Conference Tracks, Themes & Audiences

Automotive Cyber Security, Connectivity & SDV Week Europe 2025 is comprised of two expert tracks (Automotive cyber security, and connectivity & SDV) and a day focused on leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) for these disciplines & development. This is your chance to network with dedicated, senior-level audiences working across Automotive cyber security, connectivity & SDV all in one place.

The Automotive Cyber Security Conference Track

2024 was described by many as the year of compliance with UN ECE R155. However, achieving Type Approval was just one part of the actual cyber security journey. Since then, not only have cyber security needs have increased with devices becoming more accessible and vehicles becoming more connected and software-defined, vehicles are now much more vulnerable to attacks.

While artificial intelligence is presenting new opportunities to enhance cyber security frameworks, AI tools are also generating new information on how to attack vehicles, weaponising hackers in never-before-seen ways. Automotive companies need to prepare to react and respond to these new threats.

On a macro-level, automotive companies must think about how they need to (re)position from a cyber security perspective to gain competitiveness as the industry faces new/difficult market situations. There is widespread recognition that customers will not pay for a feature called cyber security. This year’s conference will digs deep into questions rarely asked, including ‘has the industry gone too far and are we doing too much?’ ‘Are activities that the industry has pushed for the last few years justified by the value they are creating?’. Hear executive level perspectives on ways to reduce cost, make efficiency gains and keep vehicles safe & secure.

Attend the Automotive Cyber Security conference track to hear complete coverage on these areas among others, with technical case studies focusing on solving actual technical challenges, hands-on discussions and idea-sharing on strategic topics previously unexplored and breakout sessions + workstreams designed to promote collaboration and idea-sharing.

Key Themes for 2025

OEM strategies to tackle real-world vehicle security incidents.
Cyber security driven-by-design for vehicles that are future-ready – learn how to plan early to win the market & stay competitive.
How to achieve cyber security in high-performance computing, plus updates on future chips.
New technologies & solutions to secure and enhance safety of automated driving technologies & advanced driver assistance systems.
Latest advanced TARA tools to implement & perform threat analysis & risk assessment.
Understand the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) & what automotive OEMS need to do to comply with CRA.
European Product Liability Act: understand what is in scope, what is out of scope and what the reworked version will mean for automotive cyber security.
Post-quantum cryptography to future-proof vehicles without compromising performance or efficiency.
Latest tools & tactics for penetration & fuzz testing and the ability to automate testing & reporting.
Best practices for detecting & reporting vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle.
Where we are with intrusion detection systems from a security capacity & architecture POV.

Who is it for?

This conference track has been designed for C-Level, VPs/Heads, Directors, Managers and other senior positions with expertise and decision-making authority in:

Security
Cybersecurity/ Cyber Security
Product Security
Vehicle Security
Manufacturing Security
Cloud Security
Software Security
Embedded Security
Supply Chain Security
Data Security
CSM (Cyber Security Manager)
IT Security/Information Security
IoT Security
OT Security
Governance
Incident Response
Threat Intelligence
Vulnerability Management
Penetration Testing/Pen Testing/Pentesting
Testing/Security Testing
Cryptography/Post-Quantum Cryptography
R&D/Research & Development

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The Connectivity & SDV Conference Track

Since November 2024, many automotive companies have combined the connected car and SDV units into one department, with the view that having better alignment between on-board software teams and cloud/connectivity teams is imperative to making software-defined vehicles a reality. With all the technologies involved in building software-defined vehicles, the automotive industry is valuing the SDV market at approximately $146 billion market today. Market valuation is expected to rise to 1 trillion dollars by 2030.

Software-defined vehicles and intelligent connectivity is presenting the largest shift in the automotive industry and are a stepping-stone towards fully autonomous vehicles. There is a strong desire across the automotive industry to make SDVs a reality. OEMs are moving past the theory of SDVs and towards the future re-architecture of their systems, features, and user experiences. Creating enhanced in-vehicle software and customers experience are vital, and the most crucial factors for SDV development moving forward.

However, the overall cost of SDV development continues to be a major concern, with OEMs under increasing pressure to reduce costs while ensuring vehicles are kept up-to-date. While some OEMs are delaying SDV adoption, Chinese vehicle manufacturers are leading the way in SDV development and rollout. It is more important than ever before that manufacturers and developers continue their investments, with robust approaches in place to meet strict objectives for developing software and products in shorter timeframes, delivering high-quality products at lower costs.

Attend the SDV & Connected Vehicles conference track, to hear the latest updates on SDV architecture, OEM lessons learned from SDV rollouts, and insight into the customer perspective of SDVs and how the automotive ecosystem can collaborate to produce a vehicle based on these expectations that will last for the next 10 years.

Key Themes for 2025

Year-end roundup of the SDV landscape & roadmap for 2026 & beyond.
Transition from domain-centric to zonal-centric architecture: Understand how automotive companies are adapting to this change.
Address actual challenges in zonal-based design for software-defined vehicles.
Customer perception SDV: Are customers willing to pay for software-defined vehicles?
How are automotive OEMs going to monetise software-defined vehicles?
What will the EU Data Act mean for automotive companies, and how to manage data accessibility, security & compliance issues.
Address challenges in managing the transition towards open-source.
Discuss last-mile connectivity issues & solutions to overcome them as much as possible.
Multi-access connectivity & security to enable always-connected, always-secure products.
Explore how to bring connectivity in early & build a connected product from the start of the value chain.

Who is it for?

This conference track has been designed for C-Level, VPs/Heads/Directors and other senior/technical positions with expertise and decision-making authority in:

Software Defined Vehicles/SDV
Software Defined Car
Software Architecture/Systems/Platform/Technology
Software Engineers/Developers/Interfaces
Product (Developers)
System (Safety/Security)
ADAS AD/Automated Driving/Autonomous Drive
Autonomous Vehicle Innovation
R&D
Computing
Development
Infotainment
Embedded Systems
Technology Strategist
OTA (Over-the-Air)
Technology Scouting
Connected Vehicle
Connected Car
Connectivity
Connected Systems
Smart Mobility
Digital Solutions

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Automotive Cyber Security & SDV Development

Key Themes for 2025

Real-world threat intelligence: Gain insight into emerging threat patterns, focusing on actual vehicle ECU.
Learn how automotive companies are integrating artificial intelligence & machine learning in cyber security activities to make programmes more robust.
Understand the use of AI in SDV product development for today’s vehicles, future platform and E/E architectures to ensure product are both safe and secure.
Idea-sharing on ways to leverage AI in daily product development to further enhance & advance cyber security frameworks and programmes.
Use AI to speed up software development and testing processes & decrease cost in both areas.
Use of AI models in autonomous cars: how does it impact security?
Security for AI: Idea sharing on how AI models are protected against cyber-attacks & prevent cyber security vulnerabilities from being exploited in AI algorithms.
AI from ‘Cloud-to-Car’ concept.

Who is it for?

Day 1 of the conference (18th November 2025) has been designed for all of the above audiences, plus professionals working in:

New Technology (CTOs)
Innovation
R&D
Development
Anyone using AI to advance their cybersecurity and SDV development programmes.

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