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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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Duong-Van Nguyen is Deputy CEO from VinFast Germany GmbH

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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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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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Executive with +20yrs of automotive experience both in business and in corporate functions, I am currently leading the introduction of ZEEKR brand in Europe from Product and Digital side. ZEEKR is the luxury EV mobility tech brand of the Geely Group, listed in NYSE since May 2024. The company has quickly become the fastest growing EV vehicle brand in China (+240k sales since the launch in 2021) and is present in Europe since end of 2023 in Netherlands and Sweden. In the recent past I had led the Product and Marketing for Iveco in the global market, launching the first EV model of the brand (e-Daily). My main working experience has been in Toyota where covered leading positions in Europe over 16 years in the field of Sales (Country management), Product Planning (A and B segments, being responsible of iconic models like Aygo and Yaris) and Connectivity (with the set up of the Connected business in Europe for Toyota and Lexus).

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Bernd Hartmann is Head of Innovation Line Driverless at the Continental Autonomous Mobility Business Area which develops and produces innovative sensors, driving functions and control units for assisted and automated driving. More than 30 years ago he started as a test engineer for Tiers at Continental and is since then actively realizing innovations in different development and management roles. Especially in the area of driver assistance and automated driving.

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Dr. Hariharan Venkitachalam is an Engineering Leader in the Automotive domain with more than 13 years of experience across various domains like ADAS, Powertrain, and Infotainment systems. Currently, Dr. Venkitachalam is a Chief Engineer at Iveco, who leads the ADAS and General Safety Regulation development for Zero-Emission Trucks. Previously, he worked as a Software Technology Manager for ZF in the field of ADAS systems. In this role, he spearheaded the creation of a new software development team for ZF's next-generation radar system. Prior to this role, he has fulfilled various engineering roles in System and SW development across Bosch, FEV, and ZF Friedrichshafen. In addition to this, he has lectured on the topic of Software Defined Vehicles at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences.  Dr. Venkitachalam completed his dissertation from the Chair of Thermodynamics of Mobile Energy Conversion Systems at RWTH Aachen University. His technical and research interests include Automotive Electronics, ADAS, Cybersecurity, and Software Defined Vehicles.

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Kanwar Singh is the Head of Algorithms at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He leads a global team of engineers responsible for developing and delivering algorithms that address Goodyear’s current and future business needs and aspirations in the Autonomous driving, Connected cars, Electrification, and Smart mobility domain. Over the past ten years, Singh has spearheaded research of intelligent tires to address Goodyear’s future mobility strategy. As an inventor of over 45 U.S. patents, Singh is among the leading inventors worldwide in the field of tire sensor technology and associated algorithms. Singh holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech, USA. More recently, he received his MBA degree from the Luxembourg School of Business. He lives in Akron Ohio with his wife and has 2 children.

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Shu Han is currently Managing Director at Neusoft Technology Solutions GmbH, has established itself as a leading service provider for high-quality embedded software development, software design and software architecture for vehicle related infotainment systems. Shu is fully responsible for the P&L of the company. He received his Master degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Karlsruher Institute for Technology (KIT)

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Mondweep Chakravorty: Head of Cloud and Cyber, Lotus Technology - Close to two decades of proven delivery leadership experience driving digital transformation across Automobiles, Telco, Energy Utilities and BFSI. Passionate about creating value added relationships to create truly inspiring products and experiences within an open ecosystem of committed partners.

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Peter Virk : Executive Director, Lotus Technology - An entrepreneurial executive leader who is digitally astute, with the ability to create and utilise technology solutions in an increasingly interconnected software-defined world. - Delivered the world's first dual eSIM, cross-carrier platform to market - Concepted and delivered Automotive Tech portfolios for over 2 decades - Received multiple industry technology awards including JLR's first for Infotainment (PIVI)

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Shahar has 21 years of experience in global sales, marketing and business development. Before joining Tactile Mobility, he served as the CEO of HumanEyes Technologies, a VR company with over 70 patents in various 3D fields and Computer Vision. Prior to his tenure at HumanEyes, based in the US, he served as VP Sales & Business Development for Press-sense Inc., a provider of software solutions to the printing industry, VP Sales at Magink Display and CEO of CTV Tech. He began his career in the graphic arts industry as CEO and owner of Hemed Press, a large printing company in Jerusalem. Mr. Bin-Nun holds a B.A in Economics from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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His Bio: He's an automotive industry expert that focus on the crossing point between technology and business. Since 2009 he's dedicated on CASE mainly on Connected, Automated and Shared services. In his current role as CEO at understand AI he's leading a world class team that applies AI and ML technology to change the AD/ADAS annotation business significantly. In his career he had multiple VP, Key Account and technical leadership roles winning and rolling out programs in US, Europe and Asia. He worked with most automotive OEMs and companies around the world. His industry domain is automotive, IT and Telecommunications.

