Mollie Cohen D'Agostino is a mobility policy expert and the Executive Director of the Mobility Science, Automation and Inclusion Center (MoSAIC), an exciting new Center at UC Davis that will build interdisciplinary technical capacity on connected and automated vehicles, artificial intelligence, robotics, and public policy strategies. She also serves as the Policy Lead for emerging technology, public transit and shared mobility, for the UC Institute of Transportation Studies. Mollie has a Master’s in Public Policy from UC Berkeley, and a B.A. in Political Science and Environmental studies from the U of Michigan.

Julia Friedlander is a public servant whose career in public policy, public infrastructure and public law in New York and San Francisco city government has centered on periods of transformational policy, regulatory and social change. These included the HIV public health crisis, the deregulation and reregulation of telecommunications markets at the dawn of the broadband age, the LGBT civil rights and marriage equality movements, and restructuring of transportation governance to support multi-modal use of public rights-of-way in San Francisco. She served as General Counsel to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for 11 years and – after a four year sojourn outside the transportation arena -- returned to the SFMTA wearing a policy hat. Her work now focuses on federal, state and local policy related to the future of automated driving.