08 - 10 October 2024 | Palau de Congressos, Barcelona
AutoSens Europe
2024
Speakers
A leading line-up of distinguished influencers and specialists at the forefront of ADAS and
autonomous vehicle technology joining us
FEATURED SPEAKER
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Adriano Palao
Adriano Palao
Adriano Palao has 9 years of experience in Automotive Engineering, within the Testing and Validation domain. After completing his Bachelor and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, he worked for Nissan Motor Corporation, Applus+ IDIADA, Punch Powertrain, and Mitsubishi Electric. In January 2022 took the role of Technical Manager ADAS/AD at Euro NCAP.
FEATURED SPEAKER
FEATURED SPEAKER
Benjamin Lyon
Benjamin Lyon
Benjamin Lyon is senior vice president and chief technology officer of Aptiv, a position he has held since December 2022.
In this role, Mr. Lyon is responsible for ensuring that Aptiv remains at the forefront of emerging and disruptive technology trends and prioritizing longer-term technology and business model opportunities in mobility and adjacent markets. In addition, Mr. Lyon is responsible for the technology leadership of the global engineering organization, which includes more than 19,000 technologists located in 12 major technical centers across the globe.
Mr. Lyon has over two decades of experience in senior engineering, developing technology, commercializing products and executing program launches at leading technology companies.
Most recently, Benjamin served as Chief Engineer and Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations of Astra Space, Inc. since 2021. In this role, he successfully deployed 22 satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) and launched the Astra Space Engine Hall-Effect thruster product line.
Before that, Benjamin served at Apple Inc. for over two decades, developing and productized sensors, displays, high-performance compute, and safety / security critical technology for scale. While at Apple, he also cofounded their autonomous systems effort.
Mr. Lyon received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Berveleen Mashonga
Berveleen Mashonga
Berveleen Mashonga holds a masters in engineering from the University of Portsmouth, in England. Specialising in automotive advanced technology, Berveleen prides herself in being a STEM advocate and mentor for girls and women around the world
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Boyd Fowler
Boyd Fowler
Dr. Boyd Fowler joined OmniVision in December 2015 as the Vice President of Marketing and was appointed Chief Technology Officer in July 2017. Prior to joining OmniVision, he was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Pixel Devices, where he focused on developing high-performance CMOS image sensors. After Pixel Devices was acquired by Agilent Technologies, Dr. Fowler was responsible for advanced development of commercial CMOS image sensor products. In 2005, Dr. Fowler joined Fairchild Imaging as the CTO and VP of Technology, where he developed SCMOS image sensors for high-performance scientific applications. After Fairchild Imaging was acquired by BAE Systems, Dr. Fowler was appointed the technology director of the CCD/CMOS image sensor business. He has authored numerous technical papers, book chapters, and patents. Dr. Fowler received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and 1995 respectively.
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Christian Weber
Christian Weber
Christian Weber is a seasoned automotive industry professional with over three decades of experience in engineering and leadership roles. He is currently Project House Director for Continental’s Autonomous Mobility business area, leading innovative projects in autonomous driving technologies. Previously, as Global Director, he led Continental’s Advanced Engineering ADAS activities, enhancing vehicle safety and automation. Before joining Continental in 2017, he held engineering and program management roles at Magna Electronics and Harman/Becker Automotive Systems. His entire professional career has focused on laying the groundwork for future autonomous driving functionalities and realizing automotive engineering projects on a global scale.
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Duong Van Nguyen
Duong Van Nguyen
Dr. Duong-Van Nguyen is the Deputy CEO in charge of ADAS/AD at Vinfast, and was formerly Head of ADAS at Panasonic Automotive Systems Europe (PASEU) based in Germany. He is recognized as the Senior IEEE, and a member of IEEE standard P2020.
Dr. Nguyen has been a pioneer and leading scientist in the fields of ADAS, Autonomous Driving, Robotics & Machine Learning, where he has published 1 book, 9 patents and a number of journals and conference papers. His research group at Panasonic demonstrated the world-first level 4-autonomous parking at ITS World Congress 2021, and the state-of-the art of 3D Sensing and Parking in CES 2020, CES 2021, and CES 2022.
Dr. Nguyen and his PASEU team received three Research and Innovation Grants CARAMEL (2019), CPSoSAware (2020), and TRUSTEE(2022) by the European Research Council.
