Introducing Our First 300+ Speakers

Jochen Engert is CEO and Founder of FlixMobility where he is responsible for the FlixBus Corporate Development & Strategy as well as Human Resources.Prior to launching FlixMobility with the brand FlixBus, Jochen worked as a Strategy Consultant for Boston Consulting Group in...

Dr Michael Halbherr is a recognized authority in the automotive industry. After being the CEO at HEREtechnologies and part of Nokia’s management team, he now enjoys working as an investor, board member and advisor at young, aspiring technology companies. Dr Michael Halbherr is the chairman of...

Ms. Sabine Scheunert has been the Head of Digitalization Unit at Daimler AG since July 1, 2016. Ms. Scheunert worked for DongFeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile as Director of CITROEN China and Vice Managing Director of JV set up by PSA and DongFeng Motors. She has also worked with the BMW Group and...

John B. Rogers, Jr. is the CEO and co-founder of LM Industries, a technology company that designs,builds and sells vehicles and other high-technology products in partnership with other globalmanufacturers. This disruptive company is redefining the rapid development of connected hardware bypairing...

Ankit Jain is a Vice President and Head of Ola’s incar technology platform - Ola Play. Ankit is responsible for leading the development and expansion of Ola Play across categories and different parts of the country. This includes product innovation, platform development, strategic alliances, supply ...

Former CEO of Opel, Karl-Thomas Neumann brings 25 years of automotive industry experience and will be leading innovative mobility concepts for EVELOZCITY, a new Los Angeles based e-mobility startup.Prior to Opel, he held various leadership positions including CEO of Volkswagen Group China and CEO...

Tekedra Mawakana is the Chief External Officer at Waymo (formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project), a technology company with the mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.In this role, Tekedra leads Waymo's external engagement efforts and oversees the teams...

James Wu is the CEO of DeepMap, which he co-founded in 2016. Prior to DeepMap, Mr. Wu was on the self-driving car team at Baidu, where he was a Principal Architect. Previously, Mr. Wu held leadership positions at Apple and Google, where he worked on Apple Maps and Google Earth Builder. He holds a...

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...

Sebastian Peck is Managing Director of InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s mobility business and corporate venture capital arm.Sebastian started his career at the Boston Consulting Group and later joined the TMT advisory team of UBS Investment Bank, providing corporate finance services for...

Elmer Francisco is a scion to the pioneer Jeepney maker Francisco clan behind the world renowned Francisco Motor Corporation which was established in 1947, right after World War II, wherein they converted the military jeeps left by the US Army into moving works of art in forms of mass...

Danny Shapiro is senior director of Automotive at NVIDIA, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions self-driving cars, trucks and shuttles. The NVIDIA automotive team is engaged with over 370 car and truck makers, tier 1 suppliers, HD mapping companies, sensor companies and startup...

Ms. Sakshi Vij has been instrumental in shaping the personal mobility space in India over the last 12 years. Having represented Global Car rental brands in India, successfully built one of the largest radio taxi brands in India and built the largest B2B Chauffeur drive rental brands in India within ...

Deepak Garg is a thought leader in the field of new age logistics. Deepak founded RIVIGO in 2014 with a globally unique idea of relay driving to make logistics human, faster and safer using technology and data. As a leader and innovator, Deepak is known for complex data-driven problem solving and...

Ricardo Weder is an entrepreneur and promoter of the technology and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Mexico and Latin America. He is currently Cabify’s Global President, a position in which he ensures that Cabify establishes the appropriate relationships and actions with external stakeholders such as...

Since 1992 the mathematician with a doctorate took on varying functions in Hamburg’s administration. Being the head of the state office for information technology he kept a significant stake in preparing the fusion of IT-services of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. From 2004 to December 2008 he was...

An award-winning wireless engineer, academic leader and passionate entrepreneur, João loves to turn complex theorems and algorithms into products and services that can make a real difference in people's lives. After more than a decade developing new wireless networking technologies at...

Alisa Maas has been active in the fields of mobility, IoT, logistics and fleet management since early 2010, gaining extensive topic expertise with regard to digital business models and product development. In her role as Senior Product and Marketing Manager at Daimler FleetBoard GmbH, she...

Hagai Zyss has spent over 20 years driving cutting edge technologies from definition to profitable business. Before joining Autotalks, Hagai served as VP R&D at EZchip. Previously, Hagai served in various executive positions at Ceragon Networks. In his last role as the Executive VP of Products...

Paul Copping is Chief Innovation Officer at Digital Greenwich, serving the Royal Borough of Greenwich, population 270,000. His role is to engage with industrial partners to deploy integrated technology solutions that will result in more innovative, agile and cheaper services for Greenwich...

Ryan Rzepecki is the founder and CEO of NYC-based JUMP Bikes (jumpbikes.com), a technology company focused on developing innovative solutions for urban transportation.Early in his career, Rzepecki worked as a planner in the bikes division of New York City’s Department of Transportation. During that ...

Chiara is the Programme Advisor to ESA's Director General. ESA is THE European Space Agency. In her function Chiara supports the definition of future space activities in Europe. Prior to ESA Chiara worked on the system design of launcher systems as well as on transient flows and ignition...

In 1974 Gary Fisher grafted a mixture of road bike and motorcycle parts onto a 1940s Schwinn Excelsior X and created the first reliable, low-maintenance mountain bike. Soon after, Gary founded Mountain Bikes, the first company to build production mountain bikes.In the early 80’s he worked with the...

Paul Steely White is Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives, New York City’s leading advocates for bicycling, walkingand public transportation.Before joining Transportation Alternatives in April 2004, he served as Africa Regional Director for the Institute for Transportation and...

Will joined Brompton in 2002, became director in 2006, and took over as MD in 2008 and in this time he has grown the company from £2mil turnover with 27 staff to £35mil turnover with over 280 staff. Will is a Chartered Engineer passionate about all things engineering, having previously worked for...

