Chris Barker, USA

Keynote Lecturer

Chris Barker is Vice President of New Mobility at Keolis helping to introduce new transportation options to cities and communities across North America. Keolis is a global transportation company that provides heavy rail, light-rail, bus, autonomous shuttles, car share, bike share, and sky tram service to 26 countries moving 3 billion people a year.

Chris is 20-year veteran of the transportation and technology industry. He founded transportation technology firm CBC where he has worked with transportation and technology companies, cities and governments around the world to advocate the role of technology in advancing new forms of mobility. Last year, Chris was an advisor and judge on the USDOT Smart City Challenge project and has continued to advance smart city/transportation development projects across the globe. His CBC team has also developed and deployed self-driving car simulators for State DOTs/DMVs, universities, museums and other public facilities.

Prior to running his own company, Chris has held senior business development, communications and marketing roles for multiple Fortune 50 companies. He served as the Global Director of Communications for Honeywell Aerospace, Head of Public Sector Communications and Marketing at Cisco and Senior Executive Communications Manager for the Office of the President at Boeing.  He’s also held VP/SVP of business development and marketing for Text 100 Communications and Waggener Edstrom Worldwide.

Chris is a national Board Member for the Association for Commuter Transportation. He’s also been a Connected Car/Future of Mobility keynote/panel speaker at CES (Las Vegas), SXSW (Austin), RSA (San Francisco), CE Week (New York), A-Bace (Shanghai) and IAA (Frankfurt).