Audi's first Mobility Quotient! Summit discusses the future of mobility

"Never stop questioning," Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of Audi, urged the audience at the beginning of Audi's first Mobility Quotient! (MQ!) Summit. This was the motto for the event that Audi had invited participants to Ingolstadt, Germany, to attend. "It is the unconventional visionaries who will shape our future with their ideas," said Stadler.

Audi initiated MQ! as a way to constructively discuss topics together with the leading minds from business and science. Four dimensions - time, space, social and sustainable mobility - served as the basis here. Asked about his personal idea of a mobility quotient, Steve Wozniak responded that he defines it as the degree of individual freedom.

"The ability to be everywhere and at any time, wirelessly. Good products are made to make life easier. They make people more powerful and to move up into society," emphasised the Co-founder of U.S.A computer maker Apple. In the future, the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) would become more important. "AI now fascinates me more than computers. It will revolutionise our daily lives and simplify them even more." Wozniak is likewise enthusiastic about the future of e-mobility, where there are still many challenges to be conquered.

Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, supported Wozniak's appeal for efficient concepts to serve society. Mo Gawdat from Google's 'X' research and development lab called for the creation of a democracy of innovation to which each individual could contribute.

Jimmy Wales, Founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, explained his mission in one central sentence, "Every single person in every place should have free access to the sum of all human knowledge." A platform like Wikipedia would enable intellectual independence. "There is nothing more mobile in this world than knowledge." Facts should circulate as quickly as possible - that would be the passion of the Wikipedia team. New technologies like virtual reality would one day also be able to transport moods and feelings that would place circumstances in an entirely new light.

At the conclusion of the keynote addresses, guests of MQ! got the chance to meet and greet the speakers individually. In 90-minute sessions, the visionaries then discussed innovative topics like augmented and mixed reality, smart data, autonomous driving, swarm intelligence and virtual collaboration. During the entire MQ! Summit, attendees had the opportunity to communicate and network with each other within a 4,360m² space.