SUSPENSION PLENARY

Suspension Plenary.

Focus Day | 11 June 2024

7:30 am - 8:50 am REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS

8:50 am - 9:00 am AUTOMOTIVE IQ WELCOMES YOU TO AUTOMOTIVE CHASSIS SYSTEMS USA 2025

9:00 am - 9:10 am CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS

Dr.Barna Szimandl - Senior Manager Brakes, Thyssenkrupp Presta AG
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Dr.Barna Szimandl

Senior Manager Brakes
Thyssenkrupp Presta AG

KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION LED BY OEM & TIER-1 COMPANIES


  • Hear OEMs and Tier-1 future plans for collaboration between steering, braking

and suspension systems

  • Understand OEM and Tier-1 thoughts on required architecture, sensor

considerations and actuator designs for integrated chassis controls

  • Learn about worked examples and applications in which OEMs and Tier-1s are

engaging in coordinated control

  • Assess the cost implications of integrated systems, and potential cost saving

solutions

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Mahmoud Abdelfatah

Systems Manager - Steering
Hitachi Astemo

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Olivier Pugliese

Head of Strategy & Product Planning, Americas, Chassis Solutions Division
ZF Group

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Siranjeevi Srinivasa Raghavan

Lead Cybersecurity System Engineer
ZF Group

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Bin Li

Engineering Specialist
Cummins

9:55 am - 10:35 am DEFINING ACCEPTABLE CYBERSECURITY IN MODERN VEHICLES: NAVIGATING COMPLIANCE, RISK AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY IN INTEGRATED CHASSIS SYSTEMS

Siranjeevi Srinivasa Raghavan - Lead Cybersecurity System Engineer, ZF Group


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Siranjeevi Srinivasa Raghavan

Lead Cybersecurity System Engineer
ZF Group

10:35 am - 10:45 am QUESTION FOR THE AUDIENCE: WHAT IS THE TIER-1'S VIEW ON THE PROS & CONS OF MODULARIZED CHASSIS CONTROLS & AFFECT ON INTEGRATED CHASSIS CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION

Dr.Barna Szimandl - Senior Manager Brakes, Thyssenkrupp Presta AG


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Dr.Barna Szimandl

Senior Manager Brakes
Thyssenkrupp Presta AG

10:45 am - 11:20 am MORNING REFRESHMENT BREAK

INTEGRATED CHASSIS CONTROL PANEL DISCUSSION LED BY OEMs

& TIER 1 COMPANIES


The industry’s interest in integrated chassis control has grown recently, leading

to companies exploring centralized controller concepts using components in the

system as smart actuators.


Join this panel discussion as OEMs and Tier-1s address the following:


  • Learn what is the OEM’s preferred architectures for integrated chassis control,

and what they think is the hardware that should be used

  • Find out how integrated chassis control works in a fully integrated vehicle,

how it is being designed and where redundancy lies in the system

  • Listen as OEMs and suppliers discuss and establish individual responsibilities

when designing integrated chassis control systems

  • Establish where responsibility lies for ensuring functional safety of the system
  • Hear multiple perspectives on combining multiple actuators instead of

doubling up on front actuators

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Zachary Sabato

Senior Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics and Chassis Control
Hyundai Mobis North America

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Sameer Kolte

Senior Manager, Feature & Systems Engineering, Autonomy
Rivian Automotive

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Mahmoud Abdelfatah

Systems Manager - Steering
Hitachi Astemo

PANEL DISCUSSION

  • Hear how functional safety requirements are driving the design of multi

actuator integrated systems

  • Learn how integration can ensure functional safety in a way that redundancy

typically does

  • Find out how overall integrated control of the vehicle can provide the ability to

manage safety at a system level

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Lauren Klena

Cybersecurity Technical Program Manager
ZF Group

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Siranjeevi Srinivasa Raghavan

Lead Cybersecurity System Engineer
ZF Group

12:40 pm - 1:50 pm NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK

1:50 pm - 2:30 pm TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS TO REDUCE COSTS OF INTEGRATED CHASSIS CONTROLS

PRESENTATION

  • Learn best practices to manage and bring down the cost of integrated chassis

control systems

  • Understand how to achieve more mechatronic control and higher functioning

vehicle performance while still keeping tabs on cost

Question & Answer Session

1:50 pm - 2:30 pm MECHANISMS TO REDUCE COST OF INTEGRATED CHASSIS CONTROLS

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION


Join our roundtable discussion where you’ll deep dive into mechanisms

organizations are leveraging to reduce costs in integrated chassis controls.

