Ali Nouri is a senior system safety engineer in autonomous driving at Volvo. His main areas of expertise include function and system design activities as well as safety argumentation of AD, and he's a member of ISO/PAS 8800 (safety and AI) and ISO/TS 5083 (safety for automated driving systems). Ali is an industrial PhD candidate on assuring safety for rapid and continuous deployment for autonomous driving.

1998 as project manager with responsibility for customer projects in the field of ultrasonic parking assistance. After various project stints, most recently also in pre-development, he took over the technical project management for the semi-automatic parking assistant "Park4U®" with Volkswagen in 2005. The start of series production in the VW Touran in 2007 marked the beginning of this innovation's triumphant success on the market.
At the beginning of 2008, he moved to product marketing and he has been product marketing manager for the driver assistance product group since 2010. Harald's responsibilities cover all regions and range from parking assistance to driving assistance and from active safety to automated driving. He holds a degree in industrial engineering (FH) from the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences). Harald was born in 1973 and is married with one son.

Dr. Kirsten Matheus is an engineer and economist. She has worked in the automotive industry since 2003, and been with BMW since 2009. At BMW she is responsible for the strategy for the in-vehicle networking technologies. This entails ensuring the availability of suitable in-vehicle networking technologies ahead of time. In this context she successfully introduced ethernet as a networking technology into the automotive industry. In her opinion, only open standards provide the basis for long-term sustainability of networking technologies. She and her former colleague Thomas Königseder describe their experiences, background, and technical concepts behind the use of ethernet in the automotive industry in a book titled “Automotive Ethernet”. Her new book, co-authored by her colleague Michael Kaindl, “Automotive High Speed Communication Technologies, SerDes and Ethernet for Sensor and Display Applications”, was published in autumn 2022.

Dr. Duong-Van Nguyen is the head of ADAS at Panasonic Automotive Systems Europe (PASEU) based in Germany. He is also the representative of PASEU at the EU commission. Before, he worked as an R&D manager at Hyundai Mobis (Germany) from June to August 2015, and as senior research engineer at Valeo (Ireland) from 2013-15 after his PhD graduation in robotics from the University of Siegen (Germany, 2009-2013).

Duong-Van has received three research and innovation grants, including CARAMEL (2019), CPSoSAware (2020), and TRUSTEE (2022) by the European Research Council. He is recognized as the senior IEEE, and a member of IEEE standard working group P2020. He has served as a member of the technical program committee, advisory boards, and he's been a conference and workshop organiser, an invited speaker, and a reviewer for many journals and conferences.

Duong-Van has been a pioneer and leading scientist in the field of ADAS and autonomous driving, publishing one book, one book chapter, one springer magazine, nine patents, and a number of journals and conference papers.

Madhusudan Lingarajappa is a TÜV SÜD Level 2 certified ISO 26262 functional safety professional and an automotive safety practitioner (functional safety and SOTIF) working at Jaguar Land Rover as a senior functional safety HV engineer. He holds a master’s degree in embedded systems from Manipal University, Manipal, India, and has more than 11 years of automotive experience.

Madhusudan's exposure to ISO 26262 automotive functional safety and ISO/PAS 21448 SOTIF keeps him focussed on opportunities to improve the process. He is also focussed on putting his passion and skills to good use by supporting organisations and projects that he really cares about.

Andrew Lee is currently a co-founder and VP of business development at Deepen AI, a developer of sensor fusion software and services for autonomy and multi-sensor environments.
Prior to joining Deepen, Andrew was a research analyst at JP Morgan covering technology companies in mobile, data centre, automotive, and AI. Andrew has over a decade of engineering experience in semiconductor design (six patents pending), including one successful startup journey during the smartphone revolution. He holds a BS and an MEng in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Alejandro Morate is currently leading the autonomous drive department in one of the most innovative automotive companies in Sweden. Their mission is to deliver the mobility solutions of the future. Due to the nature of the work, most of the time his team is navigating in uncharted territory working out ideas, innovations, and using strategies thinking to ensure that CEVT is among the market leaders as a company.

In the past he has worked for Tier 1 suppliers, for big OEMs, and also has led the engineering department of a small startup developing their own innovations. His background is computer engineering, specialised in robotics and SW processes like ASPICE and ISO26262.

