Meet our 2020 Speakers

Markus is the business development manager of UbiGo, he is passionate for sustainability and with a background from a Master of Science in Industrial and Management Engineering and has previously worked with social entrepreneurship. Before joining UbiGo he worked as a project manager at the Swedish ...

Patrick Ayad is a Partner at Hogan Lovells, a leading global law firm with a strong industry sector focus, including in the automotive, mobility, technology and consumer markets. He leads the firm's global Automotive and Mobility Industry Sector Group.Patrick is a leading global practitioner in ...

At 16 years old, Konrad Bergström left home to pursue a career as a professional windsurfer in New Zealand. The career never took off, but his love of the ocean and willingness to commit to a path have never left him. Today, Konrad is the President of X Shore, a company combining Swedish...

Ben Boycott is Chief Commercial Officer at Protean Electric.  Protean is a technology leader in the design, development and manufacture of in-wheel motors, particularly for use in the Autonomous Vehicle sector.  In previous roles Ben has been Managing Director for one of Ricardo plc’s global...

Xavier is an inspiring change leader who is passionate about improving how we travel for the better. He believes that the way we choose to get around shapes how happy we are as individuals and as a society.Xavier joined Sustrans in June 2016 from Transport for London where he held a variety of...

Campbell Brown is the cofounder and CEO of PredictHQ, the demand intelligence platform used by customers including Qantas, Booking.com and Uber. He is an entrepreneur passionate about product development, data, and APIs who got his first taste of aviation when he started flying planes when he was...

Regina is the CEO and Co-founder of Populus, a data platform for cities to manage the future of mobility. Trusted by leading cities and the world’s largest mobility operators, the Populus platform securely ingests real-time data from shared electric scooters, bikes, and cars - helping operators and ...

Xavier is the UK managing director for Turo, the world’s largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace with over ten  million members. Xavier's responsibilities lie in launching and running the UK market as well as leading their international expansion. Xavier shot up the ranks in the gig...

Andy joined policing in 1999 initially based in Surrey, moving to Northamptonshire in 2005 before transferring to the Metropolitan Police in 2016. Andy is considered a highly successful strategic leader with specialist knowledge and expertise in law enforcement, public safety and security. He has...

After a financial career start (consulting, investment banking and private equity) in Brussels and London, Mathieu got the start-up virus in July 2015 when he joined Deliveroo as General Manager for Belgium. Two years later, he took over the whole Benelux region for Deliveroo. Mathieu has always...

Arnaud holds an MSc with Majors in Engineering Sciences, Fluid and Solid Mechanics and later went on to graduate from ISAE-SUPAERO Aeronautical Engineering School with Majors in Spacecraft Systems & Commercial Aircraft Design. With 20 years experience in the Aerospace industry, Arnaud has been...

Co-founder  & CEO of SimpliRoute. Alvaro has strong experience in Operations Research and Data Science. I have been working in the logistics work for more than 10 years helping small and big corporations to technologize their logistics. SimpliRoute is dominating the Latam market and growing...

Tiago Farias has spent his recent years working for and with cities, managing mobility and transportation companies. He was a member of the Board of EMEL - the Lisbon Mobility and Parking Company; general manager of mobility and transport of the City of Lisbon; President and CEO of Metropolitano de ...

Darryl is a seasoned product leader with 20+ years of experience specialising in innovation, strategy and development with a focus on end consumers & user experience. He is passionate about creating products that are not only innovative in some way but also serve real human needs and have a...

Matheus sees the future of mobility as a colective endeavor and for that we need to stop looking at people in mass transports as users and start to see them as customers that we must engage every day creating deep conections and delivering rewards experiences. In a world where people have so many...

Jay Giraud is an automotive tech entrepreneur with 12 years launching startups that redefine mobility. Since 2007 Jay has built successful products and companies on unproven business models. By building high-performing teams his startups have found success from forming industry leading go-to-market ...

Ro Gupta is the CEO and Cofounder of CARMERA, the street intelligence platform specializing in high-definition mapping for autonomous vehicle localization, perception and path planning. Before CARMERA, he created data products and helped grow web discussion network, Disqus, to 2 billion...

Laurin Hahn, founder and CEO of the car manufacturer and mobility provider Sono Motors, embarked on an ambitious journey in 2012: the development of an efficient electric car, suitable for everyday use. The Sion is going to be the first series produced Solar ElectricVehicle able to also charge its...

