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Cepton is a Silicon Valley based 3D LiDAR solutions provider that is shipping next generation LiDAR products for the automotive, industrial and mapping markets. Cepton LiDAR delivers unrivaled detection, range, resolution and reliability at low cost to enable perception for the fast growing market for smart machines. Led by LiDAR and advanced image industry veterans, Cepton has moved rapidly to establish itself as a technology leader, progressing from the founding of the company to delivering three advanced LiDAR solutions and more than 50 customers in under 19 months.

Telenav^®, Inc. (NASDAQ:TNAV),  is a leading provider of connected car and location-based services, focused on transforming life on the go – before, during, and after every drive. We make connected cars smarter and safer and are accelerating towards a connected car future with smarter, easier, safer innovation.

We provide connected car and advertising solutions that are built on our intelligent location platform. Our robust location platform enables top global automotive companies to deliver experiences that help their drivers save time, stay safe, and reduce stress. These experiences are delivered through connected-embedded, embedded, and brought-in systems that are customized to meet the regional needs of drivers.

LeddarTech is an industry leader providing the most versatile and scalable auto and mobility LiDAR platform based on the unique LeddarEngine^TM which consists of a suite of automotive-grade, functional safety certified SoCs working in tandem with proprietary LeddarSP^TM  signal processing software. The company is responsible for several innovations in cutting-edge mobility remote-sensing applications, with over 70 patented technologies (granted or pending) enhancing ADAS and autonomous driving capabilities.

LeddarTech also serves the mobility market with solid-state high-performance LiDAR module solutions for autonomous shuttles, trucks, buses, delivery vehicles, and robotaxis. These modules are developed to support the mobility market but also to demonstrate the capabilities of LeddarTech’s auto and mobility platform as a basis for other LiDAR suppliers to build upon.

Horizon Robotics is the leader of embedded Artificial Intelligence. The company is dedicated to providing integrated and open embedded Artificial Intelligence solutions of high performance, low power and low cost. The company envisions world’s more than 1,000 devices, such as autonomous vehicles, to be equipped with “brains”, becoming intelligent entities that have the ability from perception, understanding to decision-making for safety, convenience and fun. Horizon Robotics is one of the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence startups, with a top co-founding team that combines algorithms, software, hardware and chip development capabilities as well as a strong R&D team with rich industrial experience. Horizon Robotics received funding from multiple globally well-respected venture investors.

Hexagon has a unique leading edge autonomous driving simulation and testing toolset which is the largest by far. Through a series of acquisitions of MSC Software, VIRES and AutonomouStuff and indigenous domain expertise in metrology sensors, GPS software, smart city and positioning intelligence solution, Hexagon delivers a smart environment for autonomous car projects. It includes solutions for domains like Vehicle CAE Modeling, Sensor Measurements and Modelling, 3D Environment modeling, Scenario Testing, Data Management, AI Driver and above all, an open platform on which to integrate these. The automation driving simulation and testing toolset enable companies to simulate millions of scenarios with realistic perceptions of the platform VTD (Virtual Test Drive). VTD generates images that contain situational data, which can be implemented to train the AI Driver.

TTTech Auto provides solutions for the challenges of future vehicle generations. TTTech Auto specializes in safe software and hardware platforms for automated driving and beyond, applicable in series production

programs. With their leading technology solutions, TTTech Auto ensures safety and electronic robustness for a more automated world.

TTTech Auto operates under the umbrella of the TTTech Group, a technology leader in robust networking and safety controls, with cross-industry experience from more than 20 years of operation.

The TTTech Group is headquartered in Vienna, Austria and also present in several locations in Europe, USA and Asia.

Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, Velodyne is a technology company known worldwide for its real-time 3D LiDAR sensors. The company evolved after founder/inventor David Hall developed the HDL-64 Solid-State Hybrid LiDAR sensor in 2005. Since then, Velodyne LiDAR Inc. emerged as the unmatched market leader of real-time 3D vision systems used in a variety of commercial applications including autonomous vehicles, vehicle safety systems, mobile mapping, aerial mapping, and security. Its products range from the high-performance, surround view Ultra-Puck™ VLP-32, classic HDL-32/64 and cost-effective VLP-16, to the upcoming, hidden Velarray™. Velodyne’s rich suite of perception software and algorithms are the key enablers of its perception systems.Velodyne is the industry standard for localization and environmental perception, providing the core technology for dozens of autonomous vehicle programs in over 10 countries.