Abhinav Valada is an assistant professor and director of the robot learning lab at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is a member of the department of computer science, the BrainLinks-BrainTools centre, and a founding faculty of the ELLIS Unit Freiburg. Abhinav is a DFG Emmy Noether AI fellow, scholar of the ELLIS Society, and chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society technical committee on robot learning. He received his PhD with distinction from the University of Freiburg and his MSc in robotics from The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He co-founded and served as the director of operations of Platypus LLC, a company developing autonomous robotic boats, and has previously worked at the National Robotics Engineering Center and the Field Robotics Center of Carnegie Mellon University.

Abhinav’s research lies at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision with a focus on tackling fundamental robot perception, state estimation, and planning problems using learning approaches to enable robots to operate reliably in complex and diverse domains. His robot learning group has developed several innovative techniques for scene understanding, state estimation, and autonomous navigation that have defined the state of the art. His group has also won several major competitions and many aspects of their research have been prominently featured in wider media such as the Discovery Channel, NBC News, and Business Times.

Cédric Malaquin is team lead analyst of the RF activity within the power and wireless division at Yole Intelligence, part of Yole Group. In this position, Cédric is managing the technical expertise and the market knowledge of his team for the company.
Based on its contribution to multiple reports and custom analysis dedicated to the automotive, telecom infrastructure, and consumer markets, he is actively shaping Yole’s products, such as the RF quarterly market monitor, while structuring Yole’s activity in RF. Cédric is also assisting and supporting Yole’s financial activities with its technical expertise and market knowledge in RF.
Prior to Yole, Cédric served as a process integration engineer and then as an electrical characterisation engineer at Soitec (France). He has (co-)authored several international papers and patents. Cédric graduated from Polytech Lille (France) with an engineering degree in microelectronics and material sciences and holds a DEA in microwave and microtechnology from the University of Lille.

Nils Katzorke was born in Hannover, Germany. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in transportation and logistics management and a master’s degree in business engineering. Currently, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in business administration. Nils has published multiple peer-reviewed papers in the context of test technologies for automated vehicles. He joined Mercedes-Benz in 2016 as a project coordinator for the construction and ramp-up of the new proving ground in Immendingen, Germany. Since the opening of the proving ground in 2018, Nils has been responsible for the advancement of the site, leading a research project on test infrastructure design for automated vehicles and coordinating diverse technical and economical projects.

Hyunse Lee is the VP Business Development at Autocrypt Technologies GmbH. His role is to ensure that OEMs, tier suppliers, and mobility services providers understand the crucial need for secure mobility as we move into the future of connected and autonomous transportation. As former founder & CEO of Realhaptics, he has been involved in embedded systems engineering, developing and commercializing virtual reality haptics systems. After his early entrepreneurial endeavor, he began his career in cybersecurity at Penta Security Systems. After Autocrypt successfully spun off from Penta Security, Hyunse took on his current position at Autocrypt with his passion for secure mobility.

Dr. Richard Dixon is senior principal analyst at IHS Markit (now a part of S&P Global) responsible for sensors and vehicle architectures in the EE and semiconductor team. His research area is tracking the adoption of semiconductor technology supporting major automotive trends such as electrification, emissions reduction, and autonomy, in addition to assessing the impact of the changing vehicle electronic and electric architecture on the supply chain.

In addition, Richard has led the sensor research output at IHS Markit for over 10 years. He is an expert for all sensors in cars and is tracking at least 150 different applications on a regular basis.

Cicero S. Vaucher joined Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven in 1990. Since 2006 he has been with NXP Semiconductors, where he is presently a fellow and an automotive radar product architect. He developed and industrialised the first silicon-based receiver IC for 12-GHz satellite outdoor units and steered the development of the first single-chip 76–81 GHz automotive radar transceiver in 40nm CMOS technology. He holds a doctorate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente and is presently a part-time professor of mm-wave radar frontends at TU Delft. He is acting on the IEEE-MTT Connected and Autonomous Systems, Technical Committee 27, and is a senior member of the IEEE.

After starting his career at BMW in 2007, Armin Engstle joined AVL Software and Functions in 2011 and was responsible for vehicle and hybrid controls software. From 2015-18, he led the ADAS/AD controls and software department at AVL before joining Zenuity from 2018-20. Since June 2020, Armin has been back at AVL, taking over the product management for DGT Perception software and managing the newly founded AVL Sensor Lab at Roding/Bavaria.

