Departure Unknown - The Future Of Transportation

Joe Leader is the CEO of APEX, the Airline Passenger Experience Association. APEX is made up of nearly all of the world's major airlines and serves as a non-profit organization who’s mission is to enhance passenger experience across the entire airline industry. Joe has been at APEX just over a year now and has done some incredible work to establish strategic collaborations and drive thought leadership for the association. Joe has been a leading executive for more than two decades across technology and aviation companies. He has his MBA in technology management, and conducted his business Ph.D. research on accelerating technology adoption in aviation.So, if there is someone to speak to regarding the future of the aviation industry he is a great place to start.    We dive right into it in this conversation and if you are wondering what the future holds for air travel there are many gems in here. So many that as you unpack the disruption topics covered you can imagine major opportunities throughout air travel. L

Mike Milley is the Director of the Foresight and Innovation Department for BMW Designworks. He leads the innovation consulting practice for Designworks. For those of you who do not know, BMW Designworks is an insight driven design and research firm with an expertise in mobility (automotive and aerospace). Design works being a fully owned subsidiary of BMW, Mike spends about half of his time working on BMW Group programs and the other have with external clients across a wide range of industries. Mike is an expert in taking the complexities of human nature and boiling peoples actions, drivers, and desires into clear understandable insights that make creating products or services much easier and effective. He directs a team of strategists, futurists, business consultants and material innovation experts who lead programs for some of the most renown brands in the world. His experience is immense and has a diverse background and prior to design works was the Global director at Samsung’s Lifestyle research lab in Pa

Nick Smoot is the founder of The innovation Collective, a community of leaders and entrepreneurs who are actively redirecting the creative class in various regions across the world. Their tactics for change include public and private events, tech accelerators, policy change and funding through his venture fund mountain man.    He is and advisory to many start ups and has founded a few companies , one of which was Hyplify Listed as one of the 100 most brilliant companies of 2013 by Entrepreneur Magazine, apps featured in the App Store, and partners with Virgin America, Gogo, Mensa, and Riney. His fund is currently invested in a few companies in the mobility sector that range for autonomous driving technology to drones.   In this episode: Nick shares with us how he got a first of its kind in the US law written to allow the testing of autonomous vehicles within city limits, he shares with us the thinking behind developing innovation hubs regionally and lastly dives into why we are undergoing such a major revo