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Arianne Walker is the chief evangelist for Alexa Auto at Amazon, where she helps educate automakers and device makers about voice.   Prior to that, she was head of automotive industry strategy at Oracle Data Cloud where she helped automotive marketers discover and implement the best possible audience strategies for their marketing efforts.  Her automotive backgroundRead more

Kyle Davis is a Senior Analyst for Vehicle Experience and Connected Car at IHS Markit focusing on the North American market. His main areas of focus are, Center Stack Displays, Instrument Clusters, Head-Up Displays, Headunit, and Telematics . Additionally he researches other methods that impacts the user’s experience, such as Over-The-Air updates, Virtual Personal Assistants,Read more

Dave has made his career designing products to fit people. He has designed physical, visual, and auditory user interfaces for hand-helds, kiosks, web sites, production machines, and automobiles, and has conducted user research in the lab, on the web, in the field, in cars, and in the homes of consumers. Dave has worked for aRead more

I currently work for Toyota InfoTechnology Labs (ITC) on research for networked collaborative vehicle driver systems including those for infotainment, big data and autonomous data sensor networks. I also seek to help those wishing to develop sophisticated algorithms and systems for recognition, predictive signal detection, data mining signal processing algorithms and systems for automotive, medical,Read more

Car Multimedia UX Analyst focusing on current and future automotive HMI & UX trends. In his role, he provides global leadership with insights regarding new market trends specifically focused on in-vehicle technology. Technology development at CM couples future HMI possibilities with end-user experiences. The research and insights provides support to the upcoming innovation projects inRead more

I am an Expert for the Auto Electronics Industry with a special focus on Connected Car Modules and Future IVI/ ADAS/ Autonomous Vehicle Domain Controllers. Strong automotive electronics leader with 20 years’ experience in Infotainment, Cockpit, ADAS and Electric Vehicle modules. Led global teams to deliver in-house built-to-print HW design and SW platforms resulting in MEGARead more

Bob Duffy is a successful technology executive that has led initiatives that have launched more than a dozen new ventures over his thirty-year career in the software industry. Bob currently leads People Tech Group’s Human Factors team focused on delivering next generation in-vehicle driver experiences. He also heads the Automotive Center of the Future, whichRead more

A 20 year veteran of the Music Metadata industry, Allen Schrott is leading Xperi’s efforts to bring intuitive discovery, cross-platform integration, and delightful user-focused experiences to the connected car, and to all of Xperi’s partners in the Music ecosystem.Read more

Evan Bartlik is a Eggplant Software Solutions Architect – Electronic Industrial Solutions GroupRead more

Olaf Preissner is an expert in designing, developing and leading complex interdisciplinary user experience projects. Olaf leads the interdisciplinary UX/UI design team as Vice President UX/UI automotive. Beginning in 2012, Olaf has been responsible for all of Luxoft’s UX/UI automotive projects across its many locations around the globe including China. He focuses on developing state-of-the-artRead more