Mobility 2032: Are you ready?

Jan-Maarten de Vries

CEO Bridgestone Mobility Solutions

Jan-Maarten de Vries is the CEO of Bridgestone Mobility Solutions (BMS), a Business Unit of Bridgestone which is focused on developing and providing data-driven solutions for a safe and sustainable future of mobility, including Europe's leading telematics solutions provider Webfleet. Jan-Maarten has a broad education, training and background in strategy, product management, marketing and innovation as well as extensive B2B and B2C experience in high-tech industries and products. Before joining Bridgestone in 2020 as Vice President Data Solutions and Innovation, Jan-Maarten worked at WABCO as Global Fleet Marketing leader and held various leadership positions at TomTom Automotive and Philips. He started his career in consultancy at KPMG and BCG. Jan-Maarten holds a master in Business Admini­stration from the University of Groningen.

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Taco van der Leij

Vice President Webfleet Europe

Taco van der Leij is the Vice President for Webfleet Europe, a Bridgestone Company. He joined TomTom Telematics in 2011, which has been acquired by Bridgestone in 2019 and since been renamed to Webfleet. Next to leading the European business for Webfleet, he represents Bridgestone in the Board of Xee, a company providing specialized connected fleet solutions.With his experience in the connected car industry, he played a vital role in the development of Webfleet to the European number one telematics solutions provider. Taco has been working with both large global companies as well as start-ups in the technology industry from Management Consulting and Business Development to Product Management and Marketing and holds a Master Degree in Physics from Delft University of Technology.

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Sten Rauch

CEO of Merce­des-Benz Connectivity Services GmbH

Sten Rauch is the CEO of Merce­des-Benz Connectivity Services GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of Merce­des-Benz AG that is responsible for developing, operating and providing digital services and data products on an inter­na­tional level. Since 2011, he has been mastering several roles in strategy, business model imple­men­tation, product management and development within the Merce­des-Benz Group. With his vast experience in connected car data and telematics, Sten contributes signi­fi­cantly to the group's commercial data business strategy to make vehicle usage more sustainable and roads safer.

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Greg Lindsay

Futurist, urbanist, author and journalist

Greg Lindsay is a futurist, urbanist, author and journalist. Lindsay is a senior fellow at NewCities, where he has explored the future of connected mobility and mixed-use development on behalf of Toyota and Brookfield Properties, respectively. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, where he studies the inter­section of cities, technology, climate change, and national security. In addition to his work with NewCities, Lindsay is also director of strategy for LA CoMotion — an annual mobility festival in the Arts District of Los Angeles — and a visiting scholar at New York University's Rudin Center for Trans­portation Policy and Management. In these capacities, he has worked with Intel, Bloomberg Philant­hropies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the Regional Plan Association to envision the future of autonomous vehicles. Lindsay is also Urbani­st-in-Resi­dence at BMW MINI's URBAN-X — a startup accelerator aimed at solving the toughest urban challenges through entre­pre­n­eurship.

Alexej Schmidt

Global Partnerships Manager EasyPark Group

Alexej Schmidt has been with EasyPark for 5 years as a business developer. During the last 3 years he's played a key role in developing EasyParks global partnerships within the automotive industry. In addition, Alexej is the product owner of EasyPark InCar Solutions and appli­ca­tions, leading inter­na­tional development teams to deliver innovative, high value customer facing appli­ca­tions. Alexej is currently working on both B2C and B2B partnerships to enable EasyPark services for +100k of users.

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Fraser Crichton

Corporate Fleet Manager at Dundee City Council

A frequent EV panelist and speaker, Fraser Crichton has been leading Dundee City Council's zero emission charge since 2010. Heading up the development and imple­men­tation of EVs and their charging infra­structure, Fraser has seen the council's zero emission fleet grow substan­tially to become one of the largest EV fleets of any UK local authority. He has also been proactive in driving the city's taxi industry to switch to EVs.

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Michael Miller

Executive Vice President of Global Network project44

project44 operates the world's most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks in excess of 1 billion shipments annually for more than 900 global brands. Using project44, shippers and carriers around the world drive greater predi­cta­bility, resiliency and sustai­na­bility.

