The Speaker List for VECS 2023 is in work progress and will be updated ongoing

KEYNOTES 2023

Adriano Palao
Euro NCAP

24th May Track C
09:10 Euro NCAP’s Outlook for Active Safety

Adriano Palao is an Automotive Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the Vehicle Testing and Validation domain. As a Technical Manager for ADAS & AD at Euro NCAP, he steers the many Working Groups related to Active Safety into developing ever-increasing requirements towards promoting enhanced vehicle safety.

Augustin Friedel
MHP Porsche

23th May
09:45 The autonomous Gap – Claim and reality of autonomous mobility concepts in Europe, China and the USA
11:05 How to Enhance the Transition to Smart Cities and Sustainable Mobility?

Augustin Friedel is supporting his clients to master the mobility transformation towards autonomous, shared, connected, and electrified mobility. As well-known industry expert, Augustin is working with cities, OEMs, mobility platforms or suppliers to solve smart city and mobility related challenges. Augustin has a background in Mechanical Engineering. After launching Uber in Germany in 2013, he worked for fast scaling companies like Blacklane or Rocket Internet. Later on, he joined Deutsche Bahn to scale the corporate startup ioki. Before joining MHP, he led intermodality service strategy projects at Volkswagen and was in charge for aspects of the ACCELERATE corporate strategy.

Auke Zwaan
Cybersecurity expert

24th May Track E
09:10 Cybersecurity: Demystifying the Shady World of Cybersecurity and Hackers
16:00 Facing the Cyber Security Challenge in the Vehicles and Supply Chain

Auke Zwaan is a respected cybersecurity expert from the Netherlands, with professional experience in penetration testing, red teaming, cyber threat intelligence and incident response for some of the largest organizations in the Netherlands. As a bug bounty hunter, he has found multiple vulnerabilities in large companies and governments, landing him a spot on Facebook’s “Hall of Fame”. Combining both his offensive and defensive skills, he now took on a mission to help businesses and management teams around the world understand this normally very technical world.

Ben Upcroft
Oxbotica

23th May Track 1
14:35 NEVS’ and Oxbotica’s Joint Virtual Deployment of a Mobility Service Based on Fully Autonomous Vehicles

Ben is the VP of Technology at Oxbotica, a global leader in the commercial deployment of universal autonomous vehicle software. He has extensive experience in perception systems for field robotics ranging from commercial passenger vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, draglines, haul trucks, underwater platforms, to unmanned aerial vehicles.

At Oxbotica, Ben is responsible for technology development and our team of skilled engineers, balancing state of the art algorithms with real world system implementation to achieve intelligence in self-driving platforms – on and off road.

Ben’s earlier career was as a tenured academic in Computer Vision and Robotics at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, where he focussed on machine learning for field robotics. He led the Robotics and Autonomous Systems group consisting of over 150 postgraduate students, postdocs, and academics.

Bogdan Bereczki
Certivity

24th May Track B
15:20 Autonomous Vehicles – A Waiting for Godot?
16:00 Continuous Homologation of ADAS and Automated Driving Systems

Bob Bereczki studied Aerospace Engineering in Stuttgart, Southampton and Atlanta. After a couple of years in the aerospace industry, he began his career in the vehicle certification and regulatory field working for Audi, Jaguar Land Rover and Autonomous Intelligent Driving where he certified vehicle systems. He led regulatory groups for new vehicle technologies at the international vehicle manufacturers association OICA and served as spokesman at the United Nations in law-making groups. In this capacity he was co-drafting on ADAS and automated driving regulations that were later enforced. Also, he was the industry spokesman of the UN Global Forum for Road Traffic for which he drafted as well UN-Resolutions and an amendment to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic enabling the operation of vehicles without conventional drivers.

Daniel Ratiu
CARIAD

24th May Track A
16:00 Building an Architecture Modeling Framework which Enables CI/CD

Daniel Ratiu has been with CARIAD since 2021, working as methods and language engineer with focus on tools for automating the development of software intensive systems. Daniel has been working for the last 15 years at the border between research and industry, doing technology transfer in model driven engineering, development automation, safety assurance and formal verification. Before joining CARIAD, Daniel worked for Autonomous Intelligent Driving, developing methods and tooling for the autonomy stack. Previously, Daniel worked for Siemens Corporate Technology as a consultant and researcher in robust software engineering and safety critical systems. Between 2010 and 2014 he worked with fortiss Research Institute in Munich, as post-doc researcher and research group lead for analysis and design of dependable systems. Daniel got his PhD in software engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 2009.

David Sampson
MathWorks

23th May Track 1
14:05 Optimizing Through-life Performance of Connected Electric Vehicles

David Sampson leads the UK and Nordics Engineering teams at MathWorks. Since joining MathWorks in 2000, David has worked as a MathWorks consultant in the automotive, aerospace, and financial services industries. His technical expertise spans modeling and simulation, control design, software development, and data analytics. David holds a Ph.D. in vehicle dynamics and control from the University of Cambridge, and a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from the University of Sydney.

Dr. Martin Hart
Mercedez-Benz AG

23th May Track 1
13:30 Drive Pilot – Level 3 Automated Driving at Mercedes-Benz

Dr. Martin Hart heads the development of driver assistance systems Driving and Parking of the current ADAS generation at Mercedes-Benz Cars. This includes also the E/E Chassis Systems, the Brake Control System and the Driving Simulator. He is an active member of the MB.OS team for crossdivisional base software and E/E development at Mercedes-Benz Cars. Dr. Hart studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and holds a PhD in control theory. From 2001 he held managing positions in Electronic Technology Motorsports at the Daimler-Benz AG. Since 2005 he was responsible for the Powertrain Integration & Electric/Electronic at the MercedesAMG GmbH. 2014 he came back to the Mercedes-Benz Cars Development (RD) and led the Function Development & Application of Automatic Gearboxes. Since 2016 Dr. Hart is responsible as a Director for the E/E Chassis & Brake Control Systems and Driver Assistance Systems focusing Automated Valet Parking and DRIVE PILOT.

Elvis Cheng
XPENG Motors

24th May Track G
11:20 The Future of Mobility – whether it’s on the Road or in the Air

Erik Walet
RDW

24th May Track B
11:20 Bridging the Gap between Finalized ALKS Product Development and Certification and Registration

Erik Walet is a Senior Advisor in the Applied Innovation department of RDW, the Netherlands Vehicle Authority.

