Edwin Olson is co-founder and CEO of May Mobility, Inc., a technology startup focused on delivering safe, self-driving transportation solutions to help reduce congestion, decrease pollution and create greater economic benefit for urban communities around the world.

Olson has focused on the development of autonomous vehicles for over a decade, including work on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge in addition to leading programs for both Ford Motor Company and the Toyota Research Institute. He was awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award, named one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10" in 2012, and was the winner of the 2010 MAGIC robotics competition. In 2019, he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in the Michigan and Northwest Ohio region by Ernst and Young. Under his leadership, May Mobility was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2019.

Olson holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan.

John Rich was appointed Director of Autonomous Vehicle and Technology Development in November 2019. Prior to this appointment, Rich was the Chief Operating Officer of Ford’s AV LLC. AV LLC is a wholly owned Ford entity created in 2017 to bring autonomous vehicles and services to market while also serving as the holding company for Ford’s interest in Argo AI, a leading full-stack SAE Level 4 autonomous technology developer. In these roles, Rich has delivered significant business results, including:

• Leading Ford’s autonomous vehicle engineering team to deliver four generations of autonomous prototypes in just over 30 months

• Establishing a shared development approach and managing a tightly coupled technical integration with Argo AI to deliver SAE Level 4 autonomy

• Securing partnership and joint investment into Argo from Volkswagen Group, establishing a $7.2B valuation for Argo

• Establishing physical operations – terminals and development sites – in three beach-head AV markets (Miami, Washington DC, and Austin)

• Developing in-house AV applications for remote (tele-) operations, infrastructure based sensing, and low-speed autonomous shuttles

• Acquiring Quantum Signal AI, LLC to be a dedicated in-house AI job shop focused on robotics applications

Prior to his current role, Rich was Executive Director of Global Strategy based in Dearborn, Michigan. As the company moved to address the hard realities of disruption, he worked in collaboration with Business Development to restructure failing regions, establish key partnerships (Mahindra, VW, and Argo), and reallocate capital away from marginal businesses.

Jay Rogers is the CEO and co-founder of Local Motors, a ground mobility company focused on shaping the future for the better. Founded in 2007 with a belief in open collaboration and co-creation, Local Motors began low volume vehicle manufacturing of open-source designs using multiple microfactories. Since inception, Local Motors has debuted no less than three world firsts; the world's first co-created vehicle, the world's first 3D-printed car and the world's first co-created, self-driving, electric vehicle, Olli. Rogers founded LM after serving for seven years in the United States Marine Corps, where he was an Infantry Company Commander. He has worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., as an investment analyst at Ewing & Partners, and at a startup medical device company in the People’s Republic of China. He serves as the Chief Investment Officer and Director of the RBR Foundation, a philanthropic foundation focused on education and healthcare. A graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Rogers holds a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar).

Dan Smith is the Assistant General Counsel (Regulatory) at Waymo. In this role, he advises Waymo’s senior managers, engineers, and operations personnel on current and developing laws and standards pertinent to automated vehicle safety at the federal and international levels, and serves on industry committees developing definitions and standards related to automated vehicles.

Prior to his role at Waymo, Dan was the Senior Associate Administrator for Vehicle Safety at the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, where he was responsible for all NHTSA motor vehicle safety and fuel economy programs including rulemaking, enforcement, research, data and more. Dan has a Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison, a JD from the University of San Diego School of Law and he has participated extensively in a wide range of transportation safety and legal issues for over 30 year