Washington Bike Walk Roll Summit 2026

Announcing the 2026 Bike Walk Roll Summit program!

This year’s theme Designing the Future We Want is sorted across three tracks. Explore the full program, including breakout sessions, workshops, plenary and keynotes, and more, on Sched here:  https://wabikewalkrollsummit26.sched.com/ 

Track A: Designing Great Places

Explore strategies for creating high quality infrastructure, from technical elements to the partnerships and cross-sector collaboration needed to get great bike, walk, roll projects built in your community. This track includes an extended opportunity to learn what's included in long-awaited updates to the AASHTO and NACTO bike guides, and talk with experts about real world implementation. 

Track B: Designing for All

Discover how to prioritize the needs of people who are traditionally excluded from transportation planning to create equitable, accessible spaces where people can get around safely and with dignity. Sessions will highlight perspectives from tribal members, youth organizations, adaptive cycling, and age-friendly communities, as well as approaches to community engagement and storytelling that build trust between agencies and the communities they serve. 

Track C: Designing for Safety 

Deep dive into policies, program design, and data that will address today’s biggest opportunity to get more people walking, biking and rolling – a system that feels and is safe. Learn from real-world examples that balance technology with safety, equity, and accountability. 

Full schedule and session descriptions, along with community walk/bike events, will be available on the online platform Sched, coming soon!

Pre-Event Add-on Learning Opportunity: 

We’ve partnered with University of Washington’s PacTrans Workforce Development Institute to offer a paid training on Wednesday, April 1 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Wenatchee Convention Center: Funding Active Transportation Projects. 

This is a separate course that is hosted in conjunction with the Bike Walk Roll Summit, for a $100 fee. Up to 3 AICP continuing education credits may be available. Learn more and register here. 

Announcing our Keynote Speakers!

Thursday, April 2

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A native of Oakland, California, Destiny Thomas, PhD is a legal scholar and anthropologist urban planner. Dr. Thomas is the founder and CEO of Thrivance Group, a socially responsible, for-profit firm dedicated to enhancing the safety, health, and accessibility of public spaces and services. Thrivance Group focuses on marginalized communities, including Black, Indigenous, and transgender individuals, as well as people with disabilities.

Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Fisk University (2006), a Master of Public Administration with an emphasis in Public Health and Non-Profit Management from Tennessee State University (2008), and a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (2016), and a J.D. from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, Dr. Thomas is a distinguished socio-cultural anthropologist with nearly 20 years of experience indeveloping equitable systems within governmental and non-profit sectors. 

Dr. Thomas’ professional approach integrates dignity-infused community engagement, participatory governance, interdisciplinary praxis, racial equity, gender studies, andanti-displacement strategies. 

Friday, April 3

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Wes Marshall, PhD, PE, is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Denver, where he holds a joint appointment in urban planning. He plays a pivotal role as director of the CU Denver Human-Centered Transportation program and the Transportation Research Center at CU Denver. 

Wes is a licensed Professional Engineer and focuses on transportation teaching and research dedicated to creating safer transportation systems. Wes is author of the 2024 Island Press book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System. He also has more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters to his name and has received millions of dollars in research funding. 

He was the winner of the campus-wide CU Denver Outstanding Faculty in Research Award, the University of Colorado Thomas Jefferson Award, and the CO-WY Institute of Transportation Engineers Professional of the Year Award.