He is the lead for all the witness events involved in the validation and verification of UN-ECE R157 witness events and certification.

He was involved in the working group at UNECE level on ADS for setting up the legislation for ADS implementing act within Europe (2022/1426).

His previous experience comes from more then a decade of being an international senior inspector for vehicle, truck and bus regulations and the last 4 year as the technical lead in the exemptions in testing and assessment of selfdriving and platooning vehicles by risk analysis e.g. ISO26262 and Sotif.

Felix Andlauer
NEVS

23th May Track 1
14:35 NEVS’ and Oxbotica’s Joint Virtual Deployment of a Mobility Service Based on Fully Autonomous Vehicles

Felix Andlauer studied mechanical engineering in Munich and Gothenburg. From 2007 he worked with renewable energy in a variety of positions combining technical, business development and leadership tasks. In 2018 he joined NEVS as project manager for the newly started mobility ecosystem development project PONS. Since May 2021 he has been VP Mobility Solutions at NEVS.

Geir Rossebø
Agency for Improvement and Development

23th May
11:05 How to Enhance the Transition to Smart Cities and Sustainable Mobility?

Geir Rossebø is Sustainability Manager for Mobility at the Agency for Improvement and Development in the City of Oslo,
His field of expertise is zero emission mobility solutions and public procurements.
For the past years, he has been responsible for developing strategies and methods for using environmental criteria and requirements in order to achieve zero emission transport in goods and service contracts in Oslo.

Greger Ledung
Swedish Energy Agency

23th May Track 1
16:10 Challenges and Opportunities Along the Nordic Battery Value Chain

Greger Ledung has for the last 15 years been pushing the Swedish battery R&I ecosystem forward through funding, policy work, collaborations and representation in Nordic and EU forums.

Jan Bosch
Chalmers University of Technology

23th May
11:45 Thriving in the Disruption in Automotive: Speed, Data and Ecosystems

Jan Bosch is professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and director of the Software Center (www.software-center.se), a strategic partner-funded collaboration between 17 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 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 ÒSpeed, Data and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven WorldÓ 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 IVER, Peltarion and Burt Intelligence and on the advisory boards of Assia Inc. in Redwood City, CA and Pure Systems GmbH (Germany). Earlier he was chairman of the board 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.

Jason Craker
Changemaker

23th May Track 2
13:30 How Can the Mobility Sector Move to a Model that Creates Lasting Relationship With Multiple Value Exchanges?

Jason is the Transformation Director with changemaker, and leads their automotive sector practise. Previously, he has held leadership positions with Polestar AB as Chief Digital Information Officer, and Volvo Car UK Ltd. He grew a global start-up from 1 customer to tens of Thousands within 3 years and built the digital ecosystem and competency to support the full customer journey online across 3 continents.

Jason enjoys using his disruptive experience from within the  mobility sector to support organisations navigate through the paradigm shift that is accelerating change in this very traditional sector.

Kathrin Kind-Trueller
Volkswagen

24th May Track B
13:20 Blockchain Based Tools for Integrating AI as a Support in Establishing an Efficient Vehicle Control

Kathrin started her career 22 years ago, in the quality engineering of International Communication Mobile Networks at Siemens in 1999. Later on she developed complete vehicle process realisation processes, engine management-, steering-, braking-, cockpit infotainment- and driving assistance systems- , at several automotive suppliers as Bosch, ZF-TRW and Magneti Marelli. Also at Automotive OEMs such as: at BMW in Munich, Mercedes Benz Cars in Sindelfingen, Audi in Ingolstadt, and she is currently at HQ of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany. She has an MSc. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire, an MBAI in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Cumbria and a Master of Arts in Leading Innovation and Change from York St. John.

Kirsten Matheus
BMW

24th May Track A
11:20 The Role of the In-Vehicle Networking Technologies in Future EE-Architectures

Dr Kirsten Matheus is engineer and economist. Since 2003, she worked in the automotive industry; since 2009 at BMW. 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”, will appear in Autumn 2022.

Kristian Hedberg
European Commission

23th May
09:10 The European Mobility Strategy

A Finnish national, Mr Hedberg holds an MBA/Economics degree from the Turku School of Economics in Turku, Finland and a post-graduate diploma from the School of International Relations of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He joined the European Commission as a desk officer in DG Competition in 1996 and later worked in DG Enlargement. Mr Hedberg pursued his career as a Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Liikanen (Enterprise policy and Information society) and thereafter of the Cabinet of Commissioner Rehn (Enlargement policy). In 2007, he became the Deputy Head of the Cabinet of Commissioner Kuneva (Consumer policy). In 2009, he joined DG Enlargement as the Head of Unit responsible for relations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In 2012, he took up the post of Head of Unit dealing with Land Transport Policy in the Commission’s Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE). From 2014 to 2019 he was the Deputy Head of Commissioner Bieńkowska’s Cabinet (Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs). In 2019, he returned to DG MOVE as the Head of Unit responsible Policy coordination and Inter-institutional Relations.

Lars Johansson
Cellcentric

24th May Track D
09:45 Fuel Cells – from Research to Mass Production

Mamun Abdullah
Lynk & Co

24th May Track G
09:10 How to manage the end-to-end logistics from a car order in Europe to the order being processed in the factory to the car is shipped across the sea and then delivered to the end-customer

Maria Hansson
Volvo Cars

24th May Track F
09:10 Large Scale Agile Development – Sharing 5 Years of Experiences

Mikael Nilsson
Volvo Cars

24th May Track E
11:20 It is an exciting era with the Cellular (3GPP) Generations, but it is also Causing Headache for the Automotive Sector

Nils-Gunnar Vågstedt
Scania

24th May Track D
09:10 20 Years of Swedish eMobility Research and Development, what has been and what lies ahead?
15:50 Hydrogen or Batteries as Energy Storage for Vehicles

Nils-Gunnar holds a degree of PhD in Vehicle engineering from KTH. He works at the truck and bus manufacturer Scania since 1995. For the latter 15 years he´s been managing the Research and Development within electromobility. Today Nils-Gunnar is a Senior Technical Advisor in the field of Research and Innovation. He has a large and active international network in academia and industry and act as chair to the board of Swedish Electromobility Centre, SEC.

Ole Kristian Gjertsen
Ruter AS

23th May
11:05 How to Enhance the Transition to Smart Cities and Sustainable Mobility?

