Bio

Courtney Ehrlichman is the Head of Strategy at NextLab, an innovation center within Panasonic responsible for disruptive business creation that drives forward the company’s vision of “a better life, a better world.” Currently, Courtney is focused on building out Panasonic Efleet Solutions of America to make fleet electrification and integration with the grid seamless. As CEO of The Ehrlichman Group, Ms. Ehrlichman advises governments, corporates, startups, and NGOs on emerging technologies and market strategy and coaches leaders on business transformation. In 2016, she co-founded RoadBotics - a spinout from the Robotics Institute - which uses artificial intelligence to power infrastructure assessments in over 300 cities globally. Ms. Ehrlichman worked for over 10 years at Carnegie Mellon University, most notably as Deputy Executive Director of the Traffic21 Institute and two National USDOT Transportation Research Centers, totaling over $75M of multi-disciplinary research, with a focus on using the real world as a testbed. As special faculty in Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry, Ms. Ehrlichman authored the report: Creative Entrepreneurs which landed a Federal award from the 2009 stimulus package. In 2010, she launched Flight School: A Fellowship for Creative Entrepreneurs, a highly sought-after program that combined leadership and professional development as a tool to reach broader goals of talent attraction/retention and economic development. Ms. Ehrlichman proudly serves on the board of Partnership for Responsible Technology, founded the Women Transportation Seminar Pittsburgh Chapter, and advises at the Swarz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University. She has authored a chapter in the SAE 2021 book publication: Intersections: Reimagining the Future of Mobility, gave a TEDx talk (by invitation), and has spoken on multiple media outlets including NPR Marketplace, Vox’s Answered, The Autonocast, The Mobility Podcast, and PBS Newshour. Ms. Ehrlichman is a contributing writer at the Drive and Forbes. In 2020, she was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer.