INRIX Virtual Customer Summit 2024
Join Us To Explore the World of Intelligent Transportation
6 Thought-Provoking Sessions Over 2 Days
Join us to discover how INRIX is empowering cities, state DOTs, and businesses to make data-driven decisions that advance goals and policies, save lives, and optimize budgets.
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Day 1: July 31st, 2024
>>11:30 AM EDT:
Opening Keynote with Bryan Mistele, INRIX Co-Founder & CEO
>>12:05 PM EDT:
Navigating the Storm: Managing Events with INRIX
>>12:50 PM EDT:
From INRIX and the CATT Lab: Cutting Out the Noise of Mobile Data in Traffic
>>1:35 PM EDT:
Data-Driven Decisions: Modeling Trip Data to Support Investment Decisions
Day 2: August 1st, 2024
>>11:30 AM EDT:
The Value of Generative AI in Transportation, with Ahmed Darrat, INRIX Head of Product
>>12:35 PM EDT:
Signal Success: Unlocking Cost Savings with Performance Measure Tools
>>1:20 PM EDT:
From the Physical to the Digital: Urban Right of Way Management
>>2:00 PM EDT:
Closing Session – What’s Next?
INRIX Speakers
Bryan Mistele, CEO
Bryan Mistele is the co-founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX, a leading provider of connected car services and transportation analytics worldwide. INRIX is at the forefront of connecting cars to smarter cities around the world. The company leverages big data analytics to reduce the individual, economic and environmental toll of traffic congestion. As a leader on technology and transportation issues, Bryan has served as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Transportation Policy Project, as a member of the United States Department of Transportation’s ITS Advisory Committee, and as a board member of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Bryan currently serves on the board of the Discovery Institute, a leading think-tank in the Pacific Northwest.
Ahmed Darrat, Chief Product Officer
Ahmed Darrat is a professional engineer with over 15 years of in-depth expertise in product management, policy development, asset management and maintenance, design, and project delivery in the transportation technology space. He is currently the Chief Product Officer at INRIX leading a team of product managers and designers to deliver traffic, location intelligence, traffic signals, safety, parking, and micromobility solutions. Before joining INRIX, Ahmed spent 10 years in senior management and advisory roles at the Seattle Department of Transportation and the Mayor’s Office in Seattle. He has managed diverse groups of 140+ staff ranging from engineers to construction workers and data specialists while balancing program management of $600M+ a year. Since his time at City of Seattle, Ahmed spent 3 years as a transportation consultant in the Middle East and United States working on design and development of some of the most transportation and mobility technologies in the world both as an advisor to governments and numerous private companies alike. Throughout his career, Ahmed has regularly exhibited the rare ability to transform high-level organization values and objectives into sustainable everyday operations and services that enhance the quality of life of the public.
Chico Gersappe, Chief Revenue Officer
Global revenue growth leader with over 20 years’ experience in leading sales, revenue, pricing, sales operations, marketing and strategy functions. Passionate about commercializing opportunities throughout multiple sectors and building diverse cross-functional teams to achieve a growth agenda. I’m thrilled to be part of the INRIX family delivering unique value in safety and clarity in the ITS space with our products. Prior to my life in business, I was a research scientist for prostate cancer research and a nurse.
Phil Defrancesco, Head of Product – Financial Services
Phil DeFrancesco is the Head of Product for the Financial Services business at INRIX, a leading provider of mobility data and SaaS offerings that utilize Embedded GPS data from passenger cars and trucks. Leveraging his wealth of experience and deep understanding of the financial landscape, Phil has led the development of INRIX’s groundbreaking data offering for the investment community and the broader alternative data ecosystem. Phil has had an impressive career spanning over 25 years in the financial services industry. He served as the Head of Trading at Millennium Partners for 11 years before joining Thomson Reuters, where he held the position of Global Head of Trading Desktop until 2020. Phil graduated from Binghamton University with a Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in 1997.
Steve Remias, Head of Product – Signals
Steve Remias is currently the head of product strategy for signals at INRIX. Steve received his PhD from Purdue University and BSCE from Michigan State. Prior to joining INRIX he was an associate professor of civil engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit. His focus areas include traffic operations, probe vehicle data, traffic signal optimization, performance measurement, and using large data sets to solve transportation problems.
Nat Gale, Head of Product – Vision Zero
Nat Gale is Head of Product for Safety View at INRIX, a transportation technology company. His career has been focused on safe and complete streets, experience he currently brings to the development of data products and software that help transportation planners and engineers make smart, more informed safety decisions. He previously ran the City of Los Angeles’ Vision Zero program and was the Director of Capital Projects and Operations for the City of Hartford, CT.
Michael Cottle, SVP – Automotive
Mike is the SVP for INRIX’s automotive group. For more than 25 years Mike has built successful software businesses working with Automotive OEMs and Tier One partners around the world. Prior to INRIX, Mike held executive level positions at companies such as Mapbox, deCarta (acquired by Uber), Apple and Telenav. He also led the development of deCarta’s navigation solution which today forms the basis of Uber’s driver navigation app. Mike has a passion for helping customers realize their vision for creating innovative navigation driver safety solutions.