Before, he worked as R&D Manager at Hyundai Mobis (Germany), and as Research Engineer at Valeo (Ireland), after his Ph.D graduation in Robotics from University of Siegen (Germany, 2009-2013).
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Gabriel Bowers
Gabriel Bowers
Gabriel joined Mobileye in 2018 where leads both the image path development and the planning of future image sensors at Mobileye. He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria (2001) and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara (2012).
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Kirsten Matheus
Kirsten Matheus
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. 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.
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Lars Beckmann
Lars Beckmann
Master of Science (Georgia Institute of Technology) 2004 – 2008: Research on organic electronics / printable sensors @TU Braunschweig 2008 – now: Volkswagen AG, R&D Fields of expertise: optical metrology in combustion engines, accoustics incl. AVAS, metrology in automotive glazing, brake systems, flow, accoustics, enabling autonomous driving (interaction of ADAS and glazing)
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Miquel Testar
Miquel Testar
ADAS product innovation professional with 15+ years background in the sensing space.
Experience leading both engineering teams and business strategy, and managing growth initiatives from the Bay Area for L4 players as well as from Germany for L2-L3 solutions with established OEMs.
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Paul Schouten
Paul Schouten
Paul Schouten is a UX designer passionate about making new technologies intuitive to understand & experience by humans. His aim is to develop natural user experiences that make technology integrate into the lives of humans, so that they become invisible while at the same time enriching people’s lives.
At TomTom, Paul leads the UX concepts team, which focuses on future user interactions & technologies and make them tangible by building many prototypes in order to validate assumptions and set out north stars for future products.
Paul holds a Master degree in Industrial Design from Delft University of Technology with a specialisation in Automotive Design. Throughout his career he worked with many global automotive OEMs.
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FEATURED SPEAKER
Torsten Wendler
Torsten Wendler
Leading projects and people across the automotive world of driver assistance for more than 15 years, Torsten holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig. He began work for Volkswagen AG in 2015 and relocated to China to join VW AnHui in 2019.
Juergen Hoellisch
CEO/Founder
Juergen Hoellisch
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.
Andreas Lauringer
CEO
Andreas Lauringer
Born in 1980, Austria, studied mechanical engineering and economics on the TU Graz and University of Linköping (degree). Started working in the automotive industry at Continental in Berlin 2007, building up a prototype shop for high voltage Lithium-Ion Batteries, followed by roles in Purchasing and Launch Management.
Moving back to Austria the major step was global program management at Magna, responsible for the eDrive platform development, vehicle integration and acquisition programs for various OEMs. Part of the team that established the Magna JV with Hasco in Shanghai.
Launched Kontrol in 2017, building an end to end complience platform for products with the focus on the automotive industry.
Torsten Wendler
Head of Driving and ADAS / AD
Torsten Wendler
Leading projects and people across the automotive world of driver assistance for more than 15 years, Torsten holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig. He began work for Volkswagen AG in 2015 and relocated to China to join VW AnHui in 2019.
Adrian Capata
Senior Vice President - Autosense
Adrian Capata
Adrian is the Senior Vice President Autosense at Tobii – the company’s business segment focused on interior sensing.
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.
Berveleen Mashonga
Product Manager
Berveleen Mashonga
Berveleen Mashonga holds a masters in engineering from the University of Portsmouth, in England. Specialising in automotive advanced technology, Berveleen prides herself in being a STEM advocate and mentor for girls and women around the world
Kirsten Matheus
Senior Expert
Kirsten Matheus
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. 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.
Prof Valentina Donzella
Professor
Prof Valentina Donzella
Dr Valentina Donzella received her BSc (2003) and MSc (2005) in Electronics Engineering from University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy), and her PhD (2010) in Innovative Technologies for Information, Communication and Perception Engineering from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. In 2009, she was a visiting graduate student at McMasterUniversity (Hamilton, ON, Canada) in the Engineering Physics department. She is currently Associated Professor, Head of the Sensors area in the Intelligent Vehicles group at WMG, University of Warwick, UK. She has been awarded a Royal Academy ofEngineering Industrial Fellowship on camera sensors and she is the lead of the workpackage on sensor modelling in the EU project ROADVIEW; Before joining WMG, she was a MITACS and SiEPIC postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada), in the Silicon Photonics group. She is first author, co-author, and last author of several journal papers on top tier optics and sensors journals. Her research interests are: LiDAR, Intelligent Vehicles, integrated optical sensors, noise factors, sensor fusion, and silicon photonics. Dr Donzella is Full College member of EPSRC and Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy.
