Commercial mobility has changed massively in the last ten years. In the coming ten years it will change beyond recognition. How ready is your business?
Webfleet Mobility Conference is our annual expert platform for decision-makers in fleet management. With valuable insights, exciting discussions and incisive trend analysis from experts from across the mobility landscape, it will equip you with the deep knowledge you need to design your fleet of tomorrow.
Key learnings
- Urban mobility in smart cities: What will it look like in ten years time? And what do you need to do to get ready?
- EVs come of age: Take a deep dive into a truly ground-breaking example of sustainable mobility technology
- The truck of the future: The innovations driving a seismic change for trucking
- Connectivity and partnerships: The key that will unlock the full potential of mobility solutions
Speakers
Jan-Maarten de Vries
CEO Bridgestone Mobility Solutions
Raj Bajaj
Vice President Webfleet International
Sten Rauch
CEO of Mercedes-Benz Connectivity Services GmbH
Greg Lindsay
Futurist, urbanist, author and journalist
Speakers
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.
Raj Bajaj
Vice President Webfleet International
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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