Date:
292 Rue Saint-Martin
,
75003 Paris
Changed on 18/07/2025
Created at MIT in 2010 by Vincent Blondel and Alex Pentland, NetMob has now become the leading event for people examining the societal, urban, industrial and environmental uses of mobility data.
Much more than a conference, NetMob is a unique platform for dialogue between communities from a wide range of disciplines: IT, urban planning, public health, sociology, economics and physics.
It adopts an original format featuring a single plenary session, short presentations, a focus on work in progress or already published, and registration fees that are deliberately affordable to encourage broad participation, particularly by students.
enthuse Aline Carneiro Viana, head of the Inria TRiBE project team, and Pedro Velloso, associate professor at CNAM, both co-organizers of NetMob 2025.
Organised by Inria and the CNAM with the support of IFPEN, ENPC and TU-Berlin and the sponsorship of the PEPR MOBIDEC and Inria, NetMob 2025 will feature two and a half days of discussions held in the CNAM auditorium.
“Thanks to the support of its sponsors, this 9ᵉ edition will offer at least eight travel grants to students wishing to take part” explain Cedric Adjib (member of the Inria TRiBE team) and Daphne Tuncer (member of the ENPC), also members of the NetMob 2025 organizing committee.
"These topics will address a broad spectrum of issues, from mobile wireless network data (cellular or WiFi) and mobile location or sensor data, to application usage statistics and the analysis of social network content." list Nadjib Achir and Anne Josiane Kouam, members of the Inria TRiBE project-team and the NetMob 2025 organizing committee.
NetMob 2025 will be a key opportunity to disseminate the results of the PEPR MOBIDEC (Digitization and Decarbonation of Mobilities) Mob Sci-Data Factory. This project aims to contribute to the development of more sustainable mobility strategies, by proposing a decision-making methodology and a digital toolbox. The latter is based on rigorously selected and processed mobility data, as well as on an in-depth understanding of transport uses and behaviors.
“The achievements of the Mob Sci project will feature research on human mobility, rely on appropriately selected and processed mobility data, and on an in-depth understanding of people's mobility uses, decisions and behaviors.” explains Aline Carneiro Viana, head of the Inria TRiBE project-team, co-coordinator of the Mob Sci-Dat Factory project, and co-organizer of NetMob 2025.
Vittoria Colizza (INSERM, Sorbonne University/Faculty of Medicine), a research director specialising in the mathematical and computer modelling of infectious diseases. Vittoria Colizza uses mobility data to anticipate the spread of epidemics and pandemics and provide guidance for prevention and control strategies in public health policies. His contributions have been recognized by numerous awards: Chevalier of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2020; Irène Joliot-Curie Prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences and the French Ministry of Research in 2021; Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor in 2023.
Luc Rocher (University of Oxford), a senior researcher and an expert on issues relating to the use of personal data. Specialising in privacy and algorithms, Luc Rocher’s research focuses on the risks associated with the massive use of personal data and on ways of making digital technologies more responsible and secure, in the public interest. His research has been cited by the European Commission, the OECD, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the FTC, by European data protection authorities, in court cases in the USA, and has led to changes in the UK Data Protection Bill.
"The NetMob 2025 Data Challenge invites anyone interested in urban mobility to examine real data on how people travel." explain Aline Carneiro Viana. Researchers, students, data/network scientists, computer scientists, engineers, town planners, geographers, sociologists, epidemiologists, economists and other experts are all invited to propose original analyses.
The aim is to contribute to research and devise practical solutions to improve our understanding of mobility and enhance mobility practices in our cities, while addressing social, environmental and urban issues.
"This challenge is based on an unprecedented dataset resulting from a mobility survey organised by Institut Paris Région between October 2022 and May 2023, involving more than 3,300 volunteers from a wide range of age groups and socio-economic backgrounds in the Paris region." motivates Razvan Stanica (AGORA/Inria and INSA Lyon) et Alexandre Chasse (IFPEN). These volunteers agreed to:
The databases obtained were anonymised in accordance with the GDPR, with the volunteers’ explicit consent to share this data. They were then specifically processed: stationary phases and intra-local movements which were too short to be representative were discarded, and the beginnings and ends of journeys were spatially blurred to protect privacy. This data was analysed from different perspectives by the NetMob 2025 Data Challenge team (publication here) and has now also been incorporated into the PEPR MOBIDEC Mob Sci-Data Factory project.
France has long played a central role in NetMob, with renowned experts such as Vittoria Colizza (INSERM), Laura Gauvin, Flore Gubert, (IRD), Bin Wang (EHESP), Razvan Stanica (INSA-Lyon/Inria), Aline Carneiro Viana (Inria), Eric Fleury (Inria), Nicolas de Cordes, Zbigniew Smoreda, and Stefania Rubrichi (Orange), Maxime Lenormand (INRAE), Jean-Michel Luck and Marc Barthelemy (CEA), regularly presenting their work at the conference.
See you in Paris in October where we will be working together to further mobility science.