Introducing Our 380+ Speakers

Thomas Ableman is the founder of Snap Travel Technology. Since its foundation  two years ago, Snap has helped 150,000 people travel more than 17 million miles. Snap is the first new mobility platform to focus exclusively on the intercity sector, using the power of smart data and machine learning to ...

Marc is an investment officer in the Infrastructure Division within the Equity, New Products and Special Transactions Department at the European Investment Bank. Based in Luxembourg, he leads operations deploying subordinated and quasi equity financial instruments in the infrastructure...

Janine started her career at Shell in 2000, after three years at Glaxo SmithKline. She has many strings to her bow including a law degree and MBA in International Management from the University of Exeter. Shell has benefitted from Janine’s intimate knowledge of payments; a space she has played in...

Chantal Ambord is the General Manager of PRO, the new unit of BlaBlaCar focused on bus transportation. Previously, she was the Head of International Business development at BlaBlaCar, working on the launch of new markets, partnerships and product lines. Before joining BlaBlaCar, Chantal spent five...

Edward is part of KPMG’s Mobility 2030 team focusing on supporting organisations to identify and exploit opportunities across the ecosystem, as well as providing commercial due diligence. Edward also has significant experience of supporting SMEs across the mobility ecosystem, including to develop...

Gemma leads business development at the Satellite Applications Catapult for Intelligent Transport Infrastructures, where the stated mission is to enable innovation empowered by Satellites. SAC are working with industry, government and academia to create impact focusing on transport challenges...

Chris Barker is Vice President of New Mobility at Keolis helping to introduce new transportation options to cities and communities across North America. Keolis is a global transportation company that provides heavy rail, light-rail, bus, autonomous shuttles, car share, bike share, and sky tram...

Sarah is a deeply optimistic individual working on the future of urban mobility. She has a background in city design and geography and works at Beryl as a researcher, embedding discussions of equity and inclusion into product and service design for bike share. Previous work and research has focused ...

Scott Belcher serves as President and CEO of SFB Consulting, LLC where he specializes in helping public and private organizations understand and participate in the rapidly changing transportation, communications and technology space.  He provides strategic advice, outreach, and business development ...

Oliver Bishop is the General Manager for Shell’s global activities in hydrogen. His team runs Shell’s hydrogen stations in Germany, the UK and North America, and he is also responsible for product development as well as research and development.He is responsible for Shell’s participation in the H2...

Angie Boakes, General Manager, Electric Mobility within Shell’s New Energies business is responsible for the development and delivery of initiatives which arise from the increasing shift to electrification in transport.  Angie has been involved in the world of Electric Mobility since 2013 – perhaps ...

Tarik is the CEO and Co-Founder of WaveSense, the only company harnessing subterranean maps created with ground-penetrating radar to safely navigate autonomous vehicles in any condition - including snow. He leads WaveSense's active partnerships with automakers, Tier 1 suppliers, and other...

Bert Brans is the VP Business Development EMEA of Sentiance. Sentiance is fast-growing venture-backed Belgian data science company, with a mission to use AI to improve people’s lives. Sentiance uses sensor data and turns this into rich customer insights.In his current role, Bert is responsible for...

Travis Bushnell is an experienced Product Manager with an extensive background in the autonomous vehicle and mapping industry. At DeepMap, Travis oversees end-to-end project and product planning with a focus on the integration of localization, change detection, and map update.

After studying Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Finance at INSA Lyon and University of Illinois, Thibault started a carrer in quantitative analytics and trading at HSBC London. He then joined an investment role in the energy hedge fund GZC Investment Management, which received several...

Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a peer to peer carsharing service in France (now merged with Drivy); and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She is also co-founder and Executive...

Brian E. Collie is a Senior Partner & Managing Director at the Boston Consulting Group and leads the global Automotive & Mobility sector. Brian specializes in working with automotive manufacturers and suppliers on a broad range of strategy, operations, and organizational topics.  He is an...

Charlene is the CEO and Co-Founder of Biig, transforming the automotive industry by introducing a secured and smart lockbox into vehicles, enabling a wide-array of on-demand automotive services such as in-car trunk delivery. Charlene is constantly innovating in the dynamic and high-tech sphere by...

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...

