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Anya Ernest is Principal Engineer at Polestar and leads the Innovation team within the connected experience. Anya joined the company in 2018, and she is widely regarded as a force to be reckoned with when it comes to building strong teams and driving innovation. Anya’s work focuses on creating meaningful user experiences and digital servicesRead more

Gary Atkinson joined The Singing Machine Company, Inc. in January 2008 and has served as Chief Executive Officer since May 2012. Under his leadership, the company has embraced double-digit growth, strategic innovation, profitability, and brand evolution, consistently bringing the joy of karaoke to millions of households worldwide. With over a decade of dedicated stewardship, GaryRead more

John Derkacz is a senior application engineer responsible for designing, developing and installing software solutions at Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America (MEAA). During his tenure at MEAA, he has designed and implemented new systems and features, as well as modified and maintained existing systems to continually improve business technology. Derkacz has more than eight years ofRead more

Chaitanya Shinde is an experienced Autonomous Driving Car and Robotics Engineer with a demonstrated history of 8+ years of working in the automotive and robotics industry. He currently works as a Senior Systems engineer focused on AV Safety at Cruise and is responsible for system safety and architecture of the L4 Robotaxi. In the past,Read more

John Derkacz is a senior application engineer responsible for designing, developing and installing software solutions at Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America (MEAA). During his tenure at MEAA, he has designed and implemented new systems and features, as well as modified and maintained existing systems to continually improve business technology. Derkacz has more than eight years ofRead more

Amey Karnik is a Technical Expert in Control Systems and Perception Algorithms development, with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive industry and academia. He has 15 years of experience in using systems theory and data analysis to drive technology development with focus on Control Systems Design. Amey joined Ford Motor Company in 2007Read more

Quresh Sutarwala serves as Systems Engineering Lead for Systems Verification and Validation at Kodiak Robotics. Quresh is responsible for building out the V&V framework, including evaluation of the Kodiak Driver and platform. Prior to Kodiak, Quresh served as the Head of Hardware Systems engineering at Nuro, where he led the work to build a fullyRead more

For many years, Kholoud Hatem has been noteworthy expert in functional safety, currently, she works with Dana Incorporate as a Manager functional safety and subject matter expert, prior to that she worked with Hella as a systems engineer, functional safety and cybersecurity manager, then she joined Veoneer as a functional safety and cybersecurity lead, additionalRead more

Shivam Gautam is a Staff Software Engineer at Latitude AI and leads the perception model development team. He has previously worked on cutting-edge learned perception models at self-driving teams during his time at Uber ATG, Aurora, and Argo AI and has published several state-of-the-art papers and patents in the field of LiDAR-based perception, tracking, andRead more

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