Discuss and dissect innovative approaches your peers across the automotive

industry are using to manage/lower costs in integrated chassis controls and leave

with the practical insights you need to innovate your approach to reducing costs

across steering, braking and suspension systems in 2025 and beyond.


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Siranjeevi Srinivasa Raghavan

Lead Cybersecurity System Engineer
ZF Group

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Lauren Klena

Cybersecurity Technical Program Manager
ZF Group

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Dr.Barna Szimandl

Senior Manager Brakes
Thyssenkrupp Presta AG

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm DRIVING THE NEED TO STANDARDIZE INTERFACES & CENTRALIZED CONTROLS

Dr.Barna Szimandl - Senior Manager Brakes, Thyssenkrupp Presta AG

STANDARDIZATION DISCUSSION WITH EXPERTS FROM ALL CHASSIS

DOMAINS, INCLUDING STEERING, BRAKING & SUSPENSION

  • Discuss how and why new technology is driving the need for standardization
  • Find out about the standardization of electronic communications between

different parts/centralized controls

  • Join experts as they outline a common methodology on information that

needs to be being communicated, including what the braking actuator at the

corner is responsible for vs. what centralized controls are responsible for

Question & Answer Session

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Dr.Barna Szimandl

Senior Manager Brakes
Thyssenkrupp Presta AG

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm HANDS-ON ‘RIDE & DRIVE’ EVENT

Back for 2025, where event attendees will be taken to a well-known proving

ground in the Michigan area where they will be able to get behind the wheel, in

the driver’s seat to experience functionalities and performance of demonstrator

vehicles, including off-road vehicles. You can explain a topic on paper, but once

you experience it and get a true sense of performance, you are more likely

to prioritize it and offer it to your customers. Do not miss this opportunity to

experience the latest innovations in suspension, braking and steering.


  • Details on demonstrator vehicles that will be available to ‘ride & drive’ will be

announced soon

4:15 pm - 4:15 pm END OF FOCUS DAY & NETWORKING RECEPTION

Main Day One | 12 June 2024

7:30 am - 8:50 am REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS

8:50 am - 9:00 am AUTOMOTIVE IQ WELCOMES YOU TO AUTOMOTIVE CHASSIS SYSTEMS USA 2025

9:00 am - 9:05 am CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS

9:05 am - 9:45 am EXAMINE THE CURRENT STATE & PACE OF THE AUTOMOTIVE CHASSIS INDUSTRY AND FUTURE OEM ROADMAP
Mauricio Dominguez - Analyst, S&P Global

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

  • Get a complete update on the current state of the automotive chassis industry

and the macro level trends influencing changes in this space

  • Understand the OEM’s pain points in relation to chassis systems development
  • Learn how business models are changing/will change now and in the future
  • Examine industry outlook for market penetration of integrated chassis control

systems

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Mauricio Dominguez

Analyst
S&P Global

KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION FOCUSING ON VEHICLE

ELECTRIFICATION

  • Find out how these experts see systems playing a role in terms of energy

efficiency and how they are leveraging the ability of an EV propulsion torque

delivery to improve the behaviour of their systems

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Nick Ridenour

Vehicle Performance Owner of Deceleration
General Motors

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Jeff Helner

Head of Brakes and Steering
Hyundai Mobis

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Ishmaeel Ghouri

Brake Systems - Lead Engineer
JLR

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Ramakrishna Vijayakumar

Product Owner- Steer-by-Wire
General Motors

10:15 am - 10:45 am LEARN HOW TO MAKE ARCHITECTURE CHANGES/RE-BUILD THE SYSTEM TO ACCOMODATE STEER-BY-WIRE SYSTEMS
Zachary Sabato - Senior Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics and Chassis Control, Hyundai Mobis North America

