Tech.Ad Europe Award 2024 | we.Connect Global Leaders | 10 March 2024 | Titanic Chaussee Berlin, Chausseestraße 30, 10115 Berlin, Germany

This award exclusively honors extraordinary projects in the automotive industry and celebrates exceptional solutions & innovations. Our expert jury will review the applications and choose the best projects. Taking place on the main stage of the Tech.AD Europe, the award ceremony will bring the winners the recognition they deserve with the largest community of autonomous driving decision-makers in Europe.

2024 Speakers

KLAAS MERTENS
Global Solution Architect – ADAS, Equinix

DR. TOBIAS BÜRGER
Lead Data Platform for Autonomous Driving, BMW Group

DR. JÜRGEN DICKMANN
Head of Radar and Radar-Perception, Mercedes Benz

DR. AXEL GERN
Senior Vice President of Engineering and Managing Director, Torc

STEFFEN SCHULZ
Chief Technical Engineer E3 1.2, Audi

MICHAEL KRAM
CTO Automated Driving (SVP), Bosch

MARK ROSSI
ADAS and Sensor Lead, Porsche

WERNER PETER
Head of Electronics System Development, Hyundai

DR. ANDREE HOHM
Head of Autonomous Driving Program, Continental

MIRKO FRANKE
Director Engineering Automated Driving, Bosch

MARCO JÄHNISCH
Head of ADAS & AD Software Product Lines, Situation Interpretation & Vehicle Behavior, CARIAD

NIKOLAUS KLEINER
Head of Data and Connected Services AV/ADAS, Mercedes-Benz AG

DR. MOHSEN SEFATI
Head of AI Architecture and AI Capibilities, CARIAD

DR. PHILIPP CROCOLL
Senior Manager HD Mapping, Bosch

JULIAN BOCK
Product Owner Front Vision Detection, Ford

DR. CHRISTOPHER PINKE
Product Manager Urban AD, Continental

DR. JAVIER IBAÑEZ-GUZMÁN
Expert Autonomous Systems, Renault Group

TOMAS OHLSON
Founding Engineer & SVP Technology, Einride, Einride

ALESSANDRO MAZZALAI
Motion Planning Team Lead and Product Owner Autonomous Driving, Stellantis

KRISTOF POLMANS
Senior Vice President Research and Advanced Engineering, thyssenkrupp Presta AG

SHASHANK PATHAK
Chief Architect - AD S/W Features, Autonomous Mobility, ZF Friedrichshafen AG

DR. PETER ZEGELAAR
Technical Expert Automated Driving, Ford

CHRISTOS KOSTOGLOU
Test Strategy, Daimler Truck

DR. SHAFIQ URRÉHMAN
Tech lead AI Technologies and Manager Strategic Areas, CEVT

PETRINA STEELE
Global Lead - Connected Autonomous Vehicles & Smart Mobility, Equinix

VIVETHA NATTERJEE
AD Safety Specialist, CEVT

MADHUSUDAN VADERAHALLI LINGARAJAPPA
Senior Functional Safety HV Engineer, Jaguar

DR. KARSTEN KRÜGEL
Head of Business Development, dSpace

ARNAUD VAN DEN BOSSCHE
Business Development Director, EMEA, Green Hills

BERZAH OZAN
Lead - Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Ford Otosan

HUANYU GU
Director Product Marketing ADAS, NXP

MATTHIAS SCHLEGEL
Product Manager Autonomous Simulation, Hexagon

GILLES GALLEE
Director of AV Simulation Solution, Ansys

PATRICK ROISS
Lead Business Consultant, .msg

MARK PFEIFFER
Engineering Manager, Scale

MATTHIAS SCHULZE
VP Europe & Asia, Algolux

ANDREAS PRINZ
Technical Sales Director of Europe, Aeye

GEORGE DE BOER
Global Director Marketing Automotive, and Tech Evangelist, TomTom

MARTIJN SCHUT
Head of Product Management, Siesmens

SASCHA SEMMLER
Head of Innovation, Continental AG

HANS-LUDWIG BLOECHER
Principal Innovation and Technology Manager - Autonomous Mobility, Continental AG

HANS WINDPASSINGER
Business Development Executive, IBM

STÉPHANE FERON
Expert HMI Architecture and Technology, Stellantis

JENS FREYHOFF
Business Development, Kinetic Automation

DR. ERIC RICHTER
Director Technology Innovation and Co-Founder, Baselabs

DR. CHRISTOPH PETERS
CEO, BOSCH Startup

VADIM RASKIN
CTO, BOSCH Startup

DR. RALPH GREWE
Product Manager Perception | Innovation Line Driverless, Continental Teves AG