David-Emanuel Hauptmann is responsible for the Business Product Management at Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of AUDI AG and center of excellence for self-driving technology within the VW group. In his position he sets the focus on defining viable business...

Originally trained in service design, Johan Høgåsen-Hallesby has a background in digital strategy and has worked on multiple public transport projects prior to joining Urban Sharing. An advocate for open data and collaborative work between cities, public transport and technology companies, he...

Trainline is the leading independent rail and coach travel platform selling rail and coach tickets to millions of travellers worldwide. Mark is at the helm of Trainline's disruptive technology, driving forward its innovative vision and the infrastructure delivering this and has been central to...

Chirag Jain is CEO of Getmyparking.com a venture he started in 2015 (based out of New Delhi, India). Chirag graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2013 and worked in Automotive Industry for 2 yrs before starting his entrepreneurial journey. Chirag has keen interest in urban...

Shirly is a passionate mobility advocate with 12 years’ experience. She is the COO of GoTo Global, the leading multi-modal vehicle sharing service provider. Prior to that she was the Business Developer for BlaBlaCar, the largest carpooling marketplace, launching Brazil, negotiating...

I co-founded and am CTO at Wayve, in addition to holding a research fellowship at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. I grew up in New Zealand, studied mechatronics engineering at Auckland University, was awarded a Woolf Fisher Scholarship, helped design the algorithms which fly the...

Dvir is the Co.founder of the innovative startup company Intelligent Traffic Control, which knows how to sense traffic tendencies and prevent traffic jams before they accumulate. The company is the first one in Israel that will implement fully-adaptive AI Traffic lights, and today is doing...

Chris is a respected thought leader in the emerging automotive mobility sector, backed by over 15 years of industry experience across the fleet, retail, finance, and rental markets. After leading an automotive marketing business advising clients such as Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Europcar on...

Scott Kolber is CEO of Roadify Transit, a New York City-based data platform for transit and mobility information. Roadify aggregates this content from hundreds of transit and mobility sources including train, subway, bus, ferry, bike, scooter, ride share, etc in cities throughout the...

Jillian Kowalchuk is an award-winning entrepreneur, TEDx speaker and is the Founder & CEO of Safe & The City, a free safety navigation app which crowdsources people’s experiences to enable data-driven decisions and the design of smarter and safer cities. . She sits on the Commonwealth...

Felix is Investment Partner at innogy Ventures, the venture capital arm of one of Europe’s largest utility companies. At innogy Ventures, he is primarily responsible for “smart city & mobility” as well as IIoT equity investments. He has been part of the startup scene for almost 10...

Maron is an experienced entrepreneur with global experience across multiple industries, including 2 public listings. Maron co-founded Aha in 2011, which builds online marketplace businesses with instant deliveries. Aha.is, the first marketplace is now the largest marketplace for grocery, hot food...

Christian Lang, is CEO and co-founder of Chargery, a Berlin based emobility start-up.Chargery is a full-service provider for the future mobility shared electric in urban areas.After doing his MBA in Business Administration, Christian started working for some corporates – e.g. AUDI.Due to his belief ...

Jean-Baptiste is in charge of the business development for NAVYA in the Benelux and UK regions. Since 2017 Jean-Baptiste has been directly involved in the start of NAVYA’s operations in England, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Jean-Baptiste joined NAVYA in 2017 after working in the...

A mechanical engineer with experience in intelligent building monitoring and management systems, Brent Lessard is co-founder and Project Manager at rLoop, a SpaceX award winning, globally distributed and crowd sourced organization with over 1,300 members from more than 50 countries. Brent also...

Jeremy Long is Chief Executive Officer – European Business of MTR Corporation. Jeremy leads MTR’s European business development activity, and oversees MTR’s business interests in Europe.MTR Corporation operates MTR Crossrail, which will be the operator for the Elizabeth Line services for Transport...

Petri is an experienced executive working with technology companies worldwide for 30 years. He has dedicated his recent years to work with the mobility data company MOPRIM as a executive chairman to help service providers and cities build new services. His special interest is to make citizens aware ...

Kristjan, named Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in 2016, is a tech-entrepreneur who has lead a TOP 5 Formula Student team.In 2014, he co-founded COMODULE to provide IoT solutions for Light Electric Vehicles. COMODULE has grown to 50 team members, have helped to launch e-scooter sharing in 57 cities and...