Michael has been a part of Shell New Energies for the last 11 years, recently making the move to Hydrogen to co-ordinate business development in Europe and South East Asia. Previously to this, he was responsible for commercialising products from Shell’s Gas-to-Liquids ventures globally, leading...

James started his career in investment banking before fulfilling his ambition of transitioning to the exciting tech startup space by joining Gett. Whilst working at Gett he played a key role in raising $400m from VW and Sberbank, whilst also completing numerous acquisitions and strategic...

Ryan Croft is co-founder and COO at TransitScreen®, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology that powers live information screens in buildings and the built environment. The product is live in 40 cities in 5 countries. TransitScreen's MobilityScore® product powers real estate and travel...

Sigrid Dalberg-Krajewski is the Global Head of Communications at Trafi, where she's leading the corporate communications, public affairs and social media efforts. Previously, Sigrid has been travelling on a road between diplomacy and PR. With a background in political science and governmental...

Rich Davey is an Associate Director at the Boston Consulting Group, and leads our state and local Public Sector Practice in North America. Prior to joining BCG, Rich had an over 15 years of C-suite transportation experience in high profile, publicly accountable organizations in state government and ...

Devin de Vries is an entrepreneur dedicated to fostering technological innovation to solve social problems in the developing world. For the last eight years he has lead a growing team inspired by a shared vision to bring technological solutions to the problem of public transport in the emerging...

Christoph is a Director in KPMG’s Global Strategy Group. He has over 12 years’ experience in strategy, consulting, M&A support, research, and product and platform development at firms including Frost & Sullivan, IHS, Globallnsight and BMW.As a leading automotive and commercial vehicle...

Jonathan is Masabi’s Chief Product Officer, responsible for defining and driving the product strategy. Prior to joining Masabi in 2014, Jonathan was an independent consultant. He was engaged by companies such as MasterCard, Western Union Business Solutions and Travelex Global Business Payments to...

Co-Founder and CEO of Fleetonomy, Israel Duanis, is an autonomous vehicle veteran and data-driven technologist who utilizes his passion for innovation to lead Fleetonomy’s journey towards the autonomous revolution. By using Fleetonomy’s mobility as a service platforms, top-tier OEM’s, car rental...

Camille Egloff leads the Boston Consulting Group’s transportation and logistics sector globally. She is also the global leader for the Center for Digital in Transportation and specializes in transportation and logistics topics while working in BCG’s Center for Mobility Innovation, a team of urban...

Seth Elliott has spent more than 20 years as a founder or Senior Executive of growth enterprises, with a focus on Marketing, Business & Strategic Planning, and Operational Execution. He has proved successful in driving growth across enterprises ranging from digital and mobile startups to...

Johan Engstrom is Enevo’s Co-Founder and CTO, leading the development of Enevo’s technology platform. He is passionate about solving everyday problems with technology and astonishingly simple user interfaces, which is one of the key differentiators in Enevo's waste analytics and optimisation...

My interest in all things about cars led me to Ford after completing a mechanical engineering apprenticeship. Spending 17 years at Ford and then its spin-out, Visteon, I had a variety of roles including component engineer, manufacturing planner and program manager. During that time I also gained a...

Tim Fendley is the founder and creative partner of Applied Wayfinding. He has worked with Cities and complex environments for over 20 years, and as an information designer has been interested in how people understand and use places. Tim and Applied were the instigators and the designers of Legible...

Natasha is a Product Manager on TomTom’s Navigation team, responsible for machine learning, predictions and recommendations. She joined TomTom in 2018 from Palantir, a silicon valley-based big-data company. Prior to Palantir, Natasha spent 4 years at Uber, where she was one of the company’s...

Raphael is a founder and the executive leader of the Bestmile team. He is a pioneer in the world of autonomous mobility, having led a project with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne to test and operate some of the first autonomous vehicle projects in Europe. In addition to...

Dr. Andrea Giuricin is CEO of TRA consulting, a strategic consultancy company based in Barcelona, Bruxelles and Milan.He is adj. professor in Transport Economics and Logistic at University Milano Bicocca in Italy. In the same University he is responsible for the development of transport studies at...

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...