Geir Ostrem, ADI Fellow, is leading the strategic systems and technologies team and the GMSL product definition team in the automotive cabin experience business unit at analog devices. Geir joined Maxim Integrated in Colorado Springs, CO in 2001, and has held IC design engineering, and various engineering director positions in multiple product lines and business units. He was named a Maxim Fellow in 2015 for his contributions to RF-D/A converters and cable head-end systems. His primary focus at Maxim was design and development of high-speed signal processing integrated circuits for communications infrastructure, instrumentation, and imaging. These included high-speed and RF D/A- and A/D-converters, high density DOCSIS head-end solutions and various RF products. Since 2015, he has led a design team that developing GMSL serial link devices for ADAS systems. From 1991-01 he held IC design and design management positions with Nordic Semiconductor, Globespan Semiconductor, and Signal Processing Technologies. He holds a PhD degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, received in 1996.

Mourad Elsobky (member, IEEE) received a BSc (Hons) degree in information engineering and technology from the German University Cairo (GUC), Egypt, in 2014, and an MSc degree in communications technology from Ulm University, Germany, in 2015. He was a recipient of the German DAAD scholarship in 2014. In 2021, he received a PhD degree (Hons) from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, while being a researcher with IMS CHIPS, Germany, where he focussed on hybrid systems-in-foil. Since 2020, he has been an ASIC design expert with Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen, Germany. He is currently working in the field of inertial sensor systems.

Dr. Ralph Grewe started his career at Continental in 2011 with a PhD position in the field of environment modelling at the advanced engineering of systems and technology, where he took over the position as group leader for perception and environment model in 2016. In 2018, he became the domain owner for the CEM and localisation domains in the program automated driving. Since January 2022, he has been the product manager of perception at the innovation line driverless of the systems and software business at autonomous mobility.

Abhash Das is an experienced leader with over 20 years of experience covering a variety of areas within the automotive and semiconductor industries. He is highly specialised in IEC 61508, ISO 26262, and ISO 21448 functional safety engineering for various automotive safety-critical systems in areas of autonomous driving, hybrid powertrain, ADAS, active/passive safety systems, etc. Abhash has authored several patents and trade secrets. He has presented and moderated sessions in different technical forums, e.g., SAE, VDA, weConnect, IQPC, UKi Media, etc. He is an active working group committee member in SAE ORAD, BSI CAV, and USTAG to ISO TC22/SC32/WG8 and is involved in commenting on ISO 26262:2018, and ISO 21448:2022 standards.

Lionel Bennes, PhD, serves as senior product manager for AVxcelerate products at Ansys. Lionel has more than 10 years of experience in optical and real-time simulation, mainly in the automotive and A&D fields. He has overseen the design and development of headlamp and sensors products, leveraging a unique combination of real-time rendering techniques combined with physics-based optical simulations.

Paul Leclaire holds a PhD in micro and nanotechnology from the University of Lille (France), in partnership with the IEMN of Villeneuve-d'Ascq and the CRHEA-CNRS of Sophia-Antipolis. Since 2017, Paul has been a patent and technology analyst in charge of the MEMS and sensors department at Knowmade. Previously, Paul worked as innovation consultant for In Extenso Innovation Croissance.

Jürgen Baumgartner joined Valens Semiconductor in 2016. Jürgen has a background of 19 years in automotive semiconductors and an additional track record of nine years in hardware design, systems engineering, and product management. At Valens, Jürgen currently serves as director of product management automotive and is focussing on products and solutions for automotive high-speed connectivity.

Lenora Clark is the director of autonomous driving and safety technology for MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions. She leads the team in understanding all systems involved in advanced safety on the path to full autonomy. She seeks to understand industry challenges associated with this endeavor. Lenora works closely with fabricators, tier ones, and car makers to understand the needs of the entire supply chain to achieve faster, more reliable solutions. She works in all aspects of electronics, uniting circuitry, semiconductor, and assembly solutions for a holistic approach to automotive market needs, especially for advanced driving assistance.

Lenora has worked for the company for over 20 years and has been published in numerous industry technical conferences. She holds four patents. She graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and received her master's degree in chemistry.

Onn Haran is co-founder and CTO of Autotalks, which enables the vehicle-to-vehicle communication revolution. Onn is an expert in all V2X aspects, from communication, cybersecurity, and safety to regulation. With Onn’s vision, Autotalks created an industry-recognised technological lead.

Before Autotalks, Onn developed VLSI and communication systems and handled standardisation and market development. Onn was working for unit 81 in IDF, Texas Instruments, and Passave (acquired by PMC-Sierra).