Chuck Gershman is a Drexel University College of Engineering inductee into the Alumni Circle of Distinction, the highest honour bestowed upon alumni. He has been honoured as a finalist for CMP Publications’ (EE Times) prestigious ACE award as High Technology Executive of the Year and was previously named a Top 40 Healthcare Transformer by Medical Marketing & Media for his work on clinical AI decision support for cancer patients. Chuck holds three US patents for his contributions to microprocessor architecture.

Chuck brings over 30 years of technology and semiconductor industry experience in executive management, marketing, engineering, business development, sales, consulting, and executive advising, including Owl Autonomous Imaging. He has served as CEO/COO and a board director for three companies, and he knows what it takes to lead a vision to reality - having led successful exits with acquisitions by Intel and PMC-Sierra.

Frank Kraemer is an IBM systems architect for large-scale IT solutions. He has a very good understanding of data management solutions for autonomous driving (AD) and AI in the automotive industry. In addition, Frank also has intensive information technology consulting skills related to cloud, hybrid cloud, open systems, container technologies, and modern networking.

Dr. Dalong Li is team lead and product owner of machine learning at Stellantis. He co-authored the safety first for automated driving white paper and is currently working with a few colleagues from GM and Ford in developing guidelines for automotive AI/ML component specification. He earned a PhD degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has 20-plus US patents in areas of image processing, computer vision, and machine learning during his employment with HP, Motorola, Continental, and Stellantis.

After joining ST in 2008 as an Audio Application Engineer, Alessandro moved into the marketing team promoting MEMS microphones before being placed in charge of all MEMS-sensor related marketing activities in 2018. Since February 2020, Alessandro is Product Marketing Manager for our MEMS Sensor sub-group where he is responsible for portfolio business development and strategic communication.

Alessandro was born in Seriate (BG), Italy, in 1982, and graduated with a master degree in Microelectronics from the Polytechnic of Milan.

Tokihiko Akita worked for more than 30 years as an R&D engineer at AISIN, which is one of the Tier 1 suppliers belonging to Toyota. His research areas there were vehicle motion control systems and ADAS, mainly applying surround monitor cameras and sensors. After that, Tokihiko moved to Toyota Technological Institute, and currently he's researching driving environmental recognition applying AI for autonomous driving.

Dr. Subrata Kundu is a senior manager of the R&D division at Hitachi America, Ltd. in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA. He leads a research team focussed on advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous driving (AD), and connected services for future smart cities. Prior to working at Hitachi, Subrata worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Toyota Technological Institute and as a project assistant professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan. He holds a BSc degree in mechanical engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology in Bangladesh and master's and PhD degrees in robotics and intelligent systems from Saga University in Japan. His research interests include robotics, soft computing, and intelligent systems.

Hesham Eraqi is the Founding CTO and general manager of Nahdet Misr AI and an adjunct assistant professor at the computer science and engineering department at the American University in Cairo. He was a senior expert/director of AI and chief AI scientist at Valeo where he worked for 10 years and he has been a consultant for multiple AI companies in Egypt. He is an advisory board member with EdVentures. With more than 11 years of experience working in the machine learning and software development industries besides academia, his experience combines participating in several high-tech award-winning international mega-projects/products and conducting pure academic research. His international filed patents, papers, and book chapters are mainly in deep learning and computer vision.
Hesham received his BSc and MSc degrees in electronics and computer engineering from Cairo University and his PhD in computer science and engineering with highest honours and highest GPA in class with an award-winning thesis from AUC. He has conducted hundreds of industrial training hours worldwide and delivered 50-plus keynotes. He developed and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the top three universities in Egypt and with Udacity. He also advises 30-plus MSc and PhD theses and graduation theses. Hesham is the chairperson, guest editor, advisory board member, and program committee member in top venues in his area including NeurIPS/ICCV/ECCV workshops and AV Silicon Valley, and he is an active reviewer at 25-plus major international journals and conferences. His technical articles are viewed hundreds of thousands of times and his open-source contributions are downloaded tens of thousands of times.

Andrew Grant is an AI expert and leads on AI at PE/VC advisory partnership Dx³, (dx-cubed.com) as a partner specialising in AI. He advises on AI and digital transformation, automation and XAI, and generative AI. 

He was recently senior director of AI at chip designer Imagination Technologies, where he was responsible for strategic business development for the neural network accelerator (NNA) and worked across GPU, CPU, and NNA for automotive clients.

As an AI thought leader and keynote speaker with 12-plus years of AI experience, having chaired UCL startup Satalia for seven years (Gartner cool vendor in data science, acquired by WPP plc in 2021) and then at Imagination Technologies (3.5 years), where he developed the multi-core strategy for the award-winning NNA and development for autonomous vehicles and Edge AI.

Prior to this, Andrew ran spinouts from UCL and CERN. He has also worked with UCL School of Management (designing their IMB course) and WPP (as head of strategy for digital transformation for SABMiller) and has completed innovation projects on the future of automotive, aviation, retail, and the IoT. At BT plc he led marketing for the UK launch of broadband, later working with BT Labs and holding roles as CIO of business and head of technology strategy.

As a keynote speaker (and moderator) he has presented in the USA (AI Hardware Summit – Silicon Valley), across Europe, and in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Tokyo, and Taipei.

He also represented UK AI for the InnovateUK Global Expert Mission on AI to Germany and is a published contributor to the APPG on AI (UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence).

Gilberto Rodriguez is the director of AI product management at Imagination Technologies, responsible for product development and client engagement. He is passionate about bringing together technology and people to create innovative solutions that spark life-changing products.
Gilberto has founded startups and has experience in leading teams of engineers that distributed worldwide democratising technology and working with innovative companies for more than 20 years across fields such as internet, mobile telephony, instant high-definition video, self-driving cars, etc.

Dr. Ibrahim Sobh has more than 20 years of experience in the area of machine learning and software development. He received his PhD in deep reinforcement learning and his MSc is in machine learning applied on automatic documents summarisation. Ibrahim has participated in several related national and international projects, conferences, and summits. He delivers trainings and lectures for academic and industrial entities. His patents and publications are mainly in natural language processing, speech processing, and computer vision. Currently Ibrahim is a senior expert of AI at Valeo Group.

Murat Erdogan is the current head of confirmation measures at Veoneer for their entire product portfolio, including camera, radar, ADAS (brain) fusion, LiDAR, and restraint control systems. In 2010, he finished his master´s in electrical engineering at the University of Kassel. For two years he was a scientific officer at Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern, and then in 2014 he joined EFS GmbH as safety engineer. In 2016-17, he was the technical lead safety manager for Visteon in a high-complex body domain controller project, which he led successfully with a global OEM.

After having satisfied his mission with the safety engineering activities, he decided to move to a more strategic and international challenge. In 2017, he took the line manager position for functional safety managers in Autoliv for the vision product line, which was spined-off and moved to Veoneer in 2018. During this time, he was appointed as Autoliv`s lead safety line for Sweden and after starting Veoneer he was assigned as the global head of safety management, which he did until starting his new role from scratch. He is one of the seven appointed international experts of Sweden for several standards, among them ISO 26262, ISO TS 5083, and ISO PAS 8800. He regularly joins conferences and presents new ideas, processes, and methods from the knowledge that he gains by research to which he has a high interest.

Renata Walker is a business-driven product manager who is passionate about the intersection of technology and social impact. As Lead Product Manager at Sama, Renata focuses on creating human-centric products with a data & research driven approach to create real-life scenarios for product adoption. Renata offers over 5 years of product building experiences in different industries, from corporate finances to highly technical products targeted at a wide range of diverse users.