Meet our Speakers
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Darren Capes, Department for Transport
Darren Capes FIET FIHE, has over 30 years’ experience working in Local and Central Government. A qualified civil engineer, Darren’s career has encompassed most areas of municipal engineering with particular emphasis on design, construction and evaluation; transport planning, and technology development and implementation.
Darren has a particular interest in emerging transport technologies and the readiness of local highway authorities for the challenges that new vehicle and data technologies will bring. His previous role as Transport Systems Manager for City of York Council focussed on this area as does his current role, leading local authority ITS policy at the Department for Transport.
Darren is Chair of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Transport Policy Panel and is on the Council of the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE). He also manages the national Transport Technology Forum and speaks regularly at events in the UK and beyond, including to the House of Commons and Lords Select Committees on the subjects of Smart Cities, current and emerging transport technology.
Before that he was promoted to Imagination Technologies’ Executive Vice President & MIPS Business Unit General Manager. Whilst responsible for MIPS, Jim defined & executed the strategy of ensuring that MIPS was considered a leading architecture addressing autonomous driving & AI, developing a strong relationship with Mobileye.
Other appointments have included being GM of STMicroelectronics’ Microcontroller Division {creating the 8-bit STM8 & the world’s most commercially successful & ubiquitous ARM based, 32-bit microcontroller family, the STM32}, VP of Marketing for ARM’s Processor Division, VP & GM of Processors Subsystems & Productivity group for ST-Ericsson [& STMicroelectronics] and VP of Marketing for Toumaz Ltd {Healthcare & Consumer Electronics {Frontier Smart Technologies}. Jim has a track record for successfully transforming distressed businesses & ineffective R&D organizations into productive & profitable entities. He is founder/owner of AutonomyN LLC a Strategic & Operations Services Consultancy & a board member of Silexica.
Jim Nicholas, CEO, Uniphy Limited
Jim Nicholas is the CEO of Uniphy Limited, a company dedicated to Product Designer creative freedom to realise freeform 3D products, with touch sensing on their surface, proximity sensing about the surface, the integration of displays & intuitive HMI controllers such as dials, sliders buttons & switches, whilst doing so with a breakthrough in capital investment.
Jim is also Chairman of Codeplay a world-renowned software company “Enabling AI to be Open, Safe & Accessible to all” and a board member of Silexica a disruptive startup “Mastering software/hardware complexity at the intelligent edge”. He has held a variety of executive positions. He was the CEO of MIPS Technologies, leading the transition out of Imagination Technologies into the standalone entity acquired by Tallwood Venture Capital.
Before that he was promoted to Imagination Technologies’ Executive Vice President & MIPS Business Unit General Manager. Whilst responsible for MIPS, Jim defined & executed the strategy of ensuring that MIPS was considered a leading architecture addressing autonomous driving & AI, developing a strong relationship with Mobileye.
Other appointments have included being GM of STMicroelectronics’ Microcontroller Division {creating the 8-bit STM8 & the world’s most commercially successful & ubiquitous ARM based, 32-bit microcontroller family, the STM32}, VP of Marketing for ARM’s Processor Division, VP & GM of Processors Subsystems & Productivity group for ST-Ericsson [& STMicroelectronics] and VP of Marketing for Toumaz Ltd {Healthcare & Consumer Electronics {Frontier Smart Technologies}. Jim has a track record for successfully transforming distressed businesses & ineffective R&D organizations into productive & profitable entities. He is founder/owner of AutonomyN LLC a Strategic & Operations Services Consultancy & a board member of Silexica.
Jennie Martin, Secretary General, ITS (UK)
Jennie joined ITS United Kingdom, the Intelligent Transport Society for the UK, in 1998. Prior to that, she worked in the City Engineer’s Department at the Corporation of London, the local authority for the “Square Mile” financial district of London. Jennie began her working life with the then British Rail in 1986.
Jennie has a BA (Hons) in History from Kings College London, and an MA from the UK’s Open University. She wrote her MA thesis on the institutional framework of the introduction of camera technology for traffic applications in London.
She started with ITS (UK) as Membership Secretary, and was promoted to Secretary General in 2004.
Jennie is a past Chairman of the Network of National ITS Associations, an organisation of 28 European ITS associations. She serves on the UK ITS Standards Committee BSI EPL278, and leads PIARC working group 2.4.3. She is also a Trustee of Bus Users UK.
Jennie is originally from Sweden, but is now a happily naturalised Londoner.
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Dr Stephen Lambert, McLaren Applied / AESIN Chairman
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.
Gunwant Dhadyalla, AESIN Director
Steve Drew, TechNES Director
Steve loves the electronics industry and technology in general, is passionate about UK manufacturing and how we can build more here instead of losing it to offshore competition, is a champion of startup’s and innovation. And if you want an opinion on something, just ask him.