Ole Kristian Gjertsen works in the Strategy & sustainability team at Ruter, the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus. He works on company strategy, aiming to push Ruter and the future public transport offering towards Ruter’s vision of creating sustainable freedom of movement for all. Before starting in Ruter Ole Kristian worked six years in management consulting.

Group Trucks Technology.  With over 15 years as an Agile developer and practitioner in transportation, Scott has implemented and adapted Agile practices to fit the real-world scenarios unique to the industry.

Paul Aston
Volvo Cars

24th May Track A
13:10 Architecture of the Data Flow Enabling New User Experiences From Connected Vehicles

Paul Aston has a background in innovation both inside and outside Volvo Cars. He was the Product Owner of the Volvo Cars Developer Portal, where they released their first ever public API, and is now the Leader for the company’s transformation to becoming a Software Driven Company. He is also an active member of the Openhack community and was recently on the Jury for the ActInSpace hackathon in conjunction with the European Space Agency.

Per Olof Arnäs
Einride

23th May Track 2
16:15 Electrification and Automation – Ending 100 Years of Simplification

Dr Per Olof Arnäs has been working with and in the transportation industry since the late 1980s. After a decade doing research, he decided that just studying the future was not enough when you can instead help build it. He joined digital freight mobility company Einride in 2021 as Director of Logistics Strategy. Einride delivers electric, autonomous and cost-efficient freight solutions to shippers. You have probably read some of the many articles about their cabless autonomous trucks. Per Olof loves the 21st century.

Rinat Asmus
BMW

24th May Track A
09:10 Enabling Future Software Defined Vehicles

Rinat Asmus is an active member of the AUTOSAR Steering Committee representing BMW and is looking back to over 13 years of experience with AUTOSAR. Rinat Asmus holds a master’s degree in robotics and automation engineering from the University of Applied Science in Würzburg-Schweinfurt and joined BMW in 2009. Since then, he has been engaged in Software Architecture, Engineering and AUTOSAR implementation in several BMW ECU projects. In addition, Rinat Asmus is passionately committed to the further development of AUTOSAR as a standard and as an organization, he continues to support AUTOSAR with his dedicated approach as AUTOSAR Chairperson in 2022.

Sabina Edenlund
Volvo Cars

24th May Track C
11:25 Automotive Test-driven Development at Volvo Cars

Sabina Edenlund joined Volvo Cars in 2016 as subject matter expert (SME) in software testing. Since then, she has been driving the SW test and been part of the core group driving the digital transformation into CI, SW continuous integration.

Recently she moved to the role Technical Leader for test driven development in Volvo Cars, working as specialist within the organization that builds and enables the Volvo Cars Software Factory. She has 20 years of experience in most technical aspects of SW testing in embedded systems; functional, non-functional, test coordination and CI/test architecture from both Ericsson and Volvo Cars.

Scott Davis
Volvo GTT

24th May Track F
13:10 Blending Agile and Waterfall Methods for Complete Vehicle Delivery

Scott began his career in as a Software Engineer for service and engineering tools at Cummins prior to joining the Volvo Group in 2017 as a Project Manager, transitioning to a Release Train Engineer and Agile Coach for North America before joining the team in Sweden.  Scott’s current focus is strengthening the culture of product ownership and unlocking the hidden potential in the organization.

Therese Reinhammar
Scania Autonomous Solutions

23th May Track 2
15:40 Autonomous Transports – the Hype that Is Here To Stay!

Therese is breaking new ground, working in the front end of autonomous solutions and engaging with the customers that are seeking the benefits that autonomy can give. Therese and her team are leading the autonomous initiatives and are responsible to deliver these innovative solutions to the market, working in partnership with the customers to shape and develop solutions that are first of its kind. This is truly the area where the autonomous vision meats reality and in the role as Director Autonomous Solutions Delivery, Therese is responsible for making it happen.

Therese is an enthusiastic leader, passionate about sustainable business and how diversity drives profitability. Since she joined Scania in 2006, she has held several global and international management positions within Logistics, Supply chain and Sales and Marketing.

Thomas Fleischmann
CARIAD

24th May Track A
13:50 How Open Source enables Software-Carmaker Collaboration
15:20 Data Mesh Architecture at Practice

Torvald Mårtensson
Saab

24th May Track C
09:50 Testing Gripen E – Test Automation and Exploratory Testing

Torvald Mårtensson is Technical Fellow within System Integration Testing at Saab Aeronautics. He has a background of seventeen 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, automotive, defense, surveillance and logistics. His research is published in journals such as Journal of Software and Systems (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 received an MSc degree from Linköping University, Sweden, and a PhD degree from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Trent Victor
Waymo

24th May Track B
09:10 Waymo’s Approach To Ensuring Safe Deployment Of Fully Autonomous Driving Technology

Dr Trent Victor is director of safety research and best practices at Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. Trent oversees safety research to support safety evaluations and strategic initiatives; provides safety expertise in the area of collision data analysis, collision causation, injury severity assessments, and naturalistic driving data research and analysis; represents safety issues within Waymo; and coordinates the development of best practices within Waymo and external industry standard-setting groups. Trent has published extensively in the field of crash avoidance and autonomous driving safety research (over 100 papers, 36 patents, >5000 citations). Prior to Waymo, he was senior technical leader at the Volvo Cars Safety Centre, adjunct professor in driver behavior at Chalmers, and adjunct professor at the University of Iowa. He has received top awards such as the US Government award for Safety Engineering Excellence, Volvo Cars Technology & Innovation Award, and the Jerome H. Ely Human Factors (journal) Article Award.

SPEAKERS 2023

Adam Laurell
NEVS

24th May Track G
12:50 The Cost for a Ride needs to be less than 4 EUR
15:40 The Transportation Industry as a Service – what does that mean and what can we learn from other Industries?

Alejandro Morate
CEVT

24th May Track B
15:20 Autonomous Vehicles – A Waiting for Godot?

Alejandro Morate is currently leading the Autonomous Drive department in one of the most innovative automotive companies in Sweden: CEVT. Our mission is to Deliver the Mobility solutions of the Future. Due to the nature of the work, most of the time, my team is navigating in uncharted territory working out ideas, innovations and building a strategy to secure we are among the market leaders as a company. In the past I have worked for Tier1 suppliers, for big OEMs and also leading the engineering department of a small startup developing our own innovations. My background is Computer Engineering, specialized in Robotics and SW processes like ASPICE and ISO26262.