In 2015 Sytse Zuidema became CEO of NewMotion. Before joining NewMotion,he was managing director of investment firm Alternaty, which specialises inhealthcare and sustainable energy investments. Before that he held several leadingpositions at Casema/Zesko (now Ziggo), such as vice president of...

Finn Age Hänsel, 36, studied Business Administration in Germany, Hungary and New Zealand. Following a 4-year engagement at BCG, he joined Rocket Internet in Australia from 2011 to 2013, as a Managing Director. After founding the largest Australian online fashion retailer, THE ICONIC, he went on to...

Beate Kubitz champions an open model for the ‘internet of mobility’ as Director of Policy and Communications for the TravelSpirit Foundation. She writes about open data, transport and mobility as a service, including the Annual Survey of Mobility as a Service in the UK, 2017 and 2018 (published by...

Henrik Falk is the CEO of the Hamburger Hochbahn AG (HHA). Founded in 1911, the “HOCHBAHN” operates the underground, bus and ferry system in Germany’s largest port of Hamburg. Henrik is prioritising the push towards digitalisation and shared mobility in the region.Prior to taking up his post in...

Marisca Zweistra is an experienced program manager, responsible for strategic business transition programs for Alliander. Marisca has a PhD in Process Engineering from Wageningen University. For the past 13 years she has been working in the energy sector and developed her specialization in project- ...

Graeme leads National Grid’s work on electric vehicles/decarbonisation of transport by leading and coordinating all the work relating to the regulated business of National Grid (Gas Transmission / Electricity Transmission / Electricity System Operation). His work helps the Government, the energy...

Bridget Rosewell is an experienced director, policy maker and economist, with a track record in advising public and private sector clients on key strategic issues. She is a Commissioner for the National Infrastructure Commission, a founder and Senior Adviser of Volterra Partners, and a...

Dr Ogunshakin has been responsible for the strategic repositioning and significant growth of ACE over the last 14 years. He was responsible for the planning and execution ofEnvironmental Industries Commission acquisition and the launch of Victoria Street Capital Ltd, the commercial arm of ACE.In...

Florian studied Industrial Engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe as well as the Universidad de Barcelona. After graduating, he spent several years as a management consultant in various countries. In his role as venture manager at Siemens AG in Munich, he was responsible for the...

Sasha Afanasieva is the Founder and CEO of Blubel, a crowdsourcing navigation system for cyclists. After 6 years experience in investment banking, where she led financial transactions in tech & media, Sasha completed the On Purpose Social Leadership Programme. During this time she came up with...

James Thornton is the founding CEO of ClientEarth. The New Statesman has named him as one of 10 people who could change the world. The Lawyer has picked him as one of the top 100 lawyers in the UK. In 2016, he was named as one of the 1,000 most influential people in London and also won Leader of...

Jan Vapaavuori is the Mayor of Helsinki (7 June 2017 -). He has had an extensive career in Finnish politics, serving as a Government Minister for seven years.Helsinki has been ranked as one of the most liveable cities in the world. Under the leadership of Mayor Vapaavuori, a new comprehensive...

Chris Sheldrick is the co-founder and CEO of what3words, the simplest way to communicate your location. The UK-based company solves the problem that roughly 75% of the world faces: inconsistent, complicated, poor, or no addressing. By carving the global map up into 57trillion 3mx3m...

Päivi Haikkola is currently heading One Sea – Autonomous Maritime Ecosystem. Päivi has a long history of working with marine related companies. She started her career in the nineties consulting and meeting marine customers around the world. Since then she has worked with various strategic...

Stefanie Lemcke is a serial entrepreneur, investor & experienced digital manager who worked in innovation & tech for 15+ years. Her background is in the children's media market, media & entertainment. Stefanie has headed departments at Sky Germany & Disney channel Germany and...

Syeda Ramla Hassan is the CEO of Safr Pakistan, the subsidiary of an international ridesharing service dedicated to empowering women and families. With unwavering determination and leadership, Ramla has helped Safr launch and expand in the burgeoning Pakistan market.She expresses strong interest in ...

Peter Harris joined UPS in 1989 as an Automotive Supervisor and was promoted in 1992 to Fleet Manager. In 1997, he accepted the Automotive Director position in the UK before becoming UK Industrial Engineering Director in 2003. In 2005, Peter took an assignment with Corporate Compliance, developing...

Sohaila invests for BMW i Ventures in cutting-edge solutions focusing on BMW’s current and future business in the technology and customer & service space. In addition to the investment activities Sohaila works closely with BMW i Ventures’ portfolio companies. In her role as the Director of...

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 1,200 members from more than 50 countries. Brent also...

Reetta Putkonen leads the traffic and street planning service in the urban environment division. The transportation planning in the City of Helsinki based on the land use. We have a strong tradition and co-operation between architects and engineers. Planning the traffic starts with the clear...

Christian was selected as Process Owner Digital Strategy, Innovation and Transformation for the Lufthansa Group in February 2017. In this role he leads the digital transformation of Lufthansa Group.In addition to that Christian is responsible for the Product Division Digital Fleet Solutions at...

Michael Thacker was named Executive Vice President for Technology and Innovation in February 2017 and is a member of Bell Helicopter’s Executive Leadership Team. In his current role, Michael is responsible for leading Bell Helicopter’s core engineering team and providing strategic direction for...

Ms. 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...

Co-Founder and CEO of Albora (www.albora.io), has over 20-year business experience, among other things, working in a startup as a former CXO between 2000-2, and since 2008 also as early-stage tech investor mostly in the US by having co-founded and currently being Venture Partner at Telegraph Hill...

Throughout his career, Matt has been involved in various parts of the energy value chain from market research and consulting (Bloomberg New Energy Finance) to electricity supply (Good Energy and Tempus Energy) and renewables development (Livos Energy). Matt has also served in the US Peace Corps in...