Deepak Ramnath, Head of Product – Data Analytics & Insights
Deepak Ramnath, Head of Product for AI and Data Products at INRIX, orchestrates the development of cutting-edge AI-powered traffic data and mobility intelligence solutions. With extensive experience in product strategy, AI/ML, and data analytics, Deepak leverages AI and vast datasets to generate actionable insights that empower transportation professionals.
Shaun Quayle, Customer Success – Public Sector
Shaun Quayle, PE (Florida) is a senior traffic engineer with INRIX. He has over 20 years of professional experience as a consultant, public agency manager, and now in industry with INRIX. His focus is on TSMO, safety and mobility, particularly on arterials and traffic signal systems.
Michael Schwartz, GM Ride Report
Michael Schwartz has more than 20 years of experience implementing and overseeing teams working on data-driven transportation plans, policies, and infrastructure. He is currently the General Manager of City Products at INRIX, including Ride Report shared mobility management, Curb Analytics, and the Road Rules software suite. As the former CEO Ride Report, Michael grew the company from its pre-revenue phase to more than 75 customers of shared mobility management software and a footprint in more than 100 shared mobility markets across three continents around the world. Michael has created and implemented his vision of a customer-obsessed company providing the tools, expertise, and technical support public agency staff need to meet their goals in today’s transportation technology landscape and transitioned that effort to INRIX. Prior to working at Ride Report, Michael was a Principal Planner at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority where he led a study of parking-based approaches to congestion pricing and was the SFCTA lead for the Transportation Sustainability Program that included parking as an approach to transportation demand management. Michael was a founding member of the Open Mobility Foundation (OMF) and Mobility Data Specification (MDS) Working Group providing and coordinating regular feedback from the Ride Report team to the OMF GitHub. Michael is now a member of the Curb Data Specification (CDS) Curb Working Group Steering Committee.
Guest Speakers
Alex Demisch, Data Analytics & Strategy Manager, Street Division – SFMTA
Alex Demisch is the Data Analytics and Strategy Manager for the Streets Division at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. His team works to improve how the division acquires, manages, and uses data to support a range of functions, including digitizing curb and street regulations, managing dockless mobility, measuring the effectiveness of transit signal priority, and optimizing enforcement resources. He builds on 15 years of experience at SFMTA, including analyzing transit ridership and performance to improve reliability, and working with sensor technology and developing analytic models to support the SFpark demand-responsive pricing pilot project. He currently leads the SFMTA’s Digital Curb project to create an up-to-date citywide map and database of the city’s curb regulations.
Ravi Tallury, Principal, Solution Architecture – AWS
Ravi Tallury leads the Amazon Web Services (AWS) state and local government transportation vertical’s solutions. This includes activities with airports, seaports, transit agencies, tolling authorities, departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and government councils. Over the past twenty-eight years, Ravi has held tech and strategy leadership roles in global systems integration firms, as well as automotive original equipment manufacturers with focus in Internet of Things (IoT), Connected car and autonomous vehicle initiatives (CV2X) and data modernization in the cloud. Ravi’s focus in the last two years has been on embedding AWS compute and storage services within 5G networks, utilizing far edge/near edge and cloud for developing, deploying, and scaling ultra-low-latency applications.
Jim Welch, Head of Solutions – NextBillion.ai
Jim brings more than 20 years of hands-on, technical and pre-sales leadership experience to NextBillion.ai gained with innovative companies like RideCell, TomTom, and deCarta (acquired by Uber). In addition, he founded, grew, and successfully exited MobileSoft which maintained an extensive international footprint in the fleet management and dispatch services space with nearly 100,000 subscribers. With deep experience in telematics and location based services technologies, Jim’s focus has been on building and creating technology teams that create products and services aligned with burgeoning market opportunities. In addition, he served five years as a naval officer and nuclear power plant supervisor. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Jim earned a degree in computer science and also earned an MBA from the Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.
Kelly Wells, Traveler Information Engineer – North Carolina DOT
Kelly Wells is a highway engineer with over 30 years of experience. She currently manages the traveler info and big traffic data programs for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Kelly co-chairs the Eastern Transportation Coalition’s Traveler Information Program Track. She previously worked for FHWA and graduated from the George Washington University.
Franklin Jones, CEO Founder – B-Line Urban Delivery
Franklin Jones founded B-Line Urban Delivery in Portland, OR in 2009 and continues to serve as the CEO. B-Line offers a consolidated warehousing and last-mile logistics model that streamlines how local food producers and national suppliers get their products into an urban market. B-Line deploys a fleet of electric-assist freight tricycles that reduce congestion and pollution while providing a unique platform for out-of-home advertising. B-Line draws on Franklin’s combined interests in cycling, community, and sustainability. He earned a degree in history and environmental studies from Bowdoin College before working in transportation planning. Franklin taught English in Japan, traveled by bicycle around the globe, then continued his career as an educator at the Menlo School in California. To shift from teaching about pressing environmental and social problems to addressing them directly, Franklin founded B-Line. Recognized as a champion of the B-Corporation movement, Franklin’s vision is to utilize the power of business to enable communities to become more livable and sustainable for all.
