The highlights from DOVU from the last few weeks, including new announcements and a round up of goings on.

Welcome to our monthly round-up of DOVU news. We’re a few days late this month because of the news of our Security Token Offering taking over last week. This is an exciting step for us and will help ensure the growth and success of our business. Read more about the DOVU STO here.

Now let’s get straight into what you’re most interested in hearing about — the wallet.

PRODUCT UPDATE

The DOVU Wallet Beta will be ready for testing in mid-December. We are looking for a few hundred good testers and will be sending out a sign up link next week. Watch for it and put your name down to secure your place on the Beta test team.

Mockup of DOVU Beta Wallet

Progress

Having run into some performance and potential scalability concerns with our React Native wallet, the product team took the decision to rework the wallet UI as native Android and iOS apps. Progress so far is looking fantastic, performance has been greatly improved. We’re also taking the opportunity to make the wallet UI feel like more native apps rather than a hybrid UI. With the new native approach we’re also looking at how we can tap into device security features. As we’ve always built around an API based architecture, swapping the UI out is not as drastic as it sounds, and the benefits are already outweighing the minor setback in production.

The product team has been working hard to finalise and polish the public wallet ready for release to a controlled group of users in December.

We’ve also kicked off a really exciting POC for UK based bus and rail company, Go-Ahead. We’ll be using the DOVU wallet and reward platform to help them connect and communicate with their customers. More on the Go-Ahead project below.

PARTNERSHIPS & OPPORTUNITIES

The Billion Journey Project

Over the past few weeks, we have been attending workshops in London run by Go-Ahead Group, one of the UK’s largest public transport providers. DOVU was selected to join a three month scale-up accelerator programme called The Billion Journey Project (aptly named after the billion passenger journeys enabled by the organisation each year). The project brings together innovative companies looking to scale up in the transport sector. We are working on a solution for Go-Ahead that can help them in nudging passenger behaviour and improving customer experience. Our demo day is set for 23 January 2019.

The Billion Journey Project — Cohort 2

MOBI Grand Challenge

On 10 October, Irfon and Krasina joined other members of the MOBI community in New Mexico for their annual colloquium. The day was jam-packed with fruitful conversations and all MOBI working groups presented their reports at the meeting. Krasina (DOVU co-founder) is a core team member of the IPRL Group (intellectual property group), which works on the global terms that apply to all participants within MOBI.

At the annual meeting, the MOBI Grand Challenge was announced.

Calling for a safe and congestion-free future: MOBI and TIoTA have launched the MOBI Grand Challenge to unlock new Blockchain-connected autonomous vehicle solutions.

The challenge is intended to accelerate the development of decentralized systems for networked vehicles that can interact with one another and their environment. A community of builders who come from all corners of the world and representing all kinds of organizations are showing how blockchains and distributed ledgers can make mobility safer, greener, more affordable, and more efficient.

AUTONOMY conference

On 19 October, we attended AUTONOMY — the urban mobility summit, held in Paris. It was a brilliant event, with many insightful talks. Krasina hosted a panel discussing GDPR applicability to IOT, Smart Cities and transportation. The general view from all panelists was that GDPR needs changing and it is not fit for purpose. Karima Delli, President of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, European Commission, shared that the EU commision and relevant working groups are aware of the non-compatibility of GDPR and innovation and are working towards changing it. We briefly spoke about blockchain — the overall takeaway being that everyone is fascinated by the technology and believe it’s the future but also realises the great challenges involved.

Krasina Mileva, Co-Founder & COO hosting a panel at AUTONOMY 2018

SMMT Future Mobility Challenge

On 17 October (yes, it was a busy week!), Irfon attended an event to kick start the SMMT Future Mobility Challenge, where he pitched to the Ford team. The event is part of a new initiative to make innovative ideas and solutions discoverable with a view to creating new partnerships, investments and acquisitions between the world’s leading automotive brands, innovative technology start-ups and SMEs.

Automotive Logistics — UK Summit

Krasina was invited to speak at this event in Silverstone, which is all about the UK’s automotive sector and all aspects driving radical transformation across the global automotive landscape. You can watch all of Krasina’s fantastic talk about navigating change in the video below, from 36 minutes onwards.

Security Token Offering

To finish up the month, we announced that DOVU would be launching one of the UK’s first ever Security Token Offerings, allowing individuals to purchase tokenised equity in our business.We are working with Token Market to manage the sale which is fully regulated by the FCA.

That’s it for now — expect an eventful December but until then the team at DOVU will continue working away at delivering a valuable product for the mobility industry. We appreciate the support of our community and look forward to sharing our success with you as we grow.

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