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Chad Durkee

Chad is leading the global Innovation Fueling and Technology Scouting teams to identify and develop meaningful projects that align with the Seating division’s identified priorities to ultimately feed the innovation development cycle with new products and processes. The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job? Chad is passionateRead more

Mike Morrow

Mike Morrow has been working in the automotive seating industry since 1996 in the U.S. and Germany. He is specialized in complete seat and power mechanism development. Currently, he has one year of experience in developing/integrating FORVIA All-In-One sensing technology. He is a Kettering University graduate. The Pop in Your Job – What drives you?Read more

Alexi Schwartzkopff

Overview: With 7+ years of experience in the custom data and SaaS industry, I have worked across organizations to connect innovative products and services to client needs. My work in the automotive space has extended globally from Audi Australia to Volkswagen Singapore to working with BMW out of Germany supporting my clients with data solutionsRead more

Nelly Soudakova

Nelly Soudakova is a General Manager of Innovation Group at Dexerials America Corporation, where she specializes in exploring and implementing future-focused technical advancements within the company to drive new sensing technologies and advanced solutions in various applications and markets. With more than 10 years of experience in the automotive industry, Nelly has contributed to theRead more

Debayan Chakraborty

Debayan is currently working as the Head of UX at Valtech Mobility. His main responsibility involves overlooking the various mobility projects working with different OEMs and supporting the new business team in pitches and ideas from a UX point of view. Debayan specializes in automotive and in-car user experience design and his previous experience includesRead more

David Mitropoulos-Rundus

David Mitropoulos-Rundus is Senior Engineer for User Experience, Usability and Driver Distraction at Hyundai American Technical CenterH since 2014. He is optimizing the user experience for drivers and passengers amid the evolving introduction of functions, devices, and applications that may be integrated in cars, with a focus on multimedia, communications, navigation and other features thatRead more

Frank Kellner

Frank Kellner works as a functional safety expert for Robert Bosch US. He is associated with Bosch for more than 12 years with an overall experience in functional safety engineering of automotive in the area of SW and system development for steering, telematics, driver assistance and automated systems. His functional safety expertise includes hazard analysisRead more

Maen Hammod

Maen Hammod is a Tech Lead for Perception & Prediction at Latitude AI and has over 13 years of experience in this domain.Read more

Audrey Nielot

Audrey Nielot is an ADAS HMI Specialist at Stellantis with over 7 years of experience in the automotive industry.Read more

Stéphane Feron

Engineer in electronic systems, Stéphane started to work at PSA in 2000 in the innovation department. From 2003 to 2010 he was the innovation project leader for HMI devices (Instrument Cluster/ HUD / Display / integrated panel…). Since 2010, he has been in the innovation department and has become the corporate Expert for HMI ArchitectureRead more