Tuesday, June 17
03:40 PM - 04:15 PM
Live in Berlin
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Presenting the results of our World Cafés: The moderators summarize the key take-aways of their World Café Round Tables on the main stage and share the main findings with all attendees.
Frank Wippich is the managing director of gestigon GmbH - a Valeo company. In his 20+years professional work experiences, he designed, tested and managed automotive infotainment and vision products - from initiation to market launch. Before gestigon / Valeo, Frank has worked internationally for Visteon, Panasonic and Blindsight, a computer vision company bought by Amazon. He holds an Engineering with Technology Management degree from Ernst-Abbe-University Jena, Germany and a MBA from Henley Business School, UK.
Alfonso specializes in the seamless integration of Electric and Electronic (E/E), Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and Human Machine Interface (HMI) systems within the upper body environment of vehicles. Serving as a crucial interface between BiW&Trim development and the evolving trends of digitalization, automation, and electrification in the automotive industry. As the Product Owner of the cabin team, he leads Lean Agile Systems Engineering (LASE) efforts for both active safety and passive safety epics.
Andrea Upmann studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen and worked for 14 years in overall vehicle development at Ford-Werke GmbH before her appointment. At RWTH Aachen she is now the Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching in the Aerospace & Automotive Engineering Department. Andrea is also an EU ADAS Core Engineer at Ford-Werke GmbH, working on the In-Cabin Sensing Project with a focus on driver-facing cameras. With her extensive background in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), she is dedicated to advancing the development of innovative solutions to improve safety, comfort, and user experience in the future of autonomous driving and vehicle systems.
Her motto is to put people at the centre of everything – both in teaching and in the design of a vehicle. Andrea lives in Cologne with her husband and four-year-old son. In her free time, she likes to do things with family and friends. She enjoys traveling, hiking, jogging and spinning.
Peter Rössger is the founder of beyond HMI/////. We focus on creating knowledge on HMIs, usability, and user experience for the automotive industry, the Industrial Internet, mobile machinery, and software applications. We perform studies on usability and user experience. We use our knowledge to develop HMI concepts for our customers. Until early 2015 Peter was Business Development Director at TES Electronic Solutions GmbH. During his 12 years with Harman Automotive he created HMI concepts for automotive OEMs like Mercedes, Porsche, Toyota, Hyundai, PSA, Ferrari, and Harley Davidson. For Daimler, he worked 4 years in driver-vehicle interaction. Peter holds a doctoral degree in Human Factors Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. He published various papers on usability, user experience, cross-cultural HMIs, and autonomous driving. He lives at Böblingen near Stuttgart, Berlin, and at Port d'Andratx, Mallorca.
Guy-Aimé Tiadi is the Senior Human Factors & UX / Activities Lead at VALEO, focusing on Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) for detecting driver drowsiness and occupant distraction and unresponsive driving. His work included leading Human Factor Activities, defining detection algorithms, contributing to automotive RFQs, conducting expert annotations, and correlating algorithm performance with user experience. Previously, Aimé was a Consultant - Expert in Human Factors at VALEO, specializing in designing embedded sensors for detecting driver distraction and drowsiness and concurrently, he is a substitute teacher at MyDigitalSchool. Aimé holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuro-science from Université Paris-Saclay.