This half day virtual plenary allows our AESIN Chair, Workstream Leads and guest speakers to give updates on their respective areas.
Covering topics including ADAS & HAV, Cyber Security, Clean & Connected Mobility, More Electric Powertrain, Software, Skills, Semiconductor trends and Industry Standards as well as the impact COVID-19 has had on the Automotive industry.
Our Speakers
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Aileen Ryan
UltraSoC
Aileen Ryan
Aileen’s executive career spans software engineering, operations and strategy with a variety of firms including Huawei, TM Forum, Motorola and Alcatel. She is widely recognized as a leader in the global communications industry and has been named by Silicon Republic as one of the top 25 Irish leaders in the Sci-Tech world. Aileen serves on the editorial advisory board for VanillaPlus and IOTNow publications, and is a regular speaker and moderator at events globally. Aileen holds an M.B.A., an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Micro-electronic Engineering from University College Cork.
Andreas Aal
Volkswagen
Andreas Aal
Andreas Aal leads the semiconductor strategy and reliability assurance activities within the electric-/electronic development department at Volkswagen, Germany, which he joined in 2011. His activities concentrate on technology capability enhancement of nodes down to 12 nm as well as optimization of power electronics for automotive applications. He leads two semiconductor related European projects and is a strong representative of the through-the-supply-chain-jointdevelopment approach. Mr. Aal has been working within the semiconductor industry since 1998 holding different positions from engineering to management working on production monitoring, process and technology development, qualification, and failure analysis. He was involved in device optimization, the development of test structure design as well as new combined stress/measurement and data analysis methodologies for qualification and fWLR monitoring. Andreas (certified reliability professional) published and co-authored various papers, has given invited talks, served as reviewer for different Journals and has served in the technical and management committee for IEEE IIRW. He is a member of the IEEE Electron Devices, CPMT, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences, Reliability and Solid-State Circuits Societies and also a frequent participant / contributor of the JEDEC subcommittee 14.2. Since 2007 he is chair of the German ITG group 8.5.6 (VDE) on (f) WLR, reliability simulations and qualification.
Andrew Ashby
BAE Systems
Andrew Ashby
Andrew Ashby is a founder of the AESIN Consortium and having taken a lead role in its early workstream activities, then went on to support the ongoing growth and success of AESIN, as Vice chairman. Andrew is a consulting, business development and sales professional with a longstanding technical background. He is widely networked and is currently helping to drive thought leadership in the automotive and transport sectors in the areas of connected and autonomous vehicles, vehicle systems cyber resilience and infrastructure. He has been instrumental in creating the environment where AESIN now fosters independent working relationships across multiple industry sectors, government organisations, policy makers and standards bodies. He has over twenty-five years’ experience in business development, consulting, global sales, OEM account management, Field Applications and Design and Development Engineering.
Alan Banks
TechWorks
Alan Banks, CEO TechWorks
Alan started his career at British Telecom where he trained as a Telecommunications Electronics engineer. He joined Ford Motor Company in 1985 where he held a number of management positions within the IT Department delivering Telecommunications and Product Development systems developing Ford products in Europe. After completing an International Service Assignment in the United States in the early 200’s he returned to Visteon in the UK where he was the European IT Manager. He held a number of senior positions within Visteon delivering Vehicle Cockpit Electronics Programs and after 35 years completed his career at Visteon as the Engineering Director responsible for delivering cockpit electronics for Ford and Jaguar Land Rover. Alan is a member of the Automotive Council’s Intelligent Connected Vehicle Working Group and is the lead for Power Electronics at the Automotive Council. He is passionate about growing Electronics capability in the UK and believes strongly that connected communities and collaboration are the key to exploiting successful partnerships enabling the exploration of the wealth of opportunity it brings with new and exciting emerging technology markets. Alan was awarded the TechWorks “Lifetime Contribution to Industry” award in 2017.
