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Overview

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Speakers

Dr. Thomas Beck

Managing Director

Dr. Matthias Traub

Managing Director

Jochen Rein

Senior Vice President Software Platform, Vector

Dr. Marcus Eggenberger

Vice President Product Management Software Factory, Vector

Jan Linnebacher

Director Business Development Testing, Vector

Sabina Wrobel

VP Support, Vector

Overview

A foundation for your engineers and a thousand agents, from idea to fleet and back

• Transform your ecosystem into a unified workplace where teams, tools, processes, and automation operate on a common foundation with shared knowledge models, versioned assets, and consistent workflows.
• Engineers and thousands of agents will have to collaborate through the same governed processes, gates, and quality controls, ensuring traceability, compliance, and evidence generation as a natural byproduct of daily work.
• Connecting the entire product lifecycle from idea to fleet and back, by avoiding silos in the organization and removing friction between domains

Speaker

Dr. Marcus Eggenberger

Vice President Product Management Software Factory, Vector

Overview

• Proven Scale: Mercedes-Benz and key partners like Vector proved with MB.OS that scaled SDV architectures are production reality.
• The Speed Gap: Entering connected SDV ecosystems requires cutting product cycle times from years to weeks, leaving domain silos behind.
• The Call: The industry must embrace AI, shared ownership, take brave decisions to evolve from process agents into true value drivers.

Speaker

Steffen Tacke

Director R&D, Mercedes-Benz

Overview

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Speaker

Maik Manthey

CTO, Jungheinrich

Overview

It's five to midnight for German auto: disruption, geopolitics and fierce new competitors are rewriting the rules. This presentation highlights lessons learnt from today's outperformers — Tesla, BYD, Toyota, BMW — and Big Tech turnarounds led by Nadella, Bezos and Huang, distilling both into a concrete playbook for reclaiming the top.

Speaker

Dr. Thomas Sedran

CEO, Hörmann Automotive | Founder, RyuWorks

Overview

Many companies are currently optimizing their token budgets while the fax machine is still standing in the hallway. The debate around costs, models, and infrastructure is important, but it often overlooks the weakest link: the organization itself, which is not yet ready to scale. In many companies, teams are already actively experimenting with AI tools, using them in their daily work, and identifying what is missing. What they lack is not another model. They need the right framework: clear governance, trust in their judgment, and leaders who recognize expertise where it already exists. True AI scale emerges when top-down strategy meets bottom-up initiative. In this keynote, Kenza Ait Si Abbou explains why the human factor ultimately determines whether AI can scale across an organization and what technology companies must do to unlock their full potential before deploying the next model.

Speaker

Kenza Ait Si Abbou

AI Strategist, Author | Founder & Managing Director, Scailers

Overview

• Artificial intelligence is transforming software engineering, but real value comes from combining AI with dependable engineering principles.
• Deterministic tooling, open architectures, and AI-native workflows create trustworthy engineering solutions.
• This presentation explores how these approaches streamline engineering tasks, increase productivity, and preserve quality and control.

Speaker

Dr. Daniel Gebauer

Director Product Management Systems Engineering, Vector

Overview

• What are breakthrough innovations? And why are they always the starting point of technological progress?
• Germany and Europe must once again produce more breakthrough innovations to become technologically more sovereign.
• The 3 big levers: raise investment, cut bureaucracy, support nerds with a mission.

Speaker

Dr. Thomas Ramge

AI & Innovation Author | Data-Driven Decisions & Transformation

Speakers

Dr. Thomas Beck

Managing Director, Vector

Dr. Matthias Traub

Managing Director, Vector

Overview

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Speaker

Dr. Hiie-Mai Unger

CEO, DB Systemtechnik

Overview

Most OEMs are transforming their product structure and tech stack – but not the entire operating model around them. This presentation argues that the real strategic choice is not only which product to build, but also how to redraw the boundaries of in-house value creation and, consequently, how to partner. It presents which paths OEMs are taking regarding the depth and breadth of their core contribution, maps the fundamentally different partnering philosophies, and shows why the wrong combination inevitably breaks the operating model. Expect no universal answers – but a decision framework that separates strategic intent from expensive experimentation.

Speaker

Dennis Röhr

Managing Director, Berylls

Overview

Modern ECU software requires more than unit tests and model validation. Real-world data is key to validating complex system behavior. Data from lab, test-fleets, and series provides the foundation for scalable, data-driven validation. This talk demonstrates the full validation loop: from data acquisition and curation to AI-based analytics, automated validation, and regression testing.