Fanny Mathey has 12 years’ experience in the rail industry, mainly in commercial and revenue departments.After a Master degree in Economics in Britain and France, Fanny started her career at Eurostar as Duty manager. She then worked as a business developer for new products introduction...

Virginia McAllister has been involved with leading edge infrastructure transportation projects since 2007. As the owner of Iron Horse Architects since 2005,  she has crafted a team focused on applying resilient design principals to their projects to improve the cultures in which they work. Her...

For over 15 years Bruce’s career has involved exploring and promoting the social, economic and environmental benefits of safe and attractive urban environments and sustainable transport.He leads the team that develops and delivers transport policy and projects in the City of London, helping to...

Dr Davor Meersman is CEO of Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC), an international network uniting more than 100 cities across the world. OASC and its member cities are building a global market for smart city data and services from the demand side and based on the needs of cities and...

Dave Merrill is the co-founder and CEO of Elroy Air, a company dedicated to expanding the reach of express logistics with advanced vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft systems. The company's first aircraft - the Chaparral - is designed for fully-automated flight and cargo-handling...

Philipp is the CEO of Splyt Technologies, the world's first and largest mobility marketplace reaching 1.5 billion travellers. The company is founded on his vision of interconnected global mobility roaming and is currently powering mobility for some of the largest tech companies in the world.

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As the co-founder and CEO, Sid Misra has built a skilled team of neuroscience, behavioral science, and computer vision experts solving AV’s biggest problem: understanding human intuition. Misra is an authority on the link between engineering and behavioral science whose commentary has been used and ...

Pieter Morlion is founder of MORE LION – helping governments, companies and research institutes understand and implement sustainable mobility from a no-nonsense, neutral and data-driven perspective. Projects include mobility dashboards, data projects for cycling & the sharing economy, strategy...

Emmett Murphy is the Chief Product Officer at Carma, a pioneer of consumer products for increasing vehicle occupancy. Over the past decade he has led the development of breakthrough rideshare, carshare, transit and tolling solutions. He regularly advises policy makers and companies on how...

Zeina Nazer is Co-Founder of Cities Forum and ITS ARAB based in the UK since 2005. Zeina is also Doctoral Researcher at University of Southampton focusing on Autonomous Vehicles. Zeina has over 20 years’ of global experience in strategy, consulting, M&A support, research, and platform...

Truly passionate about moving people and giving them time back for the important things in life, Fabien joined Volocopter to achieve exactly that. While building up Uber in Germany as General Manager, he realized that innovation continues to challenge regulation and that cooperation is crucial for...

Esenam Nyador is one of a handful of female taxi drivers in an industry that’s almost entirely dominated by men. In 2013, she finished her first degree at the University of Ghana. Her entrepreneurial streak paired with a bold personality helped her start her own business in a traditionally...

Mar Pallas Poy is based in Barcelona, and manages government relations, public affairs, and regional expansion in Europe for Scoot. She previously held increasingly senior roles in marketing, strategic relations, and general management for Hailo, and became the Director of Operations & Public...

Matheu Parr is a Technical Project Manager in the newly formed Rolls-Royce Electrical group.  He is currently leading Rolls-Royce R&D projects focused on hybrid and all-electric powertrain solutions.  Matheu has background in electrical & controls engineering in aerospace but also brings...

Magdalena Pawlowicz, co-founder of Geme.io, a free urban geo-location app that makes cities smarter by providing tools to cities to manage air pollution information and presenting it to citizens in their near vicinity. She is a successful serial entrepreneur in the technology field with a vision to ...

He started his professional activity as Engineer in Caracas, Vienna & Barcelona.He is involved with Public Transports since 1992 when he started at Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), Barcelona. In this company he played different roles as Director of IT Software Developing in PC...

Erik Piehl is the CEO at IndoorAtlas. As a cloud gaming pioneer he brings 20 years of commercial and technical experience to the company. Most recently he served as the Managing Director & CTO of G-cluster, which he also co-founded. He has also served as a board member in the G-cluster group...

Adi Pinhas is the Co-Founder and CEO of Brodmann17. He previously served as a research team lead at Intel and founded two successful companies – surveillance video recording company Vigilant Technology in 1998 and large scale deep-learning visual search engine JustVisual in 2006. Holding an...

Patrick Planing is professor for business psychology at Stuttgart Technology University. He has more than ten years’ experience working on new mobility business models for Mercedes-Benz, mostly at the companies Innovation Lab in Stuttgart and in the Silicon Valley Area. He holds a PhD in Consumer...