Adriano Palao
Technical Manager ADAS & AD
Adriano Palao
Adriano Palao has 9 years of experience in Automotive Engineering, within the Testing and Validation domain. After completing his Bachelor and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, he worked for Nissan Motor Corporation, Applus+ IDIADA, Punch Powertrain, and Mitsubishi Electric. In January 2022 took the role of Technical Manager ADAS/AD at Euro NCAP.
Boyd Fowler
CTO
Boyd Fowler
Dr. Boyd Fowler joined OmniVision in December 2015 as the Vice President of Marketing and was appointed Chief Technology Officer in July 2017. Prior to joining OmniVision, he was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Pixel Devices, where he focused on developing high-performance CMOS image sensors. After Pixel Devices was acquired by Agilent Technologies, Dr. Fowler was responsible for advanced development of commercial CMOS image sensor products. In 2005, Dr. Fowler joined Fairchild Imaging as the CTO and VP of Technology, where he developed SCMOS image sensors for high-performance scientific applications. After Fairchild Imaging was acquired by BAE Systems, Dr. Fowler was appointed the technology director of the CCD/CMOS image sensor business. He has authored numerous technical papers, book chapters, and patents. Dr. Fowler received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and 1995 respectively.
Albert Theuwissen
Founder
Albert Theuwissen
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.
Clément Nouvel
CTO
Clément Nouvel
Clément Nouvel is LiDAR CTO at Valeo Group, leading supplier in the field of Safety and Automated Driving, and market leader in automotive grade LiDAR sensors.
Prior to this position, Clément has been acting as Active Safety Business Development Director from 2016 to 2019 and held several positions at Renault-Nissan Alliance from 2003 focused on innovation engineering and project management, based in France and Asia.
He is currently in charge of leading Valeo LiDAR product development, a global team including functions ranging from Business Development to Engineering and Technology Partnerships.
Clément holds a Master’s degree from both Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, as well as an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
Andras Palffy
Co-Founder
Andras Palffy
Dr. Andras Palffy, MSc from Cranfield, UK, is a machine perception expert from Hungary.
He worked at a computer vision startup acquired by Verizon before pursuing a PhD at TU Delft, specialising in Radar-Based perception for Intelligent Vehicles.
During his PhD, he recognized that while radars have been used for years in the automotive industry for functions like cruise control and emergency braking, their full potential remained unexplored, and can only be achieved through dedicated radar-focused AI solutions.
That is why with two fellow scholars (Balazs Szekeres and Srimannarayana Baratam), he founded Perciv AI, a machine perception software company providing next-generation, AI-driven perception solutions for radars and sensor fusion.
Michele Richichi
Autonomy Principal Research Analyst
Michele Richichi
Michele is a Principal Research Analyst at S&P Global Mobility, leading the research for Autonomy in Europe.
Michele specializes in the areas of automated driving. He works as analyst researching mobility and automotive technologies with a focus on advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), sensors and related industry trends. Complementary research includes technical topics from standards to safety protocols, mandates and regulations, cost, pricing and consumer adoption.
Before joining S&P, He worked for +12 years in the ADAS design field for the industry: at Stellantis as Global Technical Leader, Performance Manager for Maserati, Functional Integrator for FCA and Research & Development for Marelli since 2010. He has extensive experience facilitating dialogue between international carmakers (OEM), major automotive suppliers and tech companies, converging to the most scalable technical solutions and developing autonomous driving strategies.
Key Expertise: ADAS Functional Integration design (OEM perspective), ADAS performance benchmarking and target definition in compliance with EuroNCAP objective & mandated regulations (such as GSR), technical project management and Automated driving legislation, strategies and sensors roadmap.
Previously Michele graduated with honours as Electronic Engineer from Politecnico di Torino. He is based in Torino (Italy) and speaks fluently English, Portugues and of course Italian.
Nicholas Du Lac
CEO
Nicholas Du Lac
Nicolas du LAC, graduated in 2000 in engineering major Robotics, he joined Intempora in 2001 as software engineer, then CTO of the company. In 2012 he was appointed CEO of Intempora. Today he manages the company and the software development engineering team.
