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Maximilian is on a mission to democratize the use of next generation computing, enabling intelligent electronic products of the future. He is the CEO and co-founder of Silexica and has built the company from its beginning in 2014 to become a global leader in software design automation for heterogeneous computing. Silexica now has a teamRead more

Barry Behnken is a 25-year defense/aerospace executive with deep expertise in LiDAR and electro-optics, and extensive experience developing, managing and deploying disruptive imaging technologies for various applications throughout the world.  He served twenty years as a senior physicist and program manager in the U.S. Air Force, including as director of a $1.6B+ space satellite division,Read more

At TTTech Auto, Moritz works on concepts for fail-operational system architectures in the field of autonomous driving. He started as a project engineer at TTTech Auto, working in software and algorithm development and gained comprehensive technological knowledge in software and hardware related to autonomous driving. In his current role as system architect for autonomous driving,Read more

As Director for the Automotive Electronics service, Ian Riches heads a research team covers all aspects of core automotive electronic systems, semiconductors and sensors on a worldwide basis. Ian has always been passionate about cars – his parents joke that he was shouting Ford! Volkswagen! before he said Cat! Dog!. His areas of research includeRead more

Manager in optical sensor technologies. Looking for new partners (industry, universities and others) to start innovative projects. Mostly interested in LiDAR / Time-of-Flight in autonomous driving and safety applications.Read more

Dipl. Ing Jörg Lützner studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham and the RWTH Aachen. After stations at Siemens Semiconductors and Siemens Mobile Phones, he moved to Siemens VDO, now Continental Automotive GmbH in 2005. His was initially responsible for Technology & Innovation for the Business Unit Commercial Vehicles & Aftermarket. He subsequently tookRead more

As co-founder and CTO of Cepton, Dr. Mark McCord leads the development of high performance, low-cost imaging lidar systems. Prior to Cepton, McCord was Director of System Engineering, Advanced Development at KLA-Tencor, where he developed electron beam technologies for etching and imaging silicon chips. Earlier in his career, Mark was an acting associate professor ofRead more

Chuck Brokish is Director of Transportation Business Development at Green Hills Software. He has 30 years of experience in the embedded systems, in areas of mobile wireless, automotive active noise control, infotainment, ADAS, and V2X. He has been working on embedded security for over 20 years. Chuck is a registered Professional Engineer, has been activeRead more

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Ali has 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry specializing in AI, video and vision processors design, he is currently the Director of AI Strategy and principal for NXP’s Autonomous Driving Lab, working on foresight for NXP’s Vision, Deep Learning and AI solutions for Autonomous systems. Prior to joining NXP’s Automotive Microcontrollers and ProcessorsRead more