Dipl. Ing. Jörg Schrepfer graduated from Friedrich Alexander University with a degree in electrical engineering. From 1998-12 he held various positions in the pre-development and development of product areas such as automotive DVD players, displays, gateways and new bus systems. From 2012-14 he was the ASL vision director for business development in Germany at Image Processing Solutions. From 2014-16 he worked at Continental as a senior manager of technical sales and R&D Kronach, specialising in surround-view camera systems for vehicles. Since 2017, Jörg has been the head of driver assistance research Germany at Valeo. He works on algorithms and functions for laser scanners, cameras and ultrasound, as well as algorithms for autonomous driving using deep learning.

Florian has a diploma and Ph.D. in physics. He worked for several years in DRAM development at Infineon before becoming a project manager and system architect for LIDAR sensors for space applications at Jena-Optronik. After two years, he went on to lead all space LIDAR activities at Jena-Optronik as Director LIDAR Products. Since 2018, Florian is with OSRAM as Senior Key Expert for Automotive Sensorics.  

Andrea Onetti is STMicroelectronics’ executive vice president, and since January 2022 he's also been the MEMS subgroup vice president. Andrea joined STMicroelectronics' R&D lab in Castelletto, Italy, in 1990, as a designer of mixed-signal audio ICs. Later he moved into product management and marketing for consumer audio and was promoted to general manager of a product division. Onetti’s mandate was expanded to include ST’s audio and sound business unit in 2011 and the analog and audio systems division in 2014. In 2016, he was promoted to head of ST’s MEMS sensors division, driving business and margin growth in MEMS sensors, product portfolio expansion, and optimisation, as well as ST MEMS ecosystem creation, including strategic partnerships with key industry players including Qualcomm and Microsoft. Andrea has several patents for analog circuit implementations in the audio domain. Andrea was born in Pavia, Italy, in 1965, and graduated with a degree in microelectronics from University of Pavia.

Michael has over 20 years of experience in technological product development and management, holding various positions in fast-growing start-up environments where he developed expertise in telecommunications, medical devices, and LiDAR, specifically in industrial, automotive, and mobility applications.

Since joining LeddarTech, Michael has held several key roles, including executive leadership positions in product development, product management, sales, and strategic partnerships. Over this time, he led the development and management of LeddarTech’s product line. Michael played an instrumental role in establishing the LeddarTech Automotive & Mobility LiDAR platform, the Leddar Ecosystem, and partnerships with leading Tier-1 companies and semiconductor suppliers, thus contributing to LeddarTech’s position as a market leader in LiDAR technology.

Michael holds a degree in electrical engineering from Université Laval and is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (Québec’s order of professional engineers).

Before founding Blickfeld, DrSc. Florian Petit worked on the control of robots as part of scientific work at the Technical University of Munich, Stanford University, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and ETH Zurich. The roboticist obtained his Ph.D. in the field of human-machine collaboration.

As CTO of NNG, Martin Pfeifle is leading NNG’s innovation activities around Connected Navigation, Cloud, and ADAS applications. Before, Martin was leading Visteon’s environmental perception activities with a focus on sensor fusion. Martin and his team delivered the environment model that will be the basis for the decision-making of Visteon’s autonomous driving approach. Martin is also responsible for digital maps, localization, and positioning, working on all matters concerned with how the vehicle understands where it is and what is going on around it. With more than 40 patents to his name, Martin is an expert in NDS and ADAS databases and applications, as well as data mining and sensor fusion. He is based in Karlsruhe, Germany. Before joining Visteon, Martin worked at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg as a researcher and temporary professor in the area of data mining on spatial, temporal, and uncertain data. For more than 10 years, he has worked in the area of infotainment and ADAS for Continental and for HERE, the leading digital map provider.

Dr. Matti Kutila is 45 years old and leads the Automated Vehicles Team in VTT. His career started in 1998, first as a researcher and later as a Project Manager of the automotive industry-related R&D projects. He obtained a Master of Science degree in 2000 and completed his driver monitoring and neural networks-related doctoral thesis in 2006. In recent years his expertise fields have been focused on automotive sensors, V2X technologies, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, and automated driving functions. He has prepared about 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles related to connected and automated driving and holds 5 patent applications in the field. 

