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Kyle Taylor

Kyle is Luxoft’s Director of Regional Solutions and Head of the Americas Technical Office for its Automotive Sector. Kyle uses lateral leadership to align the automotive ecosystem around emerging technologies, creating efficient and sustainable value propositions. Leveraging over 20 years’ experience, Kyle helps to drive Luxoft’s platform approach around the creation of a software definedRead more

Dr. Yan Chang

Yan Chang is a Tech Lead Manager and Software Engineer at Zoox, where she applies planning and machine learning techniques to solve autonomous driving for dense urban environments. She serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions of Transportation Electrification. She holds a Master degree and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University ofRead more

Tarik Bolat

Tarik Bolat is the CEO and Cofounder of GPR, the first and only company to use ground penetrating radar technology to advance safety and performance for advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) technology. Vehicles equipped with Ground Positioning RadarTM are able to localize with centimeter-level accuracy in any condition by mapping andRead more

Eyal Levi

Eyal Levi is the Co-Founder and EVP Business Development & Product at Bright Way Vision, a startup that develops and markets patented GatedVision technology solutions for the automotive industry. He has 15 years’ experience in leadership positions in the automotive and defense industries, with an emphasis on R&D and technology roles in tech companies. EyalRead more

Arunabh Sharma

Arunabh Sharma is a robotics engineer in the self-driving industry for a company called Locomation that’s leading the charge in the autonomous trucking sector. He specializes in perception and robotics infrastructure software but has worked in various other sectors like perception for material handling, VR as well as writing controllers for FPGAs over the pastRead more

Alexander Schmitt

Alexander Schmitt is Head of Speech Technology and is developing the next-generation of #HeyMercedes MBUX Voice Assistant with a team of data scientists, cloud developers and computational linguists. Before that he was project lead for Advanced Engineering of User Experiences working on next-generation UXs for Mercedes-Benz cars and Project Lead for Mercedes-Benz Car’s Speech DialogRead more

Pallavi Gautam

Pallavi Gautam is an Advanced Mobility Experience Designer at General Motors and alumni from ArtCenter College of Design, where she studied Transportation systems and design graduate program. Her 10 years of design experience encompasses UX design, Industrial design and CMF design, spread across India and USA. She works majorly on the future of autonomy andRead more

Harsha Padmanabha

He started his career in developing firmware for Gaming Systems, since then have worked on designing middleware for large casinos, game servers, 2D/3D game engine for slot machines, progressive games etc. The past couple of years lead teams in developing complete media players, HW/SW design , 3D embedded Graphics for Dashboard Clusters in AUtomotive, PrimaryRead more

Todd Masilko

Todd Masilko is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Interaction Design department at ArtCenter College of Design. He is a graduate of ArtCenter’s Product Design department and has taught in the school’s Interaction Design Department since the department’s founding. The Interaction Design curriculum at ArtCenter emphasizes core human centered design methods, tools, processesRead more

Sandy Lipscomb

While a portion of Sandy’s 30-year career was spent in digital CPG, hospitality, and banking, the majority has been dedicated to digital automotive. With multiple OEMs, she’s led cross-functional teams including experience strategy, user research, product design, visual and 3D design, content strategy, copywriting, localization, operations, and business analysis. She has a deep understanding ofRead more