Speaker

André Steimel

Senior Director Software Development, Vector

Overview

• AI now sits in every phase of the V-model. Each agent is a tool in your evidence chain, and such tools must be qualified.
• Errors compound along it. A generative agent's mistakes propagate, a verification agent's disappear, unchecked by anything downstream.
• ISO/PAS 8800 covers AI inside the vehicle, not the AI building it. Nobody has a method for the chain yet, us included.

Speaker

Adam Konopa

Director Mobility, Intellias

Overview

• Increasing confidence through reliable and reproducible formalization and validation of requirements according to standardized formalization templates
• Focus on token efficiency and technical guardrails, HITL, HOTL and hallucination detection
• Connect requirements to agentic engineering workflows

Speaker

Martin Melicher

Director Business Development Systems Engineering, Vector

Overview

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Speakers

Florian Havelland

Director Engineering Project Management, Harman

Gabriel Jäger

Senior Director Vehicle Networks and Sensor Interfaces, Harman

Overview

The Mindset, Collaboration Models and Workflows Behind Control and Speed at Scale: Success depends less on technology and more on adopting a platform-centric mindset that replaces project thinking, organizational silos and document-driven development. The challenge is maintaining control while continuously increasing delivery speed. Leading organizations achieve both speed and control through a platform-centric mindset, new collaboration models and value-stream-oriented workflows, enabled by architecture ownership, transparency, end-to-end traceability, automation and governance-by-design.

Speaker

Thomas Ebert

Vice President Embedded Services, Vector

Overview

Whether railway, automotive, medtech or robotics: engineering teams face the challenge of increasing complexity and pressure to reduce time-to-market. Volatilities in supply chains, emerging technologies and fast-changing requirements call for adaptability and speed. Drawing on real-world examples, this presentation explores how an integrated embedded ecosystem approach with a SIL to HIL testing strategy, assisted by AI, drives innovation and quality. Together, they help organizations master the complexity of next-generation embedded systems across these industries

Speaker

Sebastian Vohrer

Senior Manager Software Development, Vector

Overview

Building the Controls, Evidence and Architecture Required for Production-Grade AI Engineering

• From AI Experiments to Deployable Engineering - How organizations can move AI from isolated prototypes into real-world testing and verification workflows.
• Accelerating Testing with Accountability & Traceability - How AI can increase verification efficiency while maintaining transparency & oversight.
• Connecting AI, Automation and Human Oversight - How to bring everything together in a use case.

Speaker

Peter Ziegenhain

Vice President Software Development Testing, Vector

Overview

Building the Controls, Evidence and Architecture Required for Production-Grade AI Engineering

• AI can deliver real engineering value when it operates within controlled and governed workflows but can be a risk as well.
• Traceability, accountability, verification, and deployment guardrails are essential to make AI trustworthy, especially for engineering use cases.
• Robust architecture and evidence-based controls enable the safe scaling of AI from assistants to autonomous agents in regulated and safety-critical environments.

Speaker

Jörg Tischler

VP Connected Systems, T-Systems

Overview

• Code Contribution introduces a collaboration model that shifts development from specification-driven delivery to co-creation.
• Inspired by open-source principles direct contributions to productive software is enabled.
• Delivering and validating functionality through implementation rather than specification.

Speakers

Joel Northey

Program Manager Software Platform, Vector

Mirjam Meyer

Senior Software Development Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Overview

• Engineering generates vast amounts of data. Success depends on collaborating around it.
• A shared data foundation connects developers, testers, suppliers, and customers.
• Connected tools, data, and organizations transform information into actionable knowledge.

Speaker

Andreas Patzer

Senior Director Software Development Measurement and Calibration, Vector

Overview

• What's new in the Vector Certification Portfolio
• Celebrating our new graduates
• Beyond Certification: The Vector Certified Community

Speaker

Achim Rössler

Senior Director Technical Training, Vector

Anh Hong Pham

Senior Technical Training Specialist, Vector

Overview

Best Practices for Your Way From Prototype to Product

• How to develop a trustworthy AI application – a practical walk-through using anonymization as an example.
• Benchmark the AI model to uncover edge cases and gaps in training data coverage.
• Optimize and monitor to turn a prototype into a robust, market-ready product.

Speaker

Dr. Khanlian Chung

Senior Software Development Engineer Testing, Vector

Dr. Silke Hügl

Senior Software Development Engineer Measurement and Calibration, Vector

Overview

From ECU Configuration to a Self-Correcting Workflow

• How the EcuSdk works: The layer structure and how a configuration feature is built from it.
• How AI speeds up the daily work with the EcuSdk.
• An agentic workflow that builds, executes and validates a configuration and fixes its own errors.

