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Zum Events
Zum Mobility
Symposium

Zum Mobility
Symposium

At our inaugural Mobility Symposium, we welcomed district and industry partners, thought leaders, and investors to introduce Zum Connected Mobility Experience (CMX). This collaborative gathering explored the future of student mobility and its role in supporting positive student outcomes.

Thursday,
April 16, 2026
3:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Treehouse Hotel
1100 N Mathilda Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
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Keynote

Introducing Connected Mobility Experience

Ritu Narayan, Zum Co-Founder and CEO, unpacked the disconnectedness of legacy transportation solutions that leads to disruption and anxiety for millions of families daily.

Zum CMX™ replaces this fragmentation through a fully integrated system that coordinates people, vehicles, and operations in real-time and enables reliability, transparency, and efficiency for all stakeholders.

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Keynote

CMX overview

Vivek Garg, Zum Co-Founder and COO elaborated on the comprehensive stack of capabilities within Zum CMX, which enables students to arrive on-time and ready to learn.

Zum CMX provides intelligent, end-to-end orchestration of routing, dispatch, workforce management, energy resilience and safety into one real-time system built around people, not just vehicles.

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Keynote

Product demo

Abhishek Garg, Zum Co-Founder and CTO delivered a demonstration of Zum CMX in action — providing a glimpse of real-time ride tracking, rider verification and route optimization across an entire district network, along with AI-powered arrival estimates and on-demand route modifications.

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Agenda

Investor panel

Ritu Narayan moderated a panel of investors from Sequoia Capital, TPG, GIC, and Ulu Ventures, exploring how Zum's AI-driven mobility solutions are improving learning outcomes by getting students to school on time and ready to learn — and in the process, disrupting the $50 billion mass mobility market and fueling continued growth.

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Agenda

Customer panel

Sarah Skinner, Senior Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships at Zum engaged district and industry leaders from Kansas City Public Schools, Fresno Unified School District, and Transpar, in a thoughtful discussion sharing best practices and measurable results from Zum CMX — including a 86% drop in transportation-related absences.

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Thought leadership

Meaningful connections

Symposium attendees came together to exchange ideas and build new connections at the Treehouse Hotel in Silicon Valley. The boutique setting became a catalyst for collaborative conversations that lasted long after the Symposium ended.

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Keynote Address

Zum Co-Founders introduced Zum CMX™ as the solution to the fragmentation and unreliability plaguing legacy student transportation, which creates daily disruption and anxiety for families.

Date and Time
April 16, 2026. 4:30 - 5:45 PM PST
Speakers
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Ritu Narayan

Founder & CEO

Zum

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Kim Raney

Executive Director of 
Transportation

Oakland Unified School District

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Vivek Garg

Co-Founder & COO

Zum

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Abhishek Garg

Co-Founder & CTO

Zum

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Investor Panel: Perspectives on the Future of Mobility

Ritu Narayan led a discussion with investors on the importance of effective student mobility solutions and the impacts on improved learning outcomes.

Date and Time
April 16, 2026. 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Speakers
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Ritu Narayan

Founder & CEO

Zum

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Steve Ellis

Managing Partner

TPG Capital

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Bryan Schreier

Partner

Sequoia Capital

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Arif Lakhani

Senior VP

GIC

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Miriam Rivera

Co-Founder & CEO

Ulu Ventures

Panel discussion featuring Zum representatives discussing school transportation solutions.

Customer Panel: Best Practices in Student Mobility

In this moderated discussion, district and industry leaders shared their first-hand experience of transforming the student mobility experience.

Date and Time
April 16, 2026. 6:00 - 6:30 PM PST
Speakers
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Sarah Skinner

SVP of Strategic Partnerships

Zum

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LaTonya C. Franklin

Chief Academic Officer

Kansas City Public Schools

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Paul Rosencrans

Transportation Director

Fresno Unified Schools

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Micah Brassfield

Vice President of Operations

Transpar

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