Chuck Gershman is a Drexel University College of Engineering inductee into the Alumni Circle of Distinction, the highest honour bestowed upon alumni. He has been honoured as a finalist for CMP Publications’ (EE Times) prestigious ACE award as High Technology Executive of the Year and was previously named a Top 40 Healthcare Transformer by Medical Marketing & Media for his work on clinical AI decision support for cancer patients. Chuck holds three US patents for his contributions to microprocessor architecture.

Chuck brings over 30 years of technology and semiconductor industry experience in executive management, marketing, engineering, business development, sales, consulting, and executive advising, including Owl Autonomous Imaging. He has served as CEO/COO and a board director for three companies, and he knows what it takes to lead a vision to reality - having led successful exits with acquisitions by Intel and PMC-Sierra.

Mike Hernandez joined the Alliance for Automotive Innovation in 2021 as the senior director of safety. In this role, Mike is responsible for crash avoidance and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) safety topics, regulatory affairs for automated driving systems (ADS), and he supports the association’s efforts towards international regulatory harmonisation. Prior to joining Auto Innovators, Mike held similar roles in safety regulatory affairs with BMW and Toyota and had previously worked as a contractor with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Mike graduated from Virginia Tech with a BS in mechanical engineering and received his MBA from George Mason University.

Dr. Christophe Bastien is an associate professor at Coventry University with over 25 years of industrial and academic experience in the field of vehicle safety, evidenced by 21 patents, 23 publications and 82 citations. With an overall aim of developing forensic techniques for accurate accident reconstructions, his current research fo­cusses on modelling of (automotive) human traumatology in collaboration with the British Police, the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire and the Road Safety Trust charity. A recent research output is an innovative FEA method, based on Peak Virtual Power (PVP) proven to precisely predict head trauma injuries when compared to post-mortem examinations. This is a first step in a numerical method to design safer automotive vehicles considering a human population.

Jan Christopher Kolb studied fahrzeug-system-engineering and mechanical engineering and international sales management before he started his career in 2003 in the department of pedestrian protection at Bertrandt GmbH in Ingolstadt as a testing engineer. After being a project engineer and project manager, he was team manager of the department passive safety. Since 2017, he was head of testing at the research centre CARISSMA, which is integrated into the University of Applied Science of Ingolstadt (THI). There he took care of the diverse laboratories and research on VRU-protection, automatic driving, and test tool development.

In the middle of 2020, Jan moved into the central position of the CARISSMA network manager to affiliate different cooperation partners to induce the vision zero.

Since 2022, he has worked at Kistler Instrumente GmbH as business driver ADAS/AD with the responsibility to set up a product portfolio for developing driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles.

Michael Wanyama is a Ugandan road safety activist, automotive technician, and environmentalist with a background in information technology with 10-plus years of combined experience and basic knowledge in public health.
He specialised in engine management systems and is now focussed on vehicular emission control and safety.

Driven by love for nature and humanity, he initiated an innovative community-driven program dubbed "AutoSafety - Uganda". Under this program, he's leading a team of young professionals carrying out non-institutional research and development plus community-based capacity building on safe, clean, and sustainable transportation systems for Africa with support from a local university and Uganda's Ministry of Works and Transport.

His idea of improving transport in Africa has already earned their startup nonprofit some two internationally recognisable awards including the 2022 ITF - International Transport Forum award for decarbonising transport in emerging economies during the 2022 ITF summit in Leipzig, Germany, and another from the 2022 World Smart City Awards in Barcelona, Spain, during the Smart City Expo World congress.

He aims to make vehicles in Africa safer and cleaner by pushing for structured, augmented maintenance as well as regulatory and policy reforms around transportation in the informal sector in Uganda and beyond.

He also believes retrofitting can accelerate electric vehicle uptake.

Anamaria Hutuleac is organisation functional safety manager at NXP Semiconductors, making sure the SW products they develop are compliant with ISO26262 and aligned with the market needs. With more than 10 years' experience in the functional safety product developments, she is committed to contribute to make our world a better and a safer one.

Karsten Bronowski has worked as a marketing and business development manager with multiple companies including Opto GmbH and First Sensor AG, where he was responsible for LiDAR branch activities. Since August 2019, Karsten has been working with XenomatiX as a sales and business development manager.