Speaker

Peter Straubinger

Senior Product Management Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Overview

• Rule-based validation: Automated verification of measurement data against predefined thresholds and rules.
• Assisted analytics: Application of configurable algorithms and AI methods to uncover patterns and anomalies.
• Domain-specific intelligence: Training and deployment of custom models tailored to specific use cases and datasets.

Speaker

Stephan Herzog

Senior Business Development Engineer Measurement and Calibration, Vector

Overview

Setting up a new microcontroller application took days of manual steps before until a first “hello world” was observed. Now a system model gets converted, the stack configured and turned into code - in minutes. Easily implement apps, observe them live, and iterate fast.

Speaker

Carl Zech

Product Management Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Speaker

Dr. Thomas Beck

Managing Director

Dr. Matthias Traub

Managing Director

Overview

• Systems Engineering is not specific for a concrete industrial branch
• Take what we have, and generalize and adapt it.
• AI is not only a wave to surf on – it’s a Tsunami!

Speaker

Prof. Eric Sax

Head of the Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV), KIT

Overview

• A unified platform seamlessly connects ideation, development, deployment, and operations of software-defined products, enabling efficient collaboration across the entire lifecycle.
• The Big Loop Drives Continuous Innovation: Operational data from the field flows directly back into engineering, accelerating product improvements, shortening innovation cycles, and enhancing customer value through continuous feedback.
• By combining Engineering and Operations capabilities, organizations unlock predictive fleet management, remote application execution, and full visibility into distributed systems, resulting in faster learning, faster response times, and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Speaker

Andreas Heinecke

Vice President Software Development Software Platform, Vector

Overview

• Organizations are being forced to re-engineer engineering in the face of accelerating system complexity and fragmented engineering processes.
• SW-defined product development is forcing new and different engineering leadership decisions.
• Future success demands connecting design, software, verification, validation, simulation, safety, security, and operational feedback into continuous, collaborative engineering platforms across the product lifecycle.

Speaker

Dr. Ravi Subramanian

Chief Product Management Officer, Synopsys

Overview

Developer platforms promised to defy the IT laws of physics: they would boost innovation through harmonization, speed up development while assuring compliance, and reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Many teams found out the hard way that building such an in-house platform is far from easy: many of them end up with renaming existing IT services and are thus doomed from the start. And now we seem to start over, as platforms must support target agents in addition to or even instead of human developers. This is a good time to rethink the real purpose of in-house platforms: they mold institutional knowledge into a collection of executable services and APIs. They represent the organization’s point of view on a rapidly moving technology frontier to make sense in a world of increasing chaos. And that makes them more needed than ever.

Speaker

Gregor Hohpe

Platform Strategy Expert & Author | Software Ecosystems and Enterprise Architecture

Overview

The session discusses why foundational software has become a strategic priority for automakers. He will examine the challenges consuming engineering resources across the industry and explain how Alloy Kore provides a common software foundation that helps reduce integration effort, improve software reuse, and accelerate the development of scalable vehicle software platforms.

Speaker

John Wall

President, QNX

Overview

• Scalable software platforms are built on architecture and governed APIs, not only on individual building blocks.
• A unified foundation and domain-specific differentiation are complementary, not contradictory.
• Control and ownership are distinct. Sustainable software platforms thrive through ecosystem collaboration without losing strategic control.

Speaker

Dr. Marc Weber

Vice President Software Platform, Vector

Overview

AI is no longer a distant future technology. It is already changing how we work, make decisions, learn, and live together. In this personal yet highly practical talk, Julian Yogeshwar connects technological developments with a larger question: what does a world of continuous change mean for all of us – and especially for the next generation?

• We are already living in an AI world: What AI is changing in practical terms, why the transformation goes far beyond individual tools, and which new perspectives it opens up for businesses, society, and everyday work.
• The next generation is growing up differently: What it means when children and young people grow up with AI as a natural companion – and why skills, values, and the questions we ask matter more than ever.
• Recognising opportunities and staying capable of action: How individuals and organisations can turn AI into tangible opportunities without waiting for the next “finished” solution – and how we can learn to navigate continuous change constructively.

Speaker

Julian Yogeshwar

AI Consultant | Generative AI and Business Transformation

Speakers

Dr. Thomas Beck

Managing Director

Dr. Matthias Traub

Managing Director

Overview

• Integrated, not disruptive testing: Build a coherent test strategy from SIL to HIL that connects technologies, teams and existing engineering ecosystems.
• Right Testing: More testing is often a response to uncertainty. Reduce effort by applying the right test scope at the right stage.
• Smart Testing: Automate what is repetitive. Scale what is predictable. Focus where it matters.

