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  Dr. Sven A. Beiker of Stanford CARS

Sven Beiker is the Executive Director of CARS, the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. CARS is an interdisciplinary partnership between academia and industry to address the challenges of individual mobility in the 21st century. Since 2008, Beiker has been taking care of the program’s strategic planning, resources management, and project incubation. Besides managing the industry relationships, he holds teaching positions at Stanford's School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Business to educate students in interdisciplinary automotive topics and strategic thinking.

Frank Douma of Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota

Frank Douma is a Research Fellow and Associate Director of the State and Local Policy Program at the Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs and a Research Scholar at the Center for Transportation Studies, both located at the University of Minnesota. He manages research projects related to several different areas of transportation policy, including impacts of developments in information and communications technologies (ICT) and urban corridor development.

In addition to working at the Humphrey School, Mr. Douma has a wealth of experience in transportation, having worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Metropolitan Airports Commission, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation. While working for these organizations, he acquired experience in the legal aspects of transportation policy and an appreciation for the roles that different modes play in urban and rural transportation systems. Mr. Douma has a Masters Degree in Public Affairs and a Law Degree from the University of Minnesota, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Grinnell College.

Dorothy J. Glancy of Santa Clara University School of Law

Professor Dorothy Glancy is nationally known for her extensive work in the area of intelligent transportation. Under a grant from the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation, she directed a legal research project regarding privacy and intelligent transportation systems. She has also been a consultant to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked with the United States Department of Transportation regarding privacy policy issues, and served as a consultant regarding legal and regulatory issues for the United States Department of Transportation’s Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study Report to Congress (2007).

Robert B. Kelly & Mark D. Johnson of Squire Sanders and Dempsey, Washington, D.C.

Robert Kelly is a partner at Squire Sanders, Washington, D.C. He leads the firm’s Communications Practice Group and has practiced telecommunications and emerging technology law since 1981. He negotiates major transactions involving acquisitions in the telecommunications industry and advises US and international interests regarding transactional, legislative and regulatory matters, often appearing before US regulatory authorities. He has extensive experience in the areas of wireless communications and intelligent transportation services.

Mark Johnson is a senior associate at Squire Sanders, Washington, D.C. He focuses on telecommunications and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Mark advises clients on a variety of regulatory and policy matters affecting the telecommunications and ITS industries as well as corporate governance, contract and transactional issues. He has regular interaction with the US Department of Transportation, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), US Congress, and state and local officials.

Gary E. Marchant of Arizona State University Law School

Gary Marchant is the Lincoln Professor Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He is also a Professor of Life Sciences at ASU and Executive Director of the ASU Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology. Professor Marchant has a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of British Columbia, a Masters of Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government, and a law degree from Harvard. Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 1999, he was a partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm where his practice focused on environmental and administrative law. Professor Marchant teaches and researches in the subject areas of environmental law, risk assessment and risk management, genetics and the law, biotechnology law, food and drug law, legal aspects of nanotechnology, and law, science and technology

Robert Peterson of Santa Clara University School of Law

Robert Peterson is Professor of Law and Director, Center for Insurance Law and Regulation and Director of Graduate Legal Programs at Santa Clara University School of Law.  Professor Peterson currently chairs the California Bar Association Standing Committee on Insurance Law and serves as a mediator for the United States District Court.

Bryant Walker Smith of Stanford CARS and CIS

As a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School (CIS) and the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS), Bryant focuses on the law and policy of autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles. His research interests include administrative law, efficiency, and public/private coordination.

O. Kevin Vincent

Chief Counsel of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, United States Department of Transportation.

Steve Wood

Assistant Chief Counsel for Vehicle Rulemaking & Harmonization, Office of the Chief Counsel, National Highway Transportation & Safety Administration, United States Department of Transportation