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Erik Goldman
Erik Goldman is the founder and CEO of Sfara, a Hoboken, New Jersey company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a safety and collision-detection platform using on-device AI and sensor data. A connected-vehicle pioneer, he co-founded Hughes Telematics in 2006, grew it to more than 1,000 employees and roughly $250M in revenue, and saw it acquired by Verizon in 2012, where he served as Group President of Verizon Telematics. At Sfara he is building AI that detects crashes at all speeds, suppresses false positives, and speeds emergency response and insurance claims for automakers, insurers, fleets and wireless carriers.
Matter
Matter is an Ahmedabad-based deep-tech mobility and energy company best known for the Aera, India's first geared electric motorcycle. Founded in 2019 by Mohal Lalbhai and a team of engineers, Matter designs and manufactures connected electric two-wheelers with a four-speed manual gearbox and liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery packs, alongside a separate line of stationary and mobility energy-storage products. The company runs its own next-generation factory in the Ahmedabad region and has raised tens of millions in venture funding to scale production of vertically integrated, India-specific EVs.
Sunil Kaul
Sunil Kaul is the CEO of Airlinq, a Silicon Valley-based enterprise IoT platform company serving automakers, mobile network operators, and enterprises with a secure, scalable, AI-powered platform for connected vehicle and IoT ecosystem management. With over 20 years in telecommunications, Kaul has grown Airlinq into a globally recognized leader in IoT connectivity management, earning top rankings from Kaleido Intelligence, Counterpoint Research, and Frost & Sullivan, while forging partnerships with major names like Volvo, Verizon, NTT DOCOMO, Jio, and Tata.