Oriol studied Aeronautical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and a Master of Business Administration at Escuela de Organizacion Industrial (Spain). During his experience working at Airbus Defence & Space, he became increasingly more interested in unmanned aerial vehicles.In ...

Bryn is the Chief Strategy Officer for Roborace, the world’s first racing series for human and machine drivers. His experience spans an impressive 16 years working for Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula One Management leading all significant technical projects from the construction of new circuits to...

Miklós graduated at the Budapest University of Technology as a civil engineer and University of Florida as a transportation engineer. He has been working in the Hungarian transport administration for more than 10 years in different fields and levels including road network development, road...

As CEO, Doug Braun brings over 20 years of global ERP and supply chain execution experience to BluJay Solutions. Doug joined the company in October 2015 with a focus on executing then-Kewill’s growth strategy of expanding its solution footprint, both functionally and geographically, and increasing...

Jan Carpman, a wayfinding specialist, is passionate about creating inclusive places that optimize user experience. She is the first Director of Wayfinding for IHCD, Institute for Human Centered Design, Boston. Her work spans public transit, arts & cultural, health care, housing, offices, and...

Dr Madeline Cheah is currently Cyber Security Innovation Lead at HORIBA MIRA, with responsibility for automotive and autonomous vehicle cyber security research at the company. She started her current role after having earned a PhD in automotive cyber security at Coventry University, with a focus on ...

An exciting logistics technology company that has developed a technology platform which builds a solution to redefine the logistics industry and transform it to keep up with the e-commerce boom, utilising the global sharing-economy concept. Ed is an experienced technology entrepreneur with...

Benji is part of Africa’s top (award-winning) triple-bottom line evangelist start-up. www.emptytrips.com. An impact capitalist, Benji leverages tech, smart strategy and the shared economy thinking in an effort to save our planet & make profits. After a decade in top-tier consulting and banking...

Colin is Partner & Head of Investment Strategy at Downing LLP. He qualified as a solicitor with Linklaters in 1996 and spent six years as Senior Manager at 3i Group in corporate finance and venture capital. He then spent four years at The Royal Bank of Scotland where he was a...

Marion Decaillet is an international transportation expert and the first Director of Inclusive Public Transit for the Institute of Human Centered Design, Boston. During her 15+ years in the transit industry in France, Australia, and the US, her focus has been on improving customer service and...

Shimon served in the Israeli Air Force for eleven years in several managerial and commanding positions. Shimon holds a B.A. in Economics from Ben Gurion University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Multiple near-death weather-related experiences during his military service stoked a...

Paulo is the Founder and CEO of Ubirider, which is making urban mobility smarter, through the agnostic integration of mobility services using travellers’ smartphones.Paulo owns a degree in Computer Sciences and Management and a Master in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship.Paulo is also...

Bill Goodwin is the General Counsel & VP of Policy at AirMap, a start-up powering the future of low-altitude flight, where he manages the legal and policy teams. He is an expert in the area of state and local UAS policy. Prior to AirMap, he was a member of Morrison Foerster’s UAS/Drone Group...

Oliver is responsible for evangelising the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) and the development of standards and education for blockchain in the freight industry in Europe. Prior to joining BiTA Oliver spent 15 years in the finance industry, firstly as a sales trader in the equity markets...

Jim Heathcote has worked in the energy storage technology field for over 20 years. He has received international awards for ‘Excellence in the field of environmental technology research’ on behalf of his Companies. In the field of hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers he led ITM Power PLC, as Chief ...

Jaime Ruiz Huescar is an expert on e-mobility and smart city projects in ALEM, the Local Energy and Climate Change Agency in the Murcia City Council. He is the e-mobility manager of the city of Murcia and the author of its e-mobility strategy.Jaime acts as coordinator of the energy group of...

George Johnston is passionate about using technology to shape cities of the future, with a belief that this can be achieved through building a self-sustaining innovation ecosystem through data, knowledge, and connections. He founded Tech City Ventures to bring great ideas to market...

Johann Jungwirth, also known as JJ, was born 3 May 1973 in Reußmarkt, in Romania. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Cooperative Education Baden-Württemberg until 1997 when he finished with the degree graduated engineer. From 1997 until 2014 he worked in different positions for...

A Georgia native, Allie Kelly earned a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Georgia. She has worked in public policy for over 15 years, first as alobbyist for UPS in Washington, D.C., then returning to Atlanta and founding Georgia Watch in 2002, which is the state’s only consumer ...

Mike Kenny holds a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics (UWA 1979). His early professional career was with Telecom Australia and included designing digital data networks and participating in the roll-out of digital microwave broadband links and mobile phone services. Mike also designed electronic ...

Pavel is an entrepreneur and an embedded systems engineer specializing in robotics, electric propulsion technologies, and intravehicular communications in manned and unmanned aerial systems. Pavel co-founded Zubax Robotics in 2015 to advance the current state of electric propulsion technologies and ...

Daniel is CEO & founder at Bike Citizens. As two cycle couriers, Daniel and his partner Andreas founded Bike Citizens in 2011 with a budget of no more than 1'500 €. Since then Daniel and his team bootstrapped the company to more than 30 employees based in Graz (Austria) and Berlin (Germany) ...

Kristian Kolind works as Head of Corporate Strategy & M&A at NSB, based in Oslo, Norway. NSB(Norwegian State Railways) is a leading transport company in the Nordics, operating commercial, tendered and non-tendered trains and busses in Norway and Sweden, with revenues of ~15 BNOK (1,6...

Kristjan Lind is a keen mobility and cycling enthusiast who is on a mission to get people out of their cars and onto more sustainable vehicles. Throughout his career he has worked on mobility issues in various western cities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean – launching bike rental and dockless...

The IoT Living Lab - http://iotlivinglab.com/ - was created in early 2015 as a project with the CTO office City of Amsterdam and other stakeholders within Amsterdam's innovation ecosystem including Amsterdam Smart City (ASC) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). The project...

Michael is the CEO of WAVE, where his team developed a Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) solution scalable to a MegaWatt that delivers hands-free, vehicle and grid-integrated wireless power to Electric Vehicles that is compatible with Autonomous Vehicles.He is a serial entrepreneur and new product...

I'm an engineer and chartered accountant with a passion for entrepreneurship and a love of cycling. Naturally I have ended up founding two companies in the eBike sector, most recently Swytch Technology through which I launched the new patent pending Swytch eBike kit that turns any bike into an...

Prior To founding StoreDot, Dr. Myersdorf served as senior director of SanDisk SSD Business Unit (NASDAQ: SNDK). Doron’s diverse record also includes founder and CEO of InnerPresence, a Silicon Valley security software company, and co-founder and VP business development of Siftology, a pioneer in...

Temitope Olodo is a Preventive Terrorism Consultant based in the United Kingdom with many years of experience working in sensitive security roles for Her Majesty Government including The Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT), Metropolitan Police and UK Border Agency.Temi is one of...

Angus Pacala is the CEO and co-founder of Ouster, Inc., a technology company located in San Francisco, CA developing advanced safety systems employing lidar and 3D sensing technology for the automotive market. Previously, he was the Director of Engineering and co-founder at Quanergy Systems, Inc...

Chris Pendleton is the Program Manager Lead for Azure Maps at Microsoft. As a veteran in the mapping industry whose 20+ years of experience spans across a multitude of disciplines, he has led the shipment of dozens of Microsoft products across various mediums inclusive of web services; mobile, web...

Founder, innovator, and inveterate inventor Mate Rimac started out in 2007 at the age of 19 in a borrowed garage, tinkering, dreaming, and already thinking several years ahead of the traditional car industry. He fitted an experimental EV drivetrain to his 1984 BMW E30 and his conversion was so...

As one of the three co-founders of DoubleMap (awarded as one of the Inc. 5000 Most Inspiring Companies in 2018, 2017 & 2016), Peter SerVaas has help build a very impressive and strong company through collaborative dedicated efforts to improve global transportation intelligence.  MOVE 2019 is...

Craig Smith is the Director of Transportation Security and Research at Rapid7, a cybersecurity analytics and automation company. He is also the founder of Open Garages, a distributed collective of performance tuners, mechanics, security researchers and artists. Craig authored the "Car...

Andrej Sobotkiewicz is an experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the mobility industry. He graduated Entrepreneurship from the Faculty of Economics and Business (Maribor) and Universität Bayreuth. Wanting to promote environmental sustainability and to facilitate the global shift...

Dr. David Sturzenegger has focused throughout his career on applying advanced algorithms to practical problems in the industry. As part of his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich, he optimized the energy consumption of elevators for Schindler and the power consumption of some of ...

Tim Sylvester is a multi-award winning entrepreneur and electrical & computer engineer. With more than a decade of experience in construction trades, and having participated in two R&D projects for the National Science Foundation, Tim’s work with Integrated Roadways has been featured in...

Sergey is a CEO and co-founder of Capte, an IOT platform that includes hardware, software and connectivity helping transport operators, logistic companies, construction industry to cut down the costs of operation and maintenance as well as increasing safety and reliability of their services.As a...

Harry is a CEO and co-founder of Future-Mobility-Solutions GmbH, an start-up company focusing on developing algorithms in the fields of automatization and autonomous driving. The company is dealing with future mobility concepts on a technical-development as well as strategic-consulting...

Marianne Weinreich is Market Manager in the Smart Mobility division in Ramboll. For the last 18 years she has been advising cities leabout promotion of sustainable mobility. She has a background in communication and works with Mobility Management, mobility policies and transport behavior change in...

Desmond Wheatley joined Envision Solar as a consultant in 2010 and has served as the Company’s CEO since 2011 and as Chairman of the Board since 2016. He has two decades of senior international management experience in technology systems integration, energy management, communications and renewable...

Sarah-Jayne leads Ford of Europe’s smart mobility division where she is responsible for developing new urban mobility solutions for Europe. Based in London, she focuses on addressing the changing mobility needs of urban dwellers in major European cities.  She joined Ford in September 2017 from...

Karlheinz Wurm serves as CEO at Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of AUDI AG. He began his career as a Software Engineer with Evonik in 2003 in Alabama, USA. Since then he has held several leadership positions within Engineering. At Skype, he was responsible for the...

As Managing Director of New Digital Business, Roberto leads strategic projects to transform Eurostar into an effective digital retailer by engaging the customer with innovative and relevant ancillary propositions, alongside the core rail business.Roberto joined in 2017 from Cathay Pacific where he...

Mr. Anderson is the founder of BRIDGE and the developer of its core communications technology. This core technology stems from original work on U.S. Navy and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wireless communications research programs.Mr. Anderson has spent his entire career...

As a child I dreamed of becoming a train driver, or even an aircraft pilot. I also felt deeply connected to nature and its preservation. Looking back, you could say that linking mobility and logistics to sustainability has been the leitmotif throughout my life.Later on, when I became a husband and...

Mr Suresh Babu Salla is the Founder and Managing Director of “Primerail Infralabs Pvt Ltd” Bangalore India, which is an Engineering Consultancy in Transportation Sector. “TieTran Cycleloop” is an Innovative Project of Primerail Infralabs. He is a post graduate in Industrial Management having over...

Jonathan Bouaziz was born in the logistics industry. The family business was a courier company of 10 people and he worked as a courier and a dispatcher. Jonathan studied mathematics and computing at University Paris Dauphine and business management at EDHEC, and from this he tried to implement some ...

Founder & CEO of skignz™ Si Brown graduated with a Master’s Degree in VR from Teesside University back in 1997. A few years working in Industry followed but since 1999 Si has been the archetypal Entrepreneur, founding and growing 15+ businesses with varying levels of scale &...

