2020-07-23 Meeting notes
- Marco Carvalho
Date
Meeting Overview
Open Mobility Network in Building the New Economy of Movement
Transportation and mobility at large are being disrupted tremendously with the advent of new technologies and connectivity. The survivors of the ecosystem will need to adapt quickly, innovate, and move fast to capture new revenue opportunities and create existing cost structures efficiencies. At the core of this lies a need for a transparent, trustworthy, secure, and auditable data network. The presentation will be an introduction to a development project led by MOBI to build the Open Mobility Network for the stakeholders of the industry, both public and private, to record, share, consume, exchange, and monetize mobility data.
Presenters
Mike Vo - Chief Technology Officer of MOBI, prior to MOBI, Michael spent six years as the Director of Engineering at Tesla and as Founder and CEO of we2o. Currently, Michael's purview includes the overall technology direction and execution for MOBI as well as help drive forward the creation of technical standards and reports for blockchain in mobility!
Lucy Hakobyan is the Head of Program at MOBI and currently oversees 6 working groups. Before MOBI, Lucy served as an EIR for a number of technology startups, was an operator in a blockchain startup and worked in venture capital in San Francisco. Lucy holds an MBA degree from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, a CPA and a bachelor’s degree in business economics and international relations from UCLA.
Dominik Batz is leading the procurement group in BMW Group’s Technology Office in Silicon Valley. In this role he is responsible for strategic partnerships and projects at the intersection of automotive and tech industry. He has more than 10 years experience in the field of Supply Chain & Procurement. Dominik has broad industry experience working for Siemens, Daimler and Audi before his current roles spending also a significant amount of the time in China and Europe. Dominik has also co-founded and is leading an industry-wide working group for Supply Chain within the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), an internationally active non-profit organization with more than 120 members from the mobility and tech industry based in Los Angeles, CA. This working group is exploring challenges along the Supply Chain of OEMs and Tier-n suppliers by applying Distributed Ledger Technologies / Blockchain. Dominik holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.
Dr. Pramita Mitra is a Technical Expert, IoT and Blockchain Applications at Ford Motor Company Research and Advanced Engineering division in Dearborn, Michigan. She leads a team of cross-functional engineers to develop secure and robust solutions for smart factories of the future. Dr. Mitra earned her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Notre Dame in 2009 and 2013, respectively. She received the Outstanding Paper Award at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress 2019, for her work on preventing data privacy leakage in connected vehicle services. Dr. Mitra was selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) among the top 100 young engineering professionals in the United States in 2019. She is a highly active professional member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and received the SWE Detroit Section Technical Award in 2017 and the WE Local New ELiTE (Emerging Leader in Technology and Engineering) Award in 2020. Dr. Mitra co-chairs the Supply Chain Working Group in the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), a non-profit consortium of major automakers, suppliers and blockchain technology partners. She holds 10 US Patents till date.