For over 30 years, Robert Gee has been a strategy manager and futurist for companies including IBM, Motorola, Continental, and now AUMOVIO. He currently focuses on standards, government, and intellectual property. His projects have encompassed military and commercial communications technologies – including space, aerial, and terrestrial – for dozens of countries across five continents. He has degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and over 20 issued patents. Robert’s experience extends to the news and entertainment industry, in which he is a national television Emmy Award recipient for his work as a producer for CNN. He has been credited with successfully pioneering the modern contracting approach for citizen photojournalists, and at one point had a CNN-estimated syndication audience of over 1 billion viewers.

The Pop in Your Job
Some lessons aren’t taught in a classroom. While my wife and I were fortunate to walk away from two terrorist attacks, dozens of people near us did not. The lesson we learned was that the daily grind and the disagreement of the moment are frivolous in comparison to making positive differences in others’ lives, sometimes as simple as starting with a smile. As engineers and scientists, we collaborate to do even more, such as working on cooperative and connected technologies that can address millions of unnecessary Roadway Injuries and Deaths (RIDs) each year. It is a daunting challenge, but one that can bear a wonderful result: not only at the macro level in which the statistics are large, but at the individual level, conveying friends and families to gather together each evening after their daily activities, helping to keep them safe throughout all modes of transportation, and enabling the more important activity of human connection to occur. Doing this broadly across all demographics, regardless of transportation means or individual financial situation, greatly motivates me because it aligns with the tough lessons learned in those fraught situations that my wife and I experienced. It’s always about the people. After all, Point A to Point B isn’t the point, unless we are successful in getting to B.