SPEAKERS 2022

Hugo Fozzati is the Head of Business at AutoX, a California & Hong Kong based L4 autonomous driving company building an A.I. driver. His previous roles have taken him across the globe: working in mergers & acquisitions and venture capital in London, New York, and Washington, D.C. covering mobility, consumer internet, commodities & the emerging markets. Hugo has an MBA from Georgetown University, a B.S. from Babson College, and is fluent in 5 languages.

Connor is a lawyer on the Law Commissions’ three-year review of the UK’s regulatory framework for the safe deployment of automated vehicles. Before embarking on a legal career, Connor was a scientist specialising in neuroscience and visual ecology. He has held positions at the University of Queensland in Australia and at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Dr. John Thomas is Director of MIT’s Engineering Systems Lab and Executive Director of the Safety and Cybersecurity group. His research studies engineering mistakes, design flaws, and human error to develop more effective methods to anticipate and address them–especially in safety-critical or security-critical applications. He has taught classes on system engineering, software engineering, system safety, cybersecurity, human factors, and system architecture. His work has been widely adopted in industry, including techniques for developing requirements, anticipating unexpected or dysfunctional interactions in engineered systems, analyzing software-intensive systems (including AI), human-centered design processes, and others. He works closely with industry to ensure this research is not only theoretically sound but practical, usable, and useful for real engineers solving real problems. His work analyzes accidents in all industries, studies the direct and indirect contributing factors (human, technical, and systemic factors), and develops methods that allow us to do a better job preventing accidents in the future. Most of his research involves new methods like STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis), CAST (Causal Analysis using Systems Theory), and developing related systems approaches to engineering, safety analysis, cybersecurity, and accident/incident analysis. He provides professional education and training classes on the above for aviation, defense, automotive, space systems, oil & gas, nuclear, chemical, medical, and other industries. Applications include autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), human supervisory systems, aircraft/vehicle development, UAVs, remotely piloted aircraft, airworthiness, medical devices, and others.

He serves on industry standards groups responsible for:

– ISO 26262: Functional Safety Standard (automotive)

– ISO/PAS 21448: SOTIF–Safety Of The Intended Functionality (automotive)

– ARP4761: Safety Assessment for Civil Aircraft

– ARP4754: Development of Civil Aircraft

– STPA-specific standards in automotive, aviation, and others.

Tim Woods is a Founding Partner of POCO labs a Product Development and Consumer Research Company. Mr. Woods, is also the General Manager of the Autonomous Vehicle Alliance a non-profit collaborative research organization focused on Cities, Business and Consumers. The purpose of the Alliance is to identify the opportunities around Use Cases and Value Propositions for L4 and L5 Autonomous Vehicles. Tim is a nationally recognized consultant with over 25 years of experience, working to drive innovation and the appropriate use of technology in products and services. He is a respected source of information to the media and has appeared on The Science Channel, Food Network, HGTV, CNN and others as a resource to discuss the future and technology.