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Janko Altenschmidt

Safety at Lyft

Janko Altenschmidt currently works in Safety Operations at Lyft and serves as a Partner at Riskshield TS&B, providing consultancy for venture-backed startups in areas such as Trust & Safety and regulatory compliance. Prior experience includes a role as Manager of Scaled Enforcement in Trust & Safety at OpenAI and a managerial position at Google focused on YouTube's monetization policies and brand safety. Janko's earlier experiences include team leadership in Trust & Safety at YouTube, as well as positions as an Advertising Policy Specialist and AdWords Specialist at Google. Janko's career began with roles in communications and marketing, including co-founding Roll and Rock GbR, and supporting political education at TU Dresden and the Sächsischer Landtag. Janko holds a Magister Artium in Communication and Media Studies and Political Science from Technische Universität Dresden, with additional education from Université Bordeaux Montaigne.

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Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.