An Interview with Alex Polonsky: From AI Hype to Real-World Reliability
As AI adoption accelerates across automotive and autonomy, the gap between impressive demonstrations and truly production-ready systems is becoming impossible to ignore.
In this interview, Alex Polonsky, AI Lead Americas at Brose draws on experience spanning motorsport, NASA research, autonomous systems, and enterprise AI to explore what it really takes to build scalable, reliable, and trustworthy AI in safety-critical environments. From governance and validation to systems integration and operational deployment, the conversation cuts through the hype to focus on the engineering discipline required to make AI perform under real-world conditions.
Ahead of his presentation, Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) to Optimized Zonal Architecture, at AutoSens USA on Thursday 11th June starting at 1:55pm EDT in Room 140A/B, Pramod Kumar a Senior EE Hardware Specialist at Lucid Motors shares his perspective on the architectural shifts shaping the future of EVs, including optimized zonal architectures, centralized compute, and scalable vehicle intelligence platforms
David Doria of Magna International explores how AI is transforming ADAS from system design and development to end-to-end driving models and simulation.