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Sophie Seiwald is heading Mercedes-Benz.io as Managing Director and CEO since the beginning of 2018. Before joining Mercedes-Benz.io, Sophie was building up the Digital Hub for the Daimler Financial Services Division in Singapore. Prior to that, she was busy making sure that one of the largest Mercedes-Benz Car Production Plants in the world was built in Beijing. Born and raised in Austria, she currently lives in Stuttgart and commutes between the valley and Berlin. Striving to make Daimler the digital champion of the automotive Industry, she’s an advocate for hiring a diverse set of talents from both the creative and technology industry. Being an avid spokesperson for holacracy, Sophie is redefining how cars are sold and how to be a leader. Tune in to meet one of the frontrunners of our digital age.

Anja Hendel is the Director of Porsche’s Digital Lab, a role that she has been happy to explore for the last 1,5 years. Before that, she was also working at Porsche as Director of Innovation and Digital Transformation Finance and in total she’s spent approximately seven years at the company. Besides being a breath of fresh air in the automotive industry, Anja has held leading positions both at Celeris and Capgemini. As Director of the Digital Lab, her work is driven by innovation and next level engineering. Today, we’ll figure out what that actually means and what the Lab is working on at the moment. This episode is all about new tech shaping mobility, and no one is better suited than Anja to guide us through it.

Dr. Henrik Haenecke has been a member of Berlin’s public transportation agency BVG's Management Board since August 2016, being mainly in charge of finances and digitalization. In this episode of On the Go, we’ll find out how Henrik is working to shift BVG from a traditional public transit company to an innovative mobility platform - with a little help from Trafi! In February 2019, BVG and Trafi announced a new partnership to create a multimodal app covering all types of transportation in Berlin, Jelbi. The idea is simple: one place to access every mode of mobility in the city, from planning to payment. We also discuss the importance of combining the core function of public transport with new modes of mobility, the power of branding and how autonomous vehicles will impact urban transportation.

Alex Zosel is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Advisor at Volocopter, the world's first autonomous air taxi. Volocopter is the global leader in electrical take off and landing aircrafts (eVTOL), or air taxis to make it a little easier. As early as 2011, the same year as the company was founded, Volocopter earned a safe entry into the history of aviation through manning the world’s first purely electrical multicopter flight. Since then there’s been a rapid progress forward. Tune in to hear about the latest inner city flight tests in Singapore scheduled for later this year, how cities can integrate air taxis into their transportation network and when we will be able to book a Volocopter - at the same cost as taking a cab.

Eckart Diepenhorst is the CEO of mytaxi and mobility strategist extraordinaire. Founded in Hamburg in 2009, and the taxi app has undergone a phenomenal journey in the last few years. With more than 10 million customers across 100 cities, they are a force to reckon with. Together with Ecki, we talk about the quest for an even more aggressive growth, combining traditional transport with new multimodal options and the secret sauce behind their successful public affairs strategy.

Jimmy Cliff is General Manager at Mobike, one of the largest bike sharing companies in the world. Originally from China, the orange bikes flooded Europe in the course of just one year. This is partly thanks to Jimmy, who's been leading a big chunk of the international expansion. In this episode, you'll get a sneak peak behind Mobike's first year of operations in Europe, how we can make mobility more inclusive as an industry and why we need to involve more women in the decision making process.

We are diving into the sphere of mobility and research as we meet up with Florian Lennert, Director of Intelligent City Forum. We discuss sustainable urban design and what we can learn from city planning from the 19th and 20th Century. Looking into new modes of transport, we step away from the car as our go-to type of vehicle and explore the possibilities of air mobility.

In this episode of On the Go, we have the great pleasure of talking to Stephan Leppler, CEO at MotionTag. MotionTag strives to create seamless, sustainable and smart mobility by advocating a switch from supply-based to user-centered transport. We outline how generating mobility intelligence can make both cities and providers smarter, as well as pinpointing what public affairs can do to foster - and welcome - innovation.

In the first episode of On the Go, we pick the brains of Dr. Michael Halbherr, formerly CEO of HERE Technologies, now working as an investor, senior advisor and Chairman of the Board at Trafi. Together we are outlining a few key trends pushing the industry – and society – forward. Michael develops on the current framework for mobility and glances into the future, suggesting how we can build an ecosystem that benefits transport providers, cities and consumers alike.