Egil has over 40 years’ experience in the high-tech and automotive industries. He is currently a senior partner and principal analyst at VSI Labs. VSI is unique with its applied research and technical insights derived through its own test vehicles and provide perspectives, insights and analysis of ADAS/AD technologies via its portal service. Egil is also a contributor to EE Times and has written nearly 100 articles since June 2020. Egil’s recent research has been focused on autonomous driving technologies and use-cases, software-fined vehicle segments and BEVs. He has extensive experience in technology forecasting, market forecasting and competitive analysis. Egil was co-founder of Telematics Research Group, which was acquired by iSuppli in 2008. IHS acquired iSuppli in 2010. He worked for IHS Market until mid-2020 as research director of automotive technology. Egil was Chairman and co-founder of Future Computing, an information service company that was the leading market research and product testing company for the PC industry. Future Computing was sold to McGraw-Hill. He remained president of the company's StoreBoard unit for several years following a private placement. StoreBoard tracked the sales of PC products and was later sold to Ziff-Davis. Previously, he was with Texas Instruments where he was a strategic and product planner for microprocessors, minicomputers and PCs. He has written columns and papers for technology publications and has made presentations, seminars and lectures in the USA, Asia and Europe. Egil has made over 750 papers, reports and conference presentations in the last 35 years. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Egil is a life member of IEEE.

Juergen has an extensive success record in Application, Sales, Product Definition, Business Management and Product Marketing including set-up and management of offices around the world. He is a Strategic Advisor and Executive Management Consultant to international OEM, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers with special focus in Asia. He has a strategic Focus on Sensors technology (Radar, Ultrasonic, Camera and Lidar) and Sensor Fusion technology (Domain Controllers) for Autonomous Drive Level 2 to Level 5. Juergen's key Application focus is: Driver Assistance Systems (Ultra Sonic Park Assist, Radar, Camera Systems), Infotainment, Autonomous Valet Parking, Cyber Security.

Robin Jenkin works at NVIDIA Corporation where he models image quality for autonomous vehicle applications. Robin received, BSc(Hons) Photographic and Electronic Imaging Science (1995) and his PhD (2001) in the field of image science from University of Westminster. He also holds a M.Res Computer Vision and Image Processing from University College London (1996). Robin is a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society, UK, and a Senior Member SPIE. He is a Visiting Professor at University of Westminster within the Computer Vision and Imaging Technology Research Group.

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Albert Theuwissen is author or coauthor of 200+ technical papers in the solid-state imaging field and issued several patents. He was co-editor of IEEE Micro special issue on Digital Imaging Nov./Dec. 1998 and of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices special issues on Solid-State Image Sensors, May 1991, October 1997 and January 2003. For the latest special issue IEEE-ED on image sensors, published in January 2016, he acted as the guest editor-in-chief. He was general chairman of the International Image Sensor Workshop in 1997, 2003, 2009 and 2015. He is member of the Steering Committee of the aforementioned workshop and founder of the Walter Kosonocky Award, which highlights the best paper in the field of solid-state image sensors. Together with his peers, Eric Fossum and Nobukazu Teranishi, he founded the International Image Sensor Society, a non-profit organization to stimulate sharing of technical knowledge in the field of digital image capturing.

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Alex has over 20 years of experience with optical technologies. During his position as optical designer at Kostal (Tier 1) he was responsible for the optical quality of the camera ADAS, designing MTF test benches for all purposes. As a Professor for Physics at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf he is now looking at all the questions surrounding optical quality from a scientific point of view, and will share his enthusiasm for optics and cameras with you.

Electronics Engineer and Automotive Engineering specialist working currently in the Volvo Cars Open Innovation Arena with technology and product development leading diverse investigations in the sensing and inferences areas.

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Erez joined Cipia in 2012, employing his rich experience for mapping and optimizing Cipia’s computer vision AI algorithms to various architectures including DSPs, GPU, and ARM platforms. Erez quickly rose within the ranks, leading core development projects, and assuming the position of Chief Architect. Since 2017, Erez has been serving as VP Research & Development. Erez joined Cipia after 10 years at Freescale Semiconductor (Previously Motorola Semiconductor), where he managed a global team of 25 developers, and was responsible for various DSP Systems activities, including the DSP Video Software vertical and DSP Baseband software. Erez holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University.

Michael A. Nees is an Associate Professor and directs the Human Factors, Perception, and Cognition Lab in the Department of Psychology at Lafayette College. He was awarded a Ph.D. in psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests include human interactions with automation, auditory perception and auditory interface design, and assistive technologies. He teaches courses on human factors and engineering psychology, perception, statistics and research design, and disabilities and assistive technology. He also provides consulting services for user needs analysis, usability, and accessibility. Professor Nees taught previously at Spelman College and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Tech. He also worked previously as a research scientist at the Indianapolis VA Medical Center and as a consultant for clinical research trials.

With 30 year of automotive experiences in passive and active safety systems. The passive safety components include airbag crash sensors, seat belt tension sensor, seat weight sensor, occupant classification with personalized restraints, seat belt controller, engine fire suppression & prevention. The active safety components are Driving Monitoring System (DMS) with attentiveness and drowsiness detections, Interior Viewing Camera (IVC) for video streaming, In-Cabin Radar Sensing (ICSR) for child left behind, Occupant Monitoring System (OMS), and In-Cabin Monitoring System (IMS) to optimize the vehicle safety, user experience, and security performance. The future project is to integrate and fuse the exterior vision and radar based sensing data to DMS to predict and provide the potential inattentive driver for driving safety.

Mike is a global authority on human factors and safety. Following an esteemed academic career as a Professor in Human Factors at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC), he moved to Seeing Machines in 2014 and has held Executive roles leading both technology and commercial businesses. Currently as Chief Science & Innovation Officer he leads Seeing Machines human factors, machine intelligence and advanced engineering teams that research, design and develop our next generation technologies. Working with government, industry and global policy groups he promotes operator state monitoring technology, making the world’s roads and skies safer. He remains an Adjunct Professor at MUARC, and holds a Global Executive MBA and a PhD in Human Factors Psychology.

Adrian is the Senior Vice President of Engineering with DTS/Xperi responsible for leading DTS AutoSense - the company's in-cabin sensing product line. He is also the general manager of DTS/Xperi' R&D facility in Bucharest. Adrian has two decades of experience in the space of computer vision and edge AI. He led global technology development, product management and customer engineering teams and developed a track record of deploying edge computer vision applications on consumer products such as smart cameras, smartphones, and smart cars.Adrian has over 40 granted and published US patents in computer vision and computational imaging.He earned his Bachelor of Science in Imaging & Artificial Intelligence and his Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

Henrik Lind has been CRO at Smart Eye since 2017. Prior to this he was Technical Expert Remote Sensing at Volvo Car Corporation. Henrik has an MSc, in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology.

With over 12 years of experience in the automotive industry and ADAS technology, Caroline Chung manages the Interior Sensing feature development team and leads roadmap and strategy planning for the in-cabin space at Veoneer. Her team is responsible for the development of algorithms and models to address some of the most pressing issues facing occupant safety today. Previous roles include leading the advanced engineering of industry-first vision features at an OEM, LiDAR design and development, as well as vehicle and product launch. Caroline holds a BSME from Kettering University and is currently completing her MBA with a data science concentration at the University of Michigan.