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This is the fourth year for this global event that features technical presentations, forward-looking panel discussions, and networking sessions with the leading innovators across industries such as construction, agriculture, material handling, e-mobility, mobile robotics, mobile elevated work platforms, bus & truck and more.
Discover trends in the worldwide shift toward electrification. Explore challenges and opportunities across different geographical regions, including regulatory and cultural drivers. Learn about the latest innovations driving adoption and transformation, including artificial intelligence.
Paulina Modlitba is one of Sweden's leading thought leaders in technology and innovation. As an angel investor in tech companies, board professional, lecturer, and consultant, she takes on society's major challenges with insatiable passion.
Paulina developed an early interest in programming and the Internet. Eventually, she applied to both KTH and MIT where she studied and researched robot-human interaction, machine learning, and technology that assists individuals on the autism spectrum.
For the past 15 years, Paulina has been active in the entire digital ecosystem - from business development and foresight at Bonnier R&D to digital product development and marketing at startups such as Stardoll and Toca Boca. She has been running a consulting business in digital business development and strategy for 10 years. She has had SVT, Sveriges Radio, Bonnier, Nobel Media, Vinnova, KTH, and Tillväxtverket among her clients. Paulina has been a program editor for several major conferences such as Webbdagarna, Women in Tech, and Tidskriftsdagarna and formed the Tekla festival with Robyn and KTH.
Giorgio Rizzoni, the Ford Motor Company Chair in Electromechanical Systems, is a Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at The Ohio State University. He has served in his current role as Director of Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research since 1999.
Rizzoni has advised more than 46 PhD and 112 MS students in his career and was recognized by the MAE Department with the Distinguished Graduate Faculty award in April of 2016. He is also the recipient of three Excellent in Undergraduate Teaching awards in the MAE department, of the College of Engineering Stanley and Peter and Clara Scott Awards for Excellence in Engineering Education. He has led inter alia three Department of Education (DOE) Graduate Automotive Technology Education Centers of Excellence, the participation of Ohio State in two DOE US-China Clean Energy Research Centers and multiple Ohio Third Frontier programs. He is currently leading the ARPA-E NEXTCAR program, with the aim of advancing energy efficiency in connected and automated vehicles, and OSU’s Advanced Air Mobility efforts.
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