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

• 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

• Autonomous driving has the potential to further reduce the number of accidents - one of our most important goals for many decades
• The technology can also contribute to fundamentally improve our customers‘ business
• That is why we are fully focused on pushing the development of this technology
  Timothy Carter, Head of Strategy Autonomous Driving, Daimler Truck, Germany

• 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

• How to holistically structure the SDV stack for faster, efficent development
• 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

• Central compute architectures for trucks and passenger cars
• How AI is helping accelerate the development of next-generation ADAS and higher levels of autonomy
• What are the benefits of central AI compute platforms
  Lazaar Louis, Director of Product Management Automotive, Ambarella, USA

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

• How automated commercial vehicle applications in port terminals boost operational efficiency and reduce costs
• How automated transportation supports the shift towards sustainable container supply chains and helps to overcome manpower shortages
• Real-world success stories: exploring industry cases, showcasing use cases with complex autonomous driving manoeuvres and endurance testing in various conditions
  Dr. Giorgio Corbellini, Head of Commercial Vehicle Automation, Embotech AG, Switzerland

• 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