Julia joined T&E in June 2015, having previously worked for the Mayor of London and in the European Parliament. During her four years in the parliament, she was head of office and advisor to Fiona Hall MEP, and followed EU legislation on renewables, energy efficiency and sustainable transport...

Brian is a longstanding mapping volunteer for OpenStreetMap, using his technical and organisational skills  after retiring from Specialist Computer Centres as their CTO. He is a founder member and community co-ordinator of mappamercia which organises OSM mappers in the West Midlands and has...

With his parents never having drivers’ licenses and living to a combined age of 182 years; as well as growing up in downtown Toronto, Canada, Angelo truly learned to walk the talk.   With a combined 40 years of public and private sector service, Angelo understands the special needs of the public. ...

Tim founded Doddle in March 2014, with a vision to make delivery more sustainable and convenient for consumers, retailers and carriers through click & collect. Prior to establishing Doddle, Tim spent 10 years in executive roles in logistics, transport and freight in both the UK and...

Peter Roedbro is the CEO and Founder of Carmuterpass.com and The Experience Ticket. comCarmuterpass.com started operations 2018 on top of Theexperienceticket.com system and in 2017 theexperienceticket.com was launched as a fully integrated ticketing and line management system.Nearly all of...

Arnaud Rouault has a deep understanding of what it takes to win complex deals in hyper-competitive International markets. Before joining NAVYA, he worked for more than 13 years in developing and leading sales teams across the mobility sector as Chief of Staff to the Global Sales SVP within...

Cassiano has been RioCard’s executive director for 6 years, where he has constantly striven for innovations in the transport payment system and expanding market reach. Has headed projects such as RioCard Jogos Rio 2016, official transport payment for the Olympics (Rio 2016). Riocard a transport...

Rajarshi Rakesh Sahai is the Partner for Mobility at ennea. He has more than 14 years of experience in Business Administration, Consulting, Urban Planning, Smart Cities and Sustainable Transport. He runs ennea’s mobility advisory, fundraising, M&A and venture projects and covers the European...

Harri Santamala, "Mr. Robobus" , CEO and co-founder of Sensible 4 - a company pioneering with all-season autonomous driving technologies. Sensible 4 and MUJI recently launched GACHA - the first AD shuttle bus capable of all-weather conditions. Before Sensible 4, Harri was among the first...

Lucy Saunders is a unique combination of public health specialist, urbanist and transport planner. She created the Healthy Streets Approach, an evidence based-framework for decision making at every level to embed public health in city transport, public realm and planning. Building on her success in ...

Vice President Lior Sethon co-leads Mobileye’s intelligent mobility solutions division, including product design and engineering, production, go-to-market strategy, and financial oversight. This global organization takes transformative Mobileye technology beyond the automotive industry and directly ...

Rikesh leads Transport for London’s market innovation activity to create new value for London by working with start-ups, corporates, academia, accelerators and venture capitalists. He was responsible for creating TfL’s first Innovation Hub which is charged with setting out the organisation’s key...

Alex is CEO of Tandem, which he co-founded in 2018 with the aim of ending transport poverty. Tandem is a mission-driven business taking the 21st century transport technologies emerging in big cities – starting with ridesharing – and adapting them for towns and small cities.Alex has spent his entire ...

Yona is the CEO of Arrive and an entrepreneur with an expertise in building and managing successful global brands in e-commerce, telecommunications and fashion retail. Prior to Arrive, he was co-founder and CEO of Beyond the Rack, recognized as Consumer Brand of the Year in Canada by Strategy for...

Carlos St. James is Managing Director of Santiago & Sinclair, LLC, a renewable energy consultancy focused on Latin America. Since 2010 he has also been a board member of the Latin American and Caribbean Council on Renewable Energy (LAC-CORE) in Washington, DC, which promotes development of the...

David is a Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. Since joining SoftBank in 2014, he has led and/or currently manages investments in transportation (Didi, Grab, Ola), FinTech (SoFi, Kabbage, Lemonade) and other sectors. Before joining SoftBank in 2014, David had a 10-year tenure at Google, where...

Ms. Thompson joined ITDP as CEO in late 2018. Prior to that, she was involved with ITDP for many years as a board member, including as board chair for the last two years. Ms. Thompson has nearly two decades of experience in the environmental non-profit sector. She co-founded ClimateWorks...