Alan Walker
Consultant
Alan Walker
Alan Walker is an experienced Director, with a history of multi-disciplinary business leadership in industry, specialised in advanced tech development. He has a PhD and MSc in Engineering, and post-doc research, focused on Electric and Hybrid-Electric Vehicles. He has published widely and received numerous funding grants. With twenty years’ experience in the area of applied electronic systems engineering, he has worked with many automotive industry companies (large, SMEs and start-ups); OEMs, suppliers and technology developers, with whom he has successfully applied analytical, engineering and design-for-manufacture skills to develop technology from academic research through advanced engineering into production. He has an MBA, focused on Strategy and Change Management and was involved in developing many corporate strategies to address tech markets. He has also implemented strategies to achieve rapid business growth, establishing new development sites, planning investments and resources, recruiting talent, managing operations and achieving targets. Alan has strong commercial negotiation skills and has led business development teams, closing many multi-million euro supplier development contracts. Recognition as Fellow IET, recipient of numerous funding grants, regular speaker at industry conferences and member of several steering committees and industry body working groups. Alan is also a big supporter of STEM education.
Dr Alastair McGibbon
CSA Catapult
Dr Alastair McGibbon
Alastair has over 30 years’ experience in semiconductors and electronics, working in the UK, South East Asia and the US.
He has spent the last 15 years working across the UK supply chain in power electronics, helping to encourage collaboration and increase government awareness of the important of power electronics in systems.
He is a co-initiator of PowerelectronicsUK, co-author of the recent PowerelectronicsUK Green and White Papers and helped contribute to the APC/Automotive council roadmaps in Power Electronics. He is currently responsible for Power Electronics Business Development at the new Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, with the remit of helping the UK power electronics supply chain, with a strong emphasis on automotive, exploit the opportunities of wide bandgap semiconductors in systems applications.
Bryn Balcombe
ADA/Roborace
Bryn Balcombe
Bryn Balcombe is the Founder of the Autonomous Drivers Alliance (ADA) which is committed to the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the Safe System approach to road safety to ensure mobility fatalities and injuries are eliminated by 2050. He was recently appointed as the Chair of the ITU Focus Group on AI for Autonomous and Assisted Driving (FG-AI4AD) which provides an open, collaborative forum for developing standards required for the behavioural evaluation of AI driving software. In addition he serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Roborace – the world’s first fully autonomous motorsport competition.
David Skipp
FORD
David Skipp
David Skipp is Manager, UK Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company. In this role since January 2015, David is responsible for running collaborative research projects in the UK in association with University, SME, Supply Chain and other industry partners. David works closely with a number of industry bodies, and has been active within a number of UK Automotive Council working groups.
In his previous role, David was Manager, Sustainability Planning & Strategy, responsible for Emissions, CO2, and Powertrain Technology strategies and resulting future product plans for Ford Of Europe markets. Prior to that, David was Manager, Gasoline Powertrain Development, responsible for gasoline engine development and calibration.
Since graduating from Brunel University with a multi-discipline engineering degree, David has held a number of Powertrain Development, Vehicle Development, and Product Planning roles in over 25 years at Ford Motor Company.
Gary Bray
Siemens
Gary Bray
Gary Bray is responsible for Sensors and Connected Mobility at Siemens Mobility Limited.
With over 18 years’ experience in the ITS (Intelligent Traffic Systems) industry, Gary has a strong background in traffic engineering, modelling and advanced control systems.
Gary is responsible for developing Siemens Connected Mobility solutions, using infrastructure to increase the connectivity of the highway network to improve safety and support the introduction and integration of new mobility options and services.