TIER-1 PRESENTATION

  • Discuss how suspension systems are playing a role

now and in the future, and what changes are needed

to meet customer demands

  • Gain an overview of market trends for suspension

systems

Question & Answer Session

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Zachary Sabato

Senior Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics and Chassis Control
Hyundai Mobis North America

10:45 am - 11:30 am MORNING NETWORKING BREAK

11:30 am - 11:35 am SUSPENSION SYSTEMS CHAIRPERSON'S REMARKS


11:35 am - 12:10 pm SUSPENSION SYSTEMS: PROS, CONS & IMPACT ON ADOPTION RATE


12:10 pm - 12:40 pm HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF RIDE AND HANDLING ATTRIBUTES WITH SOFTWAREDEFINED ADAPTIVE AND ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEMS PRESENTATION
Jamie Leveille - Vehicle Dynamics Engineer, Multimatic


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Jamie Leveille

Vehicle Dynamics Engineer
Multimatic

12:40 pm - 1:10 pm UNDERSTAND HOW TO ADAPT SUSPENSION SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR DIFFERENT PROPULSION TECHNOLOGIES
Swejal Jain - Technical Specialist, Lucid Motors


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Swejal Jain

Technical Specialist
Lucid Motors

1:10 pm - 2:15 pm NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK & WALK-THROUGH EXHIBITION AREA


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Sunny Makkar

Vehicle Systems Engineering, Advanced Chassis
Zoox Inc

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Hari Vedam

Reliability Data Analyst
Zoox

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Krishna Ram

Reliability Engineer
Zoox

2:50 pm - 3:20 pm EXAMINE LATEST RESEARCH ON MODIFYING SUSPENSION SYSTEMS TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH REQUIREMENTS OF LARGE BATTERIES


3:20 pm - 3:50 pm DISCUSSION ON COST & DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEMS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

3:50 pm - 4:30 pm AFTERNOON NETWORKING BREAK

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm LEARN ABOUT THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF POSITION SENSORS IN VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEMS AND X-BY-WIRE APPLICATIONS.
Stephan Schwarzkopf - Senior Product Marketing Manager Position and Temperature Sensors, AMS Osram Group
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Stephan Schwarzkopf

Senior Product Marketing Manager Position and Temperature Sensors
AMS Osram Group

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm NIDEC AMEC VIEW IN ELECTRIFICATION TREND OF CHASSIS SYSTEMS

5:30 pm - 5:35 pm CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSING REMARKS & END OF DAY ONE

5:35 pm - 5:35 pm NETWORKING RECEPTION HOSTED BY AUTOMOTIVE IQ

Main Day Two | 13 June 2024

7:30 am - 9:00 am REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS

9:00 am - 9:05 am CHAIRPERSON’S RECAP OF DAY ONE

KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION

This panel of experts will take stage to discuss ways to convince the industry

and teams on the trustworthiness of AI in commercial steering, braking and

chassis systems.


  • Explore what guards can be put together to make AI safe with fellow

professionals across the automotive industry

  • Understand whether there are any rules from a government body, SAE, IEEE

or ISO to hold people accountable when implementing AI

  • Leave with the knowledge you need to safely implement the use of AI in

steering, braking and chassis systems development

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Hunter Poole

Vehicle Dynamics & Control Engineer
General Motors

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Ramakrishna Vijayakumar

Product Owner- Steer-by-Wire
General Motors

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Daniel Vilela

Virtual Development Engineering Group Manager
General Motors

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Chidambaram Subramanian

Lead Technical Specialist - Braking
Volvo Trucks North America

9:45 am - 10:20 am EXAMINE THE USE OF ROBUST LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND AI TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND PREDICTIONS & TACKLE KEY CHALLENGES INCLUDING HALLUCINATIONS
Saikiran Divakaruni - Head of Engineering – Data Science & AI, ZF Group

USE CASES ON HOW TO PUT AI TO PRACTICAL USE

  • Hear practical use cases where artificial intelligence has been used
  • Find out which steering models are robust enough to prevent hallucination

and ensure accurate responses

  • Learn what bottom line, measurable benefits can be gained by putting artificial

intelligence to work

Question & Answer Session

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Saikiran Divakaruni

Head of Engineering – Data Science & AI
ZF Group

10:20 am - 11:00 am OPTIMIZING THE NEXT GENERATION GREASE FOR EPS WORM GEARS
Erik Reis - Business Development Manager, Fuchs Lubricants

PRESENTATION

  • Find out how to optimize weight to achieve lighter

weight and similar or the same levels of stiffness.