Javier de la Torre is founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CARTO. One of the pioneers of location intelligence, Javier founded the company with a vision to democratize data analysis and visualization. Under his leadership, CARTO has grown from a groundbreaking idea into one of the fastest growing...

Honoré van Rijswijk founded studio collective with the intention to bring strategic thinking to the foreground of urban transformation. He is passionate about developing responsive urban design instruments which promote interaction and initiate sharing.Honoré has significant experience in major...

Robert Vergnes is co-founder of the Neva Project and Neva Aerospace - where he is implementing his vision to integrate Neva’s scalable propulsion technology into the emerging UAV market. Neva Aerospace Neva Aerospace offers turnkey solutions based on autonomous, low-emission aerial robots capable...

Argo Verk is the interim CEO and Management Board member of Ridango. Ridango is providing intelligent transportation systems, with focus on account-based ticketing and real-time passenger information solutions. Argo has years of experience and extensive knowledge on public transport ticketing in...

Professor Roland Vogt has been Professor of General Business Administration since September 2016, in particular Strategic Management at the FOM University of Applied Sciences in Munich. Since September 2019 Prof. Vogt also is Head of KCFM - Competence Center for Future Mobility at FOM UAS. He holds ...

Duncan co-founded Skyports in early 2018 to focus on providing landing infrastructure, or Vertiports, for passenger and cargo carrying drones.  Skyports was the first company in the world to do this and has built the world’s first Vertiport which was showcased in Singapore in October 2019

Zachary Wang is a serial entrepreneur who seeks to create an impact through sustainabletechnology. In 2016, he co-founded Neuron, the leading and fastest growing micromobilitytechnology startup in Southeast Asia.Neuron is the only shared electric scooter operator that has designed, developed and...

Holger G. Weiss is Managing Director and CEO of German Autolabs. He has over 15 years of experience managing and building technology-driven companies with innovative business models in the Future Mobility sector. He has extensive experience and expertise in the field of connected mobility. He...

Mr. Yap serves as a subject matter expert for state transportation and industry organizations, sharing his experiences, best practices and recommendations on developing drone technologies and programs. Heserves on and advises national standards-setting committees, including the ANSI Unmanned...

Liad Itzhak is leading the Mobility business unit at HERE Technologies, driving the next revolution of the mobility ecosystem. Itzhak brings vast experience as a leader in the world of smart mobility, with expertise in consumer apps and Big Data.Prior to joining HERE, Itzhak built key units at...

Maha Achour is a senior leader with more than 20 years’ experience in both public and entrepreneurial start-up companies in the RF, wireless, optics and networking industries. Demonstrated track record of: developing an idea from concept to product, delivering industry leading...

Jennifer Haroon is Chief Operating Officer at Nauto, an AI-powered technology company that is making driving safer and smarter today and informing autonomous vehicle development for the future.Before Nauto, Jennifer was the Head of Business Operations for Waymo (formerly the Google Self-driving Car ...

Jörg Reimann has served as Vice President Brand Experience at BMW Group since 2014. As founder of BMW i Ventures he had a formative influence on mobility services within the BMW Group. The passionate runner knows the fastest tracks around the German capital.

Jo-Jo is the CEO and Co-founder of Electron, a London-based energy tech company bringing together distributed ledger technology (blockchain) and deep energy industry expertise to create the digital backbone for the modern energy marketplace.She started her energy career in the early days of the...

Eckart Diepenhorst is CEO Europe of FREE NOW (formerly mytaxi). Before being appointed as mytaxi CEO in June 2018, he joined mytaxi in 2017 as Regional Manager. In this position,he was responsible for mytaxi markets in Germany, Spain, Austria, Portugal and Sweden.Previously, Diepenhorst was...

Karina Ricks is the inaugural director of the new Department of Mobility and Infrastructure for the City of Pittsburgh. Karina moved to the city in March 2017 after two decades in Washington, DC. As Director of DOMI, Karina oversees transportation investments and policies that support the physical...

Oliver Reppert took over as CEO of SHARE NOW, which emerged as one of a total of five mobility services from the mobility joint venture between the BMW Group and Daimler AG, in February 2019. From October 2016 to January 2019, he was CEO of the car2go Group GmbH. He has been working at Daimler...

Charlie is a Partner in KPMG’s Global Strategy Group and Head of Mobility 2030, which is helping clients across the mobility ecosystem understand and plan for strategic changes driven by new technology, financial, regulatory and consumer trends, particularly in the areas of Mobility as a Service...

Kirsty is the CEO for Latent Logic - an Oxford University autonomous vehicle technology spin-out. An Oxford graduate, Kirsty spent her early career at strategy consultancy Oliver Wyman. She then joined the AA as Director of Membership Services and Ventures to lead the strategy post IPO. Whilst...

Nir Erez sees the future of urban mobility and in it, data is the determinant.As Co-founder and CEO of Moovit, a leading Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world’s #1 urban mobility app, Nir Erez believes data companies will become the operating system – the brains and heart – of smart...

Maya Pindeus is Co-Founder and CEO of Humanising Autonomy - a company that is building a global standard for how autonomous systems interact with people. Humanising Autonomy has developed predictive technology that allows Automated Vehicles and Urban Mobility systems to predict pedestrian and...

Heiko Schilling launched his first startup in 1989. Since then, his passion for maths and software algorithms has led him to start two more business ventures at the same time that he was completing four academic degrees and working for several large corporations. Heiko joined TomTom in 2007, and...

Sophie Punte is Executive Director of Smart Freight Centre (SFC), a mission-driven organization in the global logistics sector, that strives for increased efficiency and zero-emissions. She established the industry-backed Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) to develop standardized guidelines...

Cindi is Managing Director of Total Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Total SA (~$150B). She is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups globally in renewable energy, mobility, smart-grid, battery storage, energy data intelligence, energy efficiency, software...

Martin Johann Fröhlich is a new generation entrepreneur. Following his studies in International Management in Berlin, Paris, London, Chengdu/China and time spent at Siemens in Denmark, he becomes self-employed. As a fresh and daring entrepreneur, he founded his fashio label Martin Joyeux and is...

Avinash Rugoobur, an experienced executive, joined Arrival as Chief of Strategy following an impressive 16 years in the mobility industry. Rugoobur started his career at General Motors where he eventually led innovation activities at GM’s Silicon Valley Office. Duringthis time he led the $1 Bn...

Gisle Pedersen is head of Product at Entur. He has extensive experience in product development from Telco and public transport in Norway and Asia.

Ja'Nese Jean is an International Opera Singer and Founder of SAFETRIP. An on-demand healthcare based rideshare mobile application and web platform. The first of its kind allowing insurance as a payment option while offering both emergency and non-emergency (NEMT) vehicles. She manages the...

Keith is a barrister, arbitrator and accredited mediator. He has served as an independent member and non-exec director on regulatory bodies in a variety of sectors and specialises in professional/industry self-regulation, equality and inclusion, consumer rights, and alternative redress.He is a...

Jessica Uguccioni is a lawyer at the Law Commission of England and Wales. Jessica has responsibility for leading a three-year review of the UK’s regulatory framework for automated vehicles, including their use as part of public transport networks. At the Commission, she has previously managed the...

Iain Forbes is the head of the UK Government's Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, a policy unit based jointly in the Department for Transport and the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. The Centre aims to help ensure that the UK remains a world leader in...

Tommaso Tamburnotti is a co-founder of Easyship, the world’s leading cloud-based shipping software and technology platform that helps eCommerce merchants ship their products throughout the world. As a user-centric product, Easyship has helped to simplify the complex world of cross-border logistics...

Funmi founded 3FEV in 2014 to provide an all-electric car rental and car sharing service for individuals and businesses in the UK. 3FEV is the first all electric peer to peer sharing service.Funmi is  gaining recognition in the EV mobility space with requests to speak at Nordic EV summit and to...

Sahil is one of the founders and serves as CEO of Delhivery.Sahil began his career in management consulting at Bain and Company, working across the London and New Delhi offices. At Bain he worked on growth strategy, M&A and performance improvement across the private...

Paul Steely White is Safety Policy Director at Bird where he advocates for smart safety standards in the e-scooter industry.Before joining Bird, he served as Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives, New York City’s leading advocates for bicycling, walking and public transportation. White...

Rebecca is product director at Octopus Energy, a multi-award-winning challenger energy supplier. Octopus is an e-commerce specialist and digital first with product, marketing, and customer service. It’s changing the way people consume and buy energy with ground-breaking product launches like...

Graeme leads National Grid’s work on electric vehicles/decarbonisation of transport by leading and coordinating all the work relating to the UK regulated business of National Grid.National Grid separated the Transmission Ownership (TO) from the System Operation (SO) in April 2019, although Graeme...

