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Paul Schouten is a UX Designer at TomTom, the leading independent technology specialist, shaping mobility with highly accurate maps, navigation software, real-time traffic information and services. Paul is passionate about mobility facilitated by innovative technologies. Ever since he was young, Paul drew cars for fun, which led him to study industrial design, specializing in automotive.Read more

Stéphane Feron started his career as an Innovation Engineer working in the field of HMI devices in 2000. From 2003 to 2010 he was in charge of an innovation project which conducted the advanced engineering phases for all the new HMI devices for the following vehicles (C5 – 308 – 3008 – C4 – 508Read more

Expert in Artificial Intelligence applied to user experience, multi-agent systems and control of intelligent and distributed systems. Conducts fundamental and applied research from stage zero (initiative and design) to implementation. During the last 10 years, focusing on improving the user experience in the automotive domain. Innovative thinking and approaches to integrate intelligent, agents algorithms inRead more

Dietmar is the co-founder & CEO of mpathy.ai. Dietmar founded mpathy.ai enable the fast-growing market of shared (autonomous) mobility services by providing an operating system that manages the passenger experience in all shared vehicles. Dietmar is a serial product innovator and loves to build and work with highly effective teams. He was previously director forRead more

Erin leads accessibility efforts for May Mobility’s shared autonomous transportation service.  She is passionate about using new technology to improve public health and mobility, and works closely with the disability advocate groups to gather and implement new user features.  Previously, she analyzed real-world emissions data at the Environmental Protection AgencyRead more

Drew Meehan is a Senior UX Designer at TomTom, with a focus on UI design strategy and implementation of in-dash navigation products. He worked on the concept team for the new TomTom Navigation for Automotive product and is a member of the location-technology company’s EV Working Group. Before joining TomTom in 2020, Drew was FounderRead more

Dave is a marketing and business development executive with over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and electronic design automation industries. Most recently he served as Senior Director of Worldwide Strategic Partnerships and Alliances for Xilinx, driving solution and services partnerships across all markets with a focus on computer vision and deep learning. PriorRead more

Soyeon Choi started her automotive industry career at General Motors Korea as a graphic designer. She developed her career in Interaction and GUI design while she was leading GM’s first touch infotainment design development. Her design journey continued to BOLT EV HMI and GUI. After moving to Detroit, She had led the team of interactionRead more

Vienna is a Learning Technologist for the School of Autonomous Systems. In addition to working with students and mentors in the School of AS and maintaining course content, Vienna also manages Carla, Udacity’s self-driving car. Vienna received her BA in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford, where she wrote an award-winning honors thesis on theRead more

Partha Goswami has over twenty-five years of experience in the automotive industry, with a background spanning product development, technology strategy & planning and a variety of business assignments including brand and capital management. He has been working on various facets of technology strategy for the last ten years. He had managed General Motor R&D’s globalRead more