Martin Punke
Head of Camera Product Technology
Martin Punke
Dr. Martin Punke is leading the Camera Product Technology group at Continental. His team is working on concepting, engineering and productization of camera systems for ADAS applications with a focus on optics, image sensors and image quality. Additionally, camera sensor modelling is a recent work product of his group. In his previous positions at Nokia he was responsible of camera, flashlight and illumination technologies in mobile phones. Martin received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. In his Ph.D. thesis he worked on organic semiconductor devices for microoptical applications.
Roger Lanctot
CEO
Roger Lanctot
Roger is CEO and founder of StrategiaNow Consulting, President of the Mobile Satellite User Association, and is an advisor to the International Telecommunications Union. Roger draws on 25+ years’ experience in the technology industry as an analyst, journalist and consultant. Roger is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
Robert Vermeer
Innovation Lead
Robert Vermeer
Robert is a programme manager with InnovateUK, supporting the challenge definition and overseeing the delivery of the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles project portfolio. His role involves supporting research & development projects to help shape the future and prosper businesses in the mobility sector. InnovateUK Connected and Autonomous Vehicles work brings together consortia of academia, technology start-ups, medium and large enterprises to help solve the main challenges of our future mobility systems, infrastructure and services. He is passionate about seeing technology grow from idea, through prototype to product which result in having a positive impact on people’s lives.
Matthias Schulze
Global VP ADAS Product
Matthias Schulze
More than 20 years of experience as Project Manager, Team Manager and Executive in the area of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Telematics for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Familiar with all technologies involved such as vehicle control, environment perception, digital maps, positioning and vehicular communication technology. Experienced in strategy development. Very well networked within worldwide ADAS and ITS community. Long lasting contacts to R&D departments of all major European and Japanese OEMs, suppliers and electronics companies and to research institutes and universities.
Long record of collaboration with European Commission, German Federal Ministries of Economics and Technology and of Education and Research, Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport in Japan and US DoT. Well experienced in representing own company or interests of consortia in associations such as ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers´ Association), EUCAR (European Council for Automotive R&D) or VDA (Verband der Automobilindustrie).
Peter Vastag
Development Engineer ADAS Camera
Peter Vastag
Peter Vastag received his diploma (2012) and Ph.D. (2017) in physics from Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. He joined Robert Bosch GmbH in 2017, since then working in the hardware development of driver assistance cameras, focussing on image quality topics, esp. related to image sensors.
Benjamin Lyon
CTO
Benjamin Lyon
Benjamin Lyon is senior vice president and chief technology officer of Aptiv, a position he has held since December 2022.
In this role, Mr. Lyon is responsible for ensuring that Aptiv remains at the forefront of emerging and disruptive technology trends and prioritizing longer-term technology and business model opportunities in mobility and adjacent markets. In addition, Mr. Lyon is responsible for the technology leadership of the global engineering organization, which includes more than 19,000 technologists located in 12 major technical centers across the globe.
Mr. Lyon has over two decades of experience in senior engineering, developing technology, commercializing products and executing program launches at leading technology companies.
Most recently, Benjamin served as Chief Engineer and Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations of Astra Space, Inc. since 2021. In this role, he successfully deployed 22 satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) and launched the Astra Space Engine Hall-Effect thruster product line.
Before that, Benjamin served at Apple Inc. for over two decades, developing and productized sensors, displays, high-performance compute, and safety / security critical technology for scale. While at Apple, he also cofounded their autonomous systems effort.
Mr. Lyon received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Brian Deegan
Lecturer and Academic Researcher in Electrical and Electronic Imaging
Brian Deegan
Expert in automotive camera and perception systems, image quality, sensors, optics, image processing, and computer vision. 11 years of industry experience at Valeo Vision systems, developing first-to-market automotive camera systems, including rearview, surround view, mirror replacement and machine vision camera systems. Co-author of IEEE P2020 Automotive Image Quality Standard. Broad experience in camera module manufacturing, including industrial vision system development, production test specification, production automation optimisation and quality control.
Alex Gerodimos
Member
Alex Gerodimos
Alex supports market expansion at Simulytic, an insurtech startup and member of PAVE Europe that provides autonomous vehicle deployment risk scores to the insurance industry. In his 25 years of experience, he has led technical and commercial teams across Europe and North America, focussing on modelling the mobility of people and goods for various B2B technology startups.