Silexica provides software development solutions that enable technology companies to take intelligent products from concept to deployment by mastering state-of-the-art computing at the edge. The SLX programming tools analyze how software runs on heterogeneous compute platforms and provide deep system understanding for the developer.

Silexica was founded in 2014 and has so far received $28 million in funding. With its headquarters in Germany and offices in the US and Japan, a team of world-leading software engineers supports markets including automotive & ADAS, aerospace & defense, 5G wireless,  robotics, and other rapidly transforming industries.

rFpro provides driving simulation software, and 3D content, for Deep Learning Autonomous Driving, ADAS and Vehicle Dynamics testing and validation. rFpro is solely focused on ground-based road vehicle simulation.
rFpro scales from a desktop Workstation to a massively parallel real-time test environment spanning multiple OEM and Tier-1 customers sharing the same virtual test environments in the cloud, connected to their autonomous driver models and human test drivers. rFpro is about accelerating your testing and validation of vehicles, vehicle sub-systems, ADAS and Autonomous software systems, in order to save money and allow you to bring quality products to market more quickly.

Algolux enables autonomous vision – empowering cameras to see more clearly and perceive what cannot be sensed with today’s imaging and vision systems. Computer vision is at the heart of autonomous cars, ADAS, mobile devices, security cameras (IoT), AR/VR, robotics, drones, and medical equipment, leading the next wave of market growth and social impact. Developed by an industry-recognized team of machine learning, computer vision, and image processing researchers, our patented and award-winning machine-learning technologies address the complexity of optimizing imaging and vision systems while improving the costs, time-to-market, and expertise challenges faced by product development teams.

Western Digital is driving the innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Our solutions are at the heart of breakthrough discoveries, and enable the flow of information that leads to smarter decisions and deeper connections. We create environments for data to thrive so people, relationships and experiences thrive. #LetDataThrive

TomTom empowers movement. Every day millions of people around the world depend on TomTom to make smarter decisions. We design and develop innovative products that make it easy for people to keep moving towards their goals. Best known for being a global leader in navigation and mapping products, TomTom also creates GPS Sport Watches, as well as state-of-the-art fleet management solutions and industry leading location based products. Our business consists of four customer facing business units: Consumer, Automotive, Licensing and Telematics. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have 3,600 employees worldwide and sell our products in over 35 countries.

The TÜV Rheinland Group is a leading provider of technical services worldwide. Founded in 1872 and headquartered in Cologne, the Group employs nearly 20.000 people worldwide on all continents. It generates annual revenues of € 1.92 billion. The Group’s mission and guiding principle is to achieve sustained development of safety and quality in order to meet the challenges arising from the interaction between man, technology and the environment.

AEye is an artificial perception pioneer and creator of iDAR™, a new form of intelligent data collection that enables dynamic perception. AEye’s iDAR physically fuses a unique, agile LiDAR with a hi-res camera to create a new data type called Dynamic Vixels. By capturing x, y, z, r, g, b data, Dynamic Vixels are uniquely created to biomimic the data structure of the human visual cortex. Better data drives vastly superior performance and delivers more accurate information from the perception system to automotive domain controller creating much safer and more reliable autonomous vehicles.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security and privacy and smart connected solutions markets.

Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH is the German specialist for automotive LIDAR sensor technology located in Hamburg. In addition to the state of the art laser scanners, Ibeo develops software for environmental detection, referencing tools for Highly Automated Driving and Autonomous Driving (HAD/AD) systems as well as Highly Automated Driving and Mapping & Localization applications. Since the company’s founding in 2009, the engineers and software developers at Ibeo have been promoting LIDAR technology and developing new software applications for automated and autonomous driving to make driving a more relaxed activity and to increase road safety for all traffic participants. In August 2016, the German automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG acquired a 40 % stake in Ibeo. This stake was then incorporated in Zukunft Ventures GmbH, a subsidiary of ZF, to pave the way for the serial production of a new generation of 4D solid state LIDAR sensors without a rotating mirror. A second project is the fusion of various sensor technologies for even more sophisticated environmental perception to establish a basis for Autonomous Driving.