Gunwant Dhadyalla
Gunwant graduated with honours with a Masters in engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. His track record includes working for OEMs including Rover Group, Rolls-Royce and Bentley, and technology developers including Valeo Group, Germany. He is currently Chief Engineer in the Energy and Electrical Systems group at WMG, University of Warwick leading the intelligent vehicles engineering function on projects including INTACT – accelerating the testing of low speed autonomous vehicles, with RDM Group, using the WMG 3xD simulator, SAVVY – Smart Verification & Validation methodologies for ADAS technology, UKCITE – test methods for testing cyber security of connected technology, and CAVinSE – feasibility study on the requirements for certifiable synthetic environments
Leesa Kingman
NMI ES / PEUK
Leesa Kingman
Leesa Kingman received her BEng(Hons) degree in Computer Systems Engineering from University of Sussex in 1999. She spent last 20 years working in design specialising in FPGAs working across many industries.
She has been active in all aspects of design; architecting FPGA designs, HDL development through to simulation, product test, project management to purchasing and taking products through to manufacture.
Leesa has a particular interest in STEM and enjoys help inspire the next generation of engineers through her work in the STEM Network.
Leesa runs the NMI Electronic Systems and Power Electronics UK communities.
James Lewis
Helix Technologies
Andreas Aal
Andreas Aal leads the semiconductor strategy and reliability assurance activities within the electric-/electronic development department at Volkswagen, Germany, which he joined in 2011. His activities concentrate on technology capability enhancement of nodes down to 12 nm as well as optimization of power electronics for automotive applications. He leads two semiconductor related European projects and is a strong representative of the through-the-supply-chain-jointdevelopment approach. Mr. Aal has been working within the semiconductor industry since 1998 holding different positions from engineering to management working on production monitoring, process and technology development, qualification, and failure analysis. He was involved in device optimization, the development of test structure design as well as new combined stress/measurement and data analysis methodologies for qualification and fWLR monitoring. Andreas (certified reliability professional) published and co-authored various papers, has given invited talks, served as reviewer for different Journals and has served in the technical and management committee for IEEE IIRW. He is a member of the IEEE Electron Devices, CPMT, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences, Reliability and Solid-State Circuits Societies and also a frequent participant / contributor of the JEDEC subcommittee 14.2. Since 2007 he is chair of the German ITG group 8.5.6 (VDE) on (f) WLR, reliability simulations and qualification.
Kevin Vincent
Coventry University
Kevin Vincent
Mr. Kevin Vincent as Operations Manager for the Institute for Future Transport and Cities, has approximately 30 years’ experience in product and business development in both private and public sectors with specific expertise in EU & nationally-funded collaborative R&D projects, gained through previous roles at Pera Innovation Ltd, Altair Engineering Ltd, and as Director of his own limited company. With a background in engineering simulation and optimisation, his particular passion is intelligent mobility and transportation systems with the objective of promoting research and impact in new environmentally sustainable and accessible forms of mobility. He currently Chairs the Research Advisory Board for AESIN. Prior to this, after graduating from Coventry University, he spent 15 years in the automotive and aerospace sectors as a consulting engineer working for IAD (UK) Ltd and Ricardo both in the UK and USA where he spent 5 years consulting on automotive design for Chrysler, Ford and General Motors.
Laith Altmime
SEMI
Laith Altmime
Mr. Altimime has more than 30 years of international experience in the semiconductor industry. Before joining SEMI as a President of SEMI Europe in 2015, he was senior director of business development at imec. Prior to this, Mr. Altimime held leadership positions at Altis/Infineon/Qimonda, KLA-Tencor, Communicant Semiconductor AG, and NEC Semiconductors
Michael Welsh
Altran
Michael Welsh
Michael has over 30 years of experience in engineering including aerospace, high speed rail and automotive industries.
Over the past 20 years he has held various roles in the automotive industry at Ford, Visteon and Altran.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Systems Engineering from Anglia Ruskin University and a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University.
Michael also sits on the UK AESIN Executive Steering Board.
