Highlights of the Program

2 days business program:

Learn from real-world case studies by industry leaders.

SHOWCASING INNOVATION:

Discover the latest technology and techniques from across the industry.

leaders talk:

Hear from top-level experts about how to stay ahead in a fast-changing industry.

MULTIPLE STREAMS:

A business program that is multi-disciplinary, giving you a broad view of the industry.

SMART TECHNOLOGIES:

Explore the latest smart and AI-driven solutions, and see how they can be used in your business.

roundtable discussion:

Join talks with industry peers. Share ideas, make connections, and find new partners.

Program

DAY 1 :
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026
08:00 - 08:50
REGISTRATION & MORNING REFRESHMENTS
08:50 - 09:00
OPENING ADDRESS
09:00 - 09:25
CONTENT-AWARE PLATFORMS FOR SCALABLE AV DEVELOPMENT
Christopher Maestas
IBM

Christopher Maestas

IBM

  • Leveraging AI data infrastructures to accelerate AV software development cycles
  • Integrating sensors, maps, telematics, and navigation into unified AI pipelines
  • Addressing data integrity, analysis, and collaboration in data-driven AV systems
09:25 - 09:30
Q&A SESSION ON BUILDING DATA PLATFORMS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING
09:30 - 09:55
INSURANCE COVERAGE GAPS IN THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE INDUSTRY
Carlton Wilde III
Bracewell LLP

Carlton Wilde III

Bracewell LLP

  • Identifying gaps across liability and cyber policies, exposing AV stakeholders
  • Examining exclusions tied to cyber incidents causing physical and data loss
  • Evaluating regulatory fragmentation and insurer strategies impacting claims
09:55 - 10:00
Q&A SESSION ON NAVIGATING INSURANCE RISKS IN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
10:00 - 10:25
AV REGULATION IN 2026 - POLICY SIGNALS AND A LONG-TERM PATH
Adam Raviv
Sidley Austin LLP

Adam Raviv

Sidley Austin LLP

  • Summarizing US AV rules across federal, state, and local levels, including key bills
  • Assessing how 2026 regulatory signals shape AV tech deployment and global strategy
  • Proposing a long-term AV governance framework drawn from forthcoming law review research
10:25 - 10:30
Q&A SESSION ON WHAT THE 2026 POLICY MEANS FOR AV DEPLOYMENT
10:30 - 11:00
MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBITION AREA
11:00 - 11:30
PANEL DISCUSSION ON MAPPING THE FUTURE OF URBAN MOBILITY WITH AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
11:30 - 11:55
CONTEXT-AWARE MULTI-MODAL FUSION FOR PEDESTRIAN DETECTION
Arunachalam Venkatachalam
imec

Arunachalam Venkatachalam

imec

  • Enhancing pedestrian detection under fog and low-light conditions via adaptive fusion
  • Applying gating networks to modulate detector outputs without retraining
  • Achieving improved precision with probabilistic calibration on KITTI data
11:55 - 12:00
Q&A SESSION ON IMPROVING PEDESTRIAN DETECTION WITH FUSION
12:00 - 12:25
SOFTWARE SAFETY ASSURANCE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Selvam Raju Somalraju
Zoox

Selvam Raju Somalraju

Zoox

  • Adapting automotive and aerospace standards to build a systematic safety assurance framework for AV software
  • Translating binary safety compliance into numerically graded assurance metrics for AV software certification
  • Calibrating quantitative thresholds to produce measurable safety certification outcomes for AV software
12:25 - 12:30
Q&A SESSION ON QUANTIFYING SAFETY ASSURANCE IN AV SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
12:30 - 13:30
NETWORKING LUNCH AND VISITING THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES & AI EXHIBITION
13:30 - 13:55
RESHAPING ADAS DEVELOPMENT TEAMS FOR AN END-TO-END AI WORLD
Lucas Bublitz
P3

Lucas Bublitz

P3

  • Exploring how market shifts and new partnerships are transforming ADAS team structures and roles
  • Examining the move from rule-based systems to data-driven AI and its impact on safety and validation
  • Understanding how evolving global regulations drive strategy alignment and organizational change
13:55 - 14:00
Q&A SESSION ON RESHAPING ADAS TEAMS FOR AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD
14:00 - 14:25
OPERATIONALIZING LEVEL-4 AUTOMATED PUBLIC TRANSIT AT SCALE
Cemre Kavvasoglu
ADASTEC Corp.