As CEO, Bryan is focused on elevating the Chanje suite of products and services to reshape last mile transportation. His vision however, goes beyond the products and includes developing an organizational culture that displays our ability as a connected society to elevate our responsibility to the...

Jennifer oversees company operations, including strategic planning, business development, data analytics and communications. Prior to Nauto, Jennifer spent nearly a decade at Google/Alphabet, including leading business operations for Waymo. Previously, she was a project leader at Boston Consulting...

Joël Hazan is a Partner & Managing Director of the Boston Consulting Group and core member of the Consumer, and the Marketing, Sales & Pricing practices. Joël is also a BCG Henderson Institute fellow, exploring the future of mobility. Since joining BCG in 2005, Joël has advised several...

Vilhelm Hedberg was born in Venezuela to Norwegian parents. After spending his adolescence in England, his family later moved to Florida and graduated with a BBA from the University of Florida. Vilhelm later went on to earn an MBA in International Business from EAE Barcelona.In 2009 Vilhelm saw the ...

Matthias Heutger leads the commercial development and innovation area of DHL’s cross divisional unit Customer Solutions & Innovation (CSI). He drives the development of sector strategies for DHL’s five focus sectors - Automotive, Energy, Engineering & Manufacturing, Life Sciences &...

Adi Hirzer worked as a graphic designer, mobility consultant and project manager at Austrian Mobility Research. Adi Hirzer is an international market developer at Bike Citizens and an expert in GPS cycling data analysis.Adi has worked in the field of urban mobility since the early...

Maurits is senior product manager for navigation SDK and Routing API at TomTom. He has over 10 years’ experience in the navigation domain. He studied computer science at the university of Groningen and specialized in machine learning and intelligent systems.

Colin Hughes is the Policy Manager for JUMP Bikes, where he launched and operated the world's first public dockless e-assist bike share system in Washington. Previous to JUMP, Colin was the Director of Global Policy at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, where he consulted...

Roger is from Yorkshire in the north of England. He graduated with a Masters in Electronic and Electric Engineering from Birmingham University and joined Shell in 1998. Since then  he has worked in a number of  technical, business development and strategy roles. In his current assignment, Roger...

Catherine specialises in bringing new technologies and services to market, particularly Connected & Autonomous Vehicles and Mobility as a Service. At Addison Lee Group, the global leader in premium private hire services, she led the government-backed MERGE Greenwich project...

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...

Andreas Jentzsch is a Senior Partner and Managing Director based in the Munich office of the Boston Consulting Group. He leads BCG's Automotive & Mobility sector in the CEMA region. Andreas brings 18 years of consulting experience. Prior to joining the firm, Andreas worked in the automotive ...

Stefan Jenzowsky is an expert on digital disruption and innovation.Born in 1971 and raised in Berlin, Stefan studied communication science and psychology at the FreeUniversity Berlin and the University of Alabama. After this, he worked as a researcher in consumerresearch and media interaction...

what3words is the world's first addressing system designed for voice - every 3m x 3m square in the world has been assigned an address made of just three words from the dictionary. These 3 word addresses can be used to route cars or drones, used as an address when ordering online, or simply...

Jeremy Kahn is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News in London, where he covers European technology. He writes frequently on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, regulation and cybersecurity. Previously, Kahn was a senior writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine, where he produced feature...

Jens Kahrweg is General Manager EMEA for Savari Inc., a silicon-valley based automotive SW start-up. Jens has 20 years of experience in the automotive, semiconductor and embedded industry. He joined Savari in September 2016 and his responsibility is to establish Savari in EMEA and to leverage...

Dominik Keupp is a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group. He is Global Co-Lead of the Center for Mobility Innovation and a member of the Center for Digital in Transportation at BCG. Dominik has specific expertise and experience in the urban mobility sector with a focus on mobility innovation and ...

Parminder has 22 years of General Managerial experience in Strategy, Business Development, Marketing, Sales & Operations across 7 Industry Verticals, 3 continents and 4 organizations. The last 15 years of which are with Shell.He is currently heading Business Development, Marketing &...

Alexander Kröller heads a research and innovation team in TomTom Navigation. He is responsible for internal bottom-up innovation initiatives,  as well as joint research projects with external partners. His background is in algorithms, before joining TomTom four years ago he held a junior...

