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Agenda 2023
DAY 1: MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2023
0830 - 0930 REGISTRATION AND MORNING REFRESHMENTS
0930 - 0940 OPENING ADDRESS
0940 - 1005 THE ROAD TO AUTONOMOUS CARS: TECHNOLOGY, ECOSYSTEM, AND MARKET REVIEW
- Technology in the autonomy domain drives a range of vehicle functionality, from ADAS to AD
- Autonomy content value per vehicle will increase substantially by a factor of 3 from today to 2034
- European requirements mean more ADAS, while China and the USA are pushing into new technologies
Jeremy Carlson
S&P Global Mobility
S&P Global Mobility
1005 - 1010 Q&A SESSION ON MARKET REVIEW OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
1010 - 1035 UNIQUE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE OF ADAS/AD
- An overview of the evaluation of BMW’s ADAS/AD customer functions
- Insights into L2+ systems with hands-off-option up to 80mph
- Roadmap towards L3 Commute Pilot based on ALKS
Simon Fürst
BMW Group
BMW Group
1035 - 1040 Q&A SESSION ON ADAS/AD CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
1040 - 1100 MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREASPONSORED BY TASKING US OPERATIONS, INC.
1100 - 1130 PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE FUTURE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES IN MaaS
- How will the paradigm of vehicle ownership change because of MaaS?
- Will consumers change their behavior so the MaaS market scales massively up?
- What is required for AV companies to reach profitability?
- How would MaaS impact the automotive industry?
Simon Fürst | BMW Group
Matthew Fisher | Zoox, Inc
Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram | MATRICKZ
Christian John | Tier IV North America Inc.
Matthew Fisher | Zoox, Inc
Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram | MATRICKZ
Christian John | Tier IV North America Inc.
1130 - 1155 BRINGING AUTONOMY WITHIN REACH
- Providing technology to deliver the computing performance needed to deploy autonomy
- Offering built-in safety features to help with the safe operation of the vehicles
- Helping overcome the development and deployment of the complex software
Christian John
Tier IV North America Inc.
Tier IV North America Inc.
1155 - 1200 Q&A SESSION ON SUPPORTING AV SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT
1200 - 1330 NETWORKING LUNCH & VISIT THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES USA EXHIBITION
1330 - 1355 DATA MANAGEMENT AND AI - OUTLOOK IN ADAS/AD/AV
- All major OEMs and tier-1 auto manufacturers are implementing/testing AD facilities
- Case studies on real-time sensors, big data computing, data storage, and data archiving are integrated into today's AD systems
- Investigation of AI industry technology that every day is affecting us all with next generation Data Fabric platforms
Christopher Maestas
IBM
IBM
1355 - 1400 Q&A SESSION ON DATA MANAGEMENT AND AI IN AD
1400 - 1425 OPTIMIZING DATA COLLECTIONS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING
- Data has become the new oil for improving perception algorithms
- Methods to deal with the petabytes of data collected regularly by a fleet of vehicles
- Methods and algorithms to leverage that data to create stronger and robust perception models
Jose Alvarez
NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation
1425 - 1430 Q&A SESSION ON AV DATA COLLECTION INNOVATIONS
1430 - 1455 THE ROLE OF THE DIGITAL TWIN IN AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY INITIATIVES
- Accelerate machine learning development with photorealistic and diverse synthetic data
- Ensure safety and performance excellence for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)
- Using high-fidelity simulation in the sensor-suite initial procurement process
- Achieve regulatory (MOT) certification of autonomous vehicles (AVs) for commercial deployment
Shay Rootman
Cognata
Cognata
1455 - 1500 Q&A SESSION ON MOBILITY DIGITAL TWIN
1500 - 1530 AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREA
1530 - 1555 HUMAN-CENTRIC APPROACH TO SAFE DEPLOYMENT OF AV
- Accidents involving Safety Driver driven AVs are predominantly due to the oversight of human cognitive ability
- Human-Centric development, V&V in the deployment of AV is the key to learning and reacting to such incidents
- Piecewise value proposition on the 'Total Cost of Ownership' in the Robotaxi business
Vivetha Natterjee
China Euro Vehicle Technology
China Euro Vehicle Technology
1555 - 1600 Q&A SESSION ON HUMAN-CENTRIC AV DEVELOPMENT
1600 - 1625 MEASURE OF AV SAFETY: ARE EXISTING MEASURES GOOD ENOUGH?
