Aaswad Kulkarni is Head of Software Architecture from Automotive Centre of Excellence, IoT and Digital Engineering at Tata Consultancy Services. With more than 24 years of experience he has diverse expertise in the fields of automotive, locomotive, robotics & subsea solutions. Aaswad holds a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science.

Founder & Partner

Product Owner

Alexandra Kloss is a Product Owner at BMW Group. She works in the infotainment software development for the all new Panoramic Vision head up display due to be released in the “Neue Klasse”. She is very passionate about unconscious biases and how they prevent us from developing the best product possible. Also she has profound experience in team development and workshop facilitation.

Product Owner
Andreas Ask obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Chalmers University of Technology in 2021, where he worked on quantum computing. He first joined Embedl as a deep learning researcher, working on compression techniques for deep learning models on embedded systems. Andreas specializes in neural network pruning, quantization, and neural architecture search, tailoring these techniques to industrial needs. He is especially keen on creating tools for developers that enable efficient processes. Since 2024, Andreas has been leading the development of Embedl Hub, a new product from Embedl that will simplify Edge-AI development for everyone.

CEO & Co-founder / Associate Professor,

Software Engineer

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

Founder & Cybersecurity Specialist

Lead Test Engineer of Autonomous Transport Solutions

Axel Beermann is the Test Leader for TRATON’s autonomous Solutions, working to tie all strings of verification and validation of the final product together. With a background in production engineering and industrial automation, he is dedicated on proving the safety case regardless if their ODD is in confined mining sites or on public roads. Seeing is believing, which is also why he spends as much time as absolutely possible testing in vehicles himself.

System Architect

Björn is a system architect at Zenseact.

Björn has experience from embedded software systems both within automotive as well as the nuclear industry and is an experienced technical leader.

As system architect you get a holistic view of an entire software product aimed for production where some choices are more important than others to be able to scale and deploy fast.

Zenseact is a software company that develops AD and ADAS technology based on the latest advancements in AI. The goal of Zenseact is to reduce the number of road accidents through fast iterations of software.

Business Development Manager

Network Sales Manager Nordics

Vice President of Business Development

Project Manager E-Mobility Solution Development

Professor Software Engineering 2 (SE2)

Project lead, Virtual validation and C/CD, ASAP (part of HCLTech)

Christina has a technical background in software development and applied research. Her focus is on validation of ADAS/AD functions and designing simulation systems. Before joining ASAP in 2021, as a simulation architect, she worked on a research project contributing to an open source Car2X-Communication simulation framework. Since 2024 she is responsible for Virtual Validation and TestSphere.

Lead Solution Architect

PhD, Head of the Research and Development Program

Specialist Product Lead-Vehicle Health Data

Manager AI and tooling

After earning his PhD in Computer Science (TH Karlsruhe), Mr. Zerfowski joined Robert Bosch GmbH, gaining 25+ years of experience in automotive software engineering across domains like body electronics, brakes, and park assist. He led engineering in India (2009-2012), managed ETAS Automotive India, shaped Bosch’s corporate SW strategies (2015-2018), and since 2018 has been VP Engineering Excellence at ETAS GmbH.

Dr Konstantinos Papapanagiotou is the Advisory Services Director at Census Labs S.A. Prior to that, he worked for OTE S.A. (member of Deutsche Telekom Group) where he was responsible for the cyber security solutions offered to corporate customers. In the past he has led cyber security consulting teams in other private sector organizations. Dr Papapanagiotou has more than 20 years of experience in the field of cyber security both as a corporate consultant and as a researcher. During that time, he participated in numerous cyber security projects in public and private sector organizations, in Greece, Europe, USA, and the Middle East. He is passionate about application security and has been an OWASP volunteer since 2004, leading the OWASP Greek Chapter and participating in several projects and initiatives. He holds a PhD and BSc from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens, Greece, as well as a MSc in Information Security with distinction from Royal Holloway, University of London. For more than 10 he served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Hellenic American University, as well as the University of Athens and University of Piraeus, teaching Information Security to postgraduate and undergraduate students.

