International VDI Conference - Autonomous Trucks

Conference chair: Gerhard Nowak, Managing Partner, ifp consulting

• State and outlook of the autonomous trucking landscape
• Learnings from first pilot programs: opportunities & challenges to be solved
• Business Models: How to collaborate and generate revenue with autonomous trucking
  Sunny Choi, VP Global Business Development, Plus AI, USA

Join a dynamic discussion with leading experts from OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and technology providers as they dive into the world of Autonomous Trucking, sharing insights and visions for the future of this transformative industry.

• How to holistically structure the SDV stack to improve development speed and efficiency
• Architecture layers and APIs to consider system-level dependencies between software and hardware
• How to decouple teams for software, hardware and integration while improving cooperation
• How to enable separate value streams for managing reusable software and hardware assets
  Dr. Frank Schreiner, Chief Engineer, Business Center Systems Engineering, Continental Engineering Services, Germany

• Software-Defined SoCs for Autonomous Trucking
• Enhancing Operational Efficiency
• Enabling Advanced Safety Feature
  Speaker to be announced

• Overview of Sensor setups, with distinct strategies from industry leaders like Aurora, Kodiak and Torc
• Radar advances as dominant sensor; LIDAR adoption slows
• P3 Future vision of next gen sensor stack
  Patrick Eisele, Senior Consultant Autonomous Mobility, co-author: Michael Herdrich, Consultant Autonomous Mobility, both: P3 automotive GmbH, Germany

• Leveraging a fully sensor-based environment model as a complementary perception path
• Results of real world testing on multiple vehicle platforms
• Challenges and opportunities in generalizing AI based approaches towards different setups and geographies
  Dr. Alexander Wischnewski, Managing Director & CTO, driveblocks, Germany

• Future trends in sensors and emerging photonic chips
• FMCW LiDAR solution - the next generation of sensing technology
• Scantinel‘s Single-Chip FMCW LiDAR approach
  Davide Canavesi, Head of Strategy and Business Development, Scantinel Photonics GmbH, Germany

During the interactive World Café Session, we invite you to directly engage with other experts. It is an interactively moderated discussion on different topics. Discuss and identify challenges within your sector as well as problems, needs and solutions. The focus is on the participants – Decide what exactly you would like to discuss and introduce your own experiences and cases.

At the end of the first conference day we kindly invite you to use the relaxed and informal atmosphere for in-depth conversations with other participants and speakers.

Stephan Keese, Managing Partner Roland Berger North America, Roland Berger

• Introduction to PAVE Europe & Panel Discussion
• Industry Insights on Autonomous Logistics
• Improving Perception and Building Trust and Understanding
• Addressing Concerns and Managing Expectations
  Panelist: To be announced
  Guido Di Pasquale, PAVE Europe, Belgium

• Address challenges of how to argue that an autonomous truck without a human fallback driver is acceptably safe
• Step forward towards a safety argumentation for safe autonomous trucks
• Systematical development and decomposition of safety claims
• Enabling hub-to-hub transport on highways (project ATLAS-L4)
• Perspectives from science and industry
  Klaus Lamm, Safety Manager Autonomous Vehicles and Automotive SPICE® Assessor, MAN Truck & Bus SE, Germany
  & Marvin Loba, Research Associate with the Institute of Control Engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

• Efficient route planning
• Quality assured data collection
• Analytics platform for user friendly evaluation
• Data virtualization  
  Gernot Hasenbichler, Senior Product Manager ADAS and Autonomous Driving, AVL List GmbH, Austria

• Utilizing real-world traffic data for scenario-based safety assessment
• Combining analytic-based approach and data-driven explorative approach for identification of hazardous scenarios
• Generative AI for data insight and scenario generation
  Marco Buller, Business Development Manager, dSPACE, Germany

• Navigating the way from a first AD pilot to a scalable operation concept of an AD fleet
• Scalable services for AD Trucks – example pre-trip inspection
• Regulatory framework and impact on operational readiness
• Challenges for operators, OEMs and legislator
• Automation and integration of inspection systems for an execution of vehicle inspections
  Uwe Riedel, Project Lead - Mobility Service Hub, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany

• Fleet Digitalization and Existing Connectivity Solutions
• The Vision: Ubiquitous Fleet Connectivity
• Complex Data Applications and Integration
• Cost Containment and Service Differentiation
• Seamless 5G connectivity between terrestrial mobile networks (TN) and satellite communications networks (NTN)
  Scott Congdon, Business and Market Development, Intelsat, USA