Driven

Michigan's mobility footprint at South By Southwest 2019 was huge. If you were at the Austin, Texas festival this year, you probably crossed paths with one of my guests for this edition of Driven's Mobility Moments podcast. I'm riding the wave of South by excitement with Seun Philips, director at PlanetM, Komal Doshi, director of mobility programs at Ann Arbor SPARK and Justin Robinson, vice president of business attraction at the Detroit Regional Partnership. 

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Smart mobility requires talent that can install and service an intelligent infrastructure. How does this need impact our future workforce? We talked with Elaina Farnsworth, CEO of The NEXT Education about our talent pipeline, upskilling and reskilling...and something called the Scully Effect. 

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In Detroit, January is known as auto show month. In this episode of Driven, we sit down with several mobility startups exhibiting at the North American International Auto Show's Automobili-D exhibition space to talk about their new technologies and impact on mobility as well as the show.  

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This podcast is sponsored by MICHauto—an economic development initiative of the Detroit Regional Chamber and Michigan’s only automotive cluster association, dedicated to promoting, retaining and growing the automotive and mobility industry with in the state. For more information, visit www.MICHauto.org.

Michigan House will pop up again at SXSW, this year hosting a full day of mobility programming. We talk with Michigan House co-founder Ted Velie to get inside details on all the cool stuff going on...and learn about something called “South-by-dipity.” Don’t miss this episode of Driven’s Mobility Moments. 

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This episode of Driven’s Startup Spotlight features Alisyn Malek, COO and co-founder of May Mobility, a Michigan-based autonomous shuttle company, about their parterships and deployments.

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The widespread adoption of electric vehicles is closer than you might think. For this episode of Driven’s Mobility Moments Podcast, we talked with Vince Carioti from Phoenix Contact E-Mobility North America about EVs, charging stations, range anxiety and a lot more. Get ready to be surprised! 

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This episode of Driven’s Startup Spotlight features Daniel Ratliff, Principal at Fontinalis Partners which invests in technology companies improving next-generation mobility. Ratliff talks to Driven about the Detroit region's startup ecosystem and what they are looking for mobility companies.

This Startup Spotlight was brought to you by Destination Detroit, business attraction entity of the Detroit Regional Chamber responsible for the 11 counties and 7,000 square miles that make up the Detroit region.

Don’t miss this episode of Driven’s Mobility Moments Podcast, where host Claire Charlton explores grant funding available right now for global mobility innovators to test and pilot in Michigan with guest Amanda Roraff, operations manager at PlanetM. 

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This episode is sponsored by PlanetM.

The U.S. Army has a legacy of autonomous vehicle design, development, and testing, and this is a big benefit to civilian automobile manufacturing. Here, at the Detroit Arsenal, engineers like Bernie Theisen are hard at work at the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC. We welcomed Bernie for this episode of Driven’s Mobility Moments Podcast. 

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This episode of Driven’s Startup Spotlight features Kevin Kardel, Corporate Strategy at Molex, leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components. Kardel talks to Driven about Molex’s interest in the Detroit mobility ecosystem, their recent startup acquisition, and their recent move into the PlanetM Landing Zone.

This Startup Spotlight was brought to you by Destination Detroit, business attraction entity of the Detroit Regional Chamber responsible for the 11 counties and 7,000 square miles that make up the Detroit region.

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