Speaker

Christian Bluthardt

Senior Manager Business Development Testing, Vector

Overview

• Virtualization and electronics digital twins let OEMs develop and validate software-defined systems earlier—reducing reliance on costly physical prototypes.
• Synopsys and Vector combine virtualization, digital twins, automotive software, and test solutions in validated, pre-integrated workflows for scalable engineering.
• SIL Kit enables an open, interoperable simulation ecosystem across vendors, accelerating software-defined vehicle development and reducing integration complexity.

Speaker

Tom De Shutter

Senior Vice President of Product Management, Synopsys

Gavin Rogers

Senior Vice President Cross Product Experience, Vector

Overview

Remote Hardware Access, Anytime, Anywhere - for Engineer or Agent Alike

• Real hardware, on demand — reserve, share, control, monitor and automate HIL setups and test benches from anywhere and across organizations, so no one waits behind whoever happens to be closest to the bench.
• Built for CI/CT, not just for humans — plug hardware access directly into the pipeline, so an agent can trigger a real-silicon run the same way it triggers a virtual one.
• One shared farm, always reachable — vendor-independent hardware, standardized and remotely accessible, giving engineer or agent the same trustworthy path from commit to a validated verdict on real silicon.

Speaker

Robin Grünagel

Senior Business Development Engineer Embedded Software, Vector

Overview

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Speaker

Ingo Wuttke

Vice President Software Development Software Platform, Vector

Overview

As complexity grows and innovation cycles accelerate, great products remain essential but are no longer sufficient on their own. Lasting advantage comes from combining products, technologies, and services into coherent solutions that accelerate innovation at scale. Innovation increasingly happens beyond the product itself.

Speaker

Dr. Falco Bapp

Senior Director Software Platform, Vector

Overview

As systems evolved from standalone products to software-defined, continuously changing ecosystems, systems engineering evolved with them. What began as a document-centric discipline progressed to model-based approaches and structured methods such as the V-model, enabling traceability, consistency, and control of growing complexity. Today, however, software-defined systems, continuous delivery, AI-assisted development, and interconnected engineering ecosystems are challenging traditional assumptions. While DevOps has transformed software development into a continuous activity, much of the broader engineering context remains fragmented across tools, disciplines, and organizational boundaries. This presentation explores the evolution of systems engineering through four major stages: document-centric engineering, model-based engineering, the V-model era, and the rise of DevOps. Building on these foundations, it introduces the concept of continuous systems engineering, where requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, and operation are connected through a shared engineering context.

Speaker

Marcelino Varas

Senior Director Product Management Systems Engineering, Vector

Overview

In this talk will be discussed

• One CANape project, many vehicles: A standardized measurement and calibration environment for AMG e-drive development across multiple vehicle platforms.
• Scalable architecture: Harmonized hardware, software, and data workflows improve efficiency and maintainability.
• Growing together: The journey from evolving and optimizing CANape for the AMG e-Drive developer.

Speakers

Matthias Hey

Team Lead e-Drive Propulsion Management, Mercedes-AMG

Roman Krines

Development Engineer for Development Engineer for eDrive Measurement Systems and Software, Mercedes-AMG

Overview

Building IEEE 11073 SDC systems requires more than implementing standards—it demands robust device software combined with integrated tools and engineered workflows for efficient development and validation. This talk demonstrates how end to end approaches enable interoperable, secure, and compliant solutions while accelerating time to market and ensuring confidence in system behavior.

Speaker

Marvin Gerhardt

Senior Product Management Engineer, Vector

Nadine Schnabel

Software Development Engineer Testing, Vector

Overview

The Journey from Hardware-in-the-Loop to Scalable Software-Defined Testing
For years, we built business cases for virtual testing. Now the pressure to change is building the case for us. The question is no longer whether to virtualize testing – but how fast we can scale it. Technology was never the real challenge. Transformation is – and no one can do it alone.

Speaker

Alexander Merkel

Head of Department Electronics & Virtual Testing Solutions, Bertrandt

Overview

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Speaker

Florian Sommer/p>

Senior Director Sales and Partner Management, Vector

Overview

The talk will answer the following questions:
What does the transition from robotic prototypes to scalable products require?
How do safety, security and AI change software architecture?
Which lessons can robotics learn from automotive and industrial platforms?
What can automotive, industrial and medical technology companies learn from the emerging robotics industry?
What will define successful robotics software platforms in the next decade?