Indu is a specialist in systems, software, algorithms, and perception for self-driving cars. As AEye's head of product management, she works hand-in-hand with the company's business and technical side to envision a product roadmap and bring products to life. Indu also collaborates with Tier1s to ensure AEye's ADAS components are developed on time and meet stringent automotive requirements. Prior to AEye, she spent five years at Delphi/Aptiv, where she played a major role as a senior software engineer on the Autonomous Driving team in bridging ADAS sensors and algorithms and extending them for mobility. She holds a BS in Technology in Computer Science from India's Amrita University and an MS in Computer Engineering from Stony Brook University.

George S. A. Shaker (BASc, MASc, Ph.D., SM-IEEE) joined Spark Tech Labs at its founding, where he has held the roles of Principal Scientist and Head of Research. He is also an adjunct professor with the University of Waterloo and the director of the Wireless Sensors and Devices Lab. George was an NSERC scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also held multiple roles with RIM's (BlackBerry). 

Dr. Shaker has authored/co-authored 100+ publications and 25+ patents/patent applications. George was an invited speaker at several international events, including Keynote talks at the IEEE LAPC, the IEEE iThings, Ambient Intelligence, and short course lecturer at IEEE APS and IEEE IMS. He has served as a TPC member of IEEE MTT-IMS, IEEE APS, IEEE EuCAP, IEEE iWAT, IEEE EMC, and IEEE WF-IoT. 

George has received multiple recognitions and awards, including the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (sole winner in the area of Electromagnetics across Canada, 2007-10, first UW student to receive the scholarship in EM), the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2007, 2010), the European School of Antennas Grant at IMST-GmbH (2007), the IEEE AP-S Best Paper Award (2009, 3, first @ UW), the IEEE AP-S Honorable Mention Paper Award (Twice, 2008, 2011), the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Graduate Research Award (2008/2009, first @ UW), NSERC CGS-FSS (2009/2010, sole winner from UW Engineering), the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship (2009, first UW student to receive the fellowship), and the Electronic Components and Technology Best of Session Paper Award (2010). He co-authored two papers in IEEE Sensors among the top 25 downloaded papers on IEEEXplore for several consecutive months (2012/2017). He was the supervisor of the team, winning the third best design at IEEE APS 2016, APS 2017 HM paper award, 2018 CVS Best Paper, and two IEEE APS Research Awards.   

David Schie is the CEO of AIStorm, a Silicon Valley based analog AI startup. AIStorm is focused on bringing the advantages of its AI-in-sensor technology to the market, providing standard AI architectures without the requirement for digitizing vast amounts of input data. AIStorm delivers fully integrated solutions including sensors and AFE (e.g., LiDAR SPAD, SiPM, CIS, mirror driver, mirror, biasing, etc., as well as biometric and failure analysis AI solutions), which are provided as semi-custom solutions for its customers. Key investors in AIStorm include Egis Technology, Tower Semiconductor, Meyer Corporation, and Linear Dimensions Semiconductor. David was educated at the University of Toronto in analog IC design and has held several high-level management positions up to Sr. VP with responsibilities including product definition, engineering, and P/L for leading companies including Maxim, Micrel, and Semtech.

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Luca Gioanola, Ph.D., is the Manager of Innovation and Advanced Engineering in MAGNA LIGHTING since 2019. He leads activities related to new technology investigation, designing, and prototyping automotive interior and exterior lighting systems, including electronics, sensors, actuators, radar, and lighting elements. Main activities concern electronic HW/SW architectures, and special attention is dedicated to thermal and EMI constraints in lighting and ADAS applications. He also supports MAGNA Lightings E/E departments in the development of automotive lighting products. He currently takes part in ISELED Alliance, studying innovative lighting and sensor network systems for the interior of vehicles.   

In 2012, he joined the OLSA group as Manager of the R&D Electronic Department (based in Italy, Brazil, and China). He led activities in design/develop/test hardware-software electronic systems embedded in automotive lighting devices. The customers were almost all the carmakers. In 2016, the first worldwide OLED rear lamp in production was developed (AUDI TT RS).  