Stéphane is leading the marketing and sales at Kisio Digital, the digital factory of the Keolis Group. The Group is a partner of public policymakers as an expert in multimodality, it is one of the world leaders in shared mobility.Over the past 15 years Stéphane led the development of several...

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...

Jean-Marc Lazard is Co-Founder and Chief Executing Officer at OpenDataSoft.He is a global executive with expertise in business strategy, knowledge management and people management, particularly in the tech and data ecosystems. He spent a decade as Head of Innovation for multinational companies...

Robbert Lohmann, MSc (1975) is one of the founders of 2getthere and its Chief Commercial Officer. In addition he serves as a board member of the 2getthere Asia and 2getthere Middle East joint ventures.Robbert is responsible for all commercial activities, strategy and partnerships. He has been in...

Max Lomuscio joined DOVU in 2018 to drive the growth of the company towards mainstream adoption via the engagement of its stakeholders. Prior to that, he worked at General Motors holding a number of positions across the globe in the financial area, IT and marketing. He is passionate about making...

Joe has over 20 years’ experience in technology, finance and operational leadership roles focusing on marketing and technology. Having qualified as an accountant, Joe spent the first 12 years in finance acting as a ‘roaming’ Financial Controller working for numerous overseas Hotels including Hotel...

David Maher has over 30 years of experience in secure computing and is responsible for Research and Development at Intertrust. Before joining Intertrust in 1999, he was chief scientist for AT&T Secure Communications Systems, Head of the Secure Systems Research Department, and security architect ...

Raffi is Vice-President of Corporate Development at Ouster, a lidar and 3D sensor technology company focused on both autonomous vehicles and safety systems for fleets and other legacy vehicles. Passionate about issues at the intersection of climate change, transportation, renewable...

As Global CEO, Dr. Daniela Gerd tom Markotten is responsible for all activities of moovel Group GmbH and moovel North America, which is based in Portland, Oregon. In her position she sets the focus on the growth and further internationalization of the moovel Group product portfolio.Daniela Gerd tom ...

Before leading Toyota Connected Europe, Agustin Martin served as president and CEO of Toyota Spain from January 2015, and led Toyota’s Mobility & Connected Car Function as Vice President at Toyota Motor Europe from January 2018. He joined Toyota in 1995 and build up experience in the areas of...

TomTom is the leading independent location technology specialist, shaping mobility with highly accurate maps, navigation software, real-time traffic information and services. To achieve our vision of a safer world, free of congestion and emissions, we create innovative technologies that keep the...

Cliff Matsuya is Head of Business Support for Sustrans in London, working across Business Development, Policy, and Project Management.Having both been a regular London commuter, and cycled around the world, Cliff has seen some of the best and worst that cities have to offer. He is passionate about...

Michael Mazur has always had an entrepreneurial mind, constantly striving to innovate and think outside the box. Michael grew up living in Chicago before moving to Tel Aviv at the age of 12 where he stayed through his military service in the Israeli Defense Force. This background has given him a...

Edward Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Scape Technologies, a computer vision startup, based in London. The company's technology eliminates the need for LiDAR, allowing regular devices to recognize their location with centimetre-level accuracy, using only a camera.Edward was one of the first ...

Lara is an Environmental Engineer and holds a Master in Transports. Since 2015 works in A-to-Be where she is the Research and Innovation Manager, being responsible for the coordination of the research activities and the innovation management system of the company.Lara Moura began her career as a...

Dominick Moxon-Tritsch is Director of Regulation and Public Policy for Taxify Europe’s leading ride-hailing platform and one of only 68 ‘Euro-unicorn’ start-ups. He has previously served as Head of Public Policy, EMEA for Uber and led government relations for German logistics giant Hermes. ...

Mrs. Roberta Mugellesi Dow is a business applications manager in the Downstream Business Applications Department of the Directorate of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Harwell, UK. She has been involved as project manager in the development of...

Saskia Mureau is the General Manager Digital of Shell Global Commercial, the B2B arm of Shell, that owns Shell’s relationships with business customers worldwide from all forms of transport as well as covering a wide range of industrial sectors. Shell Global Commercial, home to Shell’s...