Speaker

Arne Nordmann

Vice President Technology & Innovation, Neura Robotics

Overview

• Understanding the organizational, process, and architectural foundations required for successful vECU adoption.
• Exploring why virtual ECU programs succeed or fail long before virtualization technologies are introduced.
• Learning how to establish the right prerequisites for a scalable and effective vECU rollout.

Speaker

Dr. Christian Köllner

Vice President Product Management Testing, Vector

Overview

A practical deep dive into real-time analysis

• Record and analyze runtime behavior.
• Visualize system execution with Gantt charts, histograms, constraint analysis and timing chains.
• Solve complex real-time problems faster by tracing the path from symptom to root cause.

Speaker

John Fernandes

Senior Software Development Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Rudi Dienstbeck

Senior Staff Engineer, Lauterbach

Overview

Accelerating the software-defined systems E2E workflow

• The functions customers see and feel emerge from four building blocks: generic hardware, system description, software platform, applications
• From intent to running system: the system description is generated and human-approved - development, integration and deployment derive from it
• Continuously built and validated, observable end to end - agentic assistance beyond deterministic automation

Speaker

Dr. Matthias Brunner

Senior Product Management Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Overview

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Speaker

Lukas Ingelfinger

Senior Product Management Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Overview

• The shift from domain to zonal E/E architectures introduces new challenges in software portability, system integration and application deployment across heterogeneous execution platforms.
• Zone Controllers are key enablers of this transformation, combining data and power distribution along with application hosting for distributed domain functions and orchestration of edge devices.
• The jointly developed zone controller blueprint from Infineon, Flex and Vector provides a pre-integrated reference platform that accelerates the path from onboarding to series development of zone controllers while solving critical challenges such as power and data distribution.

Speaker

Michael Vick

Senior Product Management Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Overview

• Establishing a scalable simulation backbone for distributed virtual systems with SIL Kit.
• Integrating interactive and automated testing using CANoe Desktop and Server Edition.
• Creating an end-to-end SIL validation environment for efficient, continuous verification.

Speaker

Dr. Christian Köllner

Vice President Product Management Testing, Vector

Overview

One application. 60 minutes. From repository to real hardware. No tool tour. No perfect-world architecture diagram. We’ll build, break, test, integrate and ship an embedded application and explore what a Software Factory needs to make that journey actually work.

Speaker

Philipp Wagner

Senior Product Management Engineer Software Factory, Vector

Overview

Scalable, application-centric development in a Rust-based ecosystem
Efficient application development means working within that ecosystem regardless of where the code runs. This session walks through a split application and moves one part of it onto a microcontroller, looking at what has to change along the way and what should not. It also shows how runtime, framework and tooling fit together to make such a move possible.

Speaker

Mark Harsch

Principal Software Development Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Overview

• HPC projects often fail not because of missing software, but because of the challenge of integrating it.
• OS, middleware, and open-source components create dozens of moving parts, requiring continuous patching and integration effort.
• A complete HPC stack delivered as one integrated and maintained distribution, supported by services, can address these challenges.

Speaker

Daniel Mantsch

Senior Product Management Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Overview

• Short-notice hardware discontinuations pose major challenges for medical device manufacturers.
• Using the extension of an ECG system with a pulse oximeter, we demonstrate efficient software adaptation through a shift-left approach.
• SWOSH, SiL Kit, CANoe, vVIRTUALtarget, and VT System enable validation from SiL to HiL, ensuring quality and compliance.

Speaker

Dr. Lars Braun

Senior Business Development Engineer Software Platform, Vector

Overview

How reference integrations with partners accelerate the software-defined vehicle

• Infineon’s DRIVECORE™ and NXP’s CoreRide™ demonstrate how ecosystem collaboration is becoming a key enabler for Software-Defined Vehicle development.
• The combination of semiconductors, software platforms, development tools, and integration expertise helps reduce complexity.
• Improved interoperability and scalable vehicle software architectures accelerate software-defined vehicle innovation.

Speaker

Maximilian Hempe

Partner Manager, Vector 

Overview

A technical deep dive into Swosh: from empty repo to a safe and secure foundation for your microcontroller

• Setting up a safe and secure embedded base software stack typically takes weeks, but this deep dive shows it in less than an hour.
• From an empty repository to a configured and building stack using config-as-code, generated components, analysis tools, and a reproducible container build.
• Every step is demonstrated live with real output and real error messages, with questions welcome throughout.

Speaker

Michael Thurner

Senior Manager Software Development Software Platform, Vector