13:00
Registration & Lunch Snacks
13:55
Welcoming Remarks
Dirk Wollschläger
Director
CAR – Center for Automotive Research
Prof. Dr. Helena Wisbert
Director
CAR – Center for Automotive Research
Beatrix C. Keim
Director
CAR – Center for Automotive Research
Part I: Gen AI
14:00
We don't know - we don't want - we don't need or: What we can learn about AI from other cultures
Prof. Dr. Claudia Bünte
Professor for Business Administration at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, CEO of Kaiserscholle GmbH
14:20
Generative AI redefining mobility along the value chain
Daniela Rittmeier
Head of Data & AI CoE I Generative AI I Thought Leader
Capgemini
14:35
Software Engineering with Generative AI: Transforming Design, Development and Testing of Automotive Software
Andreas Wittmann
AI Innovation & Predevelopment Lead
CARIAD
14:55
Advancing the future of software-defined mobility in the era of AI
Thomas Dannemann
Senior Director Product Marketing
Qualcomm Germany GmbH
15:10
Coffee Break
15:40
Beyond ChatGPT - What GenAI really means for Automotive
Christian Kick
Executive Partner, Automotive Strategy
IBM
15:55
NIO’s in-car companion NOMI – Increasing safety through AI
Dr. Olga Khryapchenkova
Product Manager for In-Vehicle AI
NIO
16:10
Safeguarding AI for environment recognition for autonomous driving
Pablo Granados
Senior Sales Director-Automotive
LakeFusion
16:25
ZF’s Generative AI Strategy
Dr. René Deist
Chief Digital Officer
ZF Friedrichshafen
16:40
How to use GenAI to solve the biggest challenge of electric vehicles
Christopher Burgahn
CEO & Founder
fronyx
17:00
Closing Congress Day 1
IT Night - Agenda, February 7th
17:45
Trio Merlot | Jazz
18:00
How innovation will be defined in the future
Markus Schäfer
Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Chief Technology Officer, Development & Procurement
18:45
Networking & Fingerfood & Trio Merlot
21:30
End of Evening Event
08:30
Registration
09:00
Transformation in the automotive industry
Dirk Wollschläger
Director
CAR – Center for Automotive Research
Dr. Peter Mertens
Former-Audi and Volvo-Member of the Board, industry veteran, author & advisor
Part II: Cybersecurity
09:30
Driving Data Excellence in the Automotive World - Fujitsu and Veritas at Your Service!
Harald Derbsch
Head of Global Strategic Integrators
Veritas
Rene Hübel
Head of Global Portfolio Management Technical Competence
Fujitsu
09:50
With WARP Speed on the data highway
Sebastian Scherl
Zero Trust Specialist
Cloudflare
10:05
Overview of modern car compromise techniques and methods of protection
Stephan Gerling
Senior Security Researcher ICS CERT
Kaspersky
10:20
Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00
Roadmap to Resilience: SDV Cybersecurity Challenges and Opportunities
William Dalton
Vice President & Managing Director
VicOne Europe
11:15
Panel Discussion with VicOne & Aptiv
William Dalton
Vice President & Managing Director
VicOne Europe
Aurélien Hars
Director SDV Cybersecurity and OTA
11:25
Securing the shift: Embracing cyber risk-based strategies in automotive operations
Dr. Moritz Minzlaff
Head of Security Services
ETAS
Dr. Jan Holle
Head of Offboard Security
ETAS
11:40
The automotive cybersecurity inflection point: shifting to scale and impact
Giuseppe Serio
Vice President Market Development
Upstream Security
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch Break
Part III: Software Defined Vehicle
13:00
What drives the Software Defined Vehicle? A view on Semiconductors for the automotive industry
Peter Fintl
Vice President Technology and Innovation
Capgemini Engineering
13:15
Necessary Shifts in Automotive Software Development
Dr. Christian Gruber
CTO
VAIVA
13:30
How to speed up automotive software development with virtual environments?
Martin Schleicher
SCT, Head of Software Strategy
Continental Automotive
13:40
Are we there yet? Building the SDV
Dr.-Ing. Markus Oertel
Head of Business Development and Sales
Vector
13:55
Demystifying Car Software Architectures
Dr. Gabriel Seiberth
President Europe & Member of the Executive Board
KPIT
14:10
Solving the OEM conundrum — Improving software developer productivity
Jan Becker
CEO
Apex.AI, Inc.
14:25
Open source software is accelerating the development of next-generation Software-defined Vehicles
Harald Ruckriegel
Global Automotive Industry Lead (Software Defined Vehicle) and Chief Technologist Automotive
Red Hat
Damian Barnett
CTO
Luxoft Automotive
14:40
Coffee Break
15:10
Working Together Towards Intelligent Driving
Shan Jiang
Senior Director Solutions & Sales EU, Intelligent Automotive Solutions BU
Huawei
15:25
From Robotaxis to Passenger Cars, Lidar Enters Mass Production Era
Tilman Gasche
Head of Business Development, Europe
Hesai
15:40
The Road to a Trustworthy GNSS Position
Armin Boeshenz
OEM Account Director, Global Segment Management Automotive
u-blox
15:50
The scalable path to L4
Gerhard Steiger
Chairman
Momenta
16:00
Panel Discussion
Dr.-Ing. Markus Oertel
Head of Business Development and Sales
Vector
Jan Becker
CEO
Apex.AI, Inc.
Peter Fintl
Vice President Technology and Innovation
Capgemini Engineering
Giuseppe Serio
Vice President Market Development
Upstream Security
Martin Schleicher
SCT, Head of Software Strategy
Continental Automotive
16:30
Closing Congress Day 2
*to be confirmed