Empower Women in Shared Mobility Award 2023

What is the Empower women in Shared Mobility Pitch?

movmi has been hosting the?Women in Shared Mobility?interview series ?for the past 7 years to amplify the voices of female industry leaders that work in transportation and specifically within shared mobility. In 2019 we launched our first ever?Empower Women in Shared Mobility?program in an effort to take this one step further – to promote and empower one women-led mobility venture for 12 months across the many avenues available to us.

This year we are extending our EmpowerWISM program ! If you are a young company (<5 years) that have at least one woman co-founder or executive (cis or trans women, non-binary, gender-fluid or gender non-conforming people) and offers a product or service that falls within the shared mobility industry, please apply for the?2023?Empower Women in Shared Mobility Pitch?here.

We will be showcasing the top 3 companies and the winner will receive a 12 month mentoring package, access to the entire EmpowerWISM network (partners, judges and movmi) and will be invited to different opportunities to showcase their work!

What will you win?

The winner will receive a prize package that includes:

• A booth at the 2023 Autonomy, Paris
• Flights to Paris courtesy of INVERS
• 10 hour consultancy package with?Boris Pilichowski .
• 1 year support from?movmi ?(up to 30 hours of consulting)
• Guest spot on the My Smart Community podcast
• Guest spot on Byte Size podcast
• Magazine Interview with ITS International

How are companies evaluated and selected?

To qualify for the program your company must:

• Provide a product, service or technology usable for personal mobility/transportation (can be in shared mobility, but doesn’t have to be)
• Have at minimum 1 female Co-Founder and C-level executive(cis or trans women, non-binary, gender-fluid or gender non-conforming people). Additional points are given for more female representation.
• Be less than 5 years old

The application is short. It will take you 15 minutes to complete plus we ask for a?one minute long elevator video pitch. A global panel of judges will evaluate the entries, select the top 5 and award the winner.

Meet The Judges

Candice Xie | Co-Founder & CEO, Veo

Candice Xie is the Co-Founder and CEO of Veo, in fact, she’s the only woman CEO of a major e-scooter company today. Previous to her job at Veo, she work at Schneider Electric, the Bank of China and MassMutual Financial Group. Candice uses her experience and background in financial analytics to advance Veo through a dynamic regulatory environment toward efficient and effective expansion. We first met Candice and Veo as a stand out applicant during our first EmpowerWISM program.

Boris Pilichowski | Expert in Mobility, Marketplaces & Investment Management

Boris Pilichowski, CFA is a French national with an engineering degree from école des Mines de Paris. He started his career in capital markets working for different investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank) as a salesperson then a trader in the banks’ principal investment groups. After 20 years on the “investment side” of business, Boris decided to join the “operational side” by taking-over the start-up Karhoo and becoming its co-CEO in 2017.?

Today Boris uses his expertise as a banker, an investor and a tech entrepreneur to work with young companies and help them scale their operations and find adequate capital to fuel their development.?

Sergio Avelleda | Urban Mobility Consultant

Sergio Avelleda is an urban Mobility consultant, former Secretary of Urban Mobility and Transports in Sao Paulo, former Global Urban Mobility Director at WRI – World Resources Institute, and former President of Subway Company and Suburban Trains Company in S?o Paulo.

Jessica Alba | Director of Policy & TDM, Stanford University

After more than 15 years in consulting, Jessica joined Stanford University in 2017 as an internal and external liaison on transportation policy matters. She is currently Stanford Transportation’s Director of Policy & TDM. Prior to Stanford, she was a sustainable transportation planner at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates and Trivector Traffic, two thought leaders on transportation solutions that put people first.

Sandra Phillips | Founder & CEO, movmi

Sandra is a world-wide expert in shared mobility and at movmi, she has worked on over 70 international projects. She has won the TED Next Visionary and BC Business Change Maker Awards and is also a Clean50 Honoree. Sandra is a TED alumni speaker and also teaches at universities to share what she has learnt on her shared mobility journey.

Aishwarya Raman | Executive Director, OMI Foundation

OMI is a new-age policy research and social innovation think tank. She’s a member of the Global Futures Council of the World Economic Forum, Advisor – Global Partnership for Informal Transportation, Member of CII National Committees on Industrial Relations, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Salzburg Global Fellow. An M.Sc. in Sociology from the University of Oxford (UK), a mobility entrepreneur and academic in her previous avatars, Aishwarya is committed to the cause of sustainable development.

We'd like to say a special thank you to all our EmpowerWISM 2023 partners! ??