Expert on SDV and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Technical Expert in Vehicle-Grid Integration

AI and AD Researcher

Head of Software Engineering

Senior Director Software Development

Senior Battery Algorithms Engineer

Director Energy Conversion at Electrification and Reliability Safety and Transport

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.

Exploration Lead

Senior Researcher

Associated Partner

Founder & Cybersecurity Specialist

Field Applications Engineer

Co-founder & CEO

Information Security Officer

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.

Senior Technical Leader

Expert Data, Digitalization & Artificial Intelligence

Strategy Officer EE Areas Strategy & Change

Senior Manager Software Defined Vehicle Strategy

VP Product

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

Product Owner in the Charging and Energy Team

Configuration & Platform Architect

Principal Software Engineer

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.

CPO

Head of Product and Services

Director Testing

Senior Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, 1st vice chair, Transport Board, City of Gothenburg, Senior Adviser

Founder, Cybersecurity expert and AI Act explorer

Expert Platform Architect

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.

Open Source Strategist

Principal Solution Architect

Machine Learning Engineer

CEO & Co-founder

Technology strategy leader, Volvo AB

Senior Researcher/Legal Expert

Principal Engineer

Strategy & Partnerships

Director

CFO

Sweden’s first AI prompting champion

PhD, Senior Data Scientist

Program Director

Principal Researcher at Code Scene and Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Head of Software Defined Vehicle

Professor in Embedded Control Systems

Handling and Braking Performance Engineer

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.

Director Emerging Technologies

AI Researcher Lead

Professor

Strategy and Business Developer

Senior Principal Engineer – Automotive

Vice President Automative Enterprise

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

CEO & Co-founder

CEO

CEO

Fellow Technology and Strategy Leader

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.

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.

Vice President EMEA

Senior Staff Engineer & Researcher in Automated & Autonomous Driving (AD/ADAS)

Shervin Hajinia is an expert in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving, with a specialization in verification and validation of AI-enabled driving systems, hybrid testing methodologies, and system robustness.

With extensive experience in the automotive industry, he has led and contributed to projects covering the design, integration, testing, and validation of complex ADAS and AD functions across diverse operating conditions and regulatory environments.

At VECS 2026, Shervin will share insights on validating AI-defined vehicle behavior, highlighting hybrid rule-based and AI approaches, explainability, and strategies to manage large-scale scenario complexity.

Researcher

EMEA Portfolio Development

Cybersecurity Researcher and Penetration Tester,  OverTheWire.org

Head of Innovation

Flexibility Manager

Product Cybersecurity Compliance Officer

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.

Technology and Strategy Leader, Software Engineering, Volvo Group

Research Leader

Solutions Architect

Senior Expert

Head of SDV