Cemre Kavvasoglu

ADASTEC Corp.

  • Deploying flowride.ai buses in daily multi-region public operations
  • Maintaining performance across varying weather and complex urban settings
  • Integrating city platforms for remote ops and fleet optimization
14:25 - 14:30
Q&A SESSION ON SCALING LEVEL-4 FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT
14:30 - 15:00
RESERVED PRESENTATION
15:00 - 15:20
AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBITION AREA
15:20 - 15:45
THE FAST LANE TO L4–L5 - DATA-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURES
Thomas Bloor
Real-Time Innovations (RTI)

Thomas Bloor

Real-Time Innovations (RTI)

  • Supporting AV systems through reliable streaming data from perception to action
  • Designing vehicles around data flow for scalable and flexible architectures
  • Introducing data-centric frameworks for high-performance autonomous systems
15:45 - 15:50
Q&A SESSION ON HOW DATA CENTRICITY ACCELERATES AV DEPLOYMENT
15:50 - 16:15
PHYSICAL AI FOR ROBUST ALL-WEATHER AV SAFETY
Matthew Carey
Teradar

Matthew Carey

Teradar

  • Addressing perception failures from degraded sensors in adverse environments
  • Introducing terahertz sensing for physics-grounded hazard detection and clarity
  • Demonstrating integration into AV stacks to improve confidence and safety
16:15 - 16:20
Q&A SESSION ON WHETHER PHYSICAL AI CAN SOLVE AV PERCEPTION LIMITATIONS
16:20 - 16:45
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES SHAPING CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED VEHICLES
Ajay Reddy
ZF Group

Ajay Reddy

ZF Group

  • Exploring sensing, compute, and connectivity advances reshaping AV architectures
  • Integrating next-gen perception and communication into real vehicle platforms
  • Assessing near-term technologies driving scalability, safety, and deployment
16:45 - 16:50
Q&A SESSION ON WHAT TECHNOLOGIES WILL DEFINE NEXT-GENERATION AVS
16:50 - 17:15
FROM DRIVER-CENTRIC TO PASSENGER-CENTRIC AV UX DESIGN
Neha Heera
Toast

Neha Heera

Toast

  • Transitioning UX from driver control to passenger-centric autonomy experiences
  • Redesigning interfaces to build trust, safety awareness, and user confidence
  • Utilizing SDV architectures to enable adaptive in-cabin interaction models
17:15 - 17:20
Q&A SESSION ON HOW UX WILL SHAPE PASSENGER TRUST IN AVS
17:20 - 18:20
NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY 2 :
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026
08:00 - 08:30
MORNING REFRESHMENTS
08:30 - 08:40
OPENING ADDRESS
08:40 - 09:05
AUTONOMY IS NOT ABOUT CARS — IT'S ABOUT REWRITING MOBILITY
Praveen Cherian
Capgemini

Praveen Cherian

Capgemini

  • Charting where autonomy is genuinely scaling today across freight, transit, and urban mobility systems
  • Decoding how humans build trust in AV systems and what behavioral shifts enable real-world coexistence
  • Forecasting how fleet mobility, autonomous logistics, and ownership models will transform by 2030-2050
09:05 - 09:10
Q&A SESSION ON HOW AUTONOMY IS REDEFINING MOBILITY AND OWNERSHIP
09:10 - 09:35
PERCEPTION INTEGRITY CONTRACTS FOR RUNTIME-TRUSTWORTHY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Mohamed El Hadedy
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Mohamed El Hadedy

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  • Diagnosing how perception systems degrade under runtime interference, even when system-health metrics appear normal
  • Quantifying timing, output stability, and context freshness over fixed windows via a structured PIC framework
  • Safeguarding AV deployments through hash-chained, externally verifiable perception windows for auditability and failover resilience
09:35 - 09:40
Q&A SESSION ON RUNTIME PERCEPTION INTEGRITY FOR TRUSTED AVS
09:40 - 10:05
MAPPING THE REAL WORLD IN REAL TIME FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Mohini Todkari
HERE Technologies

