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Dr. Florian Baumann joined Dell Technologies in 2019 as CTO for Unstructured Data Solutions. He brings industry-recognised expertise in Automotive and Artificial Intelligence to the position, and is a regular speaker at events and conferences. A leading authority on Machine Learning and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Florian has published more than 20 studies on human action recognition and object tracking. Florian’s academic background is in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, leading to a PhD in Machine Learning applied to Scene Understanding in 2015 from the Leibniz University of Hannover.

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

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Antony Lagrange is team leader in the ‘Automotive and mobility Industries’ Unit within the Directorate General Internal Market, Industry Entrepreneurship and SMEs. He is in particular responsible for vehicle safety as well as automated/connected vehicles. He is also chairman of the informal group on automated braking (AEBS) of the United Nations (UNECE). He holds a Master in Engineering and a Master in management/Business administration. He has worked in the field of automotive legislation since 2001 at national and international level, and before that, in the private sector. He joined the Commission in 2011.

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Since the end of 2016, Andreas Riexinger is leading the Bosch autonomous driving solutions as a product manager automated driving for the Robert Bosch GmbH. He worked in the company for over 20 years, in which he has collected wide experience in the development of embedded software and management of IT projects. Andreas Riexinger will give us an overview of autonomous driving and the role of open-source software.

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Martin Lischka is Head of Product Strategy & Product Management from Automobili Pininfarina GmbH company.

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Pendar is currently Head of Future Trends Team for KIA Motors Europe, he is in charge of identifying upcoming trends in the industry by bringing strategic innovation. Pendar Shahbazi strongly believes that without people and their engagement, the implementation of new ideas and consequently performance improvement are impossible.

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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.

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Jochen Bauer, Head of Digital Services & Connectivity from Automobili Pininfarina.

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Thomas Hausch, COO from Sono Motors GmbH. Sono Motors GmbH is on a mission to enable a mobility system, where every electric vehicle is solar, shared, and independent from fossil-fuels. Their first model, called “Sion”, is planned to enter production in 2022.

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Pier Paolo Paravizzini has been working for FCA since 2004 and has held various technical roles within the Chassis and Vehicle Dynamics department working with Advanced Braking and Steering and Vehicle Dynamics performance evaluation. Since this year, he is the global responsible for the Automated Driving (AD) Simulation team which takes in charge the SIL environment development to simulate and test AD systems and validate automotive safety.

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Dr. Thomas Vöhringer-Kuhnt is a HMI/UX team lead for premium brands of Geely Auto Group. His expertise ranges in automotive HMI, user experience, design, transportation, human factors, driver distraction, workload and situation awareness, human information processing, and cross‐cultural usability.

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Firas Lethaus is Head of the deep learning expert center at the Volkswagen DATA:LAB Munich, Volkswagen Group. Prior to Volkswagen Group, he worked at AUDI AG, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, University of Birmingham, UK, and as a freelancer. He has rich experience in the areas of automated driving, cognitive neuroscience, machine learning, applied cybernetics, statistics, psychophysics, eyetracking, and psycholinguistics. In addition, he reviews articles for several journals and conferences and is the co-founder of the global Volkswagen Group AI Team.

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Mr. Victor Marginean works as Global Head of Cybersecurity & Privacy Business Unit HMI in Continental Automotive Gmbh. He is leading Governance and Application Development Security teams comprised of more than 50 internal, external and offshore located experts, also responsible for identifying 3rd party suppliers that can provide additional CyberSec features or services, and other unit related processes.

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Whilk Gonçalves has an M.Sc. degree in optics and magnetic paramagnetic resonance and a Ph.D. in solid-state physics. In 2011, Dr. Gonçalves joined the PSA Group, as the Head of innovation on interior and exterior lighting at the DRIA – Department of Research and Advanced Engineering. Since 2018, he is the Expert on Lighting and Signalization for the PSA Group.

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Jian Hu is CEO from Changan Automobile European Design Center S.r.L.

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Paweł Czapiewski is Embedded Systems Expert and Team Leader from Sii

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Mike Lavigne is the Head of Experience Strategy & Design for Nissan’s global Customer Experience team. He leads a London and Tokyo-based team of strategists, researchers, and designers to deliver the best digital experience for Nissan shoppers and owners in 60+ countries worldwide. Beyond meeting customer needs, his focus is designing a distinctive Nissan experience: one where every detail of the digital experience reflects Nissan’s unique DNA and sets it apart from other automotive companies.

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Tonci Zilic is a M2M Product Owner focusing on requirements and software development for Rimac Automobili d.o.o.

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Steve Schneider is one of two Managing Directors at ITS mobility GmbH and Head of R&D section. For over 20 years, the company manages an active network of more than 200 businesses, local authorities and science institutions and creates profitable relationships in the Intelligent Mobility field. To date, Steve Schneider has initiated and implemented various leading projects in the field of intelligent and cooperative traffic systems, automated and connected driving, as well as sustainable mobility concepts.

