Venkatesh Gopal

Tell us about yourself?

Started as a field engineer troubleshooting vehicles.I switched to a more diverse profile to be able to shape what an automotive company should do. I figured adding vehicles to the roads wasn't helping anyone, got annoyed and quit. I joined a visionary leader to work towards building shared sustainable mobility solutions.

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What are the top 3 trends in your transport/smart city niche that everyone should look out for in the next 5 years?

Multimodal and intermodal shared mobility access.

Lighter-shared vehicles will contribute to better cities.

Cities doubling down on curbing congestion.

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How do you/your company innovate?

We look at solving a city planning or transportation problem from the way people move around, the purpose and motivations. Then comes putting together a solution for that. We rely on building a financial feasible plan as only when saving the planet becomes cheaper than killing it, will we witness lasting pattern change.‍

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Why is encouraging innovation, new ideas, and tech important?

When it comes to transportation the age-old purpose of faster-bigger-more hasn't worked in the long term. Innovation makes us rethink from scratch so that we can bring better concepts to life. Tech is a boon that most of the times gets abused to fuel the older purpose.

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