Mohini Todkari

HERE Technologies

  • Exploring why mapping remains the missing layer, and how perception alone limits safe AV decision making
  • Examining how sensor data is fused into spatial intelligence, enabling structured and queryable world models
  • Understanding how real-time mapping, scalable architectures, and AI together enable production-ready AV systems
10:05 - 10:10
Q&A SESSION ON REAL-TIME MAPPING FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
10:10 - 10:30
MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBITION AREA
10:30 - 11:00
PANEL DISCUSSION ON NAVIGATING REGULATORY CHALLENGES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DEPLOYMENT
11:00 - 11:25
MILLION MILES OR THE RIGHT MILES FOR AI-DRIVEN AUTONOMY 2026
Sebastian Klaas
Foretellix

Sebastian Klaas

Foretellix

  • Exploring why simply adding more data fails for both training and validation in autonomy systems
  • Examining the shift toward coverage-driven data curation for balanced training and validation
  • Understanding how unified data strategies address engineering needs and regulatory expectations
11:25 - 11:30
Q&A SESSION ON RIGHT MILES FOR AI-DRIVEN AUTONOMY
11:30 - 11:55
AUTONOMY AND THE FUTURE OF PERSONAL CAR OWNERSHIP
Blair Schlecter
Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce

Blair Schlecter

Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce

  • Examining robotaxis and autonomous transit as alternatives to car ownership
  • Evaluating impacts on vehicle miles traveled, parking demand, and urban infrastructure
  • Identifying consumer barriers that could slow large-scale AV mobility adoption
11:55 - 12:00
Q&A SESSION ON CAN AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY REDUCE CAR OWNERSHIP?
12:00 - 12:25
SENSOR CAMERA CALIBRATION DRIFT IN REAL WORLD SETTINGS
Sparsh Gautam
Independent speaker

Sparsh Gautam

Independent speaker

  • Addressing how AI vision advances still leave calibration as a key real-world bottleneck
  • Exploring drift causes, current methods, and challenges in online reconstruction
  • Highlighting the rising need for calibration expertise across sensor-driven pipelines
12:25 - 12:30
Q&A SESSION ON SENSOR CAMERA CALIBRATION DRIFT IN REAL WORLD SETTINGS
12:30 - 13:30
NETWORKING LUNCH AND VISITING THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES & AI EXHIBITION
13:30 - 13:55
DESIGNING AI TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AGENTS FOR AV ECOSYSTEMS
Ravindra Kondagunta
Connected Signals

Ravindra Kondagunta

Connected Signals

  • Facilitating smart mobility through AI-driven traffic coordination agents
  • Establishing real-time V2I connectivity to support adaptive control loops
  • Bridging mobility and infrastructure sectors through software-first integration
13:55 - 14:00
Q&A SESSION ON AI TRAFFIC AGENTS FOR SMART CITIES
14:00 - 14:25
FROM SKY TO STREET - POWERING AUTONOMOUS MAPPING
Kris Wagner
Vexcel Imaging

Kris Wagner

Vexcel Imaging

  • Extending perception beyond line-of-sight using aerial imagery and DSM
  • Building and validating HD maps with consistent large-scale coverage
  • Applying AI to extract road, elevation, and infrastructure insights
14:25 - 14:30
Q&A SESSION ON HOW AERIAL DATA ENHANCES AV MAPPING
14:30 - 14:55
AI-AUGMENTED EMBEDDED DEVELOPMENT - THE MISSING LINK IN SDV DELIVERY
Takuro Iizuka
Fixstars Solutions

Takuro Iizuka

Fixstars Solutions

  • Overcoming legacy C/C++ and real-time constraints that prevent off-the-shelf AI tools from working in AV software
  • Validating AI-augmented embedded development on Renesas R-Car GENESIS across production AV programs
  • Unlocking proprietary-safe LLM acceleration to close the gap between AI capabilities and production code
14:55 - 15:00
Q&A SESSION ON CLOSING THE AI GAP IN AV EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DELIVERY
15:00 - 15:15
FEEDBACK AND RAFFLE DRAW
15:15 - 15:30
CLOSING REMARKS

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