Leading a global team of dedicated resources, Michael is responsible for the development and expansion of project44's carrier network, helping more and more carriers leverage the power of real-time visibility to unlock new business opportu­nities.

Prior to p44 Michael was COO at last mile visibility leader Convey, and held multiple leadership positions at companies like Dell Techno­logies, Newgistics and WiTricity.

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Andy Eastlake

Chief Executive Officer at Zemo Partnership

Andy Eastlake heads up the Zemo Partnership, previously known as LowCVP. Established in 2003 as a publi­c-private partnership that exists to accelerate a sustainable shift to lower carbon, cleaner vehicles and fuels and create opportu­nities for UK businesses. Over 200 organi­sa­tions are engaged, repre­senting diverse viewpoints.

Zemo Partnership:

• Develops initiatives to promote the sale and supply of low carbon vehicles and fuels
• Provides input and advice on Government policy
• Provides a forum for stake­holders to share knowledge and information
• Ensures that UK motor, fuel and related businesses are best placed to capitalise on the opportu­nities in the net zero carbon markets of the future
• Contributes to the achievement of UK Government targets for road transport carbon reduction

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Melanie Shuffle­botham

Co-founder and COO at Zap-Map

Melanie Shuffle­botham is the COO and Co-founder of Zap-Map. Zap-Map makes electric vehicle (EV) charging simple. We are the UK's leading app and digital platform for EV drivers to search for charge points, plan longer journeys, pay on parti­ci­pating networks and share updates with other EV drivers. With 95%+ of public charge points mapped and around 70% of charge points showing live availa­bility status Zap-Map provides EV drivers with peace of mind and the confidence to drive any length of journey in their EV.

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Wessel Koning

Director Business Development & Partnerships at Justdiggit

Wessel is the Global Director / Leadership / MT Executive Justdiggit, making positive impact on Climate, Nature and People! He is responsible for setting up and leading the Business Development and Partnerships team and efforts at Justdiggit with a strong focus on intl Scaling, Innovation and Strategy. Justdiggit makes dry lands green again at scale with impact on Climate, Nature and People in Africa. They have developed and implemented a sustainable, community driven and very cost-­ef­fi­cient and scalable methods to regreen and restore ecosytems such as Farmer Managed Natural Regene­ration (FMNR) and Rainwater Harvesting.

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Raghunath Banerjee

VP of Data Solutions & Innovation at Bridgestone Mobility EMIA

Raghunath Banerjee, VP of Data Solutions & Innovation at Bridgestone Mobility EMIA takes us on a short journey explaining the ground-­bre­aking work of his new team. Discover the role of vehicle intel­li­gence data has in creating the new road safety index and how one municipal city is already putting this to great effect. Raghunath will also explain how Data driven digital trans­for­mation can help with inner city planning and its role in future mobility.

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Carla Detrieux

Director of Business Development, Volta Trucks

Carla Is the Director of Business Development at Volta Trucks. Her role is to support Volta in becoming the leader in zero emissions, safe, and sustainable e-mobility in the truck sector. Carla's team are key in setting up a strong platform for customers to deploy their Volta Zero fleets, and to decarbonise their businesses.

Steven Janssens

Sales Director for Truck & Bus Fleet Solutions and Original Equipment, Bridgestone

Steven is succes­sfully developing and scaling the Total Tyre Care direct fleet solution business for Bridgestone EMEA. Respon­si­bility for all tyre sales to Truck and Bus OEMs and building strong strategic partnership. Leading a large cross functional team including business development, operational excellence and solution system development.

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Tom Vander­s­missen

Director of Advanced Tyre Solutions at Bridgestone Mobility Solutions

Tom leads the new business stream focused on Advanced Tyre Solutions. They translate IoT & AI-based Advanced Tyre Solutions into new revenue streams by partnering and selling through different line of business and new channels. Leading a team of senior category and business development managers that operate in the new mobility landscape, with ownership of business & product strategy, commerci­a­lization, building channel and go-2-market.

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