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Dr. Florian Baumann (Conference Chairman) is Sr. Director Software from Aptiv

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Clément Nouvel is LiDAR CTO at Valeo Group, leading supplier in the field of Safety and Automated Driving, and market leader in automotive grade LiDAR sensors. Prior to this position, Clément has been acting as Active Safety Business Development Director from 2016 to 2019 and held several positions at Renault-Nissan Alliance from 2003 focused on innovation engineering and project management, based in France and Asia. He is currently in charge of leading Valeo LiDAR product development, a global team including functions ranging from Business Development to Engineering and Technology Partnerships. Clément holds a Master’s degree from both Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, as well as an Executive MBA from INSEAD.

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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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His academic background is in Speech & Dialog systems with a PhD from Avignon University (France). In 2006 Dominique moved to Germany to pioneer voice technology integration in the Automotive industry. He led multiple embedded software production projects for premium OEMs then became Product Manager for multimodal HMI products and solutions. Since 2022 he is leading the efforts from NIO in Europe to bring NOMI to life and make this awesome voice assistant the best digital companion for the users' mobility and lifestyle transition. Interests: NIO is a pioneer and a leading company in the premium smart electric vehicle market. Founded in November 2014, NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle. NIO aims to build a community starting with smart electric vehicles to share joy and grow together with users. NIO designs, develops, jointly manufactures and sells premium smart electric vehicles, driving innovations in next-generation technologies in autonomous driving, digital technologies, electric powertrains and batteries. NIO differentiates itself through its continuous technological breakthroughs and innovations, such as its industry-leading battery swapping technologies, Battery as a Service, or BaaS, as well as its proprietary autonomous driving technologies and Autonomous Driving as a Service, or ADaaS.

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Dieter Hoetzer is heading the Product Area Services, Map & Localization within the business unit Driver Experience at Bosch. In this position, Hoetzer is responsible for all connected service products as well as the growing business around crowd sourced mapping and localization for the company’s advanced driver assistance systems based on radar-, video- , ultra-sonic and GNSS technology. Before he took over the business and development responsibility of the Product Area Services, Map & Localization, he lead the system development and competence built-up of the company’s L2-L3 systems within the business units Driver Assistance and Automated Driving. Hoetzer joined Bosch in 1999 as project leader for the development of driving strategies for hybrid drive train systems. In 2003, Hoetzer became manager, working on future driver assistance functions. Since then he held several management positions in research, engineering and product management in the US and Germany with a growing international footprint.

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Anne started her career in marketing in market research, product manager and communication for Peugeot. Then, she developed a strong interest in digital and took over as head of digital, then joined Prime Minister services in France to be in charge of the digital strategy and participated in the creation of the DS Automobiles implementing the brand's digital strategy. Afterwards she decided to make a shift in her career to become the head PSA University and of Global Learning at Stellantis after the merger with the Fiat-Chrysler group. Since 2022, she has taken on a new challenge to support the transformation of the Stellantis group by taking the head of the Data and Software Academy

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Dr. Johannes Springer serves as the Director General for the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), a global, cross-industry organization of companies from the automotive, technology and telecommunications industries, working together to develop end-to-end solutions for future mobility and transportation services. He is also responsible for the 5G Automotive Program at Deutsche Telekom in Group Technology and Innovation Headquarter. Johannes studied Engineering, Mechanical and Production Engineering at Berlin Technical University. After his doctorate in 1992 he was in charge at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) as head of department in the Institute of Ergonomics and Industrial Engineering. In 1998 he joined Deutsche Telekom Group in various management positions. From 2004 to 2010 he worked as CTO/COO for Toll Collect, the GNSS and mobile networks based electronic tolling operator for trucks in Germany. From 2011 to 2016 he was Vice President Technology and Solution Design within the Strategic Business Unit Connected Car in T-Systems.