Alberto Pisoni is director of control systems at General Motors Global Propulsion Systems. In his current role, he has global responsibility for diesel control systems for GM applications worldwide and leads a team located in Torino, Italy. Alberto was born in Torino in 1966 and studied electronic engineering at Politecnico di Torino. He started his career in Centro Ricerche FIAT in 1993 and he was part of the team that developed the first diesel common rail system for passenger cars (Alfa Romeo, 1997) and later led controls activities for the FIAT multiair system. Alberto joined General Motors in 2006 as diesel controls chief engineer and was responsible for the introduction of the first diesel in-house control system for GM (D1, 2010). In 2011- 12, he had an international assignment in Detroit, USA where he was responsible for gasoline and automatic transmission controllers. Prior to his current position in 2013-14, he was the manager of the diesel engine advanced team in Torino.

Tuhin Ray is a Director of ADAS Launch at Delphi Automotive Systems. He has 20+ years of Global automotive engineering experience in Soft­ware development, Product development, Project Management in In­fotainment, Mechatronics, Hybrid electronics and engine management systems. Previously he served as Director of Engineering for Europe Infotainment and Driver Interface Business Unit leading development of next generation infotainment platforms for European OEM and Direc­tor of Engineering for Electronics and Safety Division for Europe. Tuhin Ray has Masters in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University USA, Masters in Business Administration from Kelly School of Business Indiana University and Masters in Global Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management. Currently he is a Director of Engineer­ing for Europe Infotainment and Driver Interface Business Unit leading development of next generation infotainment platforms for European OEM’s. He has 19 years of global automotive engineering experience in Software development, Product development, Project Management in Infotainment, Mechatronics, Hybrid electronics and engine management systems.

Ashutosh Tomar has been working with various industries in research and development since 1999. His experience varies from telecommunica­tions to defence systems to internet security to automotive electronics. As a keen researcher and inventor for last eight years he has been part of a JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) research team working as Principal Research­er in electrical research. He has been through and working on various aspects of future cars like connected infotainment, Social infotainment, flat loudspeakers, light weight electronics and using consumer’s device to augment car functions. His current area of work within research is looking at low-power and low-weight electronic systems and looking at the merits of consumer grade technologies in the car. He is a Chartered Engineer, a mentor and holds a Masters degree in communications and Real-Time electronics systems. He is also a member of various engineer­ing societies like ComSoc, AES, IET, IEEE etc.

Dr. Burkhard Iske is currently Project Director for the next Generation of Parking Systems at Bosch. Iske joint Bosch in 2003 and since 2008 he is working in the field of Parking and Maneuvering Assistance Systems. During this time he was project manager for semi automatic parking systems based on Ultrasonic sensors, was responsible for the Predevel­opment for future parking and maneuvering functions and before his current position he was Head of department for the parking and maneu­vering business for Bosch in China. Iske did his PhD studies at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn focusing on Infrared Sen­sors for autonomous Systems from 2000 until 2003.

Grzegorz Ombach is Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, with responsibility for global research and development of Qualcomm’s Wire­less Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) technology. In this role he is re­sponsible for technology and innovation portfolio development in close collaboration with strategic partners and universities. One of his main interest area is managing breakthrough innovation in cross functional teams. Grzegorz joined Qualcomm in 2012 from Brose Fahrzeugteile, where he managed the design of new automotive systems and intel­lectual property portfolio as Director of Advanced Development. Prior to Brose Fahrzeugteile, Grzegorz was Principal Expert at Siemens VDO Au­tomotive AG where his responsibilities included management of a panel of experts in charge of electric systems for automotive at the company. Grzegorz holds Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. Grzegorz has authored and coauthored over 70 papers and holds more than 25 patents (awarded and pending) on auto­motive electrical systems. He has been awarded Guest Professorship at the Zhejiang University in China.

Carl Wacker has been in the Automotive Electronics industry for nearly 30 years. He is an Electrical Engineer and has his MBA (International Fi­nance) His experience extends to all facets of the Automotive Electronics Industry. Carl began his career at General Motors as a Quality Engineer and worked in Electronics Design, Manufacturing, Quality Engineering, Logistics, and Sales and Marketing. Following 10 years with General Mo­tors Carl joined Schrader Electronics in the infancy of the Tire Pressure Monitoring Market and has established himself as one of the primary experts in this field. After the acquisition of Schrader by Sensata, Carl is now the Senior Director of Marketing Performance Sensing. He has been in the Wireless Communications, Sensing, Connectivity and Body and Security products his entire career.

Florian Baumgärtner studied physics at the University of Heidelberg and the Technical University of Vienna. He has a PhD from Imperial College London. During his PhD research from 2007 till 2010 he developed an acceleration sensor based on an ultra-cold atom interferometer. Since 2010 he has been developing automotive radar sensors for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving at Mercedes-Benz and currently Project lead multi-mode radar for ADAS at Daimler AG.

