8:00 am - Check in and Breakfast
8:30 am - Welcome and Introduction
John Sousanis, Managing Director, Wards Intelligence
PRESENTATIONS
AI in VEHICLES: OEM and Supplier Strategies
WardsAuto Senior Editor James Amend will deliver highlights from a new Wards Intelligence report examining how suppliers and OEMs are planning to bring AI to bear on every facet of our vehicles.
AI in ENGINEERING: Product Development
A “fireside chat” with Dr. Kay Stepper, vice president-Driver Assistance Systems and Automated Driving at Robert Bosch. WardsAuto Senior Editor James Amend will interview Stepper about a new partnership regarding machine-learning and how it will aid engineering and product development in the future; and how Bosch is approaching the future challenges of on-board computing for autonomous vehicles.
AI in Auto Manufacturing and Outside Industries
Speakers from Adient, ZF and Magna will discuss applications and case histories of how AI can and will be used in current and future factories.
SPEAKERS: Randall Urban, vice president, Digital Office, Adient
Chris Menge, Head Off Highway Systems Business Unit, ZF North America Boris Shulkin, vice president, Research and Development, Magna
11:00 - Networking Break
11:20 am
PROGRAM RESUMES
AI INSIGHT: Transforming Data Analytics
Fireside chat with Chris Hegarty, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Sector Lead, Cray. In the 1990s, Cray was famous for helping the auto industry store and analyze huge amounts of data to make vehicles safer and more efficient. Today, Cray still is storing and analyzing huge amounts of data, only it is using AI to do it differently. In this chat, Hegarty and WardsAuto's Drew Winter will discuss what Cray has been up to and where it is headed now.
12:00 pm - Buffet-style lunch for all attendees
1:00 pm
PROGRAM RESUMES
AI and AUTONOMY: Challenges to Implementation
Twitter’s 270 million users produce about 100 gigabytes of data per day. A single autonomous test vehicle produces about 30 terabytes per day, 3,000 times the scope of Twitter’s daily data. Will AI systems have the computing horsepower to manage such data, will electric vehicles have enough energy on board to power such systems and still have sufficient range?
SPEAKERS: Dan Galves, senior vice president, Mobileye Hyundai, speaker confirmed, title TBA Chris Hagerty, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Sector Lead, Cray
AI in the COCKPIT: Creating the Ultimate User Experience
Imagine vehicles that will allow you to go shopping just by looking at a store from the driver’s seat, do online banking or having your car develop a less-stressful commute by reading your emotions.
Experts from Nuance and Harman will explain how combining AI with eye-tracking technology, facial recognition, voice print recognition, iris recognition, voice commands and mapping data can create new consumer experiences and happier, more productive commutes.
SPEAKERS: Adam Enfield, Principal User Experience Manager, Nuance Adam Boulanger, Director of Future Experience, Harman
3:00 pm - Networking Reception
Meet up with your colleagues, make new connections and recharge with coffee and snacks before heading out.
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