The positive impact of car sharing at the environment is the main driver for Karina to make carsharing a success. After years of working in business services (including VP at ABN Amro bank), Karina started in 2016 at MyWheels as Managing Director. MyWheels is the first car sharing platform in the...

Amy Gu is the founder and managing partner of Hemi Ventures, a VC firm that invests in early-stage companies in emerging technology sectors like AI, biotech, and autonomous vehicles. Amy is a leader in diversifying the male-dominated world of tech entrepreneurship and financing.Prior to her...

Bob was appointed Head of Environment Strategy at the UK’s Department for Transport in April 2018 where he leads on moving mobility onto a more sustainable footing. His team develops and delivers polices across the transport modes to reduce carbon emissions, improve air quality and enhance the...

Andreas ‘Andi’ Lamprecht is the Chief Technology Officer at AirMap, the world’s leading airspace management platform for drones. In his role, Andi is responsible for the company’s research and development, product management, and all of its engineering efforts. Since starting at AirMap, Andi has...

Tamara Goriely is a lawyer with experience of working for the consumer sector, academia and Government. From 2002 to 2017 she managed the Commercial and Common Law team within the Law Commission of England and Wales. She is now part of the Law Commission’s Automated Vehicles review, looking at the...

Ankala Saibaba has a vast experience of 30 years in the planning, design and construction of major railway projects. He is presently heading a mega rail project at a cost of USD2.5 billion involving 53 tunnels and 125 bridges including “The World’s Tallest Rail Bridge” & “The longest rail...

Neil became Interim Chief Executive Officer in June 2018 and has held key senior roles at Ordnance Survey since joining in 2001, including a prior period of Acting Director General and CEO from April 2014 to June 2015.Since November 2017 he became responsible for leading strategic growth for both...

Satyaki Raghunath is the Chief Strategy & Development Officer at Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL). Mr. Raghunath has almost two decades of experience in working with public and private sector investors and operators of transport infrastructure globally. In his role at BIAL, he is...

Nico has an extensive background of more than 15 years in the automotive industry, becoming Porsche’s youngest managing director of a Porsche Centre in Germany in 2009 and having successfully build up and sold the marketplace “easyautosale", with contractual volume of vehicles worth €100...

Michelle leads the automotive and autonomous platform at the World Economic Forum, dedicated to identifying and closing critical governance gaps through multi-stakeholder co-designing, piloting, and scaling solutions. As a leader in automotive technologies, Avary has been at the forefront of...

Jamie Hodsdon is ethics and accessibility lead at the UK Government's Centre for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles.  This is a joint unit split across the Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.  Jamie has previously worked at the Department...

Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centres by offering fleets of electric scooters as a sustainable, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars.Voi is now Europe's fastest growing escooter player (16 cities...

Christopher Heiser is co-founder and CEO of Renovo, a Silicon Valley automotive software company focused on building products that enable the global commercialization of level 4 autonomous vehicles. He has built his career taking disruptive technologies to market; his previous roles include...

With over 20 years of experience working in big data and analytics, Lisa Joy is currently the CMO at Otonomo, an automotive data services platform. She previously served as CMO at Neustar, leading a major transformation as the company entered into the security and marketing services...

Sandith Thandasherry, the man behind India’s first solar powered ferry,completed his B-tech in Naval Architecture from IIT Madras and pursued an MBA from INSEAD, France. His industrial experience is more than 18 years.He started his career with Alcock Ashdown in Gujarat as a Naval Architect and...

Originally from North Wales, Tim moved to London in 2005 to begin his career as a graphic and user experience designer. Before turning his attention to the challenges of the automotive and mobility world, Tim specialised in designing for “human–to–whatever” interaction, as he calls it. Starting his ...

Micah Kotch serves as the Managing Director of URBAN-X by MINI and Urban Us. URBAN-X  is the accelerator for startups reimagining city life.Before joining URBAN-X, Micah served as the Director of NY Prize and Strategic Advisor for Innovation at NYSERDA.  At the NYU Tandon School of Engineering...

Dominick Moxon-Tritsch is Director of Regulation and Public Policy for Bolt, Europe’s leading ride-hailing platform. He has previously served as Head of Public Policy EMEA for Uber, as Head of Government Relations work for German logistics giant, Hermes and as Head of Public Affairs for Addison...