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M. Gürcan Karakaş was born in Antalya in 1965 and grew up in Germany. In 1988 he graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU) with a degree in mechanical engineering. After a long and successful career at Bosch, on September 1, 2018, he took over responsibility as CEO of the Turkish mobility brand TOGG, a joint venture of 5 industry and technology holdings in Turkey together with the Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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Mr. Puttenstein gained rich experience working in different roles for over 10 years in SEAT, and currently holds a position as Head of Microbility & Innovation.

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Antonio Fulvio Scannapieco holds a BSc and a MSc in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD in Industrial Engineering awarded by University of Napoli “Federico II”, Italy. His main areas of research are Aerospace Systems, Remote Sensing, and Autonomous Systems. Having rich experience in different organisations, today, Antonio works as an Autonomous Driving Engineering Specialist at FCA Italy and is involved in different activities within the Simulation field.

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Eric-Mark Huitema, prior to holding director position for over a year now, Mr. Huitema acted as Global Smarter Transportation Leader at IBM. In this capacity, he was a member of the Corporate Partnership Board of the International Transport Forum (ITF), the board of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA), and the supervisory board of ERTICO (ITS Europe). He also worked in the IT sector, including Liberty Global’s broadband internet start-up Chello Benelux, EDS International and Philips Electronics.

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Pierpaolo Cincilla joined the Group Renault in 2018, working as Quality Engineer for Connected Vehicles and Mobility Services. In February 2020 he moved to the Renault Experts Network leading the Process & Compliance domain of the Cybersecurity area. He is working in new standards and regulations implementation at Renault (mainly the ISO/SAE 21434 and the UNR-155). He is implied in standardization international bodies as ISO, ACEA and BNA as well as in academic and industrial research projects. He authored several international publications, 3 recognised software systems, and a patent.

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Lena Gogeissl is International Partner Marketing Manager from Amazon Alexa Automotive

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In recent times Huber held the position of B2B and Inhouse Charging Infrastructure Solutions Project Manager at AUDI where he also headed to the USA at the end of 2012 to work as Electrification Portfolio Manager. As Chief Operating Officer at has·to·be gmbh Maximilian Huber is now driving the company’s efforts around products and customer success as well as the chairmanship of the management board.

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Rosen Daskalov - CEO, Founder and Owner of SIN CARS, 49, graduated engineer. At 18, he became a Master of Karting sport in Bulgaria. In 1989 he started his studies at Technical University in Ruse, Bulgaria. In 1995 he established one of the largest auto repair shops in the region of Ruse. In 1998, he established a contract and imported auto parts from a German manufacturer. By 2001, he had established a network of 10 stores throughout Bulgaria, a warehouse for import and distribution of auto parts. The company becomes an official representative of more than 10 German companies, each of them a manufacturer of parts for first incorporation into assembly lines for major automobile companies. In 2008 he set up his own company, Ruse Car AG, an authorized BMW dealer and service center for northern Bulgaria. The auto parts business continues. In 2012, he founded the company SIN CARS as a result of a dream - to build his own sport car. Also is chairman of Bulgarian Karting Federation.

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Christoph Shroeder is VP of Software from Luminar Technologies, Inc.

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Gianfranco Pizzuto is an industry veteran with more than 30 years of international business experience. In 2007 he was Fisker Automotive’s first investor and co-founder. His role was instrumental as he developed the sales and after sales network in Europe counting 30 retailers. He spent the last 14 years in the automotive industry working as consultant and covering senior positions specializing in PHEV and EV. Thanks to his network of highly skilled professionals he was able to start Automobili Estrema in 2020, a boutique manufacturer of hypercars and supercars based in Modena, in the heart of the Italian Motor Valley.

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Norm is responsible for driving NVIDIA’s global Automotive industry enterprise go-to-market strategy, business development, and customer and partner relations. Marks is focused on establishing areas of application for how deep learning, data science and artificial intelligence, enabled by a new GPU computing revolution, will transform the Automotive and Transportation industry. Norm speaks frequently on topics around Autonomous Vehicles ranging from AI / Deep Learning, Data Management, Simulation and Re-Simulation, as well as the Customer Experience, Connected Vehicle, Smart Mobility and Connected Factory. Marks also speaks on Innovation, and leading-edge Artificial Intelligence in Automotive.

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Mr. Schuenemann worked as Trainee Program, Concept Development and Technical Project Lead at SEAT SA, Barcelona/Spain (1998-2001). From 2003 to 2016 he gained his experience as Cost Optimization, Lightweight Design, and Head of Competitor Analysis at AUDI AG Ingolstadt/Germany. Since 2016 his current position is Head of Electric & Electronics at Italdesign, Moncalieri/Italy. Ralph Schuenemann earned his Master in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Brunswick/Germany and UOW, Sydney/Australia (1991 – 1997). In 2020 he gained his Master of Business Administration, Purdue University, Indiana/US.

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Domenico Mangiacapra is President, New Business & Strategic Development from Henshin Group Ltd.

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Guillaume Stecowiat is Connectivity Project Manager from UTAC CERAM