Lyft Co-Founder and President John Zimmer to Keynote CES 2018 Leaders in Technology Dinner
October 30 2017 - 4:06PM
Business Wire
Lyft’s John Zimmer, co-founder and president, will address 600
policymakers, top technologists and entrepreneurs at the CES® 2018
Leaders in Technology (LIT) dinner on Jan. 10. He will sit down
with Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, Consumer Technology
Association (CTA), to discuss Lyft’s vision for the future and the
road ahead for the transportation industry. Owned and produced by
CTA, CES 2018 returns to Las Vegas, Jan. 9-12, 2018.
“John is a passionate innovator who is committed to making life
easier, safer and more reliable on the roads. He is relentlessly
pursuing innovation in the transportation industry and is now
actively researching a future that may include autonomous vehicles
as part of its business model,” said Shapiro. “John and the entire
Lyft team have worked to improve people’s lives by creating
affordable and sustainable transportation in cities that are more
affordable and sustainable, and built around people – not
cars.”
Zimmer’s interest in transportation began at Cornell University
where he learned that cars remain parked 96 percent of the time and
when used, only 20 percent of seats are occupied. In 2008, Zimmer
left New York for San Francisco to join co-founder Logan Green to
launch Zimride, a long-distance ridesharing company with the goal
of creating a more social, sustainable and affordable
transportation system. Lyft was born in 2012 out of Zimride and
strives to improve lives with the world’s best transportation.
Available to 95 percent of the U.S. population and providing more
than 1 million rides a day, Lyft provides drivers and passengers a
safe and friendly experience, and is committed to creating positive
change for the future of our cities. Since unveiling Lyft in June
2012, the company has become one of the fastest-growing businesses
in the U.S. and has raised more than $3.6 billion from leading
investors that include: CapitalG (Alphabet), General Motors,
Andreessen Horowitz, KKR, Founders Fund, Janus Capital, Didi
Kuaidi, Rakuten and Baillie Gifford.
At the LIT dinner, Zimmer will explore America’s third
transportation revolution and how the upcoming shift from car
ownership to transportation as a service will shape the future of
our cities and communities. The introduction and widespread
adoption of networked autonomous vehicles will be addressed, along
with a forecast for ending U.S. car ownership in major cities and
the changes in how cities are built.
“Ridesharing has already begun to empower many people to live
without owning a car,” said Zimmer. “But even if you don’t care
about cars — even if you never step into a Lyft or an autonomous
vehicle — the changes brought about by autonomous vehicles are
going to transform your life. Transportation doesn’t just impact
how we get from place to place; it shapes what those places look
like, and the lives of the people who live there.”
According to CTA’s Self-Driving Vehicles: Consumer
Sentiments, most consumers are excited about the benefits of
self-driving vehicles and almost two-thirds want to swap their
current cars for completely self-driving vehicles. CES 2018 will
showcase the automotive industry on the verge of a revolution and
vehicle tech making cars safer and drivers more connected. There
will be more than 150 vehicle technology exhibitors spanning more
than 280,000 net square feet of exhibit space at CES 2018.
The Leaders in Technology Program at CES allows high-level
public policymakers and technologists to learn from more than 3,900
exhibitors and see thousands of new products that contribute to the
$321 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. The program also
provides information and insight to assist officials in evaluating
federal policies that affect the consumer technology industry. For
more information on the Leaders in Technology Program, please
contact Laura Hudson at lhudson@CTA.tech or 703-907-7604.
Zimmer follows other influential technology leaders as an LIT
keynoter, including James Park, CEO and co-founder of Fitbit, and
Nick Woodman, founder and CEO of GoPro.
Please check the CES Keynote Addresses page regularly for
updates on the keynote schedule. CES 2018 is the global stage for
innovation and will span more than 2.5 million net square feet of
exhibit space unveiling technologies, products and services that
touch every industry.
High-definition video b-roll from CES is available for easy
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