Dr. Michele Nati is Lead Tech Analyst and Personal Data Lead at IOTA Foundation. As Lead Tech Analyst Michele is responsible to drive IOTA innovation in different sectors including Smart Mobility and Smart Energy. His role is to manage technical relations with partners, establish architecture of...

Zeina Nazer is the Director of Innova Consulting based in the UK since 2005. She has over 20 years’ of global experience in strategy, consulting, M&A support, research, and platform development at firms including KPMG, Parsons and AECOM.As a leading Advisor for governments and major global...

Alex Nesic is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of CLEVR Mobility, a shared electric scooter platform specifically conceived for fleet deployment, built on the premise that intelligent proactive vehicle control is much more effective than attempts at user behavior management. CLEVR offers a ...

Jessica Oppetit is the General Manager for ViaVan London, a ride-sharing joint venture between Via and Mercedes-Benz Vans. Before joining ViaVan, Jessica spent three years in Singapore working for Apple where she lead the Mac supply chain team for Asia. Prior to Apple, Jessica worked in Australia...

Erdem is cofounder and CEO of Copenhagen-based bike sharing service, Donkey Republic. Donkey Republic, started in 2015, today serves 10,000 bikes across 12 cities in Europe. The company pioneered the first bluetooth based bike sharing, and a business model in micro mobility space ahead of its...

Laia Pagès is the Business International developer directly in charge of the Management of Fleets and Key Accounts of SILENCE Urban Ecomobility, an Spanish e-scooters manufacturer based in Barcelona, that  just in 3 years has positioned itself as a leader in sales in Spain with the 62% share of the ...

Tom Pakenham is Director of the Electric Vehicles division at OVO. Since joining OVO in January 2017, he has been instrumental in the transition of OVO from a pure kWh retail business into a diversified energy services company, leading the move into the electric vehicles market with the launch of...

Amish Parashar is a founding team member of Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley where he is a Partner & Director of Strategic Business Development.  Prior to joining YMVSV’s founding team, Amish served in a variety of operating and entrepreneurial roles.  He has served as an...

Natasha specialises in delivering growth, deal and operational strategy for clients within the Energy, Automotive and wider Mobility sectors. Starting her career in downstream Oil & Gas, Natasha is now working with clients across the ‘Mobility’ ecosystem to evaluate the impact of Electric...

Pietro studied at General Physics at the University of Torino in 1980 where he continued the collaboration as contract professor for 15 years. In 1981 he was employed at Centro Ricerche Fiat where as senior director he authored over 200 publications and patents that led to large scale productions...

Chris is Head of Partnerships - UK for MaaS Global, the company behind Whim, the world’s leading Mobility as a Service application. Chris has been working with MaaS Global since the summer of 2017, building the partner ecosystem that enabled Whim to launch in the UK in 2018.  Chris is a well...

The Berlin-born has worked for American technology disruptors since 2006. He has been with Cisco Systems while online video was turbo boosting the network requirements. A time when the only challenge was to get more supply out of the factories.During his time with Comscore he helped leading brands...

Sam's professional background spans the UK public, private and voluntary sectors – where he has successfully created, funded and delivered international development programmes, employee engagement and wellbeing interventions, mental health advocacy work, community environment, transportation...

Lisa Joy Rosner is an award-winning and patented executive with over 20 years of experience marketing big data and analytics solutions at both public and start-up technology companies. Currently the CMO at Otonomo, an automotive data services platform, Lisa Joy is driving global development of the...

Sahil is Head of Brand at Quiqup, a 130-person 'Logistics as a Service' startup changing the way goods move around the city. Quiqup specialise in fast urban deliveries, providing the kind of delivery times and experiences customers increasingly demand for businesses big and small.At...

Olaf joined Maniv Mobility in 2014, playing an instrumental role in shaping its investment strategy and growing the first fund to $45M AUM and its portfolio to 18 of the leading global mobility startups. Olaf is regarded as one of the leading researchers of autonomous vehicles, writing about topics ...

Fabien Sauthier is the COO at MOTIONTAG. Having grown with the company since its early beginnings, he now manages MOTIONTAG’s operations, executed by a 25-strong team at the outskirts of Berlin. Mobility has always been a focal topic in his life as he lived in four different cities across the...

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...

