Main Day One Agenda - 11th September 2024

While there are a couple of companies that have developed L3 functionalities, the majority of the industry is very hesitant to go from L2 to L2+, with some inventing new names to like L2++ to avoid the legal conflict of going into L3, where right now responsibility and ownership of failures moves from the driver to the manufacturer.

One of the big questions right now is ‘What does getting from level two to level three actually mean?’

• This opening presentation sees an expert clearly define what L2, L2+ and L3 means, which automated driving functionalities fall under each level, and what needs to happen to go from level two, to two plus, and to level three. 

Javier Ibanez

Technical Manager, Autonomous Vehicles
Groupe Renault

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We’re giving you the opportunity to hear lesson learned from companies that are actually doing the work; see automotive visionaries on stage as they share details on what they are doing, how they are doing it, what challenges they are facing when deploying AD functionalities and how they are solving them.

• Hear the OEMs complete lifecycle journey from end-to-end system design to deployment.
• Understand what first-data is telling OEMs about automated driving functionalities; are vehicles performing as OEMs envisioned? What does data tell us about vehicle performance, safety features and specific events including accidents.
• Understand what type of data is crucial to have to measure system performance.
• Learn which type of data is currently missing and would be a must-have to use to as key performance indicator.
• Get details on what lessons have been learned post-deployment in relation to the OEM’s simulation, testing and validation methodologies.
• Hear recommendations on how to make the journey towards higher levels of autonomy, and the merits/demerits of adopting specific pathways. 

Javier Ibanez

Technical Manager, Autonomous Vehicles
Groupe Renault

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The industry is beginning to receive first data from deployment of automated vehicles. What does this data tell us about user acceptance, especially in Germany where drivers not only sceptical of automated driving but also ‘drive with pride’ with a resistance to change from manual gearboxes to automatic gearboxes.

• Join your peers and find out what first-data tells us about user acceptance for automated driving functionalities in Germany and surrounding countries. 

This OEM-led presentation gives you a look at opportunities simulation presents to reduce cost, increase safety, and maximise performance.

• Understand advantages of an accurate simulation, when it should be used, and how it can simplify the testing phase.
• Find out what which indicators can be used to compare the performance of the function.
• Understand when to use real data versus simulation data, and when to fuse both data sets to reduce cost.
• Gain insight into how to assess & prove the validity of the simulation, and ensure your testing and development is reliable.

• Understand how much effort it takes to make simulation representative of the real world.
• Gain insight into the scalability of a simulated environment.
• Understand how well driving dynamics can be involved in the simulation process.
• Find out at which phase of development you need a high-fidelity testing environment and understand the correlation between real world testing and simulation.

Simeon Calvert

Associate Professor, Director Automated Driving & Simulation Research
TU Delft

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Explore the latest and greatest simulation tools to support the development, testing, and validation of automated driving technologies, focusing on optimising cost & effort, and maximising safety.

To reserve this speaking slot and deliver thought-leadership on the topic of simulation, email partner@automotive-iq.com

• Understand the requirements for perception simulation.
• Explore how simulation can be used to address corner cases in perception, such as adverse weather conditions.
• Gain insight into how perception simulation can help expand the ODD towards level three functionality.

Ahmed Yousif

Simulation Product Owner
Valeo

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Mohamed Elsobky

Software Testing & Simulation Senior Expert and Software Discipline Product Technical Manager
Valeo

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Understand all the effort that went behind scenario-based testing, including:

• Examine the infrastructure to begin scenario-based testing; what is mandatory and what is nice to have.
• Scenario extraction from vehicle recordings.
• Classification of scenarios.
• Simulation of scenarios and search-based testing.
• Details on how which scenarios were kept, which were deleted and how they were classified. 

Alejandro Morate

Director - Autonomous Drive
Zeekr Technology Europe

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Learn about the capabilities of new sensor, laser scanners, radars and LiDAR technologies and hardware that will perform in a safe and fast way with all neural networks and deliver better detection and safety.

To reserve this speaking slot and deliver thought-leadership on the topic of sensing technologies, email partner@automotive-iq.com

• Understand which sensor set is necessary to achieve safe level three or level four in every condition.
• Learn how to package the sensor in the car to sense the whole environment, from pedestrians to trucks.
• Examine corner case data and see what sensors/Lidar/radars are seeing during rain and adverse weather conditions
• Learn how to efficiently interpret data.
• Explore the V&V strategy for different sensor sets.

Ralph Grewe

Product Manager Perception
Continental AG

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Vignesh Mahalingam

Lead Engineer
Bosch

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Valentina Donzella

Professor, Head of Intelligent Vehicles - Sensors
WMG, University of Warwick

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Hear from a perception expert as they take to the stage to share:

• Solutions to ensure that perception architecture is robust and stable, and protected from cybersecurity attacks.
• What the verification process looks like for perception systems at level 2+, and how this changes for level 3.
• Different processes, methods, and tools for perception validation for level three systems.
• The role of perception in expanding the ODD from level three to level four.

Ralph Grewe

Product Manager Perception
Continental AG

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