Oliver Kozak
Oliver Kozak is Senior Advisor at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) at the European Commission. He supports the organisation to be a happy workplace and be more effective. Reducing cycle times, getting rid of administrative burdens, and transforming public service to be business like and customer oriented. The SME Instrument he operates provides business support and mentoring, and invests €3 bn in funding for the best SMEs in Europe. Oliver lives a car free life, and as a true believer of the 'N+1 rule': with his wife and small daughter, they have 7 bikes and 5 kick-scooters in the family.
Patrick Keating
Patrick Keating is the Founder and Managing Director of Velo Capital Partners (VCP) in Lyon, France. VCP was established in 2012 to advise, develop and finance the next generation of innovation in the global cycling industry. Patrick has been focused on advising and financing innovative early and expansion stage companies for the past 25+ years starting in Silicon Valley while working in San Francisco.
Maxim Ilkov
Maxim started the cooperation with Vodafone DE 3 years ago, gaining invaluable insights through different work assignments in Consumer Indirect Sales, Cloud & Hosting Services Marketing Central Europe, Consumer Retail Strategy & Projects, Strategy Innovation. He’s now in charge of the Market & Business Development for bike & personal mobility sector, focused on the central Europe region. Maxim is also part of the Vodafone team developing the enriching the smart mobility proposition and its integration with the actual Vodafone Automotive products portfolio.
Franz Tepe
Franz is Marketing leader at ZEG. He has been working on various projects for several years to make the e-bike smart. With more than 1.000 member firms, ZEG Zweirad-Einkaufs-Genossenschaft eG in Cologne is Europe's largest specialized trade association for bicycles and it generated a turnover of 650 million Euros in 2016. It distributes the well-known exclusive brands PEGASUS, BULLS and ZEMO as well as the traditional brands HERCULES, WANDERER and KETTLER Alu-Rad. In addition to Germany, ZEG is represented Europe-wide by its members and worldwide by its trading partners.
Kristjan Maruste
Kristjan Maruste, Comodule’s co-Founder & CEO. Comodule's mission is to be the OEM supplier of innovative connected vehicles technology for electric vehicle manufacturers, particularly light electrics (e-bikes, e-scooters, e-motorcycles). Embracing IoT (Internet of Things) solutions for vehicle manufacturers, it supplies the full platform including hardware, mobile device software and online analytics platform. Prior to co-founding COMODULE in 2014, Kristjan was the team leader within the Formula Student project, leading the team from 500 worldwide competitors to TOP 3. Based in both Berlin and Tallinn for COMODULE, Kristjan is also a racing fanatic.
Philip McAleese
Philip is CEO of See.Sense, an innovative cycling technology company based in Northern Ireland. Philip is an experienced electronics and software engineer, and project manager, previously leading Client Facing Technology for Barclays in Asia. Philip originally invented the See.Sense intelligent bike light to improve his safety while cycling on busy streets in Singapore. Now, the company is scaling globally, and using crowdsourced data collected from the lights to help create safer and smarter cities. See.Sense won the BT SME Award last year for Connected Cities.
James Gleave
James is a transport planner with some 13 years experience in the sector. Starting out in a local authority and moving then into the Transport Systems Catapult, he shifted into foresight and futures thinking, supporting the delivery of many innovative technology projects in autonomous cars, smart infrastructure, and mobility as a service. He now has his own transport foresight and futures company, Transport Futures. By applying techniques such as scenarios, visioning, and futures surveys, he supports policy makers and decisions makers in developing strategies to take advantage of the opportunities from the future of transport.
Tom Acland
Tom is a co-founder and Head of Business Development at COBI, the connected biking system built around your smartphone. COBI lets riders to interact with their phone safely while riding and supports navigation, fitness, dashboarding, media and communication controls all in one package. COBI is offered as an intelligent accessory in the aftermarket, as well as an OEM component for bike and e-bike manufacturers.
Marko Matenda
Marko is CEO at VisioBike. He's one of the pioneers of connected technology in ebike industry. He developed the idea, the vision of making an ebike smart in 2012. at Founder Institute, the biggest startup incubator in the world. In 2013 Visiobike was one of top 50 startups at the Pioneers festival in Vienna. He is very passionate about eco mobility and is working to make everyday commuting for urban people fun and enjoyable experience. He is also a passionate squash player, a man of thousands ideas and huge movie fan.
Dirk Sandrock
Dirk is the founding partner and GM of MOMES GmbH. He has worked for more than 25 years as a successful marketing-oriented product manager in developing and marketing products for apparel, hardware and software in the field of Sport, Biking and Motor biking for the Asian, European and the North American markets. He was a competitive biker, triathlete and later on a coach in these fields. After working with Hercules (Accel Group), Storck bicycle, IKO and Ciclosport for quality and product management, he decided to quit and found MOMES (LLP) 2006 in Singapore.