Matthias Möhlig is Director for Product Management Automotive Services at HERE. In this role he holds responsibility for the development of the company’s next generation vehicle-sourced data services for the auto industry aimed at making driving safer and more enjoyable for millions of people around the world. Möhlig joined Nokia’s maps and navigation business, which became part of HERE, in 2009 as Director Drive & Traffic, heading the company’s navigation product line for Nokia mobile devices with millions of active users globally. Möhlig has more than 15 years of experience in navigation software development. Prior to HERE and Nokia he served as CTO and Head of Product as well as Country Manager Taiwan at the German map publishing house Falk Marco Polo Interac­tive (today United Navigation GmbH). Previously he served as Head of Software development at Codes GmbH, a start-up company offering a multi-language, cross media database publishing product.

Frank Heinrichs has 16 years of Experience in the Automotive Semicon­ductor business. He is leading the concept engineering for Infineon’s automotive magnetic sensors in Villach, Austria. Prior to his current role, Frank held different positions within the Automotive Power Business Unit of Infineon in Germany, the US and Austria. Before joining Infineon in 1999, he worked on RF and piezoelectric components within Philips Cor­porate Research. Frank graduated in Semiconductor Physics at the Uni­versity of Hamburg.

Richard Dixon is a principal analyst for MEMS and author of more than 50 MEMS-related consulting and market research studies. He is a world-renowned expert on automotive MEMS and magnetic sensors used in safety, powertrain, and body applications. Along with supporting the overall activities of the MEMS and sensors group, his responsibilities include the development of databases that forecast the markets for more than 20 types of silicon-based sensors in more than 100 automotive applications. In addition, he has supported organisations with future scenarios for sensors in cars and has supported many custom projects for companies in the automotive supply chain. In his prior post at WTC, Dixon was a senior MEMS analyst where he led research on physical sensors and was the co-author of the NEXUS Task Force Report for MEMS and Microsystems 2005-2009. He has also led commercialisation and road-mapping activities on European Commission-funded technology projects, including detailed MEMS chip cost analysis studies. Dixon worked previously as a journalist in the compound semiconductor industry and has years of experience as a technology transfer professional at RTI International, where he provided business and market intelligence for early-stage technologies. Dixon graduated from North Kent University with a degree in materials science and earned a doctorate from Surrey University in semi-conductor characterisation. He speaks English and German.

Dr. Ignacio Alvarez obtained his M.Sc. in physics (electronics) in 1996, M.Sc. in artificial intelligence in 2001, and a Ph.D. in electrical & electronics engineering in 2001. Since 1998, he has been involved in different professional roles, starting in the energy industries (power electronics) as project manager. In 2002, he jumped in to the electrical & electronics automotive world, joining the applied research team at the European Technological Center of Lear Corp near Barcelona. Within the next 8 years, he was acquiring more responsibilities inside the advanced engineering department at Lear becoming the manager of the applied research department in 2006 with a special focus on body electronics and HEV/ EV power applications. In early 2010, he accepted the challenge proposed by Faurecia to drive the seat electronics department with worldwide responsibilities where he is currently active in the Global Seat Electronics Center of Excellence located in Brieres-Paris Area, in the different field of electronics contented products for seats (from breakthrough innovation, through development, to series production).

Ralph van Cauter is System Architect in the R&D and New Product De­velopment department at Prodrive Technologies. With his background in microelectronics engineering, Ralph joined Prodrive Technologies in 1994 in its second year of establishment. His role is defining innovative and conceptual multidisciplinary systems combining electronics, phys­ics and mechanics and guiding them from concept level up to products ready for the market. Prodrive Technologies serves automotive and other markets, with the development and manufacturing of products ranging from power electronics to sensors. Ralph’s involvement in the company from the start brings him a high level of experience in various markets and with a wide product range.

Jörg Kock has been working in the semiconductor industry for the last 25years in various companies and application domains. For the last 10 years he is in automotive semiconductors within NXP Semiconductors with a focus on magneto resistive sensors located in the automotive headquarter of NXP in Hamburg Germany. He is leading the new technol­ogy as well as the new product concept development team for magnetic sensors. Jörg Kock graduated in computer engineering at the University of Wedel.

Andreas Middendorf works as a business developer in the Business Development Team of The Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM). He was working as a scientist in the department Environmental and Reliability Engineering of the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) and of the Technical University Berlin since May 1995. He was responsible for the development and implementation of methods and demonstrators for the estimation of lifetime for electronic appliances. Further on he is investigating technological aspects which combine the electronics design with environmental engineering techniques. This includes environmental assessments through LCA and through other methods, especially for Eco-Design, the evaluation of recycling attributes, the development of databases and software as well as environmental oriented product evaluation. He carried out courses on EcoDesign for electronic companies, holds four patents and has coordinated several cooperative research projects in Germany and Europe. Since 2010 until 2015 he was senior manager for the application automotive and transportation systems and in charge for the System Reliability and Measurement Group at IZM. He studied electrical engineering at the Technical Universities of Aachen and Wuppertal where he specialized on information and communication technologies.

At SBD Luigi Bisbiglia is investigating a variety of sectors including au­tonomous car, legislation and its impact on the insurance industry, ADAS and consumer expectations. Luigi Bisbiglia is a Business Development Manager for the Autonomous Car Division for Europe, managing relation­ships with vehicles manufacturers and Tier-1 suppliers, covering both autonomous car consultancy and research.