Julian Scriven has a passion for public transport, sustainability, community investment and stakeholder engagement. This passion has seen him lead the way in some of the most competitive sectors on the planet - driving growth and disrupting the norm.Julian's ability to foster relationships...

Kara Selke, JD, CIPT, CIPP/E, FIP, CLP is Vice President of Commercial Development & Privacy for StreetLight Data, Inc., a company using location based services (LBS) data from connected cars, GPS enabled phones, and other connected devices to create transportation analytics. Kara joined...

Luis Sequeira received his M.S. in Digital Communications from the University of Costa Rica in 2008, and M.S. in Mobile Networks from the University of Zaragoza in 2012. He finished his Ph.D. (Cum Laude) in Information Technologies at the University of Zaragoza in 2015. His research interests focus ...

Scott Shepard is a C-Level Executive, Board Advisor, Thought Leader, and Public Speaker who is passionate about the intersection of technology, transportation, and sustainability. Possesses a unique balance of technical, operational, and consulting experience, within the domains of Intelligent...

Ian Simmons has served as Vice President Business Development, Corporate Engineering and R&D since 2012. Simmons is responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities with start-ups, universities, venture capital companies and entrepreneurs. As a result of his work in the...

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...

Laura is Strategic Growth Manager at Destygo, the European leader in conversational A.I. for travel and mobility companies. Destygo is an AI company, helping travel companies boost sales and reduce customer service requests with smart assistants (Chat|Voicebots). Destygo works with many clients...

Matt Stevens is Co-Founder & CEO of FleetCarma. He has been involved in the design of over 15 hybrid and electric vehicles, ranging from cars to lunar rovers to stealth snowmobiles and now works with fleets and utility companies to accelerate the deployment of electric vehicles.

Suresh Subudhi has been in the consulting industry for more than 15 years and has worked across North America, Europe and Asia. He is part of BCG’s global Industrial Goods and Public Sector leadership teams. Suresh leads BCG’s Infrastructure sector and works with both private and public clients on...

Paolo Tebaldi is Business Development Manager EMEA at Comau. Energy engineer with 6 years of seniority at Comau, he has covered multiple roles in the diversified businesses of the Company, acting as technical leader in consultancy projects to energy efficient automation sales. Paolo has expanded...

Yulia Temnikova is in charge of Passenger Services, Non-Fare Revenue and Fare Collection Departments with approximately 9,000 employees under her command.Yulia supervised such big projects as the launch of the Moscow Central Circle, preparations of the Moscow Metro for the FIFA World Cup 2018 as...

Luc is an expert in demand responsive mobility systems with driverless or human-driven vehicles. He’s a Core member of the UITP SPACE program and of the Trends working group at ITxPT. He joined Bestmile in 2016 to lead sales and business development in the EMEA regions.

Tine Tomažič was born in 1983 and received his B.Sc and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2007 and 2014 respectively. A pilot since the age of 15, instructor since age 19 and test pilot since age 22, Tine has also flown in 8 different electric aircraft and...

Jessica Uguccioni is a lawyer at the Law Commission of England and Wales with responsibility for leading the automated vehicles review. At the Commission, she has previously managed the criminal law team, and worked on projects in transport and consumer redress. Before joining the civil...

Ben is the VP of Technology at Oxbotica, with extensive experience in perception systems for field robotics ranging from commercial passenger vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, draglines, haul trucks, underwater platforms, to unmanned aerial vehicles. He balances state of the art algorithms with real...

Anja van Niersen has worked in the field of energy since 2010 when she started working at one of the largest energy operator networks in the Netherlands, Alliander. Experienced in the field of product development and management she felt right at home in the upcoming innovative world of electro...

With great technology and brilliant people, Philippe Vangeel found his way as Secretary General in one of the fastest changing and growing technologies: electrical vehicles.There is nothing greater then finding opportunities for new technologies that will change the future. This electrification is...

Juan Vicen is Co-Founder and Chief of Communications at Zeleros. Zeleros is a European company leading the hyperloop development, already considered as "the fifth means of transportation". Its focus on the vehicle optimization allows to reduce infrastructure costs and to operate at safer...