Ken Tindell, CTO, Canis Labs
Dr. Ken Tindell is the CTO of Canis Labs. He obtained his doctorate in real-time systems from the University of York and has spent many years in the automotive industry, focused on tools and technology for in-vehicle real-time embedded systems. He formulated timing analysis for CAN bus to guarantee frame latencies and invented the three buffer system for CAN controllers to avoid priority inversion. He has co-founded several automotive startups, including LiveDevices (later acquired by Bosch) and Volcano Communications Technologies (later acquired by Mentor Graphics).”
Presentation: Introduction to the CAN-HG augmentation of CAN for security and performance.
CAN is a superbly engineered protocol for real-time control systems, but it was conceived nearly four decades ago, before security was an issue and before the vast increase in traffic demanded higher speeds. The new CAN-HG augmentation of the basic CAN protocol provides complete backwards compatibility with all CAN hardware, but augments it for both performance to meet modern uses and also for security to prevent spoofing and denial-of-service attacks. This talk explains the features of CAN-HG and how it works.
Michael Allan, TTP
Michael Allan leads the autonomous technology team at TTP, working with clients to develop the sensing and perception systems that will enable the next generation of autonomous vehicles. His background is in electronics and software engineering.
Presentation: Is Perfect Sensor Availability Needed to Reach Zero Deaths?
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are using an increasing number of sensors to deliver the data required for safety-critical self-driving algorithms. The algorithms need this data to operate, so what happens when a sensor stops working, or more mundanely, gets dirty? An oft-cited adage is that we will need to replace the fuel tank in an AV with a washer fluid tank to keep all the sensors clean. Michael will set out ways sensor and vehicle manufacturers can ensure that their algorithms are always getting the data they need.
Dr Alastair McGibbon, CSA Catapult
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.
David Clark, Clas-SiC
David has a strong background in process engineering and process development, with more than 25 years of silicon process integration, device engineering, process development and yield engineering experience at Raytheon Systems. David moved into Silicon Carbide process integration and device engineering in 2004 and has experience across many SiC device technologies including Schottky diodes, PiN diodes, MOSFET’s, JFET’s, BJT’s, CLD’s and MESFET’s. During David’s tenure at Raytheon, he worked on a number of successful SiC process developments leading to successful manufacture of 1000’s of SiC device wafers.
David has a first class honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as a Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Silicon Processing and Manufacturing Technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 10 SiC processing papers, is joint inventor of one SiC related patent and has 3 other SiC related patent submissions pending. David joined Clas-SiC in 2017 as Principal Technologist, with oversight of Clas-SiC’s technology roadmap and technical direction, leading to Clas-SiC’s reliability proven SiC MOSFET and Diode Process Design Kits being released.
Rose Baines, Paragraf
Rosie Baines is a Scientist at Paragraf, which specialises in the application of high quality graphene in electronic devices. With a background in Materials Science, Rosie’s work focuses on research and development of such devices, in particular the commercially available graphene Hall effect sensor. Having joined Paragraf at an early stage of the company’s life in 2018, Rosie has enjoyed playing a key role in taking the sensor from solely an R&D concept to prototype, through to a range of products enabling high performance measurement of magnetic fields in a wide range of applications. Rosie’s work seeks to continue expanding this range, with recent developments aimed at various different operating conditions. This has led to many exciting collaborations and seen the company develop at a fast pace.
Jake Clulow, McLaren Applied
Jake Clulow received his BA Hons Degree in Business and Operations Management from Sheffield Hallam University where he specialised in maximising supply chain synchronisation. Following this he worked at AWE plc, delivering complex requirements for all non-fissile and non-explosive manufactured parts and raw materials across 26 facilities. Jake has since worked in various roles developing global supply chains for the medical industry, in addition to executing multi-million pound supply chain programmes to support delivery of essential maintenance for nuclear repair and refuel on behalf of Her Majesty’s Royal Navy. Jake is now responsible for supply chain strategy and delivery for McLaren Applied Ltd where he designs, implements and manages supply chain delivery models that have the agility to react to demanding markets and provide continuity, protecting business revenue and strategy goals. Jake is a member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Chain, helping drive positive change across the profession.
Alan Walker, SysElek
Andrew Banks, LDRA
Andrew is Chairman of the MISRA C Working Group, Chairman of the BSI “Software Testing” Working Group, and active in other BSI, ISO, IET and SCSC work, including the latest revision of ISO 26262
Lee Harrison, Siemens
Konstantinos Koufos , WMG
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.
Rob Potter, Beam Connectivity
Prior to co-founding Beam, Rob led technical delivery of connected vehicle on the Dyson EV programme, making contributions to the global automotive cyber security community.