Director & Head Automotive PMT Practice, HCLTech Sweden

Currently heading the Process, Methods and Tools (PMT) Practice for Automotive engineering globally at HCLTech. Over 26 years’ experience in areas of Product development, R&D and Engineering Services with Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering. Held various techno-business leadership positions such leading teams across multiple Geos (India, USA, Europe and Japan). Technical expertise in process and methods for systems & software lifecycle including requirements management, model-based development and testing of embedded software, verification & validation. Led several research and development activities leading to international patents and publications in journals, conference and various industry events.

Information Security Officer

Senior Technical Leader

Vice President Global Business Development, Electromagnetic and Electronic Solutions

Head of Open Innovation, BMW Group and Lecturer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Director Systems Engineering Commercial Vehicle and Off-Road

Head of Strategic Product Management

Technical Fellow, Distinguished Engineer System Integration and Test

Torvald Mårtensson is Technical Fellow within System Integration Testing at Saab Aeronautics. He has a background of twenty years in the aeronautics industry and another eight years in the telecom industry. At Saab, Torvald works with test management and test strategy for functions and systems in the Gripen E fighter aircraft, as well as design and implementation of test environments and simulators. Before moving into the Gripen E program, Torvald was previously Assistant Chief Engineer in the development project for Gripen South Africa.

Torvald is also Associate Professor of Software Engineering (Senior Lecturer) at Linköping University. His research has primarily revolved around systems integration and system testing of large-scale and complex software systems, based on studies with multi-national companies in industry segments such as telecom, defense, logistics, surveillance and automotive. His research is published in journals such as Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) and Journal of Software Evolution and Process (JSEP), and at conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA).

Torvald is reviewing frequently for scientific journals and conferences, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Systems and Software. Torvald received an MSc degree from Linköping University, Sweden, and a PhD degree from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

PhD, Simulation Developer

He received his master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). He has authored several papers on human-robot interaction, cyber-security, path and trajectory planning, and control for autonomous vehicles. Currently, he is working as a Senior SIL (Software-in-the-Loop) developer at Volvo Autonomous Solution(Volvo Group) and his research focuses on verification and validation of AV in high fidelity simulation.

Chief Customer Engineer and Solution Consultant

Fionn Hurley is Director of Marketing and Application for the Automotive Networking group at Analog Devices. Over the last 17 years at Analog Devices, he has worked in applications and marketing roles in Analog Devices with a major focus on supporting Automotive customers.

Fionn received his B.E. degree from University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, in 2001.

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.

Founder and Advisor, Frédéric Cho Advisory & Vice Chairman

Head of Volvo Battery Mariestad Operations

Technology Expert, System Architect

Test and Verification Engineer

As a young, multicultural, and enthusiastic engineer with a keen interest in technology, I embarked on my professional journey in Turkey as a Product Development Engineer, and shortly after, I transitioned to the R&D department as a Hardware Systems Engineer, working on Industrial Robots. Over the past two years, I’ve made my shift into the marine industry by joining Volvo Penta. The alignment between my personal passion for the sea and ocean and the field I now work in has given me an added layer of motivation. In my role as a Test Engineer, I leveraged my detail-oriented nature and strong emphasis on product quality to focus on customer satisfaction and product reliability, contributing to Connected Solutions. As I continue in the company as a Systems Design Engineer, I remain dedicated to key aspects such as product quality, customer satisfaction, and brand reliability, while closely following technological advancements and contributing to developments with the Connectivity team.

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

Digital Management Consultant

Vice President – Vehicle Software Factory

Lead Strategic Area Cybersecurity, Senior Consultant, Software Intensive Systems, UL Solutions

Transformation Director (Automotive)

Jason has extensive experience as a hands-on, global CIO operating in fast moving, customer focussed environments.

