CIHT will be delivering the next live event in the Future of transport webinar series at 13:00 - 14:30 on 27th October.
This month our speakers will address the topic area of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles. We will be joined by Francis McKinney, Senior Project Delivery Lead at Zenzic, Dr Valentina Donzella, Associate Professor - Intelligent Vehicle Sensors for University of Warwick, Michael Talbot, Deputy Head of the UK’s Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and Chris Reeves, Head of CAV Technologies at Horiba Mira.
Each speaker will deliver a 15-minute presentation to attendees. We will then host a 15-minute panel Q&A session where the audience will be able to ask their questions live to the panel.
We are offering an early bird discount of 50% to those registered by 13th October. Make sure you register in time to take full advantage of this offer!
As vehicle manufacturers transition to become mobility service providers, the automotive industry is at a crossroads and experiencing a change. Over the next decade, global demand for CAV technology is projected to skyrocket, paving the way for additional income and customers.
To sustain long-term growth, automakers must address a number of critical issues, including preventing cyber threats and safeguarding consumer data, collaborating with new technology entrants, determining winning business models for global rollout of connected cars, and improving autonomous driving technology.
In CIHT’s Future of Transport on Autonomous and Connected Vehicles webinar, we will take a deep dive into the newest industry trends and participants will hear thought-provoking case study presentations from leading experts on the field.
Michael Talbot is Deputy Head of the UK’s Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) of which he was a founding member in 2015. He recently returned from a two-year industrial secondment to Zenzic, as part of CAM Testbed UK, as their Head of Strategy, delivering a policy he designed.
Prior to CCAV, Michael was Head of Horizon Scanning in the UK Government's Horizon Scanning Programme, leading on the Eight Great Technologies, setting up a cross-Government emerging technologies community of interest (including CAVs).
Michael holds a Master's degrees from the Universities of Toronto and Oxford.
Francis Mckinney is a chartered engineer with over 20 year's experience in the automotive and intelligent transport sectors.
He specialises in leading technically complex projects and has worked for such companies as British Aerospace, Jaguar Land Rover, Atkins highways and transportation, Ricardo and EDAG UK.
Chris Reeves is the Head of Connected Autonomous Vehicles Technologies at HORIBA MIRA. His focus is in the field of intelligent and connected vehicles and intelligent mobility.
He has extensive experience in sensors, embedded electronics, communications and the verification and validation of CAV related technologies. He is also the programme director at HORIBA MIRA for projects relating to establishing CAM TestBed UK. His is a highly experienced technical manager with a proven record of developing and delivering high technology solutions to the automotive, defence, security and telecommunications sectors, working for HORIBA MIRA Ltd, QinetiQ Ltd and BT Group plc.
Dr Valentina Donzella is an inspiring and award-winning expert in automotive sensors, electronics, optics, silicon photonics, modelling, design and testing. She not only holds a PhD in Modelling, Design and Fabrication of Integrated Optical Amplifiers but has 12 years’ academic and industry experience in photonics and sensors, with over 50 papers published to date. As well as leading the ADAS & HAV Sensor subgroup in AESIN.
Dr Donzella is the Director of WMG's MSc and Jaguar Land Rover Degree Apprenticeship and professional programmes in Smart Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, managing a suite of modules in automotive sensors, sensor fusion, automotive embedded system V&V and robustness, machine intelligence, human technology interaction and communications.
Dr Donzella’s remarkable achievements and experience has resulted in receiving a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship on camera sensors (2020-22).
If you have any questions regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact the CIHT Conferences & Events Team on +44 (0)20 7336 1555 or conferences@ciht.org.uk
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