- Functional safety testing of ML-based control stacks doesn't provide a quantitative measurement of safety
- Existing measures and methods lack many key characteristics needed to effectively measure safety
- Deploying a new quantitative measure of safe operations in traffic based on the kinematics of traffic objects
Erik Antonsson
Streetscope, Inc.
Streetscope, Inc.
1625 - 1630 Q&A SESSION ON AV SAFETY MEASURES
1630 - 1655 SAFETY AND SECURITY IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES: HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH?
- How safety and security are different in autonomous vehicles
- The biggest challenge in autonomous vehicles is the so-called unknown unknown
- Both ISO and SAE have been working to take on ISO26262 to incorporate AV scenarios
Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram
Matrickz
Matrickz
1655 - 1700 Q&A SESSION ON SAFETY AND SECURITY IN AV
1700 - 1725 ENABLING AUTOMOTIVE CLOUD SERVICE BUSINESS
- Challenges of automotive cloud services development and business scaling
- Key learnings on automotive cloud services
- Approach of a 3-sided automotive cloud platform
Bernd Graef
ETAS Inc
ETAS Inc
1725 - 1730 Q&A SESSION ON AUTOMOTIVE CLOUD SERVICES
1730 - 1830 NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY 2: TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2023
0900 - 0930 MORNING REFRESHMENTS
0930 - 0940 OPENING ADDRESS
0940 - 1005 CREATING SYNERGIES WITH SENSOR FUSION ON THE ROAD TO AUTONOMOUS DRIVING
- Sensor fusion creates a synergy where the strengths of one sensor compensate for the weaknesses of other
- With increasing levels of ADAS and eventually full autonomy, sensor fusion will play an essential role
- Limitations with current sensor technologies and vehicle architectures for sensor fusion to become a reality
John Marshall
Valens Semiconductor
Valens Semiconductor
1005 - 1010 Q&A SESSION ON THE CHALLENGES IN SENSOR FUSION
1010 - 1035 SCALING DIGITAL MAPS ACROSS ADAS USE CASES
- There is an opportunity to leverage crowdsourced digital maps to enable up to L3 on all roads
- To address this, the main mapping challenge to overcome is aligning and curating diverse sources
- Case study on futuristic maps and which use cases they have addressed
Vincent Demuynck
TomTom Automotive North America
TomTom Automotive North America
1035 - 1040 Q&A SESSION ON HD DIGITAL MAPS THROUGH CROWDSOURCING FOR AD
1040 - 1100 MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREASPONSORED BY PRATT MILLER
1100 - 1125 ADVANCEMENTS IN AD FOR A GROWING NUMBER OF MARKETS AND APPLICATIONS
- Project updates on solutions in the energy sector for solar farm installations utilizing ADS
- Project updates on High Definition forward terrain sensing for off-road ADS
- Off-road platforms and AD systems for tracked and wheeled defense, logistics, and airports
- Updates from the Indy Autonomous Challenge autonomous high-speed racing
Christopher Andrews
Pratt Miller
Pratt Miller
1125 - 1130 Q&A SESSION ON AV TECHNOLOGY IN THE NON-PASSENGER SEGMENT
1130 - 1155 SOFTWARE-DEFINED SUCCESS: THE NEXT GENERATION OF AUTOMOTIVE LIDAR
- Adaptive, software-defined LiDAR, which puts intelligence inside the sensor
- Why OEMs need software-defined components to fully deploy revenue-generating features
- How tomorrow's car will emulate today's smartphone, shifting customer expectations
Mrinal Sood
AEye, Inc.
AEye, Inc.
1155 - 1200 Q&A SESSION ON SOFTWARE-DEFINED LIDAR
1200 - 1225 PANTOMIME – SKELETON-BASED GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR AV
- Challenges at construction and accident sites for AVs to understand the actions of traffic authorities
- Overview of the methods for imaging dataset collections and annotations
- Understanding performance benefits and limitations of the system
Jagdish Bhanushali
Valeo
Valeo
1225 - 1230 Q&A SESSION ON TRAFFIC SENSING VIA PANTOMIME
1230 - 1245 FEEDBACK & RAFFLE DRAW
1245 - 1400 NETWORKING LUNCH
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