Why Every Driver Can't Find Your Charger (Hint: Roaming)

Most North American CPOs still operate as islands. Drivers can only charge on their network, using their app, their account, their payment method. Meanwhile in Europe, a driver can pull up to virtually any charger and start a session regardless of who operates it. Open and interoperable roaming is not a nice-to-have in Europe, it's the standard. The North American market hasn't caught up yet, and the CPOs who don't understand what's coming risk building networks that drivers simply pass by.

In this live session, Monta's Kevin Spangenberg, sits down with Zeeshan Minhas, Monta's Director of Roaming, and Ally Leighton, Presto’s Head of Partnerships and Growth Strategy, to break down what roaming actually is, why it's inevitable in North America, and what it means for your business.

Zeeshan will explain how roaming works, what European networks learned as they scaled it, and why your utilization rates are directly tied to how accessible your chargers are to drivers outside your own network. Ally will bring the eMSP perspective, what it looks like from the other side of the roaming equation. As an eMSP serving drivers and fleets across multiple networks, Presto sees firsthand which CPOs are easy to integrate with, which ones drivers gravitate toward, and what makes an operator's network worth routing drivers to in the first place.

If your chargers are underutilized during off-peak hours, you're unsure what OCPI integrations mean for your business, or you want to understand whether your network is future-proofed for roaming, this session will give you the roadmap.