Ali Shahrokni
SystemWeaver

24th May Track E
12:00 Continuous Compliance in an Environment of Rapidly Changing Architectures and Organizations

Ana Magazinius
Polestar

24th May Track E
09:00 Moderator’s Introduction
16:00 Facing the Cyber Security Challenge in the Vehicles and Supply Chain

Andréas Jonsson
Knightec

24th May Track D
14:35 What is the True Innovation in E-mobility?

Andreas Lövberg
RISE

24th May Track D
12:05 Prognostics and Health Management for Power Electronics

Andreas Lövberg is a researcher in the Systems Integration unit at RISE since 2016. The unit has worked with electronics assembly-level reliability assessments and methodology development for more than 30 years. Current research activities focus on combining physics-based models with machine learning to prognosticate failures in power electronics.

Andreas Raisch
Vector

24th May Track F
11:45 Cloud-native Technologies for Embedded Systems

Andreas Raisch started working at Vector in 1996. He worked in various functions on the development of embedded software products. In 2010 he took over responsibility for processes, infrastructure, and quality in the area of ​​embedded software. Since 2018 he is a Senior Manager in the Research and Development Embedded Systems department and head of the “Rich OS and Complex Hardware” subject area.

Arnaud Van Den Bossche
Green Hills Software

24th May Track E
10:20 Leveraging Both Silicon and Software Security to Develop a Secure System

Åsa Laveno
Volvo Cars

24th May Track B
15:20 Autonomous Vehicles – A Waiting for Godot?

Åsa Laveno is Senior Director, Head of AD & ADAS functions Director, Autonomous Drive at Volvo Cars. She is leading the Autonomous Drive technical development teams with the clear vision that AD will transform the future of our society.

Åsa has more than 20 years of automotive experience, from Volvo Cars in several senior project and line management positions within research and development, mainly within the area of Active Safety, Autonomous Drive and Complete Vehicle Integration.

Bas Oremus
Scania

24th May Track E
13:20 Connected Situational Awareness – Vehicle as a Sensor

Camilla Parflo
Zenseact

24th May Track A
15:20 Data Mesh Architecture at Practice

Camilla Parflo, leading Data management & Innovation at Zenseact, has comprehensive experience from enterprise data management, strategy and digital transformation. She has held various positions in different companies which have given her the understanding of how data drives and improves results required for successful global companies. Camilla has a long experience of digitalisation and creating an insight-driven environment and mindset in organisations. Through her broad career, at different actors like Volvo Group, consultancy firms, Volvo Cars and the start-up like tech company Zenseact, Camilla has learnt that proper management of data and fit-for-purpose data can enable new ways of being competitive. She has consequently led initiatives to fuel process improvements and innovation acting as advisor, manager and mentor for transformation through data.

Charlotte Eisner
CEVT

23th May
11:05 How to Enhance the Transition to Smart Cities and Sustainable Mobility?
24th May Track B
10:15 Robo-technology and Shared Mobility For Smart Livable Cities

Charlotte Eisner is Head of Business Development at CEVT AB in Gothenburg. She is also a board member at AwardIT (publ) and Fossil Free Marine, a member of the Advisory Board at Robot Minds and ElectriCITY Innovation. She is a Scale Up professional, with a past in roles as CEO and Chief Commercial Officer, with a constant focus on business development and commercial product development. In addition to this, she is and has been a co-founder of, as well as board member and advisor, in companies that operate in the field of sustainable solutions: Among other things, development of electric car charging, charging current allocation, solar energy, energy storage, energy optimization. Her track record shows Swedish award-winning and patented or design-protected solutions at the companies Charge Amps, DEFA , Ferroamp and Fossil Free Marine among others.

She has a background in developing, designing, launching and establishing complex products and services as a management consultant and as a company leader. Previous employers and clients in addition to those already mentioned are Mercuri International, Avant, SAS Eurobonus and NEVS.

Christina Rux
WirelessCar

24th May Track A
09:00 Moderator’s Introduction

Christina Rux has worked for 25 years in global development projects at automotive OEMs such as Volkswagen AG, Volvo Cars, AB Volvo, and Daimler. During the last 10+ years she has been working as Solution Architect in Connected Vehicles’ programs where she has designed end-to-end solutions together with experts in the complex connected vehicle ecosystem inside and outside the OEM. Christina works at WirelessCar with Discovery and Advisory for vehicle OEMs.

Christoffer Lewandowski
Heart Aerospace

24th May Track D
15:45 Electric Regional Aircraft 2026
16:25 Electric Regional Aircraft 2026

Christoffer is responsible for coordinating the research initiatives, and for developing the R&D project portfolio. He focuses on delivering state-of-the-art technology to the ES-19 program, while keeping the promises to our R&D partners. Christoffer Levandowski brings experience from research and development in reliable systems for the automotive industry. He has five years of experience in leading research and development of safety critical electronics and software for customers like Volvo Cars, Zenseact and Volvo Trucks. The technologies at focus were autonomous drive, and electric propulsion. As an example, Christoffer led the work in developing AI-based software for predicting failures in batteries, and safety algorithms for making vehicle perception more reliable. Before pursuing his industrial career, Christoffer got his PhD, and worked as a post-doc researcher and project manager in Systems Engineering, at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Christoph Hennig
Assured

24th May Track F
10:50 End-to-End Virtual AD Development and Validation for the Software Defined Vehicle

Christoph Schulz-Linkholt
Infineon

24th May Track A
11:50 The Usage of Intelligent Power Devices in upcoming power distribution systems

Christoph Schulz-Linkholt has more than 20 years of experience in automotive power products.

He completed a degree in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (Germany) and the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France).

He started his professional career in 1999 when he joined Infineon Technologies as an EMC expert for automotive devices. During that time he was involved in the development of measurements methods and the IEC 61967 and IEC 62132 standards. In 2005, he moved to Infineon’s Sales and Marketing organization as Field Application Engineer where he was the technical contact for a key account. During this time, Christoph acquired extensive knowledge of a wide range of automotive applications, although his main areas focus were body and powertrain. In the last four years, he has taken on responsibility for in-vehicle power distribution as a system architect, specializing in fail-operational power supply systems. In this role he his member of the VDA 450 working group.

