Joshua L. Schank is the first ever Chief Innovation Officer at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), where he leads the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI). The role of this office is to champion new ideas to improve mobility in LA County by informing the high-level vision for LA Metro, piloting and […]

Dr. Emmanuel Serunjoji is the Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority, Kawempe Division Urban Council, His Worship the Mayor is the Chairman of Network of Kampala Metropolitan Mayors, and he is the Chairman of Alliance of Kampala City Urban Division Mayors. Kawempe Division which is headed by His Worship the Mayor is territorial political boundary […]

Avital is a Senior Manager in OEI where she focuses on shaping policies and implementing projects that work to nudge LA County towards more sustainable modes of transportation instead of driving alone. She previously worked in Metro’s Planning department launching and managing the Metro Bike Share program. A daily transit and bike rider with a […]

Yuan Shi is the Global Solutions Leader for New Mobility at Arcadis with the background of urban data science in transportation. Her work focuses on the nexus of transportation and smart city technology, with analytics and consulting experience for cities provided on a wide variety of topics, including new mobility blueprint development, congestion pricing study, […]

Sophie Shulman is the Chief of Innovative Mobility at the Colorado Department of Transportation. Sophie most recently led partnerships and business development at Electrify America, an electric vehicle charging company. Before joining Electrify America, Sophie served as the acting Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation, focusing on energy, environment, […]

Eran Shir is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nexar, the world’s first vision-based connected vehicle network to promote safer driving by delivering critical safety alerts in real-time, improve roadway efficiency, and bring innovative tools to drivers. Nexar has more than 500 million miles of anonymized network data that help cities, transit authorities, and mobility companies […]

Lilly Shoup is Senior Director of Policy and Partnerships at Lyft. With a background in multimodal planning, performance management, and transit operations, she focuses on national transportation policy to re-connect communities with the world’s best transportation. Prior to joining Lyft, Lilly was a Principal at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting and served in the Office of Transportation Policy at the US Department […]

Donald Shoup is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA Angeles. His research has focused on how parking policies affect cities, the economy, and the environment. In The High Cost of Free Parking, published in 2005 and updated in 2011, Shoup recommended that cities should (1) charge fair market prices for on-street parking, (2) […]

Phil Silver leads Amazon Web Services’ transportation vertical, focused on public sector agencies and authorities who are responsible for moving people and goods over land, sea, and in the air. He works with airports, seaports, transit, tolling, traffic, parking, DOTs, MPOs, and COGs – enabling them to deploy sustainable, efficient and economic IT infrastructures that […]

Jonny Simkin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Swiftly, a big data platform that helps public transit agencies improve their operational performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Swiftly currently works with more than 60 cities and impacts over 1.3 billion passenger trips per year. Prior to founding Swiftly, Jonny was the Director of Product […]