LIONEL BENNES
Senior Product Manager, AVxcelerate, Ansys

TONY KARAM
Global Sales Area Director, Ansys

KARSTEN HOFFMEISTER
Vice President of Autonomous Driving, Luxoft

STAV YOFFE
Senior Manager Business Development & Strategy , LeddarTech

SHARON ROSENBERG
Solution Architect & Chief Methodologist, Foretellix

ULRICH WURSTBAUER
Chief Technologist for Autonomous Driving, Luxoft

PROF. MARTIN TÖRNGREN
Professor, KTH

PHIL DURSTON
Technical Manager, Volkswagen

MICHEL BRUCKNER
Staff Software Engineer - Simulation and Virtual Testing, Torc Europe GmbH

DR. JULIUS KÜMMERLE
CEO and Co-Founder, SafeAd

VIJITHA CHEKURI
Global Head of Business Development and GTM – ADAS, Amazon Web Services

KARTHIK KRISHNAN
Head of AV/ADAS Strategy And Business Development for AWS, AWS

ANURAG GANGULI
Vice President R&D, Head of Perception, Plus

ADVAIT VALLURI
Senior Solution Specialist, MathWorks

FRANK KRAEMER
Senior Systems Technology Architect, IBM

DR. AYHAN MEHMED
Lead Business conusltant, .msg

HAGEN BOEHMERT
Head of System Safety, Security and Integration, Continental AG

DR. DANIEL PETRISOR
Senior System Safety Engineer, Continenta AG

ANDREAS PLONKA
Senior Development Quality Specialist - ADAS & AD, CARIAD

AKSHAY DHONTHI
Research Engineer, Research Engineer, AUDI AG

RENATA WALKER
Lead Product Manager, Lead Product Manager, SAMA

NIMROD BRICKMAN
Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Mobileye Inc.

YARON KAHANA
Active Sensor Product Management, Active Sensor Product Management, MobilEye

CHIDANANDA PANIGRAHI
Autonomous Driving Product Expert, Autonomous Driving Product Expert, Great Wall Motor Deutschland GmbH

CHRISTIAN KIMMLE
Managing Director, Managing Director, Innovusion Inc.

DAN ATZMON
Head of Marketing, Foretellix

PAN PAN
Head of Oversea AI Department, Datatang

DR. SEYED MAJID AZIMI
Artificial Intelligence Researcher, DLR

DANILO DA COSTA RIBEIRO
AD System Safety Manager, Expert Safety-in-Use for Automated Systems, Continental AT

SVEN LEITSCH
Program Manager Autonomous Drive Emulation, Keysight

DR. WENDE ZHANG
Director - Sensing and Localization, General Motors

NIKOLA VELINOV
Senior Business Development Engineer, Green Hills

VIJAYSAI PATNAIK
Head of Product, Applied Intitution

JAMIE SMITH
Vice President of Product Management & Head of Products for Safety Critical Industries, Imandra

COLIN DE VRIEZE
Head of Application Engineering - EMEA, Applied Intuition

SERGEY RAZMAKHNIN
Cybersecurity Director, Navinfo

KOBI MARENKO
CEO, Arbe

PIERRE OLIVIER
CTO, Leddar Tech

RONNY COHEN
Vice-President, Automotive Strategy and Business Development, Leddar Tech

PRADEEP BIDDAPPA
System Architect - Functional Safety Autonomous Driving, Volvo

CHRISTIAN SCHWARZL
Head of Dependable Systems Group, Virtual Vehicle

DARREN CHEN
Head of Technology Initiative, Liteon

EMMANUEL FOLLIN
Senior Manager Product Management, Ansys

ANNE FRIEDRICH
Vice President Marketing & Communication Germany, Akkodis

ALEXANDER NOACK
Managing Director, B-Plus

NICOLAS BONNOTTE
Head of Akkodis Research Germany, Akkodis

PROF. DR. ANNE STOCKEM NOVO
Professor for Applied Artificial Intelligence, HRW

ATALAY TAŞKOPARAN
Chief Projects Officer, Adastec

DR. ĐORĐE TOMIĆ
Group Director Production, We.Connect

DAVINA THALMANN
Product Manager, We.Connect

2024 Sponsors and Partners

EVENT LEAD PARTNER:
• AWS

PRIMARY PARTNER:
• ANSYS Germany GmbH

COMPETENCE PARTNERS:
• Leddartech
• Luxoft

BUSINESS PARTNERS:
• Antemotion Srl
• Akkodis GmbH
• Green Hills Software
• Aimmo
• Certx
• Neurocat
• Scale.AI
• MSG
• AVL
• Mathworks
• IBM
• NavInfo
• Sama
• LITEON Technology
• Innovusion
• dSpace
• Keysight Technologies
• Foretellix
• Hexagon
• Tomtom
• Siemans
• Aeye
• Mobileye
• NXP
• MicroVision
• Arbe
• Baselabs
• Applied Intution
• Datatang
• Infiniq
• Kognic
• Telus
• Algolux
• Speenlab