Rik is a renowned thought-leader, worldwide keynote speaker and author of business bestseller “Managers The Day After Tomorrow”. He’s a trusted advisor on the topics of extreme customer centricity, innovation in the digital era, business model change, sales, marketing and leading companies on their journey to their very own Day After Tomorrow.

Shelby is a social entrepreneur who is intrigued by the power of connecting people online to positively impact the offline world. Shelby has been called a pioneer in “Collaborative Consumption” or the “Sharing Economy.” This movement is rapidly changing consumer behaviors in many ways, compelling people to share everything from cars to apartments to lawnmowers, united by the core concepts that access trumps ownership and value unused is waste. As an independent consultant and speaker, Shelby aims to spread these ideas to organizations around the world.

Michael Masserman is currently the Head of Global Policy & Strategy at Lyft, where he works on initiatives related to mobility as a service, autonomous vehicles, opening global markets, social impact, and smart cities. Michael was previously the Senior Director for Federal & International Government Relations where he built out Lyft's Federal and Policy Partnerships teams. 

Jeff Miller is Head of Automotive Alliances at Uber. Prior to Uber, Miller co-founded (CEO) Wheelz, a peer-to-peer car-sharing company.

His experience includes time spent at Better Place, where he worked with multiple Fortune 50 companies, automotive OEMs, and federal, state, and municipal policymakers to generate charging networks to support the mass adoption of electric vehicles.

Jeff has also worked for the Boston Consulting Group, focusing primarily on Media and Entertainment industry clients. He has also spent considerable time in the field of international development, and specialized in financial services for the poor through variety of organizations, including the United Nations.

Miller holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He also holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Northwestern University.

Anca Dragan is not just any researcher working on AI. Her mission? Making robots work closely together with people. Waymo is only one of the many companies who saw the importance of what she's doing. And honestly, the enthusiasm of this speaker will make you want to work with robots. Yes, we are sold.

Tim Papandreou helped Waymo team commercialize and launch the world's first fully self-driving ride hailing service. 

He worked at Google X and is a real expert on transportation as a service and shared, electric and automated smart city transitions and its impacts to streets and real estate.

I love self-driving cars and I work on them at Udacity. Read my thoughts about self-driving cars atmedium.com/self-driving-cars :-)

Mark Platshon is a Partner with Birchmere Ventures and the Senior Investment Advisor to the BMW i-Ventures corporate VC fund.

He is co-founder of Amprius, a Lithium-ion battery company spun out of Stanford and was an early investor in Tesla.

Brian Glynn is director business development at Trov.

Matt Brezina co-founded two multi million dollar startups (Xobni & Sincerely), invested in over 70 companies including mobility companies like Cruise Automation (GM), JUMP (uber), Spin scooters, Skip scooters and the cofounder & San Francisco organizer of an international bike safety movement, the @PeopleProtected bike lane.  People Protected bike lanes have taken place in over 20 cities

Rik is a renowned thought-leader, worldwide keynote speaker, acclaimed author and trusted advisor on the topics of extreme customer-centricity, disruption, business model change, sales, marketing and making companies ready for the Day After Tomorrow. Having gathered years of C-level experience in sales and marketing related functions, he now inspires companies to develop customer-centric strategies fit for a connected world. Rik has given more than 350 keynote sessions around the world, in more than 15 countries, divided over 3 continents, to international pioneers like Assa Abloy, Cisco, Volvo, Swedbank, Telia, Baloise, Mastercard, Mundipharma, Sogeti and Microsoft.