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I have been the Director for Cloud & Software Strategy at Aptiv since August 2021. From a young age, I have been obsessed with technology especially machine learning (ML), leading up to a PhD on the topic from the Leibniz University of Hannover. I bring that experience to develop AD/ADAS solutions. In the automotive industry today, the focus for most companies is on creating a consolidated data structure – getting their cloud strategy and data management right. Once those steps are taken, we can start applying ML to improve efficiency and save costs. But the technology has a lot more visionary potential. It will improve road safety and make transport systems more efficient. By integrating with smart infrastructure, ML will help us create better urban environments. These ‘big picture’ possibilities fascinate me – and I am excited every day about working with people to make them a reality. I have published more than 20 studies on human action recognition and object tracking, and I am a regular speaker at events and conferences. I am always keen to speak to leaders in the ML and automotive space, so feel free to send me a connection request if you’d like to talk.

Dr. Florian Baumann is a Conference Chairman of ICA Summit 2021.

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Dr. Sascha J. Semmler studied electrical engineering and control engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and did his doctorate at the Institute of Automatic Control, Technical University of Darmstadt. After joining Continental AG in 2002, he was initially responsible for Global Chassis Control and Hybrid Systems in Advanced Engineering before he became Executive Assistant to the CEO of Continental AG. After various management positions in Germany and the USA related to supply chain management and manufacturing within the Commercial Tire Division, he moved to the business unit Advanced Driver Assistance Systems in 2015 where he initially worked as Head of Base Development Camera and Sensorics Lead Engineering and later on as Head of Product Management Camera starting April 2017. Since July 2021, Dr. Semmler is responsible for Innovation within the business unit Advanced Driver Assistance Systems of Continental AG.

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Dr.-Ing. Juergen Dickmann is head of Radar sensors and radar based perception at highly automated driving, DAIMLER AG. In this role he is responsible for all radar projects for the 6th generation of ADAS systems at Mercedes-Benz AG and radar based perception in the cooperation with Nvidia. In his last position, he was in charge of radar and radar perception in the autonomous driving cooperation between Mercedes-Benz AG and Robert Bosch. Before that, he managed the technology transfer process from pre-development into series of all perception sensing (Radar, Laser, Video) and localization technologies for S-Class model BR222. Among others, he held manager positions at DAIMER in Laser-Scanner, Sensor-Fusion and Situation Analysis. He conducted radar research and pre-developments for radar based Pre-Crash and driver assistant systems for all platforms (Passenger cars, Busses, Van, Truck) inside DAIMLER AG. The research achievements of his group can be found in: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juergen_Dickmann. He received his Diploma degree in electrical engineering from University Duisburg, Germany, in 1984. In 1991 he achieved the Dr.-Ing. degree at Rheinisch Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Germany. In 1986 he started his career at AEG Research Center, where he did research on III/V-semiconductor processing techniques, mm-Wave device and MMIC-design (up to 120GHz) and fabrication. Key-Note on “Future demands in automotive Radar” Takeaways: Everybody speaks about vision and lidar systems, but Radar is an indispensable key technology for highly automated and autonomous ADAs HW-SW Co-Design is essential to come to the next level High Performance radar versus smart radar networks – some thoughts Radar perception can benefit performance, if it is not treated like a lidar or camera Massive AI is entering the Radar-Perception arena. Abstract: Over decades automotive driver assistance systems have developed from simple park assistance and ACC to highly complex L3 functions. Among other issues, that has been driven by the dramatic development of radar sensor technology and radar based perception. Radar can see, where other sensors can´t. Due to their performance to be packaged nearly invisible, modern cars can still appear as design artwork icons, like the present EQ-S. With the development towards higher automatisation the total perception system has to provide much more comprehensive and precise information to the path planning and behavior stages in order to allow proper operation. Based on our experience with the “Bertha Drive” as quasi autonomous vehicle, we got inside what is needed in the future. One outcome was, the sensor technology in cooperation with perception algo-concepts have to develop along other lines as compared to simple L2 systems. The key note will line out from a radar point of view what has been achieved so far and what will be needed in the future.

