Changing the way the world moves – again
summary
Declares a shift from making cars to being a Mobility company and is running concrete experiments: SUVs map unmapped villages in India while transmitting expectant mothers’ health to urban hospitals, partnerships with NOS in South Africa and Nigeria map communities and coordinate health/clean‑water aid, and a Silicon Valley lab plus a VC and TechStars in Detroit onboard startups. Predicts revenue from new services and data, runs a hackathon on the sink platform yesterday that is called a success, and frames Transportation as a Service as the business pivot.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 0:48Ford’s Irish roots and tech vision
- 1:50Reimagining Ford as a mobility company
- 3:36Future business model shifts
- 5:46Partnering with startups
- 8:14Future revenue streams and data
- 9:40Autonomous vehicles and industry disruption
- 11:28Transparency and ethical tech
- 13:13Hiring tech talent
- 14:15Bill Ford’s Utopia and pace of change
- 15:39Customer-centric tech solutions
- 16:43Global startup growth hotspots
- 17:48Curiosity and open-minded innovation
- 18:31Ford’s open platform hackathon
- 19:14Closing remarks and revolution
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