19:00 - 22:00 | WARM-UP
Rooftop bar (inside & outside) at Maritim Hotel | Ingolstadt
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MARCH 26TH
07:30
Registration & Morning Coffee
08:30
Welcoming Remarks
Team CAR & VAIVA
Dirk Wollschläger
Director
CAR – Center for Automotive Research
Ole Harms
Chief Executive Officer
VAIVA
Beatrix Keim
Director
CAR – Center for Automotive Research
08:40
No Slow Lane: AI’s Acceleration Year for Automotive
Ole Harms
Chief Executive Officer
VAIVA
09:00
tba.
Enrico Salvatori
Senior Vice President & President
Qualcomm Europe
09:15
Connected Digital Vehicle – Shaping the Future of Mobility
Dr. Celine Laurent-Winter
Vice President Connect Vehicle Platforms
BMW
09:35
How Edge Native High Performance AI and SoCs Transform How We Interact With Cars
Dr. Holger R. Scholl
Vice President Sales Engineering & Product Marketing
Cerence
Dr. Stephan Hönle
Vice President Automotive Strategy and Operations
SiMa.ai
9:55
tbd.
Remco Timmer
Senior Vice President Product & Technology
HERE Technologies
10:15
Panel Discussion
moderated by: Dirk Wollschläger and Ole Harms
Giuseppe Serio
VP Market Development
Upstream
10:35
Break
11:05
How AI is disrupting the way we think Software (and Products)
Dr. Christof Horn
Global Lead SW Defined Vehicle
Accenture
11:20
tba.
Thomas Lukaszewicz
Chief Engineer Advance Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS) Europe
Ford
11:35
Trusted AI in Automotive Industry: How Agentic AI drives mobility through intelligent Automation
Salvatore Romeo
Director Automation Software
IBM
11:50
The Next Developer Workplace: Achieving Productivity, Scaling AI
Patricia Rennert
Head of Processes, Methods and Tools
CARIAD
12:10
Autonomy in Agriculture – AI as an Enabler beyond Driving and Steering
Christian Poschmann
Senior Vice President Global Engineering Technology
CLAAS
12:30
Panel Discussion
moderated by: Dirk Wollschläger and Accenture
Augustin Friedel
Senior Manager SDV
MHP
12:50
Lunch Break
13:50
Software-Defined Vehicles: Today and the vision for the future
Augustin Friedel
Associated Partner
MHP – A Porsche Company
14:05
AI Enabled Shift to Software Driven Engineering
Rahul Prathap
Vice President
Tata Technologies
Hanno Wolff
Executive Director of Automotive Business Development
Synopsys
14:20
Perfect Match – AI Meets ECU Configuration as Code
Marco Wierer
Senior Manager Software Development
Vector
14:30
From Buzzword to Imperative: AI Reinvents Automotive Cybersecurity
Giuseppe Serio
Vice President Market Development
Upstream Security
14:50
Panel Discussion
moderated by: Dirk Wollschläger and Augustin Friedel
Michaela Fleischer
Vice President, Business Development Executive Automotive
Kyndryl Deutschland
15:10
Break
15:40
Closing the Looming Automotive Technology Gap Through AI, Open Source, and Collaboration
Ahsan Shamim
Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager
Red Hat
15:55
Driving the Future: How AI, Storage-Agnostic Data Platforms and leading Storage Solutions Are Powering the Next Generation of Automotive Innovation
Harald Ruckriegel
Area Vice President, Systems Engineering, Strategic Accounts EMEA
Pure Storage
Jan Hoscan
Vice President Head of Industrial
Pure Storage
16:10
From Imperative to Impact: Delivering Mission Critical AI for Automotive
Dr. Boris Nowak
Consulting Partner and Automotive Sector Leader
Kyndryl
Dr. Frank Becker
Consulting Partner and Data & AI
Kyndryl
16:25
Panel Discussion
moderated by: Augustin Friedel
Dr. Stefan Poledna
CTO & Co-Founder
TTTech Auto
16:40
Break
17:10
AI and Quantum
Dr. Alessandro Curioni
Vice President Europe and Africa
IBM Fellow & Global Research VP
IBM
17:25
Panel Discussion: Agentic AI / Agentic Enterprise
moderated by: Sarwant Singh, President MarketsandMarkets
Dr. Alessandro Curioni
Vice President Europe and Africa
IBM Fellow & Global Research VP
IBM
Dr. Martin Hofmann
Board Advisor, ex EVP and Group CIO,
Volkswagen
Dr. Rene Deist
CDO/CIO
EnBW
Sarwant Singh
President & CCO – EMEA
Markets and Markets
17:55
Car IT meets EU AI regulation – innovation with the handbrake on?
Thomas Kahl
Lawyer
Taylor Wessing
Special Guests
18:15
Presentations and Panel Discussions Day 1
18:25
Break - Finger Food
19:25
Discussion
Special Guest
19:35
Fireside Chat
Dr. Mario De Felice
VP SW Engineering & Digital Vehicle Platforms
Audi AG
Christoph Hartung
President Cross-Domain Computing Solutions Bosch Mobility
BOSCH
Ole Harms
CEO
VAIVA
20:05
Evening Get-Together & Networking
22:00
End of Day 1
08:15
Welcoming Remarks & Review Day 1
Dirk Wollschläger
Director
CAR – Center for Automotive Research
Ole Harms
Chief Executive Officer
VAIVA
Augustin Friedel
Associated Partner
MHP – A Porsche Company
08:30
Die neue Antriebskraft: Wie KI Autoherstellung und Kundenerlebnis transformiert
Florian Kraft
Chief Executive Officer
Renault Germany
08:50
Vehicle Data as a New Profit Center
Phil Klaack
Head of Communication
Instavalo
Kaan Ernst Güner
Head of Sales
Instavalo
09:10
AI-Enhanced User Experience
Werner Koestler
Executive Officer Europe and Americas Automotive Electronics Division
Pioneer Corporation
09:25
How to build a software defined company
Markus Rettstatt
Vice President Software Defined Car
Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
09:45
Panel Discussion
moderated by: Dirk Wollschläger
Arndt Hüsges
Chief Executive Officer & Founder Hüsges Group and Founder
Instavalo
Werner Koestler
Executive Officer Europe and Americas Automotive Electronics Division
Pioneer Corporation
10:05
Break
10:35
tbd.
tbd.
10:50
AI-Driven In-Cabin Simulation
Dr. Matthias Haringer
Principal Virtual Development
VAIVA
11:05
Best Practices of an AI-infused Company
Timo Schreiber
Managing Director
e.solutions
11:25
tbd.
tbd.
11:40
Large Industry Models: Accelerating the Shift to Software-Defined and Autonomous Mobility
Dr.-Ing. Bassem Hassan
Senior Director – Core Industries (Aerospace, Defense, Transportation & Mobility)
ECAL
11:55
Panel Discussion
moderated by: Dirk Wollschläger
Hans Adlkofer
Senior Vice President, Automotive Systems
Infineon Technologies AG
12:15
Break
13:00
tbd.
Poorab Samrah
Senior Vice President Infotainment and Interior Interaction
Audi AG
13:20
tbd.
tbd.
13:35
tbd.
tbd.
13:50
tbd.
tbd.
14:10
Closing remarks
14:25
End