Dan Chen is vice president and general manager of 3M’s Transportation Safety Division. 3M is a Fortune 500 diverse manufacturing company that applies science in collaborative ways to improve lives daily. As a senior leader, Dan drives global growth for 3M in the road safety and infrastructure...

Kobi is the Co-founder and CEO of autofleet. In his latest role, before founding autofleet, he was the Head of Product at Gett for Business and prior to that was the VP Product of fast growing IOT startup in Silicon Valley. Kobi holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and an MBA both from Ben Gurion...

Neil Herron is the founder and CEO of Grid Smarter Cities. He has led Grid through the LSEG’s ELITE programme for emerging high-growth companies, as well as ensuring Grid’s 7th placing in the 2018 IP100 League table. Neil is the named inventor for multiple Innovate UK funded projects and...

Charlie Wartnaby has 24 years' wide-ranging automotive software development experience at the Cambridge office of Applus IDIADA, following a science PhD. Most recently he is specialising in CAV development and is technical lead for the MuCCA project, developing a cooperative autonomous...

Andreas Gruber is the President and Global CEO of PayByPhone, bringing close to 20 years of international experience in the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) industry. With an extensive background in Strategy and Business Development, Andy has developed and led strategic initiatives at both...

Talib Qayyum is the Founder of Parking Eagle; a company with a mission to deliver anxiety free electric car journeys. The Parking Eagle website/app delivers options for hiring EVs/hybrids and planning journeys, including optimal charging and nearby points of interest.Talib, who is leading a global...

Justin Ott is the founder and CEO of Spark, which he created in 2017. The idea of accurate energy prediction for journeys came from driving years with erratic onboard displays in EVs. This led to the development of Spark. He has subsequently built Spark’s team, recruiting technical, marketing and...

Ian Cameron has over 20 years’ international experience in the electricity distribution networks industry. His background is in network operation, capital construction and connections, with a specific focus on renewable energy and system optimisation, this focus is supported through his Electrical...

Bruno Ginnuth is the co-founder and CEO of the RidePooling service CleverShuttle. Prior to this, Bruno worked in strategy at Coca-Cola and Sony, among others, as well as in logistics at Nissan and trading at Merrill Lynch. He attended university in New York, London, Paris and Berlin, earning a...

As Founder and CEO of Trans-Plan, Shadi’s core belief is that simplicity is ingenuity. Trained as a civil engineer with degrees in Civil and Transportation Engineering in Canada, he is a strong supporter of diversity. Shadi hopes to inspire more women and people of colour in transportation...

Florian Petit is an entrepreneur and roboticist. He studied and worked at TU München, Stanford University, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and obtained a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in the field of human aware robotics. After a break for sailing the world, he founded the LiDAR startup Blickfeld: His...

Pieter Waller is a serial entrepreneur, user-centric innovator, co-founder and CCO of Chargetrip – a smart navigation platform for electric mobility that aims to accelerate global mass EV-adoption. Prior to founding Chargetrip he was responsible for the creation of successful Fintech, VOD and...

Jeff Russakow is the CEO of Boosted, a leading provider of lightweight, portable, high-performance electric vehicles, and an innovator in fast, fun, simple “last-mile” transportation. The company is well-known for its first commercial product, the Boosted Board, a premier electric long board used...

Amos is the CEO of Optibus where he directs the overall success of the company. Amos has architected online ad targeting systems and search engines for Microsoft, Siemens, and Collarity. His expertise includes optimization and graph algorithms, machine learning, distributed systems and big data.

Vicente is Cabify’s co-founder. He has been part of the company since 2012 and throughthese 7 years, in addition to being its COO, he has served as Director of Global Supply& Business Intelligence. Currently he serves as Chief of Ride Hailing of Maxi Mobility’sGroup, and as such, he leads all...

Carlos Holguin, Msc., is an urban and mobility planner specialized in the integration and deployment of fully automated vehicles in urban areas, and a Product Designer. He developed his expertise through the real-life experimentation of on-demand mobility services using automated vehicles since...

Yoav is leading Upstream's strategic direction, culture and business execution, over 17 years of experience with multi-national high-tech companies and start-ups. He brings rich leadership experience in management, marketing and business development of IT and security products spanning over a...

Robin is the CEO and Lead Technologist at Immense. He has 17 years’ experience working in the Transport industry. Robin started his career at Imperial College London moving from doctoral research through to a Lectureship in Transport and the Environment and establishing the Intelligent...