Introduction
Nucleus has sought to explore the future of mobility since its inception in 2015. Last year’s event focussed on the new and nascent technologies which, if they take root, will make all life and commerce more virtual and decentralised: blockchain, cryptocurrency, the metaverse and web 3.0.
But we last met five months after Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, and it was already apparent then that this aberrant event would have a more immediate impact on almost every aspect of our economies.
The war in Ukraine will of course influence this year’s discussion: not just in its specific impacts, such as on energy prices, but in what it says about a new world order in which globalisation is gradually being unwound, supply chains pulled back to safer and friendlier shores, and further such shocks anticipated.
Nucleus remains optimistic. We still have pure innovators on our panels, pioneering everything from electric trucks and urban aviation to smarter cities, AI, and the ever more powerful chips that power it all.
But this year we’re bringing the focus back to the New Mobility specifically, and to the hard geopolitical and legislative contexts in which it must develop. We are honoured to be joined this year by two very senior elected officials, whose influence over our subject is at least as great as that of the tech pioneers Nucleus has always welcomed. We look forward to a debate which values blue-sky innovation, but remains grounded in our present realities.
