Robin Chase
Robin Chase is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest car-sharing company in the world, which uses the Internet and wireless technology to enable rental cars to emulate personal cars. Zipcar's disruptive technology gives its members on-demand access to cars by-the-hour, revolutionizing people's relationship to their cars and improving the quality of urban life for all.
Chase is also the founder and CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community that helps people quickly arrange to share car trips of all lengths between trusted friends, neighbors, and colleagues, and handles online payments from passengers to drivers for their share of the trip costs. GoLoco's innovative combination of social networks and online payment systems recasts how we think about car travel, making it a time for socializing and with a new emphasis on trip efficiency, in order to reduce per passenger costs.
Chase is frequently consulted by transportation and planning departments and city, state, and national government agencies about wireless and mesh networking applications in the transportation sector, innovation, and economic development. She served on the Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force, and the Governor-elect's Transportation Transition Working Committee.
She lectures widely and has been frequently featured in major media including The Today Show, The New York Times, NPR, Fortune, Fast Company, Wired, and Time, as well as in several books on entrepreneurship. She has won numerous innovation, business, design, and environmental awards, and was named one of the world's most influential people by TIME 100.
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People-Powered Innovation
Innovation is a country's lifeblood. Imagine if our lives stayed exactly the same! On the other hand, people hate change because they can't quite see the future; it can be unnerving. And big companies and governments (who occasionally respond to their constituents who like the status quo) are not that easy to change.
By enabling innovation — 1) creating a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship; 2) reducing barriers and costs to experimentation; and 3) reducing the costs of the innovation inputs — government can make it possible for people to do the changing themselves. In this talk, Robin Chase — founder of car-sharing service Zipcar — discusses people-powered innovation.
Transportation for the 21st Century
From Scarcity to Abundance: Collaboration
Approaches to Sustainability for Everyone & Every Company
Global Warming & a Timeline for Action
Moving from Web 2.0 to Business 2.0, Government 2.0, Life 2.0
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