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March 01, 2023 | Tom Ballard

Steve Case to keynote inaugural CO.MOBILITY Summit in Chattanooga

The founder and former CEO of AOL returns almost five years to the day after the "Rise of the Rest" tour stopped in the Gig City.

Steve Case, who visited Chattanooga in May 2018 as part of the “Rise of the Rest” tour, will return to the city almost five years to the date to keynote the “CO.MOBILITY Summit.”

Scheduled for May 9, 10, and 11 in the University Center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the event will offer a unique opportunity for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in electric and autonomous vehicles, SmartCity innovations, freight technology, and Quantum tech including the EPB Quantum NetworkSM powered by Qubitekk.

Case is the Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of America Online, better known as AOL. After resigning as Chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he launched a venture-capital firm, Revolution LLC, based in Washington, DC, and authored The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future, which in 2016 became a New York Times bestselling book. In 2022 Case published his second book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream.

Fast-growing Chattanooga company FreightWaves won the $100,000 top prize during the “Rise of the Rest” stop in Chattanooga on May 10, 2018.

 

 


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