Colt Correa
Intrepid

24th May Track C
11:00 Challenges in testing and validation of future zonal network architectures

Colt currently serves as Chief Operating Officer at Intrepid Control Systems where he has worked for 17 years. Colt has more than 24 years of experience working on software and electronics hardware with numerous types of vehicle networks including CAN, FlexRay, LIN, MOST, Ethernet and the author of a leading book in this field, now in its second edition, titled “Automotive Ethernet – The Definitive Guide”.  He has also authored numerous IEEE and SAE publications, and has been awarded 6 U.S. patents. Colt holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he wrote his thesis on interactive engine and transmission controls while employed as a controls engineer at Chrysler (Stellantis).

Daniel Riedelbauch
NI

24th May Track C
13:00 Going Beyond ADAS Test Methodologies: NI and OEMs Partner to Unify Replay and HIL Test System

David Friberg
Zenseact

24th May Track C
15:30 Safety Critical C++: Combining Best Coding Practices with Best Automotive Practices

David Friberg is a Product Owner and Technical Expert at Zenseact, where he is leading the development of all C++ related topics, serving all the software development teams of the organization. Prior to that, he worked many years as a senior software developer, most recently developing a track-to-track fusion system for ADAS features. He is involved in C++ standardization activities and represents Sweden as National Body Expert in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 and its advisory Safety/Security Review Group (SSRG), where his particular interest is to speak for the safety critical domain.

David is actively promoting bringing the best software engineering practices to the automotive space whilst preserving safety culture as a leading star, a consolidation he believes is a key factor when facing the challenges of large-scale agile development in the ADAS/AD domain.

Dennis Kengo Oka
Synopsys

24th May Track E
16:00 Facing the Cyber Security Challenge in the Vehicles and Supply Chain

Dirk Slama
Robert Bosch GmbH

23th May Track 2
15:20 What are the Challenges and Benefits of Imaging, Simulating & Validating Mobility Experience Virtually?

Dirk Slama is a Vice President at Robert Bosch GmbH. As chairman of the digital.auto initiative, he helps driving the digitalization of the automotive industry. As conference chair of the Bosch ConnectedWorld, Dirk helps shaping the digital ecosystem of the Bosch group. He is also director of the AIoT Lab at the Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute, which helps customers implement use cases in the digital.auto and digital.industry domains. As Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Playbook for OEMs and manufacturers, he helps making best practices available to support the digital transformation. As former chairman (StC) of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), he helped to create the leading ecosystem for the Industrial Internet.

Dirk has 25 years experience in very large-scale IT projects, distributed systems and AIoT. His international work experience includes projects for Audi, Daimler, Lufthansa Systems, Boeing, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, IF.com and others. Dirk is a frequent speaker at conferences, as well as co-author of five successful books: Enterprise BPM, Enterprise SOA, Enterprise CORBA, Enterprise IoT, and the Digital Playbook. He holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a PhD in Information Systems and a Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Computer Science from TU Berlin.

Ehsan Zaeimzadeh
Volvo Cars

24th May Track F
15:00 Coping with Software Complexity in Vehicle Development

Erik Coelingh
Zenseact

24th May Track A
09:50 The Software Defined Vehicle Ecosystem

Fionn Hurley
Analog Devices

24th May Track A
10:30 Case Examples of 10BASE-T1S: Supporting the Transition to Zonal Architectures and Ready for Automotive Production

Fionn Hurley is a marketing manager with the Automotive Cabin Electronics Group at Analog Devices, Inc. (Limerick, Ireland) with a focus on Automotive connectivity technologies. Fionn has been with Analog Devices since 2007. He previously held roles as RF design engineer and Application engineer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from University College Cork in Ireland. He can be reached at fionn.hurley@analog.com.

Frédéric Merceron
Dassault Systèmes

23th May Track 2
15:20 What are the Challenges and Benefits of Imaging, Simulating & Validating Mobility Experience Virtually?

Frédéric Merceron
Dassault Systèmes, France

23th May Track 2
15:20 What are the Challenges and Benefits of Imaging, Simulating & Validating Mobility Experience Virtually?

 

Frederic Merceron is the Solution Director for the Transportation & Mobility industry at Dassault Systèmes. His role is to deliver industry-leading solutions for vehicle manufacturers (Cars, Trucks, Buses, Trains, Motorcycle and Racing) and suppliers to help them innovate, develop, test and produce new mobility experiences for their consumers.

After finishing his Master Degree as a mechanical engineer, he worked for KTI as an applications engineer in Knowledge Based Engineering, working with renowned customers such as Airbus, PSA, Valeo and Ford.

In 2000, Frederic joined Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA V5 Vehicle Architecture team and helped to introduce V5 solutions for preliminary design at several OEMs. After two years there, he took the leadership of the Vehicle Body-in-White (BiW) team; ensuring Car & Truck OEMs and Suppliers deployed best in class design engineering methodologies.

In January 2007, Frederic moved to SIMULIA, a new brand created after the acquisition of Abaqus, and took the lead of the center of competency. He then helped to develop DS’ SLM solution (Simulation Life cycle Management), strengthened by the additional acquisition 2 years later of Enginous.

Fredrik Sandblom
Zensact

24th May Track C
14:50 Managing Complexity & Variability in Automotive Testing

Fredrik Wigelius
Toyota

24th May Track D
15:50 Hydrogen or Batteries as Energy Storage for Vehicles

Held various positions in the automotive industry. Has been working with electric cars since the late 90s. Active since 8 years within Toyota Swedish import company Toyota Sweden as sales manager with two separate special areas of responsibility. Charging infrastructure and hydrogen projects. A great interest in nature has resulted in a strong private effort to understand the connection between energy and the environment.

Gabor Vinci
APTIV

24th May Track B
14:25 Solving the Toughest ADAS Challenges to Optimize and Enhance System Level Performance

Gabor Vinci worked in radar & millimeter-wave research since 2007 in several projects at the Institute for electronics Engineering in Erlangen, Germany and at Daimler Research center in Ulm. He worked as a lead engineer in R&D for industrial automation and security related applications, moving then in 2013 to automotive related technologies at a global TIER1. In 2016 he joined APTIV as a technical manager for radar systems further on as a product manager for the ADAS sensing product portfolio. Since 2022 he is head of product marketing and business operations leading the product strategy for APTIVs perception Systems product organization.

Georg Hiebl
Aucotec

25th May Track A
15:00 New Trends in the Market have Impact on Internal Processes

Georg Hiebl studied “Applied Computer Science” at the University of Salzburg. He worked for several years in the field of software development and held a teaching position at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences in the branch of study “Information Technology & Systems Management”. Since 2003 he has held various positions for Aucotec in the field of vehicle wiring and since 2013 has been the product manager responsible for the EB Cable product.