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I have spent around 10 years in the automotive world. Currently on a mission to make electric vehicles truly loved and leading the digital ecosystem team at Automobili Pininfarina. I along with our team had built the world's first globally connected hypercar, The Battista. I also build the digital ecosystem for the Automobili Pininfarina brand that offerers a range of customer experiences and connected products to our customers. I am a true believer in how technology can transform our lives and add value to them. I like sharing my knowledge and experience in the world of connected cars, digital services, automotive digital ecosystems, luxury digital use cases, etc.

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Doron Hemo is the Head of the Economic and Trade Mission in Munich, Germany. Under Doron’s supervision, he and his team supports numerous of Israeli companies helping them to prosper in Germany. In parallel Doron assists many major German companies discover business opportunities in Israel. The responsibilities of the mission Doron runs are to promote bilateral economic relations, attract and encourage foreign investments in Israel, foster future joint R&D collaborations with Israeli companies, encourage Israeli exports and to enhance commercial cooperation between Israel and Germany. Prior, in years 2016-2019 Doron served as the head of the American division at the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry headquarters, supervising 13 economic offices in the whole American continent. In years 2012-2016 Doron was posted in Taipei as the official economic representative to both Taiwan and the Philippines. In 2010 Doron joined the Ministry of Economy and Industry as a head of branch in the Asian and Pacific division – a part of the Foreign Trade Administration. Prior to joining the Ministry, Doron gained experience in various fields. Doron started his career in 2003 as an industrial engineer and project manager at the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). In 2007 he joined a successful IT start-up company and headed a business unit for strategic clients of professional industrial IT services. Following this position, in 2009, Doron worked as a CDM project manager carried by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, guiding projects through all stages of implementation, registration and verification. Doron holds a BSc degree in industrial engineering and management from the Ben-Gurion University. A MBA from Recanati business school and a M.A in public policy at the Tel Aviv University.

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Alexandra Fries studied industrial and mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt. She started at BMW in 2015 within the Global Leader Development Programme. After several national as well as international assignments within BMW she has been working as a product owner for the driver behaviour model since 2018 and is, besides that, responsible for the validation and verification of the driver behaviour model as well as other modules in the simulation framework openPASS.

Alexandra Fries is Product Owner – Driver Behaviour Model from BMW Group

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Andrew Grant joined Imagination in 2018 as Senior Director of Business Development, responsible for strategic business development in AI and building the wider ecosystem of AI partnerships. Mr. Grant advises customers on the impact of new and emerging technologies and how best to utilise neural networks in edge devices. Prior to working with Imagination Technologies, Mr. Grant was involved with spin-outs from UCL and CERN, chairing Satalia, an AI company based in London, for several years. He has also worked with UCL School of Management, WPP and has completed innovation projects on the Future of Automotive, Aviation, Retail and the IoT. At British Telecom he was a CIO and Marketing leader and he has also worked with Intel and HP. Mr Grant has a particular interest in autonomous vehicles and ADAS and how AI can be used to create smarter IoT devices for vision, home and robotics use cases and is a frequent visitor to China and the ASEAN region

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Adam Kozłowski, Solution Architect and Head of Automotive R&D at Grape Up. He had worked as a C/C++ and JavaScript Developer before he started his journey to the Cloud and Machine Learning world. Adam is an active advocate of Kubernetes and open-source cloud-native solutions. He is a huge fan of RnD initiatives, rapid prototyping, MLOps and building great software products enhanced by ML algorithms. Throughout his career Adam was working with established enterprises like Rijkswaterstaat, Porsche or Allstate to build their mission critical systems. Currently responsible for consulting automotive projects, specializing in Cloud and MLOps solutions for the automotive industry.