Andreas Augsten
Head of Product Planning
Andreas Augsten
Andreas Augsten holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University Darmstadt (Germany). In the early days of in-car navigation systems, Andreas was engaged in launching one of the first systems in European market while he also has many years of experience in car audio products. Since 2010 he is working at Mobis Technical Center Europe in multiple roles covering Infotainment, ADAS, Autonomous Driving and required sensors. Currently, Andreas is leading product planning and technology strategy topics in Europe focusing on realizing innovations for vehicle automation and future mobility.
Igor Ivanov
Director of Technologies
Igor Ivanov
Holding a Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Experienced engineer and leader, with a demonstrated history of solving complex problems in various fields including Image Processing and Computer Vision, utilizing all the available techniques- from classic to Deep Learning.
Duong Van Nguyen
Deputy CEO
Duong Van Nguyen
Dr. Duong-Van Nguyen is the Deputy CEO in charge of ADAS/AD at Vinfast, and was formerly Head of ADAS at Panasonic Automotive Systems Europe (PASEU) based in Germany. He is recognized as the Senior IEEE, and a member of IEEE standard P2020.
Dr. Nguyen has been a pioneer and leading scientist in the fields of ADAS, Autonomous Driving, Robotics & Machine Learning, where he has published 1 book, 9 patents and a number of journals and conference papers. His research group at Panasonic demonstrated the world-first level 4-autonomous parking at ITS World Congress 2021, and the state-of-the art of 3D Sensing and Parking in CES 2020, CES 2021, and CES 2022.
Dr. Nguyen and his PASEU team received three Research and Innovation Grants CARAMEL (2019), CPSoSAware (2020), and TRUSTEE(2022) by the European Research Council.
Before, he worked as R&D Manager at Hyundai Mobis (Germany), and as Research Engineer at Valeo (Ireland), after his Ph.D graduation in Robotics from University of Siegen (Germany, 2009-2013).
Richard Seoane
VP Thermal Business Development
Richard Seoane
Richard Seoane is an accomplished leader with more than 30 years in the automotive industry, currently serving as Vice President of Business Development, Thermal Sensing, Magna Electronics. In his role, he leads the Thermal Business Unit, working collaboratively with various organizations to highlight the importance of thermal sensing in reducing traffic accidents and pedestrian fatalities.
Over the course of his career, Seoane has held different roles in Engineering, Operations, and General Management for vision cameras and driver monitoring systems at several companies in various countries. In these roles, he was responsible for quality, process optimization and core engineering.
Seoane holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Orleans, USA. Seoane currently resides in Santa Barbara, California.
Ian Montandon
Co-Founder
Ian Montandon
Ian has nearly 40 years of experience in the Electronics Industry, initially as an IC Design Engineer, then moving into roles in Applications Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales and Business Development. Between 2002 and 2012 he was responsible for OmniVision Technologies European CMOS Image Sensor business, from the very start of the camera phone and automotive camera businesses. Between 2012 and 2022, Ian worked in global sales and business development for Valeo, the world’s 4th-largest ADAS automotive supplier. Since the end of 2022, Ian has been running INET Europe, a consultancy and rep company.
Lionel Bennes
Senior Product Manager
Lionel Bennes
Lionel Bennes, PhD, serves as Senior Product Manager for AVxcelerate products at Ansys. Lionel has more than 10 years of experience in Optical and Real Time simulation, mainly in the Automotive and A&D fields. He has overseen the design and development of Headlamp and Sensors products, leveraging a unique combination of real time rendering techniques combined with physics based optical simulations.
Miquel Testar
Product Lead ADAS
Miquel Testar
ADAS product innovation professional with 15+ years background in the sensing space.
Experience leading both engineering teams and business strategy, and managing growth initiatives from the Bay Area for L4 players as well as from Germany for L2-L3 solutions with established OEMs.
Pier Paolo Porta
Marketing Director
Pier Paolo Porta
Pier Paolo Porta is responsible for Ambarella’s Automotive European Business Unit as well as stereovision-related product marketing. In July 2005, he received the Dr. Ing. (Master) degree in Electronic Engineering from Università di Parma, Italy. In 2005 he also joined VisLab, the Artificial Vision research group at the Università di Parma, where he earned a PhD in Information Technology in 2010. In 2009, Porta was one of the founding associates of VisLab srl, and from 2010 he was part of the Board of Governors of the company until it was acquired by Ambarella in 2015. Porta’s background is in autonomous driving and ADAS, and he is focused on stereovision, sensor fusion, and traffic sign recognition.