Göran Lindberg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

24th May Track D
15:50 Hydrogen or Batteries as Energy Storage for Vehicles

Gregor Knappik
VicOne, a subsidiary of Trend Micro

24th May Track E
16:00 Facing the Cyber Security Challenge in the Vehicles and Supply Chain

Dipl. Inf. (FH) Gregor Knappik helps OEMs and suppliers building up a VSOC, Vulnerability Management System and Intrusion Detection and Prevention System to prevent exploitation of potential vulnerabilities in the SBOM.

He has built up his expertise over the past 15 years in the integration of large scale embedded software projects using state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions. Semiconductor components like Secure Elements, TPM, Secure MCUs/MPUs played a crucial role, but also software integrity techniques. At Atmel/Microchip he also extended his expertise in cryptography and security, e.g. PKI, Elliptic Curves, End2End Security solutions from sensor to cloud.  Since 2020, Gregor supports various OEMs and Tier1’s in their UNECE R155 / ISO/SAE 21434 journey by establishing and maintaining a cybersecurity culture.

Gregor took part in an examination and received the qualification for an Automotive Cybersecurity Professional – Advanced Level Engineering with TÜV Rheinland Certified Qualification.

Optionally the following cert link (Behind TÜV Rheinland Certified Qualification) can be added in online formats if desired:

https://www.certipedia.com/quality_marks/0217463629?locale=en

Günther Hasna
Ansys

24th May Track D
11:30 Challenges in Electrified Battery Design and Development
15:50 Hydrogen or Batteries as Energy Storage for Vehicles

Guenther Hasna, Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO

Guenther Hasna is Chief Technologist at the CTO Office at Ansys, the world leader in digital simulation software.

Holding a Diploma as Dipl. Ing. (FH) Mechatronics with specialization in Medical Technology, Guenther’s 35 years of industry experience include senior technical and director positions at leading engineering software companies in Europe and the US.

In 2020, he became a valuable member of the leading Strategic and Germany/EU funded projects KI-Datatooling (Consortium Lead BMW), AI-SEE (Consortium Lead MBAG) and PowerizeD (Consortium Lead Infineon) in the field of autonomous driving and electrification in automotive applications. PowerizeD is to take the sustainability and resilience of the European energy chain, from generation to application, to a new level and strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty. PowerizeD addresses a new level of technology and relies increasingly on the digitalization of power applications.

Guenther Hasna joined Ansys in 1996 to strengthen Ansys’s focus on Automotive and pursue its strategic development in the European market.

Beyond his human, technical and business acumen, Guenther is driven by the desire to unite the ecosystem of Ansys customers, partners and employees around common passions: electronics, sustainability and innovation. Günther speaks fluently German, French and of course English.

Gustavo Oyervides Zerrweck
KPIT

24th May Track B
09:50 SDV: Paradigm change in the Automotive Industry – Opportunities and Challenges

 

Håkan Burden
RISE

24th May Track G
13:30 Municipalities and the Mobility Market – know when a Municipality is a Suitable Customer for your new Service
15:40 The Transportation Industry as a Service – what does that mean and what can we learn from other Industries?

Håkan has a background in agile development and sustainability education. Together with commercial enterprises and public authorities we analyse the relation between policy and business as markets evolve through digitalization. In relation to mobility the approach has been applied to autonomous vehicles, smart ships and data-sharing within the transportation eco-systems.

Håkan Sivencrona
Zenseact

24th May Track B
09:00 Moderator’s Introduction

Hans Arby
RISE

24th May Track G
09:00 Moderator’s Introduction

Heidi Norman
Assured

24th May Track F
09:45 The Agile Manifesto and how Software Practices Influenced the Automotive Industry to Change
15:00 Coping with Software Complexity in Vehicle Development

Heidi has been deeply embedded in the automotive industry for more than a decade. At Volvo Group – beyond the roles she held – she was a change leader, cooperatively building the software factory and striving towards digitalization. She has a love for the melting pot of what Automotive is – the need for cross collaboration, the raw team effort behind transport solutions & the magic of using data to understand the world. She is a firm believer in trying, sharing & unlearning. She left Volvo group to learn to build business in a new way and is at the moment working together with others to embed cybersecurity in the Automotive industry.

Henrik Liebau
Keysight Technologies

24th May Track C
14:50 Managing Complexity & Variability in Automotive Testing

Henrik leads the development of Keysight’s Autonomous Drive Emulation Platform. Throughout his career he has been working on solutions for validation and test, in various positions between R&D and product management.

Henrik holds a Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from Aachen University of Technology, Germany.

Holger Rothaug
Microsoft

24th May Track A
15:20 Data Mesh Architecture at Practice

Ivan Cronie
Volvo Technology

24th May Track F
15:00 Coping with Software Complexity in Vehicle Development

John Lantz
Volvo Cars

24th May Track F
09:00 Moderator’s Introduction

Jonas Odelmalm
Volvo Trucks

24th May Track D
15:50 Hydrogen or Batteries as Energy Storage for Vehicles

Kent Eric Lång
RISE

23th May
09:00 Moderator’s Introduction

Lina Dahlander
Bolt

24th May Track G
15:00 Building the Transportation Ecosystem of the Future
15:40 The Transportation Industry as a Service – what does that mean and what can we learn from other Industries?

Lina Dahlander is the Country Manager Bolt Ride-Hailing in Sweden. Her primary aim is to further expand Bolt as the preferred choice for drivers and riders alike.

Prior to Bolt, Lina has been working in multiple fields, such as Operations, Business Development, IT and Finance. Before joining Bolt she served as Development & Operations manager within Telenor, a large telekom operator in Sweden. There she was responsible manager within Business performance which was the team responsible for financial processes, financial development initiatives and financial planning. Lina also has previous responsibility as a Area Operations Manager at Hemfrid,  managing team leaders and a large number of clients.

Linda Olofsson
SEC

24th May Track D
09:00 Moderator´s introduction

Linda Olofsson, Director Swedish Electromobility Centre, has extensive experience in leading research and coordinating industrial parties and researchers to find common solutions to complex technical challenges. After her PhD, she started a company based on her research together with Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship. She brought the experience from these years as vice president to RISE, where she held several leading roles before taking over the leadership of the Swedish Electromobility Center four years ago. During these years, the center has grown to almost double, which reflects the journey that the Electromobility area has made.

