— Podcast
SMOVE.CITY
Early Days
Hosted by Constantin Vermoere

Building cities, from scratch.

Honest conversations with the founders, operators, planners and policymakers shaping the next generation of urban mobility — what they shipped, what they got wrong, and what nobody warned them about.

Hosted by SMOVECITY founder Constantin Vermoere. 17 episodes recorded between 2021 and 2023. A new season is in production.

— Episodes

17 conversations, 2021–2023.

Founders, operators, city officials and analysts — what they shipped, what they got wrong, and what nobody warned them about. Newest first.

Pascal Smet
Ep. 17 · Sep 2023

Navigating Mobility in Brussels

Pascal Smet · State Secretary of the Brussels-Capital Region

Join us in an illuminating conversation with Pascal Smet, a prominent figure in Brussels politics with a profound dedication to sustainable urban mobility.

Elke Van den Brandt
Ep. 16 · Aug 2023

A regional minister’s view on mobility

Elke Van den Brandt · Minister of Mobility, Brussels

Sustainability to innovation, regulation to public engagement — Minister Van den Brandt on the strategies behind one of Europe’s most ambitious mobility rebuilds.

Bart Dhondt
Ep. 15 · Aug 2023

Rebuilding Brussels around the rider

Bart Dhondt · Deputy Mayor of Mobility, Brussels

A thought-provoking conversation on Bart Dhondt’s tireless dedication to enhancing quality of life in Brussels through progressive, sustainable urban mobility.

Fredrik Hjelm
Ep. 14 · May 2023

Building Voi — and the case for European micromobility

Fredrik Hjelm · CEO & Co-Founder, VOI Technology

Fredrik founded Voi in 2018 with a vision of revolutionising urban transportation through fleets of electric scooters. A candid conversation on building a European operator.

Koen Kennis
Ep. 13 · Apr 2023

Antwerp’s mobility playbook

Koen Kennis · Alderman for Mobility, City of Antwerp

A dedicated politician and influential leader on the development and growth of Antwerp, and the policy work behind one of Belgium’s busiest urban-mobility regions.

Stein Van Oosteren
Ep. 12 · Apr 2023

Why cycling is more than transport

Stein Van Oosteren · Author & Mobility Expert

A Franco-Dutch author and former Dutch government attaché on how cycling reshapes cities, communities, and the political imagination around what streets are for.

Andrew Fleury
Ep. 11 · Apr 2023

Making shared scooters safer with computer vision

Andrew Fleury · CEO & Co-Founder, Luna Systems

Luna builds the computer-vision layer that makes shared scooters and bikes ride more safely on public streets. Andrew on the engineering, regulation and city-by-city rollout.

Matthieu Faure
Ep. 10 · Apr 2023

The Paris electric-scooter ban vote

Matthieu Faure · Founding team, DOTT · Head of Policy & Communications

Recorded the week of the Paris referendum that banned free-floating e-scooters. Matthieu on what the vote really meant — and what every operator should have learned from it.

Aléxandros Tziampazis
Ep. 09 · Mar 2023

A market analysis with two of the industry’s sharpest minds

Aléxandros Tziampazis · Senior mobility analyst

Joint episode with Augustin Friedel — an in-depth conversation on hardware, software, unit economics, acquisitions, and how the micromobility market really works.

Augustin Friedel
Ep. 08 · Mar 2023

A market analysis with two of the industry’s sharpest minds

Augustin Friedel · Mobility analyst & advisor

Joint episode with Aléxandros Tziampazis — an in-depth conversation on hardware, software, unit economics, acquisitions, and how the micromobility market really works.

Raymon Pouwels
Ep. 07 · May 2022

Go — Sharing

Raymon Pouwels · Co-Founder & CEO, GO Sharing

From 168 green electric scooters in Eindhoven to a full multi-modal shared-mobility brand across the Netherlands and Belgium. Raymon on how it scaled.

John Rossant
Ep. 06 · May 2022

How the mobility revolution is transforming our lives

John Rossant · Founder & CEO, CoMotion

Chairman of NewCities and the founder of CoMotion on how the global urban-mobility movement reshapes the cities we live in — and the institutions that govern them.

Maxim Romain
Ep. 05 · May 2022

The importance of a local strategy

Maxim Romain · COO & Co-Founder, Dott

Maxim built Wayfair’s European supply-chain before co-founding Dott. A grounded look at why local-by-default beats global-by-default for shared-mobility operators.

Scott Shepard
Ep. 04 · May 2022

The future of public transport

Scott Shepard · Urban planner & mobility strategist

A #CitiesFirst advocate who’s spent two decades at the intersection of urban planning, mobility innovation and startup advisory. On where public transit goes next.

Prabin Joel Jones
Ep. 03 · May 2022

Accelerating the industry by sharing knowledge

Prabin Joel Jones · ex-CTO, BOND Mobility

A serial entrepreneur and ex-CTO at BOND Mobility on venture-building, product, and why the micromobility industry grows faster when its operators stop hoarding what they learn.

Philip Muller
Ep. 02 · May 2022

Unlocking micromobility through white-label software

Philip Muller · Co-Founder, Unping & FleetBird

A serial product founder from Germany on building the back-end software that quietly powers a generation of shared-mobility brands across Europe.

Alex Nesic
Ep. 01 · Dec 2021

Using AI to deliver a safer micromobility future

Alex Nesic · Co-Founder, Drover AI

The first conversation of the show. Alex Nesic on his decade of work growing shared mobility — and on the computer-vision tech inside Drover AI that catches scooters riding on sidewalks.

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