Travis Kalanick Keynotes Urban Mobility Summit

Travis Kalanick, CEO and co-founder of Uber Technologies Inc., delivered a fascinating keynote on novel ways to move people around cities at the High-Level Summit on ‘Ride-Share’ Revolution: How Technology Will Help Move People, Raise Productivity, Cut Emissions and Save Cities. The summit brought an eclectic group of entrepreneurs, regulators and thought leaders together to investigate how innovative transportation models based on new technologies can help solving the challenges of urban mobility. Henrik Hololei, director-general for mobility and transport at the European Commission; Kaja Kallas, member of the committee on industry, research and industry at the European Parliament, and José Manuel Viegas, secretary-general of the International Transport Forum at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, joined the high-level panel.