffic) | |||
| ANESDOR | José María Riaño (Secretary General) | |||
World Bank
| Veronica Raffo (Senior Infrastructure Specialist) | |||
| Presentation of the guide | Authors | Anna Ferrer and Jorge Rubino | ||
RIDER SAFETY IN WORK-RELATED MOBILITY STRATEGIES Moderator:Veneta Vassileva (ACEM Road Safety Director) | 15:00 | Measuring the road safety footprint of companies | ITF International Transport Forum | Véronique Feypell (Head of the Road Safety Programme) Remote presentation |
| Integrating rider safety into work-related mobility strategies | FIA Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile | Paolo Sanna (Mobility Projects Manager) | ||
| Work-related road safety and motorcyclists: the OISS perspective | OISS Ibero-American Social Security Organization | Gina Magnolia Riaño (Secretary General) | ||
| WORKPLACE MOBILITY PLANS: SUSTAINABILITY AND SAFETY | 16:05 | To be confirmed | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| END OF DAY 16:30 | ||||
THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER
| SESSION | TIME | PRESENTATION | ORGANISATION | SPEAKER |
| REGISTRATION 8:00 | ||||
| INTRODUCTION | 9:00 | Global overview of motorcycle road safety | UNRSF United Nations Road Safety Fund | Valeria Motta Arumijo (Programme Management and Partnerships Officer) |
| IMMA’s four-stage strategy | IMMA International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association | Katalin Dobranszky-Bartus (Secretary General) | ||
| INJURY ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION: DATA FROM AROUND THE WORLD Moderator:Jesús Monclús (Expert Director for Road Safety and Prevention, Fundación Mapfre) | 9:35 | From data to decisions: predictive injury modelling in motorcycle safety | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Abdulgafoor M. Bachani (Director of the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit; member of the WHO expert group on motorcycles) Remote presentation |
| Airbag biomechanics | Autoliv | Shiyang Meng (Biomechanics Expert) | ||
| To be confirmed | To be confirmed | To be confirmed | ||
| THE FUTURE OF MOTORCYCLE SAFETY IN THE DECADE OF ACTION | 10:40 | Video message | United Nations | Jean Todt (UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety) |
| COFFEE BREAK 10:50 | ||||
| RISK PERCEPTION AMONG MOTORCYCLISTS AND OTHER ROAD USERS | 11:35 | Differences between the mental models of motorcyclists and car drivers in hazard detection | Nottingham Trent University | David Crundall (Research Coordinator, Department of Psychology) |
| SAFE ROAD USERS AND TRAINING Moderator:Ignacio Lijarcio (Director of the University Institute of Traffic and Road Safety, University of Valencia) | 11:55 | European Training Quality Label: Learn-Ride-Enjoy-Repeat | ACEM European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers | Veneta Vassileva (Road Safety Director) |
| Safe and efficient riding courses | DGT | Montserrat Pérez (Deputy Assistant Director for Training and Road Safety Education) | ||
| Advanced rider training: Formació 3.0 | SCT Servei Català de Trànsit | Ramon Lamiel (Director) | ||
THE FUTURE OF MOTORCYCLE SAFETY AND MOBILITY Moderator:Antonio Perlot (ACEM Secretary General) | 12:45 | The users’ perspective | FIM Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme | Jesper Christensen (Director of the Mobility Commission) |
FEMA Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations | Wim Taal (Secretary General) | |||
| LUNCH 13:20 | ||||
ENGINEERING SAFER AND MORE CONNECTED MOTORCYCLES Moderator: (Deputy Director General for Industrial Programmes, Ministry of Industry and Tourism) | 14:25 | Rider reaction time: key insights for the design of warning systems | CMC Connected Motorcycle Consortium | Hennes Fischer (Senior Advisor, Yamaha Motor Europe) |
Sebastian Will (Project Manager, Würzburg Institute for Traffic Sciences) | ||||
| Two wheels. Four wheels. BMW’s holistic safety strategy. How active safety features make motorcycling safer | BMW Motorrad | Arnd Dippel (Product Manager, BMW Motorrad) | ||
| Advancing rider safety through innovation and development | KTM | Karl-Maria Grugl (Head of Homologation and Regulatory Affairs) | ||
DESIGNING SAFER ROADS FOR MOTORCYCLES: INFRASTRUCTURE, RISK AND URBAN INTEGRATION Moderator:To be confirmed | 15:15 | Road infrastructure safety management in Europe | European Commission Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport | Mircea Ionescu (Policy Officer) |
| Motorcycle filtering in traffic | Vias Institute | Kishan Vandael Schreurs (Researcher) | ||
| Motorcyclist protection systems and safety aspects of motorcycle traffic management (PIARC Special Project) | PIARC World Road Association | Roberto Llamas (PIARC Working Group on Vulnerable Road Users) | ||
| CONCLUSIONS | 16:20 | Key takeaways from the II International Motorcycle Safe Mobility Conference | DGT | Álvaro Gómez (Director of the National Road Safety Observatory) |
| ANESDOR | Alba Martínez (Head of Road Safety and Mobility) | |||
| CLOSING | 16:30 | Closing remarks | DGT | Pere Navarro (Director General for Traffic) |
| ANESDOR | José María Riaño (Secretary General) | |||
| Fundación Ibercaja | José Luis Rodrigo (Director General) | |||
| Government of Aragon / Zaragoza City Council | To be confirmed | |||
| END OF DAY 17:15 | ||||





