Dr Wolfgang Schuster is an internationally recognised executive leader with over 27 years of experience across multi-modal transport, smart cities, space and digital. Wolfgang has a wealth of experience leading complex company strategies as well as major national and international delivery programmes for industry, academia and government, including Department for Transport, Defence, European Investment Bank and European Commission. Wolfgang is currently Executive Director at the Connected Places Catapult, where his focus is on strategically enabling, accelerating and scaling ecosystem and cross-ecosystem innovation for cities, transport and place leadership.