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Frank Wippich is the managing director of gestigon GmbH – a Valeo company. In his 20+years professional work experiences, he designed, tested and managed automotive infotainment and vision products – from initiation to market launch. Before gestigon / Valeo, Frank has worked internationally for Visteon, Panasonic and Blindsight, a computer vision company bought by Amazon.Read more

Vivek Muralidharan is the Principal Innovation and Technology Manager at Business Area Autonomous Mobility in Continental. Before this role, Vivek was the Head of Business Innovation for Passive Safety topics where he led multiple projects on Occupant Monitoring for Health and Safety of vehicle occupants. Vivek also has formerly worked in Industrialization of new cabinRead more

Youngkyung Park is a leader of Vision AI Unit at LG Electronics. He was also a project leader of ADAS front camera project from 2017 to 2021. Now, He has 10+ years’ experience in ADAS camera development including project management, perception development and application development. Currently, he and his team focus on developing robust perceptionRead more

Pedro Almeida is Head of Department Development Occupant Restraint Safety Systems, Steering Wheel, In Cabin Monitoring (EKSR) at Volkswagen AG. He has more than 25 years of professional experience, working in various engineering and management positions in the automotive industry.Read more

Philipp Russ is co-CEO of Simi Reality Motion Systems, a ZF Group company. He leads a team of experts in computer vision and artificial intelligence working on interior monitoring topics with a focus on body perception. Philipp collected more than 15 years of experience in motion capture and biomechanics tech industry, before the company whichRead more

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Dr. Asaf Degani is a Technical Fellow at General Motors R&D. His research focus is on the analysis and design of human-machine interaction with special emphasis on automated and autonomous road vehicles and aircrafts. He supports several major projects at GM concerning automated road vehicles and leads research work on the implications of this technologyRead more

Dr. Michael Schmeja (57) has been working at the Virtual Vehicle Research Center in Graz since 2009 and is currently key researcher in the department NVH & Information Systems. After studying mathematics, Mr. Schmeja earned his doctorate at the Institute of Railway Engineering at the Graz University of Technology. From 1997 – 2009 he heldRead more

– Diploma in in civil engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – PHD in structural mechanics, Multiscale FEA simulations of layered carbon reinforced shell structures, KIT – 2018 becomes part of ZF Group – Passive Safety Systems, System Engineering Core – Since 2021 Integrated Safety – Product Owner: Adaptive in-crash RestraintRead more

Scientist with expertise in Automotive Human Factors, User Centred AI, HMI and Driver States. Research, development and evaluation on UX, usability and acceptance. Federal applications for national and European research programmes. Project planning, project management and development of new competences. He is a Machine savvy and driving simulator and researches what future assistance systems andRead more