Huibert Vigeveno became Executive Vice President of Shell Global Commercial in 2017, Shell’s B2B organisation of over 8000 people serving more than one million customers worldwide from all forms of transport and a wide range of industrial sectors. We play a vital role in keeping the world moving...

Anders Wall heads up GreenMobility’s international team and their ambition of offering the green urban mobility service in 20 cities by 2021. Anders has led a number of franchise businesses and has 18 years of experience with developing and growing international partner-based businesses within...

Prior to joining Toyota Connected Europe, Timothy Waltniel worked for more than 15 years across Toyota’s European and global operations to expand its use of advanced technology. This includes expanding the use of digital technologies as part of Toyota’s manufacturing operations and the Toyota...

Mrs Inara Watson is a PhD Researcher and lecturer at London South Bank University.  Inara was Born in Latvia and graduated with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Riga Technical University and she has a number of years’ experience with the railways. Inara has an MSc in Transport Engineering and...

Rob Whitehead is an ardent cyclist and Director of Knowledge and Communications at Future Cities Catapult, the UK’s urban innovation agency. He has extensive experience across the economic development, urban policy and technology sectors.  He was Chief of Strategy at the UN/WTO agency International ...

Roy Williamson is Vice President Advanced Mobility, BP PLCRoy has an honours business degree from Heriot-Watt university and started his career in Unilever as a graduate trainee in Finance. After qualifying as a Chartered Management Accountant he transferred to Marketing and spent 15 years in brand ...

Sandra has almost two decades of marketing experience, with a major focus on technology-based, disruptive and fast growing businesses. She has previously worked for start-ups, SMEs, corporates and agencies. She helped the marketing team at OFX, an Australian Fintech disruptor, through its...

Chris is Filament’s head of business development. He leads the company’s growth initiatives and brings a longstanding record of successful client engagements and optimal results in the energy, transportation, construction, and resource industries. Prior to joining Filament, Chris spent more than...

Sarah has many years of experience as a B2B writer and editor, covering smart cities, telecommunications, aerospace and more. She is especially interested in how technology impacts people and our everyday lives.

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...

Martin Krähling is responsible for the development of the automated driving functions at Ibeo Automotive Systems. Prior to his role as Head of Autonomous Driving, he worked as a Program Manager and a Systems Engineer for the driver assistance and active safety systems at Ibeo. Before joining the...

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...

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...

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 ...

Marc Berg joined mytaxi as CEO in April 2018 and became CEO of its parent company Intelligent Apps in June 2018. Prior to this, he had been CEO DACH for the Swedish payment solution provider Klarna. From 2013 to 2016, Marc Berg has been Board Member for Yapital, a mobile wallet solution and CEO of...

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...

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...

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 UK regulated business of National Grid.As National Grid separates the Transmission Ownership (TO) from the System Operation (SO) by April 2019, Graeme will be ...

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...

Lise is ETNO’s Director General since January 2016. At ETNO, she leads and oversees all the activities and she is the main external representative of the Association. On behalf of the Association, she is also a Board and an Administrative Committee member in ECSO, the European Cybersecurity...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Matthew L. Ginsberg received his doctorate in mathematics from Oxford in 1980 at the age of 24. He remained on the faculty in Oxford until 1983, doing research in mathematical physics and computer science; during this period, he wrote a program that was used successfully to trade stockand stock...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Ken joined Seeing Machines in 2011 as CEO. Under Ken’s leadership the company has been strategically transformed into a recognized industry leader in computer vision, eye-tracking and intervention safety products and services with leading customers such as Caterpillar, and is now poised for...

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...

Michael has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg and over a decade of experience in the automotive and clean-tech industry. He held positions as senior engineer, project manager and team leader in R&D and product development at the fuel cell...

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...

Jonathan Matus is the CEO and co-founder at Zendrive, a company dedicated to making roads safe using data and analytics. Prior to Zendrive, he spent six years at Facebook and Google, where he focused on various mobile and speech-recognition projects. At Google, Jonathan managed product marketing...

John Monarch is the CEO and co-founder of ShipChain, a technology startup focused on revolutionizing the freight and logistics industry using blockchain technology.  He is a serial entrepreneur with multiple previous ventures in the logistics and supply chain space, and has a background in Physics...

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...

