It took a pandemic to highlight our dependence on transportation and logistics—but efforts to optimize the industry were gaining traction well before that. Today, the auto industry is in a state of complete disruption with technologies such as 5G connectivity, AI, and Machine Learning enabling smart vehicles, their manufacturers, and the smart cities they operate in and drive through.

To hear more about how these industries are being revolutionized, we sit with Lutz Beck, CIO of Daimler Truck North America, whose belief is that in a world where technology will inevitably be capable of everything, the only limit is ourselves and our abilities to think big. We’ll hear about his vision for the latest advances in autonomous vehicles and new connectivity-enabled services such as predictive maintenance, and how he is trying to change Daimler into a data-driven organization by using the company’s fleet of vehicles as digital assets.

<p dir="auto">It took a pandemic to highlight our dependence on transportation and logistics&mdash;but efforts to optimize the industry were gaining traction well before that. Today, the auto industry is in a state of complete disruption with technologies such as 5G connectivity, AI, and Machine Learning enabling smart vehicles, their manufacturers, and the smart cities they operate in and drive through.</p>
<p dir="auto">To hear more about how these industries are being revolutionized, we sit with Lutz Beck, CIO of Daimler Truck North America, whose belief is that in a world where technology will inevitably be capable of everything, the only limit is ourselves and our abilities to think big. We&rsquo;ll hear about his vision for the latest advances in autonomous vehicles and new connectivity-enabled services such as predictive maintenance, and how he is trying to change Daimler into a data-driven organization by using the company&rsquo;s fleet of vehicles as digital assets.</p>

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Utilizing Data and Connectivity to Revolutionize an Entire Industry: Lutz Beck, CIO of Daimler Truck North America

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