SPEAKERS 2026
At VECS we are proud to present a list of highly respected international speakers that are top of mind in the new Ecosystem for Transportation.


Alexander Schaab
Expert on SDV and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Expert on SDV and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles


Anna Larsson
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Director Electromobility at Mobility and Systems, DigitalSystems


Anton Wieselblad
Scania Innovation Centre China
Head of Data streaming and AI within the Section for Autonomous Intelligent Control Platform, Scania former Start-up Ecosystem Manager
Anton Wieselblad is Head of Data streaming and AI within the Section for Autonomous Intelligent Control Platform at Scania since June 2024. With a passion for technology and new business exploration, he have pioneered many successful corporate innovation initiatives globally within the TRATON group. Before his current role, Anton started and ran Scania’s internal entrepreneurship program for several years. Together with Combient Foundry, he has also accelerated Scania’s adoption of start-up collaboration in Sweden before moving to China to work as our “Ecosystem Manager” – essentially working to build up a network with the start-up community in China.


Dr. Frank J. Jiang
FleetMQ
CEO & Co-Founder
Frank J. Jiang is CEO and Co-Founder of FleetMQ, a company building resilient data streaming infrastructure for connected and autonomous vehicles. FleetMQ emerged from his PhD work at KTH on real-time control and verification for networked mobility systems. His research and engineering focus is on how software architecture can unlock reliable operations over any wireless network (4G, 5G, WiFi, etc.). Frank’s work has been listed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ (IVA) 100 list and has received international awards for his research on the safe deployment of connected vehicles. He now leads FleetMQ’s efforts to bring deployable, cost-efficient connectivity solutions to mobility operators and OEMs.


Dr. Kirsten Matheus
VDA German Association of the Automotive Industry
Expert Data, Digitalization & Artificial Intelligence


Dr. Torvald Mårtensson
Saab Aeronautics
Technical Fellow within System Integration Testing
Torvald Mårtensson is Technical Fellow within System Integration Testing at Saab Aeronautics. Torvald is also Associate Professor of Software Engineering (Senior Lecturer) at Linköping University, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Systems and Software. He is a full member of The Royal Aeronautical Society in London


Ellinor Südow
Halmstad University Solar Team
Ellinor Südow is the Project Manager for Halmstad University Solar Team and also studies Engineering in Sustainable Energy after her already completed BSc in International Business. Her main goals for the project is to create an environment where students thrive and excel through teamwork with a common goal- to build the best solar car in the world.


Frank Svenhard
Arval
Director Nordic Consulting
Frank Svenhard is running Consulting arm in the Nordic’s for Arval, the global fleet company operating in 30 countries. He has over 30 years of experience from the Fleet & Mobility sector. Has been part of several country start-ups and holds a university degree in business administration & marketing.


Jan Bosch
Chalmers University of Technology
Jan Bosch is professor at Chalmers University Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and director of the Software Center (www.software-center.se), a strategic partner-funded collaboration between more than 15 large European companies (including Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Saab Defense, Scania, Siemens and Bosch) and five universities focused on digitalization. Earlier, he worked as Vice President Engineering Process at Intuit Inc where he also led Intuit’s Open Innovation efforts and headed the central mobile technologies team. Before Intuit, he was vice president and head of the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Prior to joining Nokia, he headed the software engineering research group at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received a MSc degree from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree from Lund University, Sweden.
His research activities include digitalisation, evidence-based development, business ecosystems, artificial intelligence and machine/deep learning, software architecture, software product families and software variability management. He is the author of several books including “Design and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product Line Approach” published by Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley & ACM Press) and Speed, Data and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven World published by Taylor and Francis, editor of several books and volumes and author of hundreds of research articles. He is editor for Journal of Systems and Software as well as Science of Computer Programming, chaired several conferences as general and program chair, served on numerous program committees and organised countless workshops. Jan is a fellow member of the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science.
Jan serves on the boards of Burt Intelligence and Shelfplanner. Earlier he served on the boards of IVER, Peltarion and Strawberry Planet and was chairman of the boards of Auqtus, Fidesmo and Remente. In the startup space, Jan is an angel investor in several startup companies. He also runs a boutique consulting firm, Boschonian AB, that offers its clients support around the implications of digitalization including the management of R&D and innovation. For more information see his website: www.janbosch.com.


Magnus Holmén
Halmstad University
Magnus Holmén is a Professor Innovation Sciences at the School of Business, Innovation and Sustainability, Halmstad University, Sweden. He obtained his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. His research focuses on technological change, industrial transformation as well as innovation ecosystems and business model innovation processes in, for example, healthcare, additive manufacturing, AI. Magnus has co-authored several scientific publications and co-edited several books in these fields.


Maya Hoveskog
Halmstad University
Maya Hoveskog is Associate Professor in Innovation Management at the School of Business, Innovation and Sustainability, Halmstad University, Sweden. She obtained her PhD from University of Ruse, Bulgaria. Her research focuses on innovation processes with special interest in sustainability-oriented business model innovation and value creation as well as teaching and learning in higher education. She has co-authored a number of scientific publications in these fields.


Mikael Adenmark
TRATON Group
Mikael Adenmark is driving the TRATON E/E Integration and Test Strategy. He has a long experience from Scania within both system development but mainly in testing and also has experience from railway signalling and fiber optics. The red thread throughout his career has been to understand the bigger picture and finding ways to develop working systems faster and with better quality, in a lean way.


Per Olsson
Volvo Technology
M.Sc. Senior Expert Vehicle Dynamics Virtual Verification
Per has been working with virtual test and verification of active safety and vehicle dynamics control systems at Volvo Cars and Volvo Group Trucks Technology in various positions since 1997. Today Per is leading the XIL community within the Vehicle Motion and Thermal Management organization at Volvo Group Trucks Technology


Petra Sundström
TRATON Charging Solutions
Managing Director
Dr. Petra Sundström comes from a background of building new digitally enabled business for a manufacturing industry, first in landscaping and in relation to lawn care equipment, next in mining and now in the automation industry setting up TRATON Charging Solutions for TRATON Group. TRATON Charging Solutions being the e-Mobility Service Provider(eMSP) enabling public charging to Scania and MAN customers. Petra has the ability to quickly build a team, set vision and connect technical possibilities and eco system partners to pursue a business opportunity. She has in little time staged TRATON Charging Solutions to be one of the most progressing eMSPs in the commercial vehicles space.


Raman Yazdani Wetterberg
Volvo Group Trucks Technology
Specialist Feature Architect Energy Management
Raman is steering the helm of Energy Efficiency & Range for Cab Over Trucks regardless of driveline in Volvo Group. He has over 10 years of automotive & racing experience from Polestar Cyan Racing, Volvo Buses, and Volvo Group Trucks Technology with positions ranging from aerodynamicist, lead engineer, group manager, and finally feature architect.


Uwe Brandenburg
DXC Luxoft
Uwe is Vice President Autonomous Driving at DXC Luxoft. In his role he is responsible for developments in the field of autonomous vehicles, AD function development and virtual validation. In his previous role, he was ADAS Chief Technology Officer and Engineering Head and was also responsible for the product and technology roadmaps and projects in the field for autonomous driving and ADAS sensor development for all global customers. This included the development of radar, cameras (mono, stereo and night vision) sensors and domain controllers as well as complete ADAS systems.































