Allison is the CEO and co-founder of Filament. Her vision for bringing economic capability to connected physical machines used in business and industrial environments is the cornerstone of Filament’s trusted application and hardware technology. Allison’s technical leadership and entrepreneurial...

Amy oversees the firm’s quickly expanding emerging tech portfolios. She builds Hemi’s mission via developing a connected network of industry leaders and disruptive founders. She focuses her effort to help portfolio companies develop growth strategy, and help with corporate investors building...

Niels Haverkorn joined Irdeto in 2018 as General Manager, Connected Transport to accelerate the development of Irdeto’s thriving connected transport security business. An expert on the business of connected platforms and services, he joined Irdeto from Volvo, where, as Vice President of Business...

Chris Heiser is the co-founder and CEO of Renovo, leading the company’s development of AWare - the automated mobility operating system. In addition to serving as a founding advisor of San Francisco’s Self Racing Cars Series, Chris is a die-hard gearhead with a passion for motorsports, engineering...

With over 20 years’ experience delivering solutions in the geospatial and mobility industries, Johan’s vision is to enable the smarter movement of people by providing real-time transit data feeds and a platform for authorities and operators. Before Ito World, he was a company director at Esri, the...

Lars Hesselgren, Director of Research at PLP Architecture, is a leadingresearcher and academic in architecture and urbanism. His research focuseson the technologies that underpin design in the built environment - rangingfrom novel mobility systems to new sustainable materials in construction.His...

Yuval Karmi is an architect and a researcher of Spatial Economics & Urban Transportation.Currently, at BoLepo Yuval is consolidating and translating articles that were published in Hebrew during the past 20 years to a book that he hopes to publish by the end of 2019.At BoLepo.xyz Yuval is...

Christian Lang, is CEO and co-founder of Chargery, a Berlin based emobility start-up.Chargery is a service provider for the future of mobility in urban areas. Core of Chargery is a mobile charging service for electric cars.After doing his MBA in Business Administration, Christian started working...

Eran Shir is the co-founder and CEO of Nexar, an artificial intelligence dashcamapplication that seeks to rid the world of car crashes. Nexar is a vehicle-to-vehiclenetwork connecting cars nearby; it can warn its users in real-time of dangeroussituations happening beyond each individual driver’s...

Gideon joined eyesight with over 20 Years of knowledge and experience in the Telecom and Enterprise Software markets, presenting an impressive track record in sales and enterprise development. Gideon has been involved in delivering complex solutions in growing technology organizations as well as...

Gary is Director of Operations Transformation at easyJet, responsible for delivering the Operations strategy and specifically focused on reduction of operational disruption, improvement in operations performance, and digital, data, connectivity and mobility transformation. Gary was previously Head  ...

Building on a foundation of over 10 years of global executive leadership across the electric mobility space, Joerg Sommer leads Chanje’s product growth, marketing and manufacturing operations. Prior to Chanje, Joerg served as the Senior Vice President Product Marketing and Strategy for Volkswagen...

Sameep is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Drive.ai. He was previously a member of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, where he was the project lead for Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving.Sameep holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of...

Johan von Porat is running UbiGo, a mobility as a service (MaaS) operation, in Stockholm. UbiGo was the first MaaS in the world to go live, with happy customers paying for flexible mobility subscriptions for their households – all in one app. More convenient than owning a car, better for the city...

Dr. Jens Wohltorf is the CEO and co-founder of the global professional driver service Blacklane. Blacklane provides peace of mind for passengers and drivers in more than 50 countries and 250 cities around the world. Blacklane guarantees high-quality vehicles with commercially licensed and insured...

Brian is Masabi’s Chief Executive Officer and President. He is focused on accelerating the company’s growth globally, and scaling the team to serve the evolving mobile ticketing market. He is a software industry veteran who brings 20 years of experience in building software-as-a-service businesses...

Mr Brian Zheng Biography: Brian Zheng, CEO and Founder of LIVALL, graduated from Wuhan University with a bachelor degree on Science and Technology Information and Management in 1994 and an MBA degree from Massey University in New Zealand in 2003. As a CEO, he was selected into Phase II of Tencent...

Karen Vancluysen was appointed as Secretary General of Polis in September 2014, after having been the network's Research Director for 8 years. Polis is the leading European network of cities and regions working together on innovative transport solutions.Prior to joining POLIS in 2004, Karen was ...

Safa Alkateb was appointed CEO of Autocab in 2012 and brings over 23 years’ experience in the communications industry.  Prior to Autocab, Safa was the Founder and President of Parallogic Corporation, a multi-core software development company which was acquired by Cavium Networks. He’s passionate...

Silje Bareksten is Oslo Business Regions head of Smart City. She has background in commercialization of technology and cutting edge research from leading science and technology environments in Norway and abroad, has spent time at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and taken courses in space science with...

Markus Basler holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and ICT as well as an Executive MBA. With more than 10 years of experience in the ICT industry, he worked as a business consultant for different major companies in the European market. Being engaged at Swiss Federal Railways since September...

Stan Boland is a co-founder and CEO of Five AI, a major start-up developing autonomous vehicle technology for cities which it will prototype and then deliver as a consumer service. He was previously co-founder and CEO of two of the UK’s most successful venture-backed communications silicon and...

Oliver is a co-founder and CEO of Voyage. Voyage’s mission is to super-charge communities with autonomous vehicles. Voyage’s fleets power essential, everyday services designed to enhance each resident’s quality of living. Oliver was previously leading the autonomous vehicle, artificial...

Bobby Healy, Chief Technology Officer at CarTrawler, is an experienced inventor, investor and technology entrepreneur specialising in travel technology. He began his career as a programmer building video games for Nintendo at 16 years of age with multiple billboard top 100 titles under his...

