Dr. Benazouz Bradaï is a R&I Director and Master Expert in Autonomous Driving at Valeo.  He is leading Autonomous Driving Research and Innovation at Valeo with several major scientific and industrial contributions in ADAS and Autonomous Driving.

He holds a PhD degree in Automatic Control in 2007 from Haute Alsace University in France.

His expertise and research interest includes multi-sensors fusion, precise localization and mapping and system architecture.

He is a member of different professional associations like IEEE, ADASIS Forum, SENSORIS Consortium, SAE and SIA "Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile" as an ADAS/AD Experts Community member.

Cicero S. Vaucher received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente in 2001. He was with Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven from 1990 to 2006, when he joined NXP Semiconductors. He is presently a Fellow and an Automotive Radar Product Architect with the ADAS Product Line. He is also a part-time professor at TU Delft, working on mmWave Front-ends.

Dr. Mert Buyukkopru, born in 1990 in Izmir, Turkey, holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Ege University and a PhD from Bursa Technical University. He has published articles on semi-active suspension control, vehicle mass estimation, virtual sensors. Currently, he works as system function leader at Groupe Renault, focusing on vehicle dynamics, ride and handling simulations and control system design for vertical motion control with semi-active dampers and active suspensions.

Tarik Souibes holds a master's degree in physics and graduated from an engineering school with a specialization in materials dedicated to microelectronics. He joined ST in 1998 as a technical marketing engineer. With more than 26 years of experience at the company, Tarik has held various roles and responsibilities, dealing with a wide range of products including power, analog, and sensors. Today, Tarik is responsible for product marketing for sensors within the ST MEMS Sub-Group.

Francesco holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering and PhD degree in radar system and remote sensing, both from University of Pisa, Italy. He holds about 20 patents and more than hundreds of scientific publications on the topic.

Nils Kaiser is an experienced professional in the field of automotive cybersecurity. His current interests are in AI influence on cybersecurity, software defined vehicles and the technical impact of new regulations like Cyber Resilience Act. With 3 years as a Product Manager in the automation of construction and agricultural machinery, Nils has a strong foundation in automation technologies. As a project lead for level 5 on-road automation, Nils has successfully managed complex projects aimed at achieving full automation.

Matthias Strauß joined Continental in 2005 as Project Lead Advanced Engineering. Starting in the field of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, the first contact with AI based Computer Vision was made. The scope of his projects changed more and more in the direction of Automated Driving. Based on the experience gained by his team in the EU funded project HAVEit, the “Nevada License For Autonomous Cars” was granted to Continental in 2012. After several projects focusing on the highway use case, Matthias became technical lead engineer in Continental’s CUbE project in 2016. Being fascinated by the urban use case of autonomous driving, he pushed the technical limits further in his roles as Release Train Architect and Product Owner for the Companion Premium Urban Challenges vehicle. With the uprising cooperation of Continental and Aurora, Matthias started to transfer his knowledge into the Project in his current role of a Functional Test Owner. Enhancing Processes to cover a L4 application and supporting the evolvement of a Test Strategy.

Eric Aguilar is a visionary leader in advanced sensor systems for complex applications such as robotics and autonomous platforms.

His expertise includes leading teams at Tesla, where he managed a crew of 300 engineers on the firmware for Model 3. At X, he spearheaded the development of Google Project Wing, an autonomous drone delivery service.

He has also led sensor integration at Argo AI. Previously, he steered product development for a sensor company that was later acquired by Google for $85M. The speaker's educational background includes a BS in Electrical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University.

Mahabir brings over 10 years of expertise in automotive and cybersecurity, continuously pushing the boundaries of innovation in these fields. As a published author and an active participant at Cyber Fest in the US, he remains deeply engaged in the latest industry advancements. His passion for knowledge-sharing also extends to academia, where he occasionally lectures on cybersecurity at Lund University, inspiring the next generation of professionals.

Hasan has been working in the automotive industry for more than 10 years, primarily in R&D of the next generation of radar sensors including antennas as well as imaging and signal processing algorithms. He has been at Continental since 2018 and fulfilling various roles besides technical development such as consulting, strategy definition and functional leadership of small but dedicated teams. He was also the project manager of VIVALDI (VIVID) and VorSAFe+, both of which were funded projects.

Dr. Richard Dixon is senior principal analyst at IHS Markit (now a part of S&P Global) responsible for sensors and vehicle architectures in the EE and semiconductor team. His research area is tracking the adoption of semiconductor technology supporting major automotive trends such as electrification, emissions reduction, and autonomy, in addition to assessing the impact of the changing vehicle electronic and electric architecture on the supply chain.

In addition, Richard has led the sensor research output at IHS Markit for over 10 years. He is an expert for all sensors in cars and is tracking at least 150 different applications on a regular basis.

Dr. Łukasz Mirosław, is the High Performance Computing and AI technical specialist at Microsoft Switzerland with 12+ years of experience in HPC domain. He is responsible for

business development and technical pre-sales focusing on manufacturing and automotive enterprises in the EMEA region focusing on AV/ADAS and industrial metaverse scenarios. Founder and co-founder of a few tech startups, former researcher of Swiss, German and Polish research institutions. Author and co-author of several book chapters and publications.

Previously selected by Business Insider as one of the rising stars in the self-driving industry, Mahmoud is currently leading the autonomous driving team at BrightDrive, a self-driving startup focused on the development of level four self-driving platforms for trucks and buses. Mahmoud is a graduate of Alexandria University and currently pursuing his MSc in computer science at Georgia Tech. Mahmoud's main focus is autonomous driving with 7 years' experience in system and software engineering. Mahmoud managed to lead the team to win Dubai self-driving challenge SDC-2023 for L4 autonomous buses in city environment after competing with 27 top industry leaders.

Manuel Gärtner joined STMicroelectronics Munich in 1999 and is Director of Wide bandgap & Electrification for automotive applications. He has worked as a development engineer for smart power products and as a research engineer at the university of Berlin.

He has published over 35 articles and conference speeches on automotive power electronics and holds five different patents.

He is member of the EEHE Scientific Advisory Board, the SIA POWER TRAIN & ELECTRONICS scientific committee for Power Electronics, and he represents STMicroelectronics as principal partner in ECPE.

Arno holds a university degree from TU Ilmenau and gained more than 17 years of experience in the automotive sector. He has held various roles at Tier1s in the area of hardware development and decided to move into the semiconductor industry in 2021, joining Valens Semiconductor as FAE for Europe. He supports customers in successfully integrating next-generation connectivity solutions into their automotive ECUs.