Panel Discussion: Paving the Way for ADS in Trucking: Public Sector Engagement and Enforcement
Date and Time: Thursday, August 1, 2024: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Location: Indigo Ballroom
Zeke Reyna
Emerging Technology Team Lead, Texas Department of Transportation
Presentation Description
Speaker Biography
Zeke Reyna works as the Emerging Technology Team Lead for the Texas Department of Transportation’s Strategic Initiative and Innovations Division focusing on connected and automated vehicles, advanced air mobility, and other emerging technology-related policies at the state and federal level. In this role, he serves as the principal staffer for the statewide Texas Connected and Automated Vehicle Task Force, which was created in January 2019. Additionally, Zeke heads up the department’s internal Connected and Automated Vehicle Workgroup. Zeke also led the Texas Transportation Commission’s Urban Air Mobility Advisory Committee, which was legislatively created to help prepare Texas for the next generation of aviation. Finally, as TxDOT’s chief staffer serving on the RUC America pooled fund consortium since 2014, Zeke currently serves as Chair of the fund’s steering committee.
Previously, Zeke worked as a staffer in both the Texas Senate and Texas House of Representatives, most recently as the Senior Transportation and Licensing Policy Advisor to former Texas Speaker of the House, Joe Straus. In previous positions at TxDOT, Zeke served as the commission aide to former Texas Transportation Commissioner Fred Underwood. Zeke graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Government. He resides with his wife and three children in Austin, Texas.