Civ. Eng. Sampo Hietanen is the CEO of MaaS Global Ltd. He is father to the concept “Mobility as a Service”, a paradigm change in transport offering. Hietanen’s background is in executive positions in civil engineering and ITS and he has been founding and heading several international businesses in ...

Olav Madland introduced self-driving vehicles to Norway the spring 2016 and has performed 20 over demonstrations at different places in Norway of autonomous minibuses already. Olav has been a speaker and motivator for Autonomous transport solutions in Norway at many levels, for...

Philipp Mintchin is the entrepreneur behind Splyt. He founded the company back in 2015 and has led the company to be the world's first and leading mobility marketplace. Philipp is an innate businessman with a thorough understanding of urban mobility. Throughout his leadership as CEO, Splyt has...

Lars is a mobility expert with 15+ years of experience in the automotive and mobility space. He held various leadership positions, e.g. at Volkswagen, NAVTEQ and Deutsche Bahn. Currently he is building up a portfolio of world class investments for Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures.

Daryn Nakhuda is the Founder and CEO of Mighty AI, which offers a data management platform for autonomous vehicle perception data. Mighty AI provides all the software, expertise, and expert annotators needed to create ground truth datasets for training and validating vehicle perception models.Daryn ...

Raphael is Professor of Rail Vehicle Engineering at Aachen University of Applied Sciences as well as Co-founder and CEO of RailCrowd, a collaborative maintenance data platform for rail vehicles. Together with his colleagues, he is pioneering in the area of freight rail automation, defining the...

Scale (YCS16) was founded by Alexandr Wang, an MIT college dropout, national programming competitor and former engineering tech lead at Quora. Scale's leading data annotation API combines machine-learning and humans to solve annotating training data for the industry's largest self-driving...

Irfon Watkins is founder and CEO of DOVU. DOVU is bringing blockchain benefits to the transport sector, rewarding people for positive behaviour and creating a more connected mobility ecosystem. A serial entrepreneur, Irfon has founded and sold companies across the data spectrum.Before starting DOVU ...

Sam Zaid is an engineer and entrepreneur. He is Founder & CEO at Getaround, the leading carsharing community and winner of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2011. Before Getaround, Sam founded Apption, an enterprise software consultancy, and Gazaro, a retail price intelligence platform. Sam is an Ernst...

Bob Bennett became the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Kansas City, Missouri, in January 2016 after a 25-year career in the US Army. He leads the Smart City initiatives, a suite of projects including: data analysis, public Wi-Fi, digital kiosk installation, and smart lighting programs in...

Mr. Ivo Boscarol is the founder, CEO and co-owner of Pipistrel Group companies.As the first private aircraft producer in the Balkans area he set the aviation standards for Microlight class on the global scale in the early eighties. His company claimed many awards such as European Business Award for ...

Christopher Burghardt is ChargePoint's Managing Director for Europe, responsible for leading all aspects of the company's European business. Most recently the head of policy and communications, EMEA, for ride-sharing app Uber, Christopher previously led global and emerging market expansion...

Rob is CEO of Founders Intelligence, which helps large companies to benefit from the new ideas, technologies, consumer behaviours and business models being pioneered by the start-up community. He looks at how technology companies are transforming industries and consumer experiences in a variety of...

Jan started out as a professional racing driver, reaching as high as F1 test driver. He always had a taste for business and began his career at his father's company – one of the biggest car dealers in the Czech Republic. Since then, he has been involved in various business sectors, including...

Anthony worked in a variety of roles in logistics before he founded DriverNet in 2016. He started out on the ground level in deliveries for a small fleet operator in 1999, before joining one of the UK's leading foods logistics hauliers and running executive passenger services on the F1 GP...

Sam is a life-long entrepreneur co-founding and running start-ups. The current business Gnewt Cargo, which began as an Angel-invested company in 2009, has enjoyed exponential growth ever since and has won multiple awards from the electric vehicle, logistics and environmental sectors. Gnewt was...

Karl-Filip Coenegrachts is Master of Laws, specialized in European Law (Ghent University, 1996). He currently is the Chief Strategy Officer of the City of Ghent. He is responsible for the city's long-term strategy including the implementation of horizontal policies, smart city strategy, data...

Justin is the founder of GoMetro, a transport technology startup company based in Cape Town. GoMetro maps transport around the world and develops mobility-as-a-service solutions – leveraging mobile technology and big data to improve the way we move. Justin is a civil engineer by background, with a...

Xavier is the Director of the UK for Turo, the world’s largest peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace. Turo is putting the world’s billion cars to better use and fundamentally changing the nature of traditional car ownership.Prior to launching and building car sharing in the UK with Turo, Xavier...

Isaiah Cox is the CEO and a founder of WheelTug plc. In this role he has worked extensively in technology research and development, as well as with business development. In the latter role, Mr. Cox has built relationships with a variety of risk-sharing aerospace partners, taking WheelTug from...

Rafael started his career in Colombia in environmental protection in a development and regeneration setting, including working as an Environmental Consultant in the development of the Medellin Metro, Colombia.  In July 1989, after completing an MA in Environmental Planning at the University of...

Louay Eldada is CEO and co-founder of Quanergy Systems, Inc. Dr. Eldada is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and sold three businesses to Fortune 100 companies. Quanergy is his fourth start-up. Dr. Eldada is a technical business leader with a proven track record at both small and large...

Nir Erez is Co-founder and CEO of Moovit, the world's largest transit data and mobility analytics company and #1 transit app with more than 120 million users in 2,000 cities and 80 countries. Moovit has amassed the world's largest repository of transit data and generates more than one...

Ramsey Faragher is the founder and CEO of Focal Point Positioning, a Cambridge-based company that has developed next generation navigation and positioning software for smartphones, wearables and autonomous vehicles. Once dubbed “The real life Q” by Top Gear Magazine, Ramsey is a world-leading...

