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Moderator/Track 1: Intro + AV Landscape Update

Date and Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Valentin Scinteie 

Product Manager, CMC Electronics
@Val

Presentation Description

This breakout session will focus on the key technologies that shape the autonomous vehicles landscape.

Whether it is for partial automation for L2/3 systems or reaching the holy grail of L4/5 systems, we will examine the components and systems available to AV architects. Our expert panelists will concentrate the discussion on the latest key technology challenges for ongoing AV development efforts and start discussing the upcoming technology requirements for next generation larger commercial deployments in each of the following areas:

• Intro + AV Landscape Update
• Communications: Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)
• Sensors, Cameras, Positioning and Sensor Fusion
• High Power Compute, AI Accelerators, System Integration and eVTOLs (Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing)

This first introduction track will provide the audience with an AV Landscape Update from two industry experts:
• Sven Beiker, Silicon Valley Mobility
• Daisy Wall, May Mobility

Speaker Biography

After more than 20 years in the transportation and security industries with Kontron and Alstom Transport respectively, Valentin joined his current employer CMC Electronics in 2021. Valentin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, and a MBA degree in International Business from l’École des hautes études commerciales (HEC), Montreal.

In his current position, Valentin is the Product Manager of the CMC avionics displays and panels product portfolio. Previously at Kontron he was responsible for the market alignment and business development of Kontron’s next generation transportation “Autonomous Anywhere” rugged Intelligent Vehicle Computers (IVCs) and IoT (Internet of Things) ready gateways for onboard and smart city applications.

Valentin presently chairs the TRB ARTS (Automated Road Transportation Symposium) Enabling Technologies Breakout Sessions. He has also chaired in the past the TVAC (Technologies for Vehicle Automation and Connectivity) APTA (American Public Transit Association) Subcommittee.

Valentin is a regular blogger and moderator/speaker at conferences on the topics of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), IoT and Emerging Public Transportation Technologies.

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