On this week's podcast, we speak with Aurora Co-Founder and CEO Chris Urmson, on the future of driverless technology in both the freight trucking and taxi markets. We talk about the winding path that autonomous vehicles have taken and what steps are still necessary for Aurora to debut its first driverless trucks in 2023. Will people even drive cars in the future? Take a listen.

On this week's podcast, we speak with Gogoro's Co-Founder and CEO Horace Luke about the future of mobility in Asia and their innovative new business model in the middle of the electric vehicle revolution. Namely, the advantages of battery swapping for e-bikes and mopeds in the Asian markets. 

This week on the SPACInsider podcast we talk about how Quanergy makes lidar arrays for a variety of navigation and imaging applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to smart cities and crowd control. Each of these subsectors differ as both technical challenges and business opportunities. We also discuss how many standalone lidar companies the public markets can handle as new niches and applications continue to be found.

On this week's podcast, we speak with Embark's Co-Founder and CEO Alex Rodrigues, on the future of self-driving and revolutionizing freight trucking. Embark announced a business combination with Northern Genesis II (Nasdaq: NGAB) on June 23rd of this year. Embark's technology allows trucks to navigate completely autonomously along long stretches of highway and its platform is already in use on public roads. We talk about how the challenge of driverless trucks are different from driverless cars and while we'll be seeing many more of them much sooner than you think. Take a listen

This week on the SPACInsider Podcast, we will be speaking with Greg Kress, CEO of Shapeways. Shapeways, which announced a combination with Galileo Acquisition Corp. in April, allows customers to have digitally designed products manufactured and sent to them via its unique software platform. It is at the center of the fascinating additive manufacturing space, which has seen a bevy of SPAC transactions. We talk about the forces driving the adoption of additive manufacturing and the economics of providing 3D-printing and other tools at the different levels of the value chain.

On this week's podcast, Kristi Marvin and Nick Clayton speak with Richard Barlow, the Founder & CEO of Wejo, the vehicle data and analytics company which announced a SPAC combination with Virtuoso Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:VOSO) on May 28, 2021. The Manchester, UK-based Wejo has developed a data analysis suite based on tracking connected cars for a wide array of clients seeking predictive intelligence of vehicle ownership, traffic flows and more. We spoke with Richard about the company's business model and the evolving vehicle-data landscape.

This week on the SPACInsider podcast, Nick Clayton and Marlena Haddad speak with Jim Lawson, CEO of AdTheorent, which announced a business combination with MCAP Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ:MACQ) last month. It is at the forefront of the rapidly changing advertising technology space and we talked to him about what the death of cookies means for the advertising landscape. 

Cerberus Telecom Acquisition Corp. (CTAC) & KORE give a presentation and live Q&A session discussing their upcoming merger. On the call is:

Nick Robinson – Co-Chief Investment Officer, Cerberus Telecom

Forest Road Acquisition Corp. (FRX) & Beachbody give a presentation and live Q&A session discussing their upcoming merger. 

On the call is:

Carl Daikeler - Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Beachbody

Tom Staggs - Former CFO of Disney & Board Member of Forest Road Acquisition Corp

Sue Collyns - President and CFO of Beachbody

Eric Weidemann - Host and VP at SPACInsider