Patrick Foster is the Chief Operations Officer of Drivy, the European leading car rental marketplace. Patrick started his career as a consultant at Ernst & Young, where he led the business development and international partnerships for startups in the data storage industry. He joined Drivy as...

Gunnar Froh (1982) is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO at Wunder. His goal is to build a more human and a more sustainable alternative to individual car ownership. A behavioral economist by training, Gunnar has co-founded and bootstrapped a company that was acquired by Airbnb in...

Patrick has over 30 years’ experience in the same day distribution industry, in a career that includes managing a nationwide US same day distribution network for a public quoted company (NASDAQ). In 2014 he was named UK EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the London and South region and M&A Awards...

Tommaso Gecchelin is a physicists and industrial designer from Padua, in Italy. He's the founder, inventor and CTO of Next Future Transportation inc. developing modular autonomous pods.His mission is to merge science and design to create useful and elegant solutions to solve major world...

Syed is the Global CEO and Chairman of Safr, ridesharing focused on women and families’ empowermeny. He joined Safr at its inception and helped shape the startup into a next generation platform and a strong brand with a clear focus on social and economic empowerment of women. He provides leadership ...

Jonny Goldstone is the MD of Green Tomato Cars (GTC), London's first environmentally-friendly minicab service. He took over the role in October 2017, returning to the business four years after leaving to set up GTC in the USA.In 2006 Jonny co-founded Green Tomato having left international law...

Jonathan Hampson is the General Manager of Zipcar UK, the leading car club provider in the UK. He has worked for Zipcar and its predecessor Streetcar for over 10 years - originally coming to the company as a consumer of the service. Instrumental in Zipcar’s growth, Jonathan is a passionate advocate ...

Richard is internationally recognized as a leading expert in ITS. He has over 30 years’ experience, held senior positions in leading companies (including ICC, AECOM, WSP, Logica and Xerox) and industry associations (including ITS(UK), ERTICO, PIARC, IRF, IBEC, MaaS Alliance….) and been at the...

Knut co-founded ubitricity in 2008 with the idea of enabling a smart and sustainable charging of electric vehicles (EVs) everywhere EV-users go. Being passionate about renewables and the commercial implementation of distributed storage solutions, Knut helped to create a more sustainable and...

Ahti is the mastermind behind Starship's technologies. He guides the engineering team and develops the architecture of Starship’s robotic platform.Ahti Heinla has always had a passion for innovative technology, having designed his own computer programme at the age of nine, you can find him the...

Michael Hurwitz is the Director of Transport Innovation in Transport for London (TfL). Michael is responsible for identifying areas where disruptive business models and technology have potential to impact TfL business, developing and agreeing policies and programmes to address the complex...

Henrik Isaksen is a serial entrepreneur within the car- and financing sector who successfully has built and sold several businesses to global investors like GE Capital and DNB. Henrik is the founder of GreenMobility – an all-electric free-floating car sharing services, capturing the essence of...

Gabriel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Valerann Ltd., a start-up creating "Smart Roads"; roads that sense everything around them, communicate with authorities and drivers, and support autonomous vehicles. Prior to founding Valerann, Gabriel practiced commercial law in some of Israel’s...

Leif Johan Holand was born in 1970 on the west coast of Norway. He started his career in 1995 as a film photographer and soon after helicopter became his passion. Leif started doing more and more aerial filming. After funding the media company “Fuglefjellet” In 2002 he commercialized the aerial...

Dr. Tom Kirschbaum is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of door2door, Germany's leading mobility startup. The tech company provides a platform to cities and transport companies, enabling them, for the first time, to autonomously and independently operate new mobility services (on-demand...

Matt is Founder and CEO of Synaptiv, a connected car startup monetizing the data generated by vehicles. Matt has extensive startup experience in roles ranging from consultant, advisor, CEO and Founder. He's co-founded two startups – in the areas of digital health and online publishing – and...

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 ...

Tony started his first business at 17 before launching an engineering company at 24. In 2008, capitalising on the digital content revolution, Tony joined forces with best-selling author Andy McNab to create the digital book platform Mobcast. This was white labelled by Vodafone, Orange and...

Noam Maital is the Co-founder and CEO of Waycare Technologies, which provides AI-driven, cloud-based solutions to optimize municipal traffic management systems. Prior to founding WayCare, Noam led global strategy projects in technology implementation, process innovation, and financial due...

Dr.-Ing Oliver Maiwald (44) holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart and  wrote his dissertation at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. After that he started his career as a development engineer at the automotive company IAV. After diverse positions at Bertrandt...

Pioneer in the electric vehicle sector, David started Chargemaster in 2008 to provide reliable, convenient and sustainable charging for electric vehicle drivers. David was recently ranked the 10th most influential person in the world in shaping the low-carbon fleet industry. He also founded...

Bryan Mistele is the co-founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX, a leading provider leading provider of traffic information, connected car services and transportation analytics worldwide. Prior to INRIX, Mistele was an executive at Microsoft, responsible for successfully building...

Lawrence Mohammed is passionate about community, circular economies, gift economies, health, education, music, technology, low impact living, quality design and great craftsmanship.  He dreams of a society where everyone is supported and empowered to reach their potential, where opportunities are...

After serving with The RAF, Gavin began an 18-year career with Guide Dogs for the Blind.  His comprehensive knowledge of visual impairment and routine experience of poorly installed pedestrian crossings led him to design a unique system by which any person living with reduced mobility, could safely ...

Mark is the CEO and cofounder of Vivacity Labs, bringing artificial intelligence into transport management. With city-wide deployments of patented machine learning technology, we capture and classify live urban usage 24/7. Our highly granular sensor hardware provides continuous and anonymous...

Mr Jan Petterson, Director at the Department for Strategic Development at the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket). Jan Pettersson is the Head of the Swedish national program for electrified roads in Sweden a program that includes both development and a possible future roll-out using...