Dr Elliot London
Simulation Performance Engineer
Dr Elliot London
Simulation Performance Engineer at rFpro, focusing on the verification and validation of simulation and sensing software.
PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, along with an MSc by Research in Laser Physics and BSc in Physics from Swansea University.
Previously, I worked as a Fibre Laser Engineer at SPI Lasers UK, where I contributed to the testing and development of high-power CW fibre laser systems.
Prof. Alexander Braun
Professor of Physics
Prof. Alexander Braun
Professor of Physics and Optics. Expert in automotive image quality. 25 years of experience with optical technologies of all flavours, from fundamental quantum optics research to optical quality questions arising during assembly of 100.000 cameras per year. I also research explainable AI methods to further investigate the link between optical quality, image quality and the impact on AI explainability.
Sergio Fernandez
Expert in LiDAR Algorithms
Sergio Fernandez
I pursued my MsC in telecommunications in Sevilla (Spain). After finishing an european holded PhD in computer vision, I started my contact with LiDAR technologies and shortly after joined started at VALEO within the LiDAR 1st generation SW team, where I worked as algorithm developer and algorithm architect. I am VALEO expert in LiDAR technology since 2020 and currently team lead for SCALA3 LiDAR perception algorithms.
Anas Chalak
Market and Technology Analyst - Imaging
Anas Chalak
Anas Chalak is Technology & Market analyst, Imaging, at Yole Group. He is a member of the Imaging & Display team, within the More than Moore activities. Anas contributes on a day-to-day basis to follow imaging technology activity to provide market and technology analysis, as well as contributing to the production of relevant reports and projects. Previously, Anas carried out research focusing on integrated mid-infrared photonics. Later, he worked as a research engineer on the optical optimization of a 3D FMCW lidar system in CEA-Leti, France. Anas obtained a Master’s in Nanoscale Engineering from École Centrale de Lyon, France.
Pierrick Boulay
Senior Analyst - Automotive Semiconductor
Pierrick Boulay
Pierrick Boulay is Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Automotive Semiconductor at Yole Group.
He works in the fields of solid-state lighting and lighting systems, carrying out technical, economic, and marketing analyses. In addition, he leads the automotive activities within the company.
Pierrick has authored several reports and custom analyses on topics such as automotive lighting, LiDAR, sensing for ADAS vehicles, and VCSELs.
Norman Koren
Founder & CTO
Norman Koren
Norman Koren became interested in photography while growing up near the George Eastman House photographic museum in Rochester, NY. He received his BA in physics from Brown University (1965) and his Masters in physics from Wayne State University (1969). He worked in the computer storage industry simulating digital magnetic recording systems and channels for disk and tape drives from 1967-2001. He founded Imatest LLC in 2003 to develop software and test charts to measure the quality of digital imaging systems.
John Hong
CEO
John Hong
Co-founder and CEO of Obsidian Sensors. John is an electrical engineer with expertise in optics, semiconductors, microwave to terahertz systems and systems engineering and has held leadership posts at Qualcomm, Jet Propulsion Labs (NASA) and Rockwell. John also served as adjunct professor at Caltech and UCSD. John graduated from MIT with a BS and Caltech with a PhD, both in electrical engineering.
Christian Weber
Head of Advanced Engineering ADAS
Christian Weber
Christian Weber is a seasoned automotive industry professional with over three decades of experience in engineering and leadership roles. He is currently Project House Director for Continental’s Autonomous Mobility business area, leading innovative projects in autonomous driving technologies. Previously, as Global Director, he led Continental’s Advanced Engineering ADAS activities, enhancing vehicle safety and automation. Before joining Continental in 2017, he held engineering and program management roles at Magna Electronics and Harman/Becker Automotive Systems. His entire professional career has focused on laying the groundwork for future autonomous driving functionalities and realizing automotive engineering projects on a global scale.
Josh Wreford
Product Manager
Josh Wreford
Josh has a BSc in Electronic Engineering and an MSc in Space Engineering from the University of Surrey. During his last year of studies Josh joined the universities Formula Student team and quickly developed interest in the automotive sector. This lead to a job working at McLaren automotive as a gearbox control engineer. Simulation became an integral part of his job as it allowed him to rapidly develop and test the control software in the most efficient way. Driven by his passion for simulation, he joined rFpro and is now the Product Manager for AV Elevate, a fully integrated simulation solution designed for ADAS and AV development.
