Mobility Now!: Recent Episodes
North American Lighting
Welcome to Mobility Now, the podcast that looks at mobility technology sitting at the edge of today but the center of tomorrow.
Listen to Mark Pibl, of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation/SMBC Nikko Securities America Inc, speak about why startups would use venture debt...
Listen to Christine Moon, Co-founder & President of BlueSpace.ai, a revolutionary perception stack for 4D sensors such as FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) lidar and imaging radar...
Featuring Jose Diaz Salazar, Managing Director of AndGo — Jose introduces Goodyear’s approach to innovation in Silicon Valley...
Featuring Jan Beránek, CEO of U+ — Jan consults automotive companies on creating new business models for the ever-changing automotive industry...
Featuring Joe Harary, President and CEO at Research Frontiers Incorporated — Joe shares the interesting story of how a dog with an upset stomach...
Featuring John Beane, Co-Founder of MemComputing — John Beane is a serial entrepreneur with 7+ startups...
Evangelos Simoudis, Managing Director at Synapse Partners, has been involved in AI and tools to analyze large data sets...
Featuring Kirk Gadberry, President and COO of North American Lighting — Kirk has been with NAL for nearly 30 years and has seen big changes in headlights and the way we make them...
Featuring Shauna McIntyre, CEO of Sense Photonics – Shauna followed an interesting path through the automotive industry before entering the startup world with Sense Photonics...
Featuring Ludwig Schoenack, CEO of Kyte - Ludwig and his friends have re-imagined how we rent cars and built Kyte – a company that delivers your car right to your doorstep...
Featuring Kunal Phalpher, CCO of Li-Cycle - Batteries are becoming ever more important in the mobility industry, creating a new problem to deal with...
Featuring Torsten Jacobi, Serial Entrepreneur and host of Judgment Call Podcast - Torsten shares his insights into the travel industry...
Featuring Saeed Amidi, CEO of Plug and Play Tech Center. Listen in to find out how Plug and Play began as a small office-space-for-rent business and grew to a global startup accelerator...
Featuring Dragos Maciuca, Executive Technical Director at Ford Palo Alto Research and Innovation Center – Dragos talks about the technology behind the new Mustang Mach-E, Ford’s activities in startup investments, and also shares some advice for newcomers to the automotive industry.
Featuring Jim Adler, Founding Member and Managing Director of Toyota AI Ventures - Jim shares his journey in entrepreneurship and how it led him to his current position...
Featuring Brad Rosen, COO and Co-Founder at Nodar - Brad discusses Nodar’s 3D camera and how it takes advantage of the millions of pixels in modern-day cameras to provide accurate distance measurement ...
Featuring Stuart Feffer of Reality AI. Stuart Feffer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Reality AI, a company developing compact “Explainable AI” that can be deployed anywhere...
Featuring Sam Abuelsamid of Guidehouse Insights - Sam Abuelsamid is the Principle Research Analyst at consulting firm Guidehouse Insights, and leads the e-mobility ecosystems research in electrification, automated driving, connected vehicles, and automotive services...
Featuring NAL’s Kishore Ahuja - Kishore Ahuja is the Sr. Vice President of North American Lighting. He has over 30 years of experience in the automotive sector, ranging from engineering and program management to...
Lunewave - John Xin is the CEO of Lunewave. He has over 20 years of combined experience in the technology and financial services sector. Holding an MBA from Carnegie Mellon, John led the financing and business development at Lunewave while his brother, Hao Xin (CTO), focused...
Cepton - T. R. Ramachandran is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Cepton. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector, bringing advanced IC and system products to market and scaling them to high volume. He is currently working to introduce lidar technology...