He is graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Master and Ph.D. degrees, at Polytechnic of Turin. He obtained other certificates, particularly in Electronic embedded systems, Management of Innovation, ISO 26262 functional safety, and EMC for automotive PCB designing. Finally, he is the owner of automotive products and systems patents. He has participated in several congresses and conferences, and he has recently published the article “Ambient Lighting in New Dimensions” in the automotive journal ATZ, February 2020.

Doctor in Dependable Computer Systems from the Chalmers University of Technology.

Passion for safety-related applications and systems such as ADAS and ADS since 1998 when I joined the X-By-Wire project, a European Research project as a Ph.D. student.

Still dedicated to functional safety and functional safety management and specifically ADAS and HAD systems with vision/radar sensors, with all challenges that may include.

Was international expert in the Working Group 16 (now WG 8), the group producing the standard ISO 26262 since 2007 (in Swedish group since 2005). Responsible for the Safety Element out of Context concept, SEooC in part 10. Focusing quite a lot on nominal safety, i.e., false positives/negatives wrt to RWUPs.

Loves to teach in functional safety and is maintaining training in ISO 26262 which is tailored for different sites need, from concept phase "down" to supporting processes.

Specialties: Active Safety, Functional Safety Assessment, System safety, dependable communication, AUTOSAR, middleware platforms, time-triggered communication, safety-related applications, x-by-wire, ISO 26262, research projects, FlexRay, functional safety, joint reviews, ADAS, HAD, AD.

Rolf Johansson is working as an independent industrial advisor with a focus on safety architecture concepts for autonomous road vehicles. In recent years he has worked both for AID and Zenuity with their automated driving systems (ADS). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Chalmers University and has +30 years of industrial experience in the field of embedded safety-critical systems. Dr. Johansson is an expert in the international working groups for ISO 5083, ISO 26262, and ISO 21448 (SOTIF). He has published several papers in the field of architecture and safety argumentation ADS.

Avi Bakal, CEO and Co-Founder of TriEye, has achieved a mass-scale technological breakthrough in record time, creating a giant leap in ADAS and AV safety, reliability, and functionality. Avi is an experienced multidisciplinary Physicist and Electrical-Engineer. He has a BSc in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Applied Physics specializing in optics and lasers. Avi served as a combat commander in a special unit in the Israeli Air Force. Additionally, he published two articles in distinguished scientific journals and was highlighted in Nature Photonics Journal. Avi was recently named as CEO/Managing Director of the Year by Image Sensors Europe 2020 Awards.

Dr. Wu is managing application development and engaging customers in LiDAR and ADAS globally. He has 15 years of experience in application development in spectroscopy, imaging, and metrology in sensing, life science, and semiconductor industries. Hitronics is a major supplier of fiber laser, EEL laser assemblies, optical components, and assemblies for LiDAR and ADAS customers. Now a world-class manufacturer of precision optics, Hitronics embraces the challenges of design to volume production across the LiDAR, laser, telecom, life science, and instrumentation industries.

Professor Dr. Anestis Terzis is the Head of the Institute of Communication Technology at Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany and the coordinator of the university’s International Electrical Engineering Program (IEEP). His professorship is for Digital Systems Design in lectures and research. His primary research field is advanced camera-based driver assistance systems. Prior to this, he was with Daimler AG for ten years and worked in the “Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development,” with the main focus on future advanced driver assistance systems. Anestis Terzis received his diploma in Communications Engineering from Ulm University of Applied Sciences and his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is one of the authors of the ISO 16505 content and an expert member of the standardization and regulation committees in the field of automotive camera monitor systems. 

Sven is part of the product management at Heidelberg Instruments and responsible for special projects and technical support of the international sales team. He joined Heidelberg Instruments in 2001 to work on spatial light modulators and received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Heidelberg for this work in 2004. He joined the sales department later that same year and was responsible for sales, marketing, and business development in Europe, Australia, and the Middle East until he switched to product management in 2019.

Mr. Paul Liu is senior manager of GPU Software at NVIDIA and is currently developing automotive products. He has held leadership and executive positions at SiRF, Trimble Navigation, Applied Micro, Tula, and Samsung Electronics. He has published papers in industry publications and made presentations at the SAE World Congress and other events. Paul owns a commercial nut farm, where he tests his development of autonomous farming equipment. He also mentors robotics and statistics students in middle and high school. As well as being a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Project Management Institute, and the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia, Paul holds a BSc. in electrical engineering from the University.