Jason has a long association with the Automotive industry and is interested in how the traditional industry is transforming into an emerging mobility sector, addressing the shift to sustainable transport with digitally enabled customer services at its core. His extensive network, experience, energy, and passion for identifying new customer engagement models in this sector drives his work with multiple clients from digital start-ups to traditional OEM’s. Jason leads our Automotive practice having previously been responsible for establishing the global digital eco-system for Polestar as their Chief Digital Information Officer.

Despite trying hard to squash his competitiveness, Jason still enjoys playing any sport his body allows, and he loves nothing more than trying to beat Dave’s best lap time or winning a round of golf. His spare time mainly consists of spending time with family, a little bit of walking, and spending as much time as possible finding, building and restoring old Lego Technic kits – he finds it a stress release! Alongside this, Jason also gives back to a local charity – Careers Spring Board – helping those looking to find new roles and change direction in their careers.

Jeremy is responsible for helping automotive OEMs deliver a safer, more connected, and NCAP-compliant driving experience to their drivers and driving systems. Prior to joining HAAS Alert, Jeremy held a variety of product management and strategy positions at HERE Technologies (then NAVTEQ), where he launched and expanded a number of location-based products and services globally. Jeremy holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and as BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Senior expert diagnostic engineer, Volvo Group Trucks Technology

Business Strategist,

Director Sustainable Transport and Systems

Johan Mörck, Director Sustainable Transport and System at RISE, Research Institute of Sweden, is heading a research unit with focus on electrification and digitalization of the transport sector. Mörck has an extensive background from the automotive sector, with focus on product and commercial strategies for electrification of heavy trucks and equipment within the Volvo Group; Volvo Penta and Volvo Trucks. He has also been part of a successful journey of commercialization of innovation in Q-linea, a startup within the field of bio tech.

Open Source Strategist

Member of the Management Board

Commercial Product Manager

VP of Imaging Science, Imatest & Vice-Chair, ISO TC42 IT-10, Secretary

Jonathan Phillips has worked at Google Android as head of image quality at their Silicon Valley headquarters. Now in Boulder, Colorado as VP of imaging science at Imatest, Phillips’ technical leadership has expanded the company’s software features, equipment portfolio, and consulting services across imaging market segments, including automotive. As the previous leader of image quality in Google’s Android organization, Phillips focused on the launch and establishment of Google’s Pixel phone line, particularly its camera and display image quality and features. In addition, Jonathan has an extensive background in image quality with NVIDIA and Kodak and is a co-author of “Camera Image Quality Benchmarking”. His graduate school, Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, awarded him their Distinguished Alumni Award in 2023.

Technology strategy leader, Volvo AB

Expert Sustainable Business Models,

Research Manager, Connected Systems

Founder

In charge of E&E, System and Software engineering activities on the Transportation & Mobility perimeter.
To enrich the “Smart, Safe and Connected” Solution by optimizing or creating different processes linked to Software Defined Vehicles, new E&E architectures, MBSE, Simulation and Co-Simulation

Project Manager Autonomous Vehicles

Senior Project Manager

Product Owner AI Systems

Group Manager Vehicle Health Data

Market Development Specialist

CEO

Director

PhD, Senior Data Scientist

Program Director

Transformation & Experience Manager

Senior Solution Architect

FAE Manager

CTO/Managing Director

Senior Vice President

CEO

GT Endurance Racing performance engineer presso

Michael is a software developer, principal consultant, and Head of Software Defined Vehicles at Thoughtworks. Over the years he delivered projects in various domains and industries and since 2018 he focuses on the development of in-vehicle software.

Research Assistant/PhD Student

Operations Manager

Professor

With a deep-rooted expertise in SDV and Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), Sabahudin’s work encompasses translating intricate customer requirements into viable technical solutions, ensuring FPT Automotive strategies align with commercial objectives.
He currently holds the responsibility of overseeing the technical automotive portfolio for the Europe region, driving innovative solutions for cutting-edge automotive technologies. Throughout his 12 years of work in the industry, Sabahudin has gained a deep understanding of the complexities of modern automotive systems, working across various technical domains. Passionate about advancing the automotive landscape, Sabahudin is dedicated to shaping the future of mobility with a focus on safety, performance, and sustainability.