  • Discover new manufacturing techniques for designing

suspension structural components and hybrid

components which use metal and plastics to achieve

desired levels of stiffness with a lower weight instead

of traditional sheet metal or steel components.


Question & Answer Session

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Erik Reis

Business Development Manager
Fuchs Lubricants

11:00 am - 11:40 am Networking Break

11:40 am - 12:20 pm SUSPENSION SYSTEMS FOCUS WEIGHT REDUCTION, RIDE COMFORT & RIDE HANDLING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION GROUP1
Chester Rowe II - Senior Technical Specialist - Suspension Height Control, Driveline & DEF SW, General Motors


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Chester Rowe II

Senior Technical Specialist - Suspension Height Control, Driveline & DEF SW
General Motors

12:20 pm - 1:00 pm LEARN HOW TO OPTIMIZE NVH AT THE SOURCE AND AVOID TRANSFERRING NOISE TO DRIVER’S EARS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 2
Chester Rowe II - Senior Technical Specialist - Suspension Height Control, Driveline & DEF SW, General Motors
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Chester Rowe II

Senior Technical Specialist - Suspension Height Control, Driveline & DEF SW
General Motors

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCH BREAK

SHARING BEST PRACTICES FROM THE AUDIENCE

  • Discuss how to develop new systems to fulfil NVH

requirements in electric vehicles with your fellow

suspension system track audience members

  • Share best practices to optimize systems for NVH at

the source of the noise

Establishing whether AI can help with NVH on a

simulative level, not on a hardware component level


Question & Answer Session

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm BRAKING, STEERING & SUSPENSION SYSTEMS FOR HEAVY DUTY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES/TRUCKS PRESENTATION FOCUSING ON FUTURE TRENDS, LEVEL OF REDUNDANCY NEEDED & REMEDIAL ACTION MODES IN THE EVENT OF SYSTEM FAILURE
Chidambaram Subramanian - Lead Technical Specialist - Braking, Volvo Trucks North America


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Chidambaram Subramanian

Lead Technical Specialist - Braking
Volvo Trucks North America

2:30 pm - 3:10 pm FUTURE STEERING DEVELOPMENT FOR SDVS PRESENTATION FOCUSING ON HOW SDV WILL IMPACT STEERING SYSTEM DESIGN
Nilankan Chaudhuri - Technical Project Manager, The ZF Group


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Nilankan Chaudhuri

Technical Project Manager
The ZF Group

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Ramakrishna Vijayakumar

Product Owner- Steer-by-Wire
General Motors

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Arun Shankar Shanmugasundaram

Senior Engineer, Steering & Suspension Simulation
Volvo Group

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm AFTERNOON REFRESHMENT BREAK & FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO MEET EXHIBITIORS

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm LEARN ABOUT NEW, SMART RESEARCH THAT IS UNDERWAY TO DESIGN BRAKE, STEERING & SUSPENSION SYSTEMS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES R&D PRESENTATION
Deepak Rammohan - Engineering Project Manager - Steering Systems/ADAS Programs, ZF Group
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Deepak Rammohan

Engineering Project Manager - Steering Systems/ADAS Programs
ZF Group

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm DELVE INTO THE FUNCTIONAL SAFETY SIDE OF L3/L4 AUTONOMOUS DRIVING LEARN HOW TO SATISFY REDUNANCY & UNDERSTAND HOW CONTROL IS MANAGED IN L4 VEHICLES
Sundar Bala - Senior System Safety Engineer of Brakes, General Motors
Venkateswara Raju Mudunuri - ADAS Senior System Safety Engineer, General Motors
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Sundar Bala

Senior System Safety Engineer of Brakes
General Motors

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Venkateswara Raju Mudunuri

ADAS Senior System Safety Engineer
General Motors

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSING REMARKS & END OF AUTOMOTIVE CHASSIS SYSTEMS USA 2025
William Bouse - Technical Specialist Mechatronics/Steering, International Motors
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William Bouse

Technical Specialist Mechatronics/Steering
International Motors