— Podcast
SMOVE.CITY
The Early Days of Micromobility
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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