Country Manager

Nithin Thomas is a Director for Smart Mobility at Tata Consultancy Services, overseeing UK & Europe. He brings extensive experience in the automotive industry, leading business transformation initiatives across marketing, product management, business development and strategy. His expertise lies in shaping smart and sustainable mobility ecosystems, with a focus on developing innovative propositions in connected vehicle services. As a trusted industry advisor on mobility engagements, Nithin has worked with organizations across various sectors, driving innovation through data-driven insights and advocating for new business models enabled by emerging technologies.

General Manager

Senior Consultant & Team Lead SDV

Patrik Andersson is a Tech Lead at Volvo Cars, Complete Software Integration and Release.  In this role, he influences and decides on the integration, verification, and release of the entire Volvo Cars in-car software stack. Since earning his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University in 1995, Patrik has worked with software across various industries. He entered the automotive sector inockså  2018, having previously worked in telecom and space industries. Patrik’s experience spans from programming assembler and C for GPS receivers used in satellites to developing C++ software for cars. He has also worked with for instance C++, C, E, Java, and Erlang for 3G and 4G base stations. Throughout his career, Patrik has from time to time taken on technical leadership roles, including Technical Project Leader and now Tech Lead. Patrik emphasizes on optimizing software processes, CI systems, and developer ergonomics for quality, speed, and efficiency. Patrik believes that minimizing unnecessary hassle for developers leads to better, faster software development and happier developers. Optimizing software development in a large-scale organization is crucial yet challenging. The vision at Volvo Cars is that any software developer should be able to clone any in-car software, change it, compile it and then test it in on e.g. hardware and/or download it to a car. At Volvo Cars we call this the “bazel build car” vision after the build system we are now adopting for some of the big nodes of the car.

Senior Researcher

System Engineer

Director and Leader Human Change practice

Paul has extensive experience in designing and leading transformational change across a range of sectors both as a member of corporate teams and as a consultant and facilitator.

He has frequently worked with organisations that desire or are experiencing significant market growth and has successfully launched and built several organisations. Paul is an original founder of changemaker and uses his passion for supporting the human being through change to lead and develop our human change practice, supporting organisations in leadership development, transformational change and cultural shift.

Outside of his role at changemaker, Paul loves building and fixing things, especially when it involves learning new skills. He has a collection of part restored cars and motorbikes and has also recently finished renovating a C18 listed building. He has now swapped house renovation for a new hobby – motor boating, which also involve hours of maintenance and cleaning!

Data Privacy Counsel

CEO & Co-founder

Vice President & Head of Autonomous Solutions

Peter Hafmar is the VP & Head of Autonomous solutions at Scania and coordinating autonomy for the TRATON Group. With extensive experience from several leading roles for different companies, making him a leading voice in Autonomous transportation industry

CEO

Head of Mobility

VP EMEA

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Robert Fey has a strong background in IT, software development, and system engineering. With years of experience as a manager in the VW Group, he focuses on increasing efficiency in software and system testing. As the creator of ATEF, he provides a structured approach to identifying efficiency potential through automation, reusability, and systematic validation.

Robert ter Waarbeek is the Principal Automotive Industry Manager for EMEA at MathWorks, driving the company’s automotive strategy. With over 15 years of experience at Ford and Volvo, he has led cross-organizational simulation projects, combining technical expertise with a passion for innovation in the automotive sector.

