Louis Tremblay is President and CEO of AddEnergie and its subsidiary company FLO. A pioneer in the field of electric mobility in Canada, he cofounded AddEnergie in 2009 while he was still a student at Laval University (Quebec). Over the years, Mr. Tremblay established himself as an influential and respected figure in the electric vehicle […]

Karen Vancluysen was appointed as Secretary General of the Polis network in September 2014, after having been the network’s Research Director for 8 years. Polis is the leading European network of cities and regions on urban transport innovation. Since 1989, members have been working together to develop sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions for the […]

Stientje van Veldhoven began her career in 1997 as personal assistant to Elly Plooij van Gorsel, a member of the European Parliament for the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 1999 to 2003 she served as an innovation policy officer at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 2003 she worked at the Permanent […]

Mark de la Vergne serves as the Chief of Mobility Innovation for Mayor Mike Duggan and has been in the role for two years. He is tasked with bringing new mobility services and technologies to Detroit residents. In 2018, this included a first/last mile pilot with Lyft, expanding car share to the neighborhoods of Detroit, […]

Devin de Vries is a social entrepreneur dedicated to fostering technological innovation to solve emerging market challenges. Beginning in Africa, he’s spent the last decade leading a growing team inspired by a shared vision to bring technological solutions to the challenge of public transport in the ‘majority world’—a truly wicked problem. Focused on the ground-truth, […]

Mr. Walder has led the biggest and most complex transportation systems in the world, previously serving as Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York, CEO of the MTR Corporation in Hong Kong, and Managing Director of Transport for London. Most recently he ran Motivate, the global leader in bike share, before […]

Alissa Walker connects people with where they live through writing, speaking, and walking. As the urbanism editor at Curbed, she authors the column Word on the Street, highlighting the pioneering transit, clever civic design, and game-changing policy affecting our cities. For her writing on design and urbanism, Alissa has been named a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts […]

Janelle is Cofounder and CEO of ACTON. ACTON, Leading The Way. ACTON offers MaaS packages from connected multimodal vehicles to software solutions. ACTON clients are leading ride share operators, automakers and cities globally. ACTON leads and innovates with focus in micromobility space. Together, we make our cities better place to live. Janelle is a Designer […]

Chris Warner was appointed Director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) in June 2019 after serving as Deputy Director and Interim Director. He oversees 900 employees and a half a billion-dollar capital and operating budget and is responsible for $13 billion in assets. The agency manages and maintains Portland’s transportation system and helps Portlanders […]

In his position as LA Metro CEO, Washington manages an annual operating budget of $1.6 billion and is responsible for overseeing $15 billion in capital projects and providing oversight of an agency that transports 1.4 million boarding passengers on an average weekday, riding on a fleet of 2,000 clean- air buses and six rail lines. […]