Magda Collado
Volvo Autonomous Solutions

23th May
09:00 Moderator’s Introduction

Malin Broqvist Andersson
Drive Sweden

24th May Track G
15:40 The Transportation Industry as a Service – what does that mean and what can we learn from other Industries?

Mark Pitchford
LDRA

24th May Track C
14:00 ISO/SAE 21434: Fulfilling the software objectives?

Mark Pitchford has over 40 years’ experience in software development for engineering applications. He has worked on many significant industrial and commercial projects in development and management, both in the UK and internationally. Since 2001, he has worked with development teams looking to achieve compliant software development in safety and security critical environments, working with standards such as DO-178, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, IIRA and RAMI 4.0.

Mark earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Nottingham Trent University, and he became a Chartered Engineer over 30 years ago. He now works as Technical Specialist with LDRA Software Technology.

Marko Šustić
Bugatti Rimac

24th May Track G
09:45 Overcoming engineering challenges in moving from Concept to Volume

Marko is an expert in Human Machine Interfaces and is responsible for the current and future Bugatti and Rimac Automobili models. He started his career as a software developer, working on telemetry and M2M systems for early Rimac models. He then transitioned into a product management role, specializing in Human Machine Interfaces. Marko has a unique advantage in product development, having worked on both sides of the process. As a former software developer, he understands the importance of clear and concise requirements, having had to read and develop based on them. Now, in his product management role, he uses this understanding to produce higher quality product definitions by putting himself in the shoes of both the engineer and the end user. He has been with the company for over 7 years, joining when it was known as Rimac Automobili, now renamed Bugatti Rimac. He has witnessed the company’s growth from 100 employees to several thousand and has seen the changes in requirements and product management as the organization and product complexity have increased. Marko’s notable accomplishments include the early development of the Rimac M2M telemetry system and being the feature owner of the Rimac Nevera electric Hypercar.

Martin Olin
Swedenergy

24th May Track D
15:25 The Electricity System – an Enabler or an Obstacle in the Journey towards an Electrified Transport Sector?

Mats Alaküla
Lunds University

24th May Track D
13:30 Challenges of Scaling up Electromobility

Mats Alaküla is Professor of Industrial Electrical Engineering since 1994. Specialized in Power Electronics and Electrical Machines. Mats has spent the last 20 years working on applications in electric and hybrid vehicles, such as powertrains and charging solutions. Mats has also been a theme leader for the Swedish Electromobility Centre (SEC) for 12 years and as a senior specialist/advisor for AB Volvo for 14 years.

Matt Mickle
Jama Software

24th May Track G
09:45 Overcoming engineering challenges in moving from Concept to Volume

Matt has worked with Jama Software for the last ten years, supporting Jama customers with services related to best practices for systems engineering, integration, implementation, and adoption. In 2017 Matt moved to Europe to help start the Jama EMEA headquarters and now manages a team of consultants in EMEA. He has worked within multiple industry verticals but has a focus in Automotive.

Migo (Michael) Richter
Siemens EDA-Munich

24th May Track D
15:50 Hydrogen or Batteries as Energy Storage for Vehicles

Miroslaw Staron
University of Gothenburg

24th May Track F
13:40 Beyond Github Co-pilot: Using Language Models to Achieve 10x Development Productivity Improvement

Miroslaw Staron is a professor in software engineering at University of Gothenburg. Prof. Staron specializes in software quality, measurements, safety-critical systems and software architecture and has published over 200 articles and three books. Prof. Staron is associate editor of IEEE Software (in the area of Automotive Software), Elsevier Information and Software Technology and Elsevier’s Journal of Software Architectures. His current research interests include applications of artificial intelligence in software engineering, automotive software and intensive care units.

Mohammad Islam
Semcon

24th May Track D
14:15 Cyber Security Implementation for Connected Autonomous Solutions

Morgan Vos
HaleyTek

24th May Track F
14:10 How to Create Speed in SW Development Between Multi Legal Entities in the Infotainment Automotive Domain

Muthualagappan Sathappan
HCLTech

24th May Track B
15:20 Autonomous Vehicles – A Waiting for Godot?

Niklas Lindhardt
IntoTheNew

24th May Track F
15:45 Speed, Digitalization and Responsivity – a Human Centric Approach to Keep the Business thru Change

Nikola Velinov
Green Hills Software

24th May Track E
10:20 Leveraging Both Silicon and Software Security to Develop a Secure System

Nils Mösko
Polestar

24th May Track D
10:55 Shaping a Sustainable Business Model for the Electric era

Nils Mösko is the Chief Strategy Officer and Global Head of Strategy and Business Development at Polestar. Developing the growth strategy, overseeing the market expansion and managing the strategic project portfolio. He also manages partnerships, alliances, and M&A as well as developing the innovation and business models at Polestar. Nils is a highly experienced senior business & finance professional, currently heading strategy in cutting edge auto sector with a deep understanding of the auto value chain.

Nils joined in 2018 from Volvo Cars, building up the finance function in the role including the equity funding rounds. Before this, he built up the IR function at Volvo Cars, and held several senior finance and treasury roles for Volvo Cars and Ford Motor Company. Nils has 17 years of automotive industry experience.

Nils holds a Master’s in International Business from the University of Gothenburg and additionally a CEFA from the Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education.

Olivier Korach
TrustInSoft

24th May Track E
14:05 Formal Methods to Continuously Deliver Rock-Solid and Secure Software to Vehicles

Olivier is Sr Presales Engineer at TrustInSoft, bringing 30 years of Critical Software Industry Experience.

After 6 years as an Ada and C developer in Aeronautics for Dassault and Telecommunications for HP, Olivier then explored the business side of these verticals, in Europe and in the US.

He then went on to hold Engineering Management positions and embraced the last decade’s wave of DevOps.

He is passionate about Software Quality and Security, and is excited to witness the growing pervasiveness of software everywhere in our lives. This passion materialized with 7 years of Consulting at Sonar.

Olivier is now working for TrustInSoft, taking on the startup company challenge of bringing to more mainstream software markets, in particular the embedded software market, innovative and powerful formal methods software validation technologies originally reserved to narrow sectors like Aeronautics and the Nuclear industries.

Pedro Lopez
RTI

24th May Track B
15:20 Autonomous Vehicles – A Waiting for Godot?