James Hodgson
Research Director
James Hodgson
James Hodgson, Research Director at ABI Research, conducts research related to the field of autonomous driving and smart mobility, with a focus primarily on quantitative forecasting and analysis in the areas of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), autonomous driving, cooperative mobility and connected infotainment.
Gulwinder Randhawa
Technical Staff
Gulwinder Randhawa
Gulwinder Randhawa is a Member of Technical Staff at onsemi based in UK, covering field applications of automotive Tier-1s & OEMs for supporting and developing cuttings edge CMOS imaging systems to facilitate autonomous driving at different levels.
He has B.Eng. degree in Electronics & Communications from the University of Nagpur, India and an MTech. degree in Digital Electronics from University of Hertfordshire in the UK.
Gulwinder has over seventeen years of experience working on camera systems, including CMOS image sensors, HDR, optics, image/video signal processing pipelines, architectures, characterization and camera drivers in R&D and Applications roles at onsemi, Aptina Imaging, Access-IS & Nokia.
Leandro Di Bella
PHD Researcher / Electrical Engineer
Leandro Di Bella
Leandro Di Bella is a 1st year PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, as part of the ETRO group. His research is centered on smart mobility. More specifically, he is focusing on AI algorithm and computer vision, including vehicle pose estimation, tracking and vision graph-based traffic understanding for Distributed Intelligent transportation systems.
Paul Schouten
Design Team Lead
Paul Schouten
Paul Schouten is a UX designer passionate about making new technologies intuitive to understand & experience by humans. His aim is to develop natural user experiences that make technology integrate into the lives of humans, so that they become invisible while at the same time enriching people’s lives.
At TomTom, Paul leads the UX concepts team, which focuses on future user interactions & technologies and make them tangible by building many prototypes in order to validate assumptions and set out north stars for future products.
Paul holds a Master degree in Industrial Design from Delft University of Technology with a specialisation in Automotive Design. Throughout his career he worked with many global automotive OEMs.
Lu Ren
Systems Engineering Manager
Lu Ren
Lu Ren, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto, is the lead of the systems engineering team at ASMPT AEi. With specialization in ADAS camera alignment and testing, Dr. Ren has actively led critical customer projects and spearheaded the design and development of optical target module designs for the past decade. His expertise extends to visible-NIR and long-wave infrared (LWIR)target projectors. Notably, Dr. Ren holds a patent for his exceptional optical target module design.
Gabriel Bowers
Sr. Principal Architect – Imaging
Gabriel Bowers
Gabriel joined Mobileye in 2018 where leads both the image path development and the planning of future image sensors at Mobileye. He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria (2001) and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara (2012).
Felix Heide
Head of Artificial Intelligence
Felix Heide
Felix Heide is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University, Head of AI at Torc Robotics, and Founder self-driving vehicle startup Algolux (now part of Diamler Trucks and Torc Robotics). He is researching the theory and application of computational imaging and computer vision systems. Exploring imaging, vision, and display systems end-to-end, Felix’s work lies at the intersection of optics, machine learning, optimization, computer graphics, and computer vision. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.
Agish George
Chapter Lead - Functional Safety, Jaguar Land Rover
Agish George
Agish has spent the last couple of decades in various challenging engineering and leadership roles in Automotive and Robotics. The first 14 years of his career in various engineering roles across various global locations at Bosch. He has worked on various interesting projects including autonomous driving, over the air updates, home robotics etc. He has contributed to the development of various safety standards like UL 3300 and UL 4600 and has been a speaker at SAE and IEEE. In his current role he is responsible for the engineering of functionally safe HW and SW for ADAS platforms.
Ariel Sobelman
SVP, Corporate Development
Ariel Sobelman
Dr. Ariel Sobelman is a 25 year veteran of the semiconductor industry with vast experience in standardization. He Is a senior VP at Valens semiconductor as well as a Senior Researcher at Tel Aviv University, focusing on international technology policy. Dr. sobelman served as president of the HDBaseT Alliance for 10 years and has been a leading contributor to the MIPI APhy standards development. In 2024 he published a book on technology and semiconductor strategy.
Gregor Sievers
Product Manager ESI Unit