Brian manages Craft’s investment operations. Prior to joining Craft, Brian was an executive at Zenefits where he led the company’s large, cross-functional initiatives. Previously, Brian was VP of Customer Experience at Cotap where he led sales, marketing and post-sales efforts. Brian was an early...

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...

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...

David has over 25 years of experience in Risk and Project Management, Investmentfunds & Capital markets, covering custody, clearing, settlement, investment funds aswell as risk and controls topics. Roles included Product Strategy, ProductDevelopment/Design, Operations manager, Senior Project...

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...

Formerly Principal/Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Oxford Brookes University and Joint Centre for Urban Design.Graham has a career long experience in teaching urban design, architecture and fine art. Graham is interested in the user-experience of architecture, the layout and design of movement in...

Smith is the Senior Director of Product Security at Byton.  He is also the founder of Open Garages, a distributed collective of performance tuners, mechanics, security researchers and artists. Craig authored the "Car Hacker's Handbook", the de facto guide to automotive security.At...

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...

Adam Woolway is Managing Director and co-founder of PlugSurfing, an app and web-based start-up out of Berlin to help drivers of electric vehicles find charging points and pay for their charging through an integrated payment solution - all with one app. After co-founding the company on 2012, Adam...

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...

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...

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 ...

Taco Carlier, founded bike-meets-tech company VanMoof together with his brother Ties in 2009 with the aim of getting the next billion on bikes. VanMoof is now a global brand creating smart and electric city bikes full of integrated tech, designed to remove all barriers to give you the most...

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...

Ralf Kalupner is founder and CEO of nextbike and as such he is an ambitioned cycling enthusiast.  For 14 years nextbike has been developing long-lasting bike sharing systems and establishing rental bikes as a form of local public transport on equal footing with buses and rail. The nextbike...

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...

Alexander Kirn is the CEO of INVERS, the global market leader in smart hardware and software solutions for shared mobility services. The modular tech stack is used by over 200 shared mobility operators in 30 countries powering services such as carsharing, scooter sharing, kickscooter sharing and...

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...

Tarun Mehta, a graduate of Engineering Design (Dual Degree2012) from IIT Madras, along with his fellow student Swapnil Jainconceptualised and started ‘Ather Energy’ in April 2013. Ather is developing India’s first smart electricscooter that aims to revolutionize the concept of two wheeler driving...

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...

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  ...

Bijit Halder is the Chief Executive Officer at Drive.ai, where he leads the company’s product design and development. Bijit is a veteran Silicon Valley executive, with almost 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an engineer in the tech industry.Before Drive.ai, he worked on AI-based speech ...

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...

Brian Zheng, founder and CEO of LIVALL. LIVALL is the pioneering smart helmet brand which since its inception in 2014, has grown to become the established leader in the smart helmet field.LIVALL’s company mission is to be the world’s best innovation company in smart safety protection.Brian Zheng...

Chris is a former senior executive of technology organisations in the USA, Asia-Pacific and UK. He co-founded the first ethical/sustainable reward programme in the UK, ‘Smartly Green Rewards’, which was acquired by BetterPoints in 2011.  Chris leads transport programmes at BetterPoints and was the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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).Previously he was the Chief Strategy Officer of the City of Ghent in Belgium. He was responsible for the city's long-term strategy including the implementation of horizontal policies, smart city...

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, a leading Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world’s #1 urban mobility app with more than 350 million users in 2,700 cities and 88 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 of connected car services and transportation analytics worldwide. INRIX is at the forefront of connecting cars to smarter cities in more than 80 countries around the world. The company leverages...

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 Danfoss Editron Ltd. (once Danfoss acquired Visedo on December 2017).Danfoss Editron Ltd. is a Finnish headquartered manufacturer of heavy-duty electric drivetrains. Editron delivers the market’s most efficient...

Jason Rees is the Chief Executive Officer of FarePilot, a mobile app using machine learning to help professional drivers to earn more money and spend less time on the road.He’s the founder of Step Change Ventures and prior to this led New Business at EE, Orange and T-Mobile, creating and growing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Matt heads up innovation at Stagecoach looking at transformational opportunities across bus, rail and coach. His focus is on ensuring Stagecoach remains the UK's foremost transport innovator while transforming the customer experience, driving operational efficiencies and delivering incremental...

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...