Peter Davies
Thales
Peter Davies
I love what I do, approach everything with energy and enthusiasm and can always see an angle. As a Technical Director of Thales in the UK I have been their leading expert on Cryptography in the UK responsible for providing cryptography and information security direction and expertise on a variety of products and projects. Previous work includes the development and certification of flexible and interoperable commercial security solutions that are also widely used by governments; these solutions are available worldwide and support the security of both communications and infomatics in an international, multi grade environment. My specialist knowledge is at the core of the cyber defence and forensics activities that I undertake combatting existential treats against business. I can, and have, interacted on security and products at any level from Prime Minister, through Board to deep technical including Agencies, Certification Labs and partners developing and sustaining business opportunities worldwide. I have generated patents in the area of digital DNA and my research covers aspects of technical security as well as aspects of super-identities and their role in combatting human based cyber-attacks. I have lead EU security research contract and have acted as a n expert on others. As well as contributing to standards I am a frequent speaker at international conferences and deliver lectures to postgraduate information and cyber security programmes in the UK and worldwide.
Paul Jarvie
AESIN
Paul Jarvie
Paul Jarvie received the BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Paisley in 1985.
He had 16 Years experience with NEC Semiconductors in Product Engineering followed by 3 Years with NXP Semiconductors TV System Innovation Centre in Southampton.
He is currently the Director of Networks for TechWorks covering a range of Electronic Systems Technology and is Director of the Automotive Electronic Systems Innovation Network (AESIN).
Rob Millar
Williams Advanced Engineering
Rob Millar
Rob Millar is Head of Electrical at Williams Advanced Engineering, the technology and engineering services business of the Williams Group.
Williams Advanced Engineering provides world class innovation in engineering and technology, operational performance, testing and manufacturing services, working in a range of sectors including Automotive, Motorsport, Civil Aerospace, Defence, Healthcare, Sports Science and Energy.
Rob started his career as an electronics engineer, working on automotive body control systems, before moving into an electrical integration role in automotive systems with TWR Engineering in 1992.
In 2004, he took a step towards the electrification of vehicles by founding his own company which developed electronic systems for Modec, Tata and Daimler vehicles amongst others. Having first worked with Williams in 2010 in delivering the Jaguar C-X75 project he joined the company in 2016 to deliver its long-term innovative plans for batteries and electronics.
Stewart Edmondson
UKESF
Stewart Edmondson
Stewart served for over 20 years as an Engineering Officer in the Royal Air Force, specialising in operational communications-electronics systems prior to assuming senior positions responsible for ICT policy and training, maintenance regulations and information management. Subsequent to leaving the RAF, Stewart worked at QinetiQ before undertaking executive roles in HR Services at Xchanging and then BAE Systems, where he focused on early careers programmes for graduates and apprentices. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Dr Stephen Lambert
McLaren Applied
Dr Stephen Lambert
Dr Stephen Lambert received his Doctorate from the University of Warwick by looking at the applicability of hybrid and electric drivetrains in motorsport. Following this he worked at Lotus Engineering, developing hybrid and electric demonstrator vehicles for a number of OEMs. Through this role, he found himself working closely with battery manufacturers as a key partner for these projects. He has since worked in various roles around developing battery technology in areas such as Formula 1 and high performance road cars. He is now responsible for the electrification strategy for automotive customers with McLaren Applied technologies, where he is helping deliver advantage by empowering customer to introduce and protect new vehicle concepts and technologies and to drive differentiation in the market.
Tim Edwards
HORIBA MIRA
Tim Edwards
Tim Edwards is Senior Consultant in Connected and Automated Vehicle technologies at HORIBA MIRA. Over more than 12 years his work with MIRA has spanned Driver Assistance Systems, Automated and Cooperative Driving. Tim was MIRA technical lead for advanced collaborative R&D programmes including SAFESPOT, SAFERIDER, and UK Autodrive, and the current TIC-IT, Park-IT, and VeriCAV projects. Tim led a range of design and implementation projects for the City Circuit, a unique purpose-built ITS test facility hosted at MIRA, and now advises international customers on CAV test and facility development.