Building Better with Brandon Bartneck

Nat Ford is CEO of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (or JTA). Mr. Ford’s storied career includes tenures as CEO of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. He has received an incredible list of accolades, including the American Public Transportation Association’s Outstanding Public Transportation Manager for 2020, as well as t...

Dr. Anita Sengupta is a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer with over 20 years of experience developing technologies that have enabled the exploration of Mars, Asteroids, and Deep Space. Some of her roles include responsibility for the supersonic parachute system for the Curiosity Rover that landed on Mars in 2012, leading and managing the development of the Cold Atom Laboratory, and serving a...

Ryan Duffy created and writes Emerging Tech Brew. If you aren’t familiar with the newsletter and you like anything that’s been covered in this podcast so far, I recommend you check it out. Emerging Tech Brew is under the Morning Brew umbrella and is one of the world’s largest tech newsletters. https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech This discussion is a fun journey through the key technology tre...

Liza Dixon is a PhD Candidate at RWTH Aachen University, focused on the human-machine interaction in automated driving and trust in advanced driver assistance systems. Our discussion centers around education and communication for assisted and automated driving systems, including a dangerous practice Liza has labeled as autonowashing. Overall, an incredibly important, and I think timely, discussion...

Jim Adler is Founding Manager Director at Toyota AI Ventures. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Clare Jones is the Chief Commercial Officer at what3words, which has split the entire world into 10 ft x 10 ft squares in an attempt to change the way  we talk about location. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Kelly Senecal is co-founder and owner of Convergent Science, an SAE Fellow, and an advocate for an eclectic transportation future. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Paul Comfort joins again (see episode 9) to discuss his latest book, Public Transportation - from Tom Thumb to the Hyperloop and Beyond. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Tim Slusser is Director of Smart Mobility Initiatives at NextEnergy Center, where he is helping to accelerate innovation and shape the future of mobility and smart cities through partnerships and thought leadership. His current focus is providing support for designing programming to educate consumers and communities on the benefits of EVs, project and contract management for hydrogen R&D, and...

Becky Soltanian is head of computer vision and sensor fusion at a stealth mode start-up after previously serving in various development roles related to LiDAR and automated driving systems. Our discussion focused on machine learning, including various applications and aspects of machine learning that play a key role in the development of automated driving solutions. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin M...

Katrina Fritz is Executive Director of the California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative, with extensive experience in the hydrogen industry, including with Plug Power and UTC Power (which then became ClearEdge Power). This conversation is centered around stationary power applications for hydrogen fuel cell which, although not directly applicable for "mobility solutions" provides significant overl...

Mark Thomas is Vice President of Marketing & Alliances at Ridecell, who claims to be the mobility platform to launch & scale successful subscriptions, short-term leases, carsharing & ridesharing services. We had a wide-ranging discussion around all things shared mobility including the different business models, the importance of operational and pricing optimization, and the different w...

Trevor Pawl is the Chief Mobility Officer for the State of Michigan and he heads the newly created Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

In this special episode, I pull from my conversations with Chris Cowland, Brian Van Batavia, and Santosh Sankar to answer a single question - is the IC engine dead?

Nicolas Pocard is Director of Marketing & Strategy at Ballard Power Systems, a developer and manufacturer of PEM fuel cell products for markets such as heavy-duty motive, portable power, and material handling. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

In this special episode, I pull insights from Santosh Sankar, Ed Olson, and Chris Borroni-Bird. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Will Creighton is a Research Engineer for Driver Assist Technologies at Ford Motor Company. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Frantz Saintellemy is President and Chief Operating Officer at LeddarTech, a leader in Solid State LiDAR solutions with its unique and innovative Leddar Engine which comprised of a high performance compatible suite of SoCs and LeddarSP Signal Processing Software technology to enable OEMs and Tiered automotive customers to develop their own high performance, low-cost solid state LiDAR solutions Mus...

Santosh Sankar is a Founding Partner of Dynamo Ventures, a seed-stage fund focused on founders building startups in supply chain and mobility. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Jackie Birdsall is a Senior Engineer in the Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle group of Toyota Motor North America Research and Development, specializing in hydrogen infrastructure, high-pressure hydrogen systems, and associated codes, standards, and regulations.

Paul Comfort is a veteran in the transportation industry, previously serving as CEO of the Maryland Transit Administration. He is currently VP of Business Development for the Trapeze Group, host of the Transit Unplugged podcast, and author of “The Future of Public Transportation” This conversation is quite a change from my typical episodes. We spend some time talking about public transportation an...

Ed Olson is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of May Mobility, a mobility startup striving to transform cities through autonomous technology. Ed's involvement in autonomous vehicles started with the original DARPA challenge back in 2007, and he remains a top robotics professor at the University of Michigan. Ed and I talk about his motivation for starting May Mobility, their unique business model...

In this special episode focused on Innovation, I pull insights from Chris Borroni-Bird, Phil Gott, Brian Van Batavia, and Chris Cowland regarding different aspects of innovation. Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Michele Mueller has spent over 25 years with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and currently is Senior Project Manager for Connected and Automated Vehicles at MDOT Michele and I talk about the role of connectivity on future mobility solutions, the ways in which the state of Michigan is thinking about building transportation infrastructure for connected and automated vehicles, the im...

Phil Gott is an industry veteran who has spent much of his career focused on technology trends and new technology introduction, both from a developmental standpoint as well as a society-driven technology pull perspective. He spent over two decades with IHS. Phil and I talk about the unique situation we're currently in thanks to the combination of the COVID crisis and accelerated technology growth,...