Rayne Gaisford, Data Strategist
Rayne Gaisford is a Data Strategist with a background covering multiple areas of the data ecosystem as Chief Product Officer of a web collection data company, a Chief Data Strategist for a not-for-profit advisor to the US Government, the Global Head of Data Strategy for a global investment bank, and a Senior Risk Manager for several institutional multi-manager hedge fund.
Lance Ballard, P.E.
Lance Ballard is a transportation engineer at Kimley-Horn specializing in traffic signal operations, ITS, and data analytics. Lance has retimed thousands of signals across the country and leads the City of Austin’s Mobility Management Center (MMC) which operates over 1100 signals within the City of Austin. Lance is a graduate of Texas A&M and Georgia Tech, and he is a registered P.E. in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas.
Steve Banfield, Vice President, Business Development, Marketplace – Placer.ai
Steve Banfield is Vice President of Business Development, Marketplace, for Placer.ai. Steve leads the team responsible for Placer’s inbound data partnerships. He works with point of interest, road traffic, mapping, demographic, environmental, and other critical data providers whose products add important contextual analysis to the Placer platform.
Greg Jordan, Assistant to the Director – CATT Lab
For 25 years Greg Jordan served as President of Skycomp, a data company that used aircraft to document highway traffic flow metrics like level-of-service, origin-destinations, queue lengths and travel times. An early advocate of GPS-based probe data, Mr. Jordan used helicopter-generated video to validate INRIX probe and trip pathway data for planning and operations uses. He joined the Catt Laboratory in 2016, and today is the Lab’s subject matter expert for the OD and routing features of Trip Analytics on the RITIS platform.
Jacob Sherman, New Mobility & Electrification Program Manager – Portland Bureau of Transportation
Jacob Sherman is the New Mobility and Electrification Section Manager at the Portland Bureau of Transportation, where brings more than 14 years of experience managing innovative programs, projects, and partnerships around sustainability to the role. He is responsible for leading a team focused on private-sector partnerships, shared mobility strategy, regulatory innovation, and transportation electrification, which are core to the City’s climate goals. Jacob leads the City’s $2 million USDOT SMART Grant project to pilot the nation’s first regulated Zero-Emission Delivery Zone, its $3.5 million USDOE grant to install 50 utility pole mounted EV chargers in the right-of-way, and its strategy on mobility data. He was project manager for the City’s E-Scooter Pilot Program and its EV Charging in the Right-of-Way project. Outside of work, Jacob is active in his community, coaching youth soccer and currently serves as Chair of the Planning Commission for the City of Milwaukie, Oregon.
Marcie Kahbody, Deputy Secretary of Technology and Agency Chief Information Officer – CalSTA
Marcie Kahbody serves as the Deputy Secretary of Technology and Agency Chief Information Officer for the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA). In addition, Marcie serves as Chief Information Officer of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), underlining her continued dedication to modernizing California’s transportation system’s technological infrastructure. As Agency and Chief Information Officer, Kahbody leads collaboration across California transportation entities to increase innovation and successful information technology (IT) project delivery. She oversees information technology (IT) responsibilities for all of CalSTA’s Boards, Offices, Commissions, and Departments (including DMV, Caltrans, CHP, High Speed Rail, and others). With over 31 years of public sector experience in IT, Marcie possesses a record of proven outcomes as a collaborative leader, directing highly technical teams and successfully implementing enterprise transformation initiatives and programs. Marcie focuses on fostering collaboration, building effective teams, encouraging two-way communication, and providing mentorship. She believes in the strength of diversity, building relationships, finding innovative approaches to updating policies, and is passionate about cultivating up and coming leaders. Marcie believes that success begins with a People First foundation and has championed it throughout her career.
Santiago Garcés, Chief Information Officer – City of Boston
Santiago “Santi” Garces, driven by early experiences in his native Bogotá, Colombia, has dedicated his career to help the government deliver better experiences and better outcomes for people. As the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Boston, he leads the Innovation and Technology Cabinet, striving to make it an engine of transformation by employing data science and human-centered design. With extensive history in civic tech roles, including CIO positions in South Bend and Pittsburgh, Santi has won the Bloomberg’s Mayor Innovation project for the Commuter’s Trust and has played an instrumental role in citywide technological advancements. Santi has also co-founded a nonprofit, enFocus, aimed at creating innovative solutions for government and industry. His leadership, spanning planning, sustainability, and technological infrastructure, continues to shape the cities he serves towards a more efficient, inclusive, and technologically advanced future.