Sravan Puttagunta is a Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Civil Maps, an autonomous vehicle technology company that enables cars to have Cognition through AI, 3D mapping, advanced localization, and crowdsourcing. As CEO, he is executing on a vision for safer, smarter, fully autonomous...

Kimmo Rauma is the co-founder and former CEO of Visedo, currently a Vice President of the Danfoss Mobile Electrification Ltd (once Danfoss acquired Visedo on December 2017).Danfoss Mobile Electrification is a Finnish headquartered manufacturer of heavy-duty electric drivetrains. Mobile...

Jason Rees is the Chief Executive Officer of Fare Pilot, a Mobile App improving the lives of 10s of 1000s of drivers with Machine Learning, helping them to earn more and spend less time on the road in key global cities. Fare Pilot are already guiding thousands of drivers to demand hot spots in...

In 2017, Sam Ryan co-founded Zeelo, the on-demand coach service, with Barney Williams and Dani Ruiz. At Zeelo, Sam leads on finance, strategy and business development.Zeelo was born out of the team’s frustration with current transport options available to big events which saw them regularly...

Hiroshi “Hiro” Saijou is CEO and Managing Director at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley.  Prior to founding YMVSV, Hiro was a Division Manager at Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA where he led exploratory efforts in Silicon Valley.  Hiro started his career at Yamaha Motor...

Joned Sarwar is co-founder of Alchera Technologies, a leading smart city data and automation company based in London and Cambridge, UK. Joned is a specialist in hybrid cloud & edge analytic systems and networked real-time analytics pipelines. He has been in technology & product development...

Laura Schewel is co-founder and CEO of StreetLight Data, a transportation analytics provider. She lead the company to develop StreetLight InSight®, the first and only on-demand platform for turning Big Data from mobile devices into customized, actionable transportation analytics. She is an advocate ...

Monique Seth Co-founded Conigital in 2015 as a vanguard organisation to become transport infrastructure integrators for connected and smart city initiatives. Entering rapidly as a niche player in the Connected Automotive Vehicle (CAV) industry (including vehicle types such as...

Graeme is Chief Executive of Oxbotica, the driverless software company bringing autonomy to the world's roads, warehouses, ports, mines, quarries - and even to Mars. He has a substantial track record delivering complex products and services from research and development through to customer...

Arcady is a co-founder of FreeWire Technologies and serves as the Chief Executive Officer. He has led the company from ideation, formation, incubation, and now customer acquisition and revenue growth. Prior to FreeWire, he spent 7 years in the finance industry, most recently the investment...

Adam is a mechanical engineer turned tech entrepreneur and an avid traveller. A run in with some nasty food poisoning abroad led him to create Sitata, a service dedicated to helping travellers stay safe. Sitata is a global health, safety, and risk management firm with headquarters in...

Patrick is currently the VP of BIRD. Bird is a fast growing Los Angeles based series B startup focused on reducing car ownership. Patrick is responsible for bringing this electronic scooter “last mile solution” to the EMEA region.In previous roles Patrick was the COO of the Nordic food delivery...

Uma is the CEO of Voom. Uma is an aerospace enthusiast, who is particularly passionate about urban air mobility and the promise of using the skies to relieve urban congestion and traffic - today.  Uma is a firm believer that urban air mobility should be affordable and accessible to commuters in the ...

Aarjav is the founder and CEO of Ridecell. He has set the vision and direction for the company since 2009, leading its growth from a demand-response service on a university campus to a worldwide platform that powers more than 20 million rides per year. Prior to Ridecell, Aarjav worked in...

Eugene Tsyrklevich is the founder and CEO of Parkopedia. Founded in 2007, Parkopedia is the world's leading parking service provider used by millions of drivers and organizations such as Audi, Apple, BMW, Coyote, Ford, Garmin, GM, Jaguar, Land Rover, Peugeot, Sygic, TomTom, Toyota, Volvo and...

Risto Vahtra, the founding CEO at HIGH MOBILITY, began his career in technical design before turning his hand to building user experience concepts at Volvo Cars and connected car applications with other premium European automakers. Always fascinated by the emotions that the automobile evokes in...

Carel van Helsdingen, MSc (1950) is founder of Frog Navigation Systems and its spin-out company 2getthere, acting as its Chief Executive Officer. After graduating from the University of Technology in Delft in manufacturing engineering, Carel worked at Fluor Daniel, IBM and Burginvest Project...

Ton van Meegen is an entrepreneur and owner of Port-Liner, a start-up company that introduces the concept op 'zero-emission' ships in the Inland Waterways Transport sector.

Kristof Vereenooghe is the CEO of EVBox, the global market leader in charging solutions for electric vehicles and related cloud services. Mr. Vereenooghe is a proven technology executive with deep SaaS-Cloud software expertise and a track record in transforming startups into key players in their...

Tom has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, the last 8 years in Advanced Driver Assistance and Autonomous Vehicles. At Graphcore, Tom is VP Automotive, driving the automotive business for Graphcore’s unique AI processing architecture. While at Freescale/NXP, he was Director...

Brian Wong has 34 years’ experience in the technology sector. He has been CEO of three companies; Board Director of Technology companies, Non-Profits, and Educational Institutions. As an entrepreneur, he has raised over $180M in equity funding, formed strategic partnerships and investments with...

Gawain Morrison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sensum, builders of empathic technology for smart mobility, people & places. He has led the company to become world-leaders at measuring & understanding emotions 'in the wild', where people live their lives. Sensum has worked with some of ...

Drover seeks to disrupt the traditional car ownership experience by providing monthly, all-inclusive subscriptions on new and used cars. Built on a marketplace model - we provide our over 100 fleet partners with a plug-in and play listings and fleet management interface, as a new way to monetise...

David is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Zeleros. He leads the Zeleros' team to bring their hyperloop-inspired transport system to life with a focus in reducing infrastructure complexity to achieve a scalable system for long-distance implementation.  David is a passionate...