The Mobility Diaries: Connecting the Milestones of Innovation Leading to ACES

With well over 25 years of experience, Sven Beiker is widely regarded as the mobility expert in Silicon Valley specializing in future trends for the automotive and mobility industries including autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification, and shared mobility. In The Mobility Diaries: Connecting the Milestones of Innovation Leading to ACES, he opens up his personal diary regarding his take on 50 years of mobility innovation and history interwoven with his experiences from 1978 to 2018.

From the Foreword by Reilly P. Brennan: "Understanding how transportation itself evolved requires a unique prism. The core components of vehicles today have stories and engineering journeys worth their own telling, and that is what is so exciting about the way we can learn about them in this text. Dr. Beiker's curriculum vitae, from BMW to Stanford University to McKinsey, are a compendium of experiences that created this unique historical and biographical book."

"Sven and I are kindred spirits in the mobility world. His view on the evolution of mobility and technology illustrates why Detroit and Silicon Valley need one another." Carla Bailo, Former President and CEO, Center for Automotive Research

Sven started his career at BMW in Munich, Germany. In 2003, he joined the BMW Technology Office USA in Palo Alto, CA. In 2008, Sven launched the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford University (CARS), where he developed an extensive network across many global industry affiliates. He joined McKinsey & Company in 2015 as an expert consultant for automotive and mobility topics. In 2017, Sven started his own independent consulting practice Silicon Valley Mobility, LLC. His mission is to improve sustainability, safety, efficiency, and convenience in how consumers use automobiles by comprehensively covering all ACES topics. Sven continues to teach at the Stanford Business School. He also serves on the advisory board of several startups, as an advisor for the German American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco, and as a co-editor for the Springer Lecture Notes in Mobility.