Day One | March 18, 2026

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

8:45 am - 8:50 am AUTOMOTIVE IQ WELCOME

8:50 am - 9:00 am CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS

8:30 am - 9:00 am INSIGHT INTO KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: THE CURRENT STATE OF AUTOMOTIVE CYBERSECURITY: BE AWARE OF ULTIMATE THREATS IN THE MARKET AND OBTAIN SECURITY WITHOUT SLOWING DOWN ENGINEERING INNOVATION

Andrew Sczygielski - Special Agent, FBI Detroit Cyber Task Force

9:00 am - 9:30 am KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION ON BALANCING INNOVATION, SECURITY & THE BOTTOM LINE: HOW CAN WE STRENGTHEN AUTOMOTIVE CYBERSECURITY IN THE AGE OF TIGHTER BUDGET?

Vivek Venkatachalam - Director, Vehicle & Connected Cybersecurity, Ford Motor Company
Ellen Lu - Global Head of System Engineering, Functional Safey & Product Cybersecurity, Dana Incorporated
Robert Schiff - Senior Manager, Transformation Programs, ZF Group
Robert Kaster - Chief Technical Expert, Robert Bosch LLC

10:00 am - 10:30 am KEYNOTE PRESENTATION LED BY GOLD EVENT PARTNER

10:30 am - 11:00 am MORNING REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:00 am - 11:30 am GAIN INSIGHT INTO THE AI THREAT LANDSCAPE & TECHNIQUES FOR COMBATTING AI-DRIVEN ATTACKS: WHICH AI-DRIVEN CYBER ATTACKS ARE HAPPENING, WHAT TECHNIQUES ARE BEING USED TO LAUNCH/COMBAT ATTACKS & HOW YOU CAN MITIGATE AGAINST THEM

11:30 am - 11:30 am PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW AUTOMOTIVE COMPANIES ARE IMPLEMENTING AI-POWERED SOLUTIONS TO MAKE CYBERSECURITY PROCESSES MORE EFFICIENT & ROBUST

Kiruthika Krishnamoorthy - Engineering Manager, International®
Suvendu Mohanty - Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Amazon
Sriram Yarlagadda - Tech Lead - Product Security, Latitude AI
Srivalli Boddupalli - Senior Data Scientist, Lucid Motors (Views shared will be her own)

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm PRESENTATION: SECURITY FOR AI: IDEA SHARING ON HOW MODELS ARE PROTECTED AGAINST AI-DRIVEN CYBER ATTACKS & PREVENT CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITIES FROM BEING EXPLOITED IN AI ALGORITHMS

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm SHOWCASING CUTTING-EDGE AI-POWERED TOOLS, TECHNOLOGIES & VENDOR CAPABILITIES: PRESENTATION LED BY EVENT PARTNER

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm PRESENTATION: BUILD AI GOVERNANCE: LEARN MITIGATION STEPS AND STANDARDS THAT NEED TO BE FOLLOWED IN DIFFERENT REGIONS

1:30 pm - 2:40 pm NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm PRESENTATION: QUANTIFYING CYBERSECURITY RISK IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED VEHICLE ARCHITECTURES: DATA-DRIVEN ANALYSIS OF ATTACK SURFACE EVOLUTION AND ISO/SAE 21434 TARA IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES

Abdulrahman Yacoob - Cybersecurity Consultant, Independent

3:10 pm - 3:50 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: NEW SECURITY FEATURES AND TECHNOLOGIES THAT NEED TO BE CREATED FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED VEHICLES THAT OPERATING ON OEM-BUILT OPERATING SYSTEMS

Garret Tietz - Functional Safety Manager, Harbinger Motors
Hemanth Tadepalli - Cybersecurity Compliance Engineer, May Mobility

3:50 pm - 4:30 pm DEEP-DIVE INTO NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT CAN BE USED TO MANAGE SECURITY RISK IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED VEHICLES: PRESENTATION LED BY EVENT PARTNER

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm AFTERNOON REFRESHMENT BREAK

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: IMPLEMENTING CONTINUOUS & DYNAMIC THREAT EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT AS VEHICLES BECOME CONNECTED TO THE CLOUD

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm ENSURING END-TO-END ENCRYPTION AND SECURITY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SECURITY LEADERS TO STAY COGNIZANT OF THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM AND PROTECT IT FROM END TO END

David Gutierrez - Principal Engineer, Company Name Announced Soon

6:00 pm - 6:05 pm CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSING REMARKS & END OF DAY TWO

6:05 pm - 7:35 pm NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION