Oct 24 2016
Robin Chase
Founder and Former CEO, Zipcar, Buzzcar and GoLoco
Robin Chase is the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, co-founder of Buzzcarand GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. Zipcar, GoLoco and Buzzcar have been seen as disruptive and innovative: they used technology and marketing to change the way people own and use cars; they changed the ways cities are lived in and built; they changed prejudices about the incompatibility of environmentalism and capitalism. She is Executive Chairman of Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things.
“She is one of the pioneers of the sharing economy”
Robin served on the board of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce, the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group, and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.Robin lectures widely, has been frequently featured in the major media, and has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design, and environment, including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers. [/expand]
Highly innovative, Robin helps individuals, companies and government understand where to look for innovation and how to enable it. She explores how rethinking “excess capacity” can be combined with technology and platforms for participation to unlock innovation, new profit centres and ultimately lead us to a sustainable planet. [/expand]
Robin prepares each presentation to perfectly suit each event and offers audiences a wealth of useful actionable information with real life examples honed from her own business successes.[/expand]
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Topics
Sharing Economy
Innovation
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Transportation and Cities
Climate Change
Publications
2015
Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
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