AImotive is primed to bring global accessibility to self-driving vehicles, faster and safer than any other company in the world. As the first to deliver AI-powered enablement of Level 5 self-driving vehicles, AImotive provides OEMs the necessary global scalability, accessibility and safety to rapidly meet the needs of billions of people all over the world. The company’s suite of products, including aiDrive, aiKit and aiWare, deliver the robust technology required to operate self-driving vehicles in all conditions, and capable of adapting in realtime to different driving styles and cultures. AImotive is committed to improving the lives of people worldwide with an affordable, safe and comfortable self-driving environment. AImotive is a privately held company, headquartered in Budapest with offices in Mountain View, California.

BASELABS is a software company and provides data fusion solutions for automated driving. Our tools and engineering services address both prototyping and series development of data fusion software to combine the data from all automotive sensors like radar, camera and lidar using object fusion, grid fusion and lane fusion algorithms. The resulting unified environment model enables driving functions like AEB, ACC, lane keeping and piloted driving in highway and urban scenarios. BASELABS serves customers like Hyundai, Scania, Einride, Continental, Denso and ZF.

INCHRON is the worldwide leading provider of solutions for the design and test of embedded systems and networks, with a focus on performance and real-time. Our philosophy is to support customers with our worldwide unique know-how and with our excellent tools.

Zala ZONE, the proving ground project near Zalaegerszeg, Hungary is unique in its integration of the testing of both classic vehicle dynamics and the multiple testing possibilities for autonomous vehicles and autonomous vehicle modules, as well as validation testing for electric vehicles.

Phase 1 of the project is to be completed by September 2018, opening the Proving Ground for operation. The primary users of the proving ground will be the R&D divisions of the vehicle industry’s OEMs, Tier1 and Tier2 suppliers, established companies from the telecommunication technologies sector, and start-up from both the IT and vehicle sector.

The project is being realized on a 250-ha area. Phase 1 of the PG project includes the realization of the following: dynamic platform, special surface module for brake testing, a high-speed handling course for driveability tests, and the modules connecting roads. Additionally, in Phase 1, a dedicated urban zone or smart city environment will be developed, making it possible for repeatable tests of special traffic situations to be created.

The testing opportunities of the proving ground will be extended by both an urban public road testing environment in the nearby City of Zalaegerszeg, as well as rural road and highway testing opportunities provided by the special 4 lane test road R76 together with other Hungarian, Slovenian, and Austrian roads. The inclusion of Hungarian, Slovenian, and Austrian test roads make the Zala Zone extended proving ground project currently the only known tri-national proving ground and autonomous vehicle test bed project in Europe.

Millions of vehicles contain software developed with Green Hills Software’s Automotive Platforms, which span all automotive subsystems and offer: scalable run-time environments with secure partitions, multicore virtualization, fast boot, and advanced tools that reduce costs and time-to-market. Products in our automotive platforms have achieved the highest levels of safety certifications.

AutonomouStuff is proud to provide the industry’s most advanced organizations with the best products, software and engineering services to enable robotics and autonomy. The company has provided solutions for automated driving to more than 2,000 customers worldwide. The top priority for the team at AutonomouStuff is customer success. Customers value the convenience of finding the most cutting-edge modular-based automation software solutions, engineering services, perception, computing, GPS and interface components in one location. They become repeat customers because of the unmatched service and support they receive. The team takes great pride in enabling the future of transportation.

Critical technology trends in ADAS, V2X, and EV are bringing with them new test challenges and pressures beyond the here and now. ADAS and autonomous driving test requirements and devices under test are constantly evolving to take advantage of the latest technology. NI’s verification and validation test solutions are built on modular and open, commercial-off-the-shelf platforms, so they can easily be adapted as your requirements and DUT, evolves – helping you maximize test coverage in minimal time. Work with National Instruments to overcome the pressure of these rapidly changing test requirements using an open and easily upgradable platform that is designed for test system flexibility and enables you to test the vehicles of tomorrow today.

Livox is committed to LiDAR sensor technologies. By exploiting innovative opto-electronic and opto-mechanical solutions, Livox offers a unique combination of cost, resolution, range, compactness, reliability, and manufacturability. Our lineup enables customers to easily incorporate LiDAR sensors into their trial projects and mass productions. Livox is invested by well-known technology companies such as DJI and supported by their sales channels.

Samasource is your trusted partner for the creation and annotation of high-quality training data for AI machine learning algorithms. With their experienced workforce, consultative project management, and innovative technology they support R&D departments and Data Scientist teams with structured data for their deep learning algorithms. Samasource works on computer vision and natural language processing for applications such as self-driving cars, facial recognition, satellite image analysis, chatbots, and everything in between.

Based on more then 20 years of research and development on localization of vehicles using GNSS in sensor data fusion systems, NAVENTIK was founded as a spinoff from University of Technologies Chemnitz. NAVENTIK’s mission is to provide high performance vehicle localization technology to mass market applications. Please contact us for more information.

Arbe Robotics is the world’s first company to demonstrate ultra high-resolution 4D imaging radar with post-processing and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). It is disrupting autonomous vehicle sensor development by bridging the gap between radar and optics with its proprietary imaging solution that provides optic sensor resolution with the reliability and maturity of radar technology for all levels of vehicle autonomy. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, Arbe has business development and customer service locations in China and the United States. The company was founded in 2015 and is backed by 360 Capital Partners, Canaan Partners Israel, iAngels, Maniv Mobility, Taya Ventures, and O.G. Tech Ventures.

At ITK Engineering, we work together on customer-specific development projects in the areas of software development, embedded systems and control systems. Renowned customers from the automotive, aerospace, medical technology and motorsports industries rely on our team when it comes to technologically advanced engineering services.

Speedgoat offers state-of-the-art solutions for customers working in the automotive domain to fast-track their R&D activities, especially towards innovations in electrification, automation, and connectivity.

Speedgoat’s rapid control prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop target simulators –that run and test complex controls, digital signal processing, and vision prototyping– enable our customers to remain in the forefront of technological advancements in the automotive industry.

Founded in 2007 and based in Holzkirchen and Pittsburgh, USA, 3D Mapping Solution GmbH is one of the leading experts in the fields of high-accuracy kinematic surveying of public roads, proving grounds, race tracks and rough road test tracks of any kind. In addition, the high-end kinematic engineering surveying of railway tunnels or subway networks are core competences.

Essential for the exact digitalization of the 360° corridor are high-end laser scanners, a fully georeferenced high-resolution multi-camera system and a high-end inertial system for complete compensation of vehicle movement. The unique quality and accuracy of any data is a USP for 3D Mapping Solutions and guaranteed by a rigid quality management.

High-precision as built-plans are exported into appropriate formats including all objects, attributes and the complete, complex topological structure and thus may be used directly for customer applications. Examples are the use of high-fidelity maps as in-car reference for autonomous driving developments, simulation for vehicle dynamics development and driving simulation on digital twins of complete road networks.

Annotell is a Swedish company providing the best platform to annotate, manage and analyze data for safe autonomous systems within the automotive industry. We believe ensuring alignment and consistency is one of the most important aspects of any data annotation effort.

We provide:

• The most consistent and highest quality annotations in the industry, which will increase the performance of your algorithms.
• Advanced Annotation Platform for Automotive applications based on intuitive and quick workflows in combination with advanced algorithms to analyze data, optimize distribution of work and ensure consistency and accuracy automatically, reducing the need for cost-driving manual work.
• Workforce with scale and flexibility with over 2000 annotators ensuring flexibility in cost and scale.

understand.ai provides the high-quality training and validation data to enable mobility companies to develop with confidence computer vision and machine learning models that reliably and safely power autonomous vehicles. Our advanced capabilities include segmentation and bounding box annotations for LiDAR and video, with specific meta-attributes and instance IDs for object tracking. By applying specialized AI technology and continuous quality improvement to accurately and quickly annotate millions of images, we accelerate production of the ground-truth required to make autonomous driving a reality. understand.ai is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany and has offices in Berlin and San Francisco. Our engineers have relevant experience gained at innovative companies such as BMW, Google, Mercedes-Benz.

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