Senior Technical Specialist – Cybersecurity

Technical leader – Test Driven Development

Developer and Software Architect

Samuel Flis is a Development Engineer at Scania CV, specializing in Software Architecture. In his current role, he leads the design and development of the data collection system used in prototype autonomous vehicles to support the development of algorithms for those vehicles. Samuel holds a PhD in Astroparticle Physics from Stockholm University, where he contributed to the IceCube experiment, developing detector simulations, and analyzing large datasets to search for dark matter in the center of the Milky Way.

Prior to joining Scania in 2020, Samuel completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the DESY research institute in Zeuthen, Germany. There, he mainly worked with commissioning a prototype gamma-ray camera and its data acquisition system, for the Cherenkov Telescope Array consortium.

Research & Development Engineer

Samuel Thorén is a Research & Development Engineer at AstaZero where he works with solutions enabling safe testing of automated vehicles. He has an MSc in Engineering Mathematics and Computational Science from Chalmers University of Technology.

Embedded Engineer

Chief Product Officer

Automated & Autonomous Driving Engineer & Researcher

Shervin Hajinia is an expert in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD), with a specialization in sensor robustness, testing methodologies, and feature design.

With extensive experience in the automotive industry, he has led and contributed to numerous projects involving the design, integration, testing, and validation of ADAS and AD technologies.

At this conference, Shervin will share his insights on ADAS testing, emphasizing the critical importance of sensor accuracy and system resilience, particularly in challenging environmental conditions.

Researcher

Professor in Systems Security

Project Leader Electromobility

EMEA Portfolio Development

CTO

Senior Practice Manager, Head of nexALM CoE (Center of Excellence), HCLTech

Sunny Billava, Head of nexALM CoE at HCLTech since 2018, Responsible for ALM solutions & services globally. With over 17 years of extensive experience with Automotive, A&D, Medical Devices industries, spearheading the ALM Solution development – Industry Solutions templates, GenAi Co-pilots, Integration frameworks and Embedded DevSecOps

Project Lead, Rewrite the Code

Associate Director

Head of Security Strategy Alignment

Senior world wide industry process consultant for CATIA systems engineering. 20 years of professional experience in model based systems engineering including requirements management, system architecture design, system traceability, embedded systems and system simulation. Previous experience at MathWorks, Synopsys, Avanti and Bosch Automotive. M. Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering and MBA in General Management.

Tim is the Team Lead for Grant & Project Management in Autonomous and Digital Mobility at New Mobility Solutions Hamburg. With a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart and experience developing autonomous mobility concepts at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), he brings a deep understanding of connected and autonomous vehicles, cooperative systems, and innovative mobility solutions. Tim excels at managing complex innovation projects, including EU initiatives, and is highly skilled at simplifying challenges and fostering co-creation between people and organizations. In his current role, he secures funding and oversees cutting-edge projects that are shaping the future of transportation, all while supporting Hamburg’s vision of becoming a model city for digital mobility and a safer, climate-neutral future.

Global Business Development Manager – Automotive

Tobias Fieger is the Global Business Development Manager of Automotive at Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the largest software framework company for autonomous systems, where he establishes relationships with customers and partners for RTI’s fast-growing global automotive business and for RTI Connext Drive. He has more than 12 years of sales and business development experience, working extensively with global automotive and industrial industries. Tobias holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT.

Professor, Leader Wireless Systems

Tommy Svensson is Full Professor in Communication Systems at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he is leading the Wireless Systems research on air interface and wireless backhaul networking technologies for future wireless systems. He received a Ph.D. in Information theory from Chalmers in 2003, and he has worked at Ericsson AB with core networks, radio access networks, and microwave transmission products.

He has been involved in top European and international research towards 4G, 5G and currently 6G on physical layer algorithms, multiple access, resource allocation, cooperative/ context-aided/ secure communications, mm-wave/ sub-THz communications, C-V2X, JCAS, satellite networks, sustainable design, and end-to-end architecture. He has been coordinator of MSc program at Chalmers, and is currently board member of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS).

Director of Safety Research and Best Practices

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

Head of CampX Concept

Head of SDV

Vice President & Managing Director