Per Johannessen
Volvo Autonomous Solutions

24th May Track B
13:55 The Regulatory Landscape for Automated Vehicles – for Development and Operation

Per Nordqvist
CEVT

24th May Track C
14:50 Managing Complexity & Variability in Automotive Testing
16:05 Simulation for AD – Balancing Simulation Fidelity vs Scalability

Per Nordqvist, MSc. Computer Science.

Seasoned simulation expert, SW developer of real time simulations for 25 years, including 17 years in the automotive and 5 years in the AD field.
Former member of the ISO 3450x group (Test scenarios for automated driving systems)
SIL expert at the autonomous driving dept at CEVT since 2021, responsible for setting up a SIL tool chain for AD L4 robotaxi.
Currently participating in the VINNOVA project EVIDENT – to understand when simulation tools / models are valid to use for a particular purpose (such as AD)

Peter Janevik
AstaZero

24th May Track C
09:00 Moderator’s Introduction
14:50 Managing Complexity & Variability in Automotive Testing

Ric Vicari
Upstream

24th May Track E
15:00 Connected Vehicle Data-Driven Monitoring – Opportunities and Challenges

Ric joined Upstream as VP EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) a year ago, with the remit to accelerate Upstream’s ability to deliver business benefits and innovation to our partners and clients in the region, including the setup of local expert support  teams. This is coming to fruition with the acquisition of several major new customers and with existing customers about to go into the production phase, as well as the deployment of a partnership program involving several global MSSPs and technology vendors.

Robin van der Made
Siemens Digital Industries Software

24th May Track B
12:00 Smart Data Usage Leading to Smart AV Design Certification – Critical Scenarios & Recorded Data

Robin van der Made is Director Product Management AV at Siemens Digital Industries Software – Simulation and Test Solutions. He received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2000 and shortly after moved to the USA where he became an onsite engineering consultant for TASS International. In 2005 he became the engineer manager of the TASS International USA office and moved back to the Netherlands in 2007 to join the Product Management team. Since the acquisition by Siemens, his team of product managers and application engineers serve the automotive industry with software and hardware products, knowledge, and experience to design and validate Autonomous Vehicle systems for optimal safety and comfort.

Rolf Johansson
ASTUS

24th May Track C
13:20 Design for Ops-data collection – a Means to Speed up V&V
14:50 Managing Complexity & Variability in Automotive Testing

Sara Sylvan
Scania

24th May Track G
10:40 How GPS-data is creating value for Scania customers

Soltan Ritter
ETAS

23th May Track 2
14:20 Empowering Tomorrow’s Automotive Software with enabling technologies for the software-defined vehicle

Soltan Ritter is Vice President for SDV E2E Integrated Customer Solutions Product Group at ETAS since 2022. Between 2004 and 2022, he held various R&D roles at Robert Bosch GmbH for Semiautonomous Parking Systems, Instrument Clusters, Headup Displays and Infotainment Systems. Before that, he worked in the automation industry. Soltan has studied Communications Engineering and Distributed Systems Engineering in Germany and England.

Staffan Truve
Recorded Future

24th May Track E
09:50 Cyber security – Understanding of the Current Global Threat Picture and Insight into how these Threats can affect the Automotive Industry

Stefan Pettersson
RISE

24th May Track D
09:00 Moderator´s introduction

Stefan Pettersson has a M.Sc. in Automation Engineering and a Ph.D. in Control Engineering and became an Associate Professor in Control Engineering at Chalmers University in 2004. During 2006-2009 Stefan worked in the automotive industry at Volvo Technology. Since 2009, he is the Director of Electromobility at RISE, where he leads a group of researchers and has a responsibility for a large portfolio of electromobility projects. He is also the focus area manager of Energy and Environment for Mobility, which is a cross-functional role at RISE. In 2017, Stefan became an adjunct Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. Stefan has recently been acknowledged as top 2% of the most cited researchers in the world.

Sunitha Subramaniam
Hexagon

23th May Track 1
15:50 How to Certify ADAS Functionality to be Automotive Grade without Hitting the Road

Susanne Stenberg
RISE

24th May Track G
13:30 Municipalities and the Mobility Market – know when a Municipality is a Suitable Customer for your new Service
15:40 The Transportation Industry as a Service – what does that mean and what can we learn from other Industries?

Susanne was previously a judge and worked for the government’s office. Together with commercial enterprises and public authorities we analyse the relation between policy and business as markets evolve through digitalization. In relation to mobility the approach has been applied to autonomous vehicles, smart ships and data-sharing within the transportation eco-systems.

Tobias Sternvik
Volvo Group Connected Solutions

24 May Track E
15:00 Connected Vehicle Data-Driven Monitoring – Opportunities and Challenges

Tobias is Vice President Architecture & Security at Volvo Group Connected Solutions, in this he is responsible for Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity and Privacy Compliance. Tobias has more than 25 years of experience within the software industry cross several business domains. Joining Volvo Group in 2004 and Telematics pioneer WirelessCar in 2007, the focus on the automotive industry and delivery of telematics systems for both consumer and commercial vehicles have been a major part of this. Through roles such as Lead and Connected Car Program Architect, Chief Enterprise Architect, and manager for architecture and security functions he has worked closely with creation of modular systems for telematics incorporating an end-to-end perspective of functions spanning vehicle and the cloud. This has involved the transformation from silo based, monolithic, on-premises solutions with perimeter-based security to microservice based, cloud hosted, shared global platforms in which a zero-trust security approach is essential.

Volker Kuz
CARIAD

23th May Track 2
15:20 What are the Challenges and Benefits of Imaging, Simulating & Validating Mobility Experience Virtually?

Zara Zamani
ChromaWay

24th May Track F
11:15 Can Blockchain Revolutionize Future Vehicles?

Zara Zamani is the Chief Solutions Officer (CSO) of the leading Nordic blockchain company, ChromaWay. She is also a Co-founder in Neoki MultiMetaverse. She has multiple years of experience in designing blockchain platforms in tourism, healthcare, logistics, foodchain, energy, gaming, DeFi, DAOs, and now metaverse and fashionvindustries. She is leading solution and product design and development of a portfolio of more than 15 established crypto products. She has also been involved highly in the development of innovativevinvestment models in crypto space. She was featured as one of the 21 women in the blockchain you should know in 2021 by Fintech Review and the 10 most influential women in technology in 2021 byvAnalytics Insights. . She has both practical and theoretical knowledge as she is also a Ph.D. researcher and lecturer in blockchain adoption at university of Halmstad, Sweden