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Ramzi Yakoubi is Head of ADAS, Chassis & E-Mobility from Magna

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Frank Schmidt started at ITT Automotive in 1994 as an application engineer for ABS/ASR in the automotive business. Since 1997 he has worked at TRW Automitive, later ZF, in the area of development and application of vehicle dynamics control systems. In 2023 he took over responsibility for the development of the vehicle motion control software cubiX at ZF.

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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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Prashant Gulati has been named CEO of SDVerse effective March 5th, 2024. Prashant has more than two decades of experience launching and leading automotive organizations and is a thought leader in software technology, maximizing the potential of emerging technologies, such as AI, in the automotive industry.

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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.

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Miquel Testar is Director of Product Management | ADAS Components from Bosch

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Marvin Ruf is Sr. Account Executive from HERE Technologies

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Xiaotong Hu is currently product manager at smart Europe for in car connectivity and digital services. She leads a team representing European customers’ expectations towards in car infotainment, connected services, mobile App as well as vehicle over-the-air update validation, aiming for providing exceptional EV customer experience. Xiaotong has extensive experience in connected car topics. Before joining smart, her professional experience was majorly at Mercedes-Benz in both China and Germany, from both development and business perspectives, where her responsibility was to launch Mercedes me connect in China market, build up cross-car-line connectivity offering for NTG5 and MBUX, competitor analysis for digital ecosystem.

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Saber Fallah is Associate Professor of Safe AI and Autonomy from CAV-Lab, University of Surrey

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Tim Solle is Ventures Associate and part of the Investment Team at STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play. In this role, he’s following the newest trends in mobility, industrial and deep tech topics. He brings cutting edge startups together with industry-leading corporations like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Bosch as well as invests in deep tech startups.

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I am passionate about the transformative impact of technology applied through product excellence and visionary strategy. During my almost 15 years I have been steering innovation and strategic growth in several product and digital programs. At Toyota, my journey evolved from steering the most successful product initiatives in Europe, ranging from Commercial vehicle to small urban SUVs, into pioneering Toyota Connected's data solutions and its scaling. Now at ZEEKR EU, I am architecting the SDV business for both the Connected and Intelligent Drive lines, defining the vision and objectives, developing and implementing innovative products with global teams, and managing the overall business growth.

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Mostafa Elkoumy is CEO & Co-Founder from VxLabs GmbH

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Andrei Kholodnyi is a Principal Technologist in the office of the CTO where he is responsible for leading technology strategy for next-generation software-defined vehicles, V2X, cloud robotics, edge embedded systems, and AI/ML applications. He creates proof-of-concept and prototypes, validating innovative technology approaches, and plays a pivotal role in external-facing Chief Technology Officer (CTO) activities, supporting marketing initiatives through analyst interviews, speaking engagements, white papers, and more to establish Thought Leadership and provides crucial customer sales support for the CTO office. He has more than 20+ years’ experience in embedded software development and served as a Wind River representative in various alliances and standardization bodies – AUTOSAR, ROS2, GENIVI, and PICMG. He is currently chair of the real-time ROS2 working group and a member of the ROS2 TSC. Andrei joined the company in 2005 and has held roles in various areas, including engineering, services, automotive, and technology office. Prior to joining Wind River, he was a senior staff software engineer at Motorola Computer Group and Force Computers and a research scientist working at various European laboratories, where he developed expertise in complex embedded control and data acquisition systems. He holds a master’s degree from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.

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Benjamin Weinhardt is the Head of Office and Collaboration at Siliconally. Benjamin joined Siliconally in 2022 after working for more than 10 years in the automotive engineering market. During this time, Benjamin worked on several projects for ADAS as well as AD systems for international premium OEMs. During the last 7 years Benjamin started specialising in the field of Business Development with various customer projects throughout Asia, Europe and North America. Benjamin holds a Masters in Business Informatics from the Technical University Dresden.

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Philipp Renner is an experienced professional with a strong background in sales and engineering. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Economics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Philipp began his career at a 3D printing startup, where he served for 4.5 years as an account executive and assistant to the CEO. He then advanced to understand.ai, a leading data annotation provider, where he spent another 4.5 years as a technical sales manager and solution engineering team lead. In November 2023, Philipp joined Quality Match as the Head of Sales, bringing his expertise in technology solutions and strategic sales to enhance the company’s leadership in the computer vision data QA market.

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Giorgiomaria Cicero is CEO & Co-Founder from Accelerat

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Daniel has a PhD in Computer Science and a passion for embedded systems. Daniel is making automotive software reusable and portable with the solutions he is developing together with his colleagues at OxidOS Automotive.

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Andrea Bastoni earned his Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2011. Since 2007, he has worked in the industry as a Software Engineer and Architect, leading the technical safety certification of the SYSGO PikeOS microkernel. With over 15 years of experience in real-time operating systems for safety-critical certified products in avionics, railway, and automotive sectors, he co-founded Minerva Systems in 2021, focusing on performance and predictability for multicore systems. He also serves as a Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich.