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LeddarTech is a leader in environmental sensing platforms for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. Founded in 2007, LeddarTech has evolved to become a comprehensive end-to-end environmental sensing company by enabling customers to solve critical sensing and perception challenges across the entire value chain of the automotive and mobility market segments. With its LeddarVision™ sensor-fusion and perception platform and its cost-effective, scalable, and versatile LiDAR development solution for automotive-grade solid-state LiDARs based on the LeddarEngine™, LeddarTech enables Tier 1-2 automotive system integrators to develop full-stack sensing solutions for autonomy Level 1 to 5. These solutions are actively deployed in autonomous shuttle, truck, bus, delivery vehicle, smart city/factory, and robotaxi applications. The company is responsible for several innovations in cutting-edge automotive and mobility remote-sensing applications, with over 95 patented technologies (granted or pending) enhancing ADAS and autonomous driving capabilities.

Equinix enables automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), suppliers, transportation companies and mobility service providers to unlock the value of innovation with strategic infrastructure by re-architecting IT infrastructure to enable efficient data aggregation, analytics, and exchange in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. We enable our customers to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver word-class experiences, and multiply their value.
Realize your edge-enabled mobility of the future and turn your vehicle data into value at Equinix.

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services – now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster.
Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia, customers across all industries are taking advantage.

IDA Ireland is Ireland’s Inward Investment Promotion and Development Agency. The Agency partners with overseas companies to secure new investment in Ireland and collaborates to assist companies expand their existing footprint in Ireland.
IDA Ireland works with a portfolio of over 1,500 overseas company operations in Ireland across a myriad of industry sectors from Technology and Life Sciences to International Services and Financial Services. Today 9 of the top 10 Pharmaceutical companies, 14 of the top 15 Medical Technology companies, 8 of the top 10 Industrial Automation companies, 9 of the top 10 Global Software companies and 4 of the top 5 Global Technology companies have established operations in Ireland. These companies employ more than 245,000 people in Ireland, the highest level on record.

AVL is the world’s largest independent company for the development, simulation and testing of powertrain systems (hybrid, combustion
engine, transmission, electric drive, batteries, fuel cell and control technology) for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, construction, large engines and their integration into the vehicle. The company has decades of experience in the development and
optimization of powertrain systems for all industries. As a global technology leader, AVL provides complete and integrated development environments, measurement and test systems as well as state-of-the-art simulation methods. As a pioneer in the field of innovative solutions, such as diverse electrification strategies for powertrains, AVL is increasingly taking on new tasks in the field of autonomous driving (connectivity, ADAS, CCAD, etc.) especially on the basis of subjective human sensations (driveability, performance attributes, etc.). In the competition of technologies – internal combustion engine, battery/electric drive and fuel cell systems – and their combinations, AVL is working intensively and with the same priorities. AVL has digitized the vehicle development process with state-of-theart and highly scalable IT, software and technology platforms, and creates new customer solutions in the areas of big data, artificial intelligence, simulation and embedded systems in an agile and integrated development environment.

Kautex Textron is a global Tier 1 Automotive supplier and an expert in Clear Vision Systems, offering a range of high efficiency wash and air cleaning systems. Road dirt, snow, ice, debris, and other environmental conditions affect the visibility and performance of cameras, sensors, windshields and headlamps on the vehicle. The intelligent and customizable Kautex Allegro™ cleaning systems can be used on L1 to L5 ADAS vehicles, from single camera cleaning to camera and LiDAR combinations, and up to multi-point sensor systems in highly automated vehicles. The Allegro cleaning systems and Kautex proprietary ADAS components are designed and developed to meet any customer cleaning needs.

Applied Intuition provides simulation software and infrastructure tools to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous systems at scale. Our suite of products, focused on simulation, drive data management, and analytics, enables development teams to create thousands of scenarios in minutes, run simulations at scale, automate requirements management, and reduce on-road testing. Applied’s solution amplifies the real-world miles driven by picking edge cases from the drive data, creating variations of test scenarios, and supplementing them with synthetic data. Our solutions support safe operations of vehicles by catching failure cases early and enabling algorithm improvement post-deployment.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Los Angeles, Munich, Tokyo, and Seoul, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts with experiences from the top global companies. Industry-leading companies of all sizes use Applied’s solutions to bring autonomy to market faster.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) delivers advanced design and validation solutions that help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight’s dedication to speed and precision extends to software-driven insights and analytics that bring tomorrow’s technology products to market faster across the development lifecycle, in design simulation, prototype validation, automated software testing, manufacturing analysis, and network performance optimization and visibility in enterprise, service provider and cloud environments. Whether you seek to bring breakthroughs in technology for electric vehicles from the grid to the road or emulate real-world testing into your lab with radar and cameras to lidar sensor technologies. Keysight empowers designers and engineers to prove that their mission-critical systems are safe, by validating and demonstrating accuracy and dependability with the best simulation and test solutions.

Founded in 1970, Ansys employs more than 2,900 professionals, and many of them are engineers expert in fields such as finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, electronics and electromagnetics, and design optimization. Our staff includes more master’s and Ph.D.-level engineers than any other simulation provider. Ansys is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class technology, all so our customers can turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products.

For more than 40 years, Hamamatsu Photonics has been supplying market leading, high-quality optical components which contribute to the diverse advanced technologies that assist in safe, reliable, green and comfortable automobiles.
From design to manufacturing, we deliver standard and customized solutions with high-volume manufacturing capabilities. Many vehicles use our ambient light sensors for automatic lighting and air conditioning, as well as our optical semiconductor devices for optical links used for in-vehicle information communication. Technology for autonomous vehicles and advanced driving support systems is developing at a fast pace. Sensing technologies for detecting the distance between cars and surrounding obstacles has become increasingly important for LiDAR. Look to Hamamatsu Photonics as a one-stop-shop for all your photonic needs now and in the future.

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.

TTTech Auto provides solutions for the challenges of future vehicle generations. We specialize in safe software and hardware platforms for automated driving and beyond, applicable in series production programs. With our leading technology solutions, we ensure 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.

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.

Algolux is an AI software company providing the industry’s most robust computer vision and image optimization technologies, addressing both existing cameras and new designs through cloud-based tools and embedded software. Our patented approaches significantly improve system accuracy and effectiveness, while reducing the risks associated with program costs, time-to-market, and scalability. Developed by a distinguished team of researchers and engineers, Algolux has repeatedly been recognized for innovation at the world’s most important industry and academic conferences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Horizon Robotics is a leader of embedded Artificial Intelligence and Automotive Intelligent Computing. Our open and flexible edge-AI automotive platform enables the software-defined car and a refined user experience in automated driving, occupant monitoring and immersive cabin interactions. Horizon has reinvented the automotive-grade AI processor with Horizon JourneyTM SOC and its Brain Processing Unit AI engine (Horizon BPUTM), to offer the ultimate balance of high-performance, low power and cost-effectiveness for inference at the edge. Horizon’s state-of-the-art AI toolkit and model Zoo enable developers to optimize and deploy their own neural network models to Journey BPU with ease. Horizon also offers vision perception algorithms to accelerate customers time-to-production in the dynamic and highly competitive ADAS/AV market. Horizon technology and products can be evaluated on Horizon hardware development kits and reference designs. Horizon products have been shipped in over 200,000 vehicles, powering ADAS, automated driving and intelligent in-cabin AI applications. In markets around the world, Horizon is your trusted partner to harness the maximum value of the advances in AI. Please find more on our website at horizon.ai.

Velodyne provides smart, powerful lidar solutions for autonomy and driver assistance. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Velodyne is known worldwide for its portfolio of breakthrough lidar sensor technologies. Velodyne’s founder, David Hall, invented real-time surround view lidar systems in 2005 as part of Velodyne Acoustics. Mr. Hall’s invention revolutionized perception and autonomy for automotive, new mobility, mapping, robotics, and security. Velodyne’s high-performance product line includes a broad range of sensing solutions, including the cost-effective Puck™, the versatile Ultra Puck™, the autonomy-advancing Alpha Prime™, the ADAS-optimized VELARRAY™, and the groundbreaking software for driver assistance, Vella™.

Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Our advanced LiDAR, image, video and NLP annotation APIs allow machine learning teams at companies like OpenAI, Lyft, Pinterest, and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data.

TomTom is the leading independent location technology specialist, shaping mobility with highly accurate maps, navigation software, real-time traffic information and services. To achieve our vision of a safer world, free of congestion and emissions, we create innovative technologies that keep the world moving. By combining our extensive experience with leading business and technology partners, we power connected vehicles, smart mobility and, ultimately, autonomous driving.  Headquartered in Amsterdam with offices in 30 countries, TomTom’s technologies are trusted by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. For more information, visit our website at

AEye is an artificial perception pioneer and creator of iDAR™, a perception system that acts as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. Since its demonstration of its solid-state LiDAR scanner in 2013, AEye has pioneered breakthroughs in intelligent sensing. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and backed by world-renowned investors, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Taiwania Capital, Hella Ventures, LG Electronics, Subaru-SBI, Aisin, Intel Capital, and Airbus Ventures.

BASELABS and its team of data fusion enthusiasts want to make automated vehicles safe under all conditions by providing software products to develop safe sensor fusion systems. Our ISO 26262 certified sensor fusion library helps Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers develop and deploy sensor fusion systems efficiently. The company is in shared ownership by its four founders and Vector Informatik GmbH. Thus, BASELABS is strategically independent of any OEM, Tier 1, or sensor supplier in the market.

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.

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.

Annotell is on a mission to accelerate the development of autonomous mobility. To do this, Annotell provides high-quality training and validation data for perception systems through a comprehensive annotation platform in combination with powerful perception analytics tooling. Annotell supports all AD/ADAS use-cases such as LiDAR/image fusion, SLAM on LiDAR, segmentation of LiDAR point-clouds, etc. We also offer an efficient KPI solution, dataset browsing/filtering functionalities, data curation and more. Annotell is the only ground-truth and perception analytics company focusing purely on the AD/ADAS industry.

dSPACE offers an end-to-end tool chain for ADAS and highly automated driving from a single source with perfectly matched tools that interact smoothly throughout all development steps. Visit dSPACE in the exhibit hall to see their newest solutions including the dSPACE automotive radar testing system for over-the-air simulation of radar sensors. With 1,700+ employees worldwide, dSPACE is headquartered in Paderborn, Germany, and operates regional dSPACE companies in the USA, the UK, France, Japan, China, and Croatia. Learn more at:

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.

MSC Software is a global leader in helping product manufacturers to advance their engineering methods with simulation software and services. As a trusted partner, MSC Software helps companies improve quality, save time, and reduce costs associated with design and test of manufactured products. Academic institutions, researchers, and students employ MSC’s technology to expand individual knowledge as well as expand the horizon of simulation. MSC Software employs 1,300 professionals in 20 countries. For more information about MSC Software’s products and services, please visit: www.mscsoftware.com

MSC Software is part of Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B; hexagon.com), a leading global provider of information technology solutions that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial landscapes.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cognitive Pilot develops perception-focused solutions for automotive ADAS systems, agricultural machinery and railway transport. The company has profound expertise in 4D radar development that makes it possible to reach extremely high accuracy metrics of object detection using LLDF. Years of advanced engineering contracts with major Tier-1/2 automotive suppliers crafted the company’s perfection in delivering disrupting results in the field of weather-robust perception systems for AD.

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.

Helm is an early stage autonomous vehicle startup currently in stealth.

At AAI we are pursuing the mission to „Create a replica of the world“ for automated driving simulation. Since 2017 we are developing highly specialized software tools and simulation services for the development of automated driving functions and autonomous vehicles.

With our naturalistic traffic simulation, it is possible to test automated driving algorithms based on long-haul test drives in simulation (endurance test). The test results will uncover unforeseen edge cases as well as indicate the robustness of the algorithms under test.

On the other hand, scenario-based testing in simulation is the most suitable procedure for executing huge bulks of known test cases. With our AAI Scenario Cloning services, we extract and script scenarios observable in real-world test drive sensor recordings via our highly automated pipeline. These scenario files can be used for regression testing and allow test automation for identification of critical thresholds for validation with road tests.

The Automotive Solution Center for Simulation e.V. – asc(s was founded 2008 as a non-profit research association. The asc(s head office in Stuttgart pursues the aim of promoting application-oriented research in the field of automotive engineering by the use of information and communication technology. It also supports the accelerated transfer of scientific findings from the field of numerical simulation to industrial applications. The asc(s network currently consists of 35 members from science and automotive industry. Since 2018 the asc(s is operator of the ENVITED marketplace (www.envited.market) – an open community platform for stakeholders who are involved in the virtual design, validation and certification process of highly automated driving functions. The ENVITED marketplace offers ist members a compliant cross-organizational framework for research, high quality test data, concepts for trustfull and tracable data exchange as well as strengthening the quantity and quality of simulation experts.

About the Tezos Foundation

The Tezos Foundation is a Swiss non-profit foundation that supports and fosters the Tezos protocol, a blockchain technology that evolves by upgrading itself. Tezos stakeholders vote on changes to the protocol to reach social consensus on proposals, creating a secure and organic upgrading process. The protocol’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm, on-chain governance system, and the ability to facilitate formal verification, make Tezos an ideal long-term solution for digital transactions, including smart contracts and security token offerings (STOs). Tezos is fully decentralized and it is the role of the Tezos Foundation to support the development and long-term success of the protocol and ecosystem. https://tezos.foundation/

About Tezos

The Tezos protocol is a decentralized blockchain network that evolves by upgrading itself. Stakeholders of the Tezos blockchain vote on amendments to the protocol to reach social consensus on proposals, creating a secure and organic upgrading system. The protocol’s on chain governance system, Proof-of-Stake (PoS), and ability to facilitate formal verification, make Tezos an ideal long-term solution for digital transactions, including smart contracts and STOs. Tezos is fully decentralized and individuals can transact in digital assets using its native digital currency, tez. tezos.com/

ICT Group has more than 20 years of experience in the international automotive industry, working across the OEM supply chains with well-known Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers in Europe, Asia, USA. We provide system and software engineering services that help the automotive OEM industry to make their vehicles more autonomous, safe and connected. Our solutions provide cognitive computing capabilities that can accurately process large amounts of data from vehicle sensors. Smart camera’s with highly-efficient image recognition engines enable the vehicle to understand it’s environment, such as traffic sign recognition, lane detection, light and pedestrian detection. To accelerate the driving safety, we provide software conforming to the ISO 26262 functionality safety for automotive. Closely related, ICT Group is at the forefront of many of the latest developments in the field of connectivity, enabling vehicles receiving useful information from roadside infrastructure and utilization of big data generated from vehicles to improve traffic control and accident-related measures. Volkswagen is a large customer in this segment, next to other end customers such as Audi, Daimler and Porsche. With our model-based development tools we enable our clients to automatically generate and seamlessly integrate this software without programming skills.

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.

Smart Mobility Hub is the knowledge-exchange platform for automotive professionals, innovative technical pioneers and decision-makers. Learn about the most innovative technologies and how OEMs, Tier-1s, tech start-ups and research institutes pave their way into our vehicles. 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is affecting every aspect of our daily lives, but none more than Transport. Car buyers see financial and environmental benefits in buying transport services, not vehicles. With vehicle connectivity and autonomy, this is changing the car, how we use it, and the business model for a global industry. Smart cities need integrated, green, and cost-efficient public transport services. Airports, ports and rail stations will benefit from greater connectivity, optimising the use of existing infrastructure, and rationalising investments.