Before entering the automotive sector, he was responsible for web-scale distributed systems in IoT, education and government. Working closely with hyperscale cloud vendors, Rob has delivered globally scaled solutions with specialisation in cloud architecture, digital identity, cybersecurity and data privacy.
Constantin-Radu, Coventry University
Ashwini Sriranga, Coventry University
Steve McAslan, NXP
Steve McAslan is a Technical Director with NXP Semiconductors. He has over 30 years’ experience developing and introducing new microprocessor technology to the automotive and other industries. Steve holds degrees in electronics and software engineering from Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt Universities.
Alan Platt, CyberHive
Alan Platt is the CEO for CyberHive, a cybersecurity tech company based in Newbury, UK. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1997 with a degree in Engineering. His early experience covers a wide variety of industries from robotics and broadcasting through to pharmaceuticals and software. Passionate about technology, Alan combines this strong technical background in software, electronics and mechanical engineering with experience of solving real-world problems for technical and non-technical customers and taking products to market across the globe. His current interests focus on Cyber security and helping to secure connected devices and vehicles from the ever present risks associated with cybersecurity threats.
Dr Philip Clarke, dSPACE
Marcus Nissemark, Green Hills Software
Dr Geoff Davis, Horiba
Geoff joined HORIBA in 2015 following its successful acquisition of MIRA, where he had previously held a number of commercial, technical and strategic executive roles following his arrival in 2009.
He is an experienced engineering consultancy professional with a background in automotive engineering and executive leadership. He is actively involved with the latest automotive technologies and trends (Autonomy, Cybersecurity and Electrification) and has first-hand experience of working across a wide range of overseas territories and industry sectors, building new business operations, and delivering engineering and strategic consultancy.
Following 10 years at Ricardo he moved to MIRA in 2009, where he was part of the team that delivered the re-birth of what is the UK’s foremost transport R&D organisation and technology park.
Whilst retaining his position as CSO for HORIBA MIRA he is also part of the global leadership team for HORIBA’s Automotive business. For both operations he remains focussed on strategy, commercialisation of technology, marketing, and corporate development.
His current areas of interest include the fast-paced changing areas of Connected Autonomous Vehicles and related subjects in Vehicle Resilience and Cyber Security. He is also the co-Chair for the Automotive Council ICAM technology working group.
Geoffroy Heurtier, Claytex
Ivan Wilson, Embed Limited
Andrew Patterson, Siemens
Currently senior sales director of a global business team, part of Siemens DISW, providing automotive Embedded Software solutions to OEMs and their supply chain- Deep experience in Embedded Software, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Semiconductor architectures, and IT businesses leading teams in Europe/Globally. Successful career in Direct Sales, Channel Sales, Business Development/Strategy, Technical Product Marketing, and Engineering Management roles
– Defining strategies for Electronics and Software, Autosar/ECU software, ADAS, Autonomous Vehicles, digital cockpits, and vehicle networking systems/OTA/Cloud
– Chartered Engineer, MIET, C.Eng. Deep knowledge and experience of electronics and software design engineering practices
– Amateur musician / classical organist, Associate of UK Royal College Organists. Fluent in German, conversational French.
Specialties: Direct and Channel Sales, Automotive business strategy development and implementation, Automotive Account Development, Channels and Alliances management , electronic systems design and simulation, digital and analog software model creation, Infotainment, Linux, Test Software, VHDL, Verilog, Tcl/Tk, C/C++, HTML and other programming languages (earlier in career!)
Dr Kashif Siddiq , Oxford RF Solutions Ltd
Dave Gabbitas, Yunex Traffic
Raj Kumar Sahu, KPIT Technologies
- Has over 11+ years of experience in Automotive domain, currently working with KPIT TECHNOLOGIES (UK) LIMITED.
- Work experience with multiple OEMs, Suppliers and Services
- Experienced in majorly System Engineering, Model Based Design, Auto-coding, V&V (MIL, SIL, HIL), Functional Safety etc
- Domain experience in ADAS, Chassis, BCM etc.
- Have been in multiple roles like Project SME, Scrum Master, Technical Leader & Developer.
- Technology : Mathworks Tools(MATLAB Simulink/Stateflow), dSPACE Tools(Targetlink, Control Desk), Scripting languages, Vector tools, V&V Tools, DOORs, PTC, SVN etc.
- Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
Richard Ord, Quantum Power Transformation
Richard has 40 years’ experience in building businesses, starting at Texas Instruments in Bedford before moving to VLSI Technology in the UK, Munich and then Sophia Antipolis where he led the development of the industry’s first standard product solution for GSM cellular phones.
Philips Semiconductors (later NXP and St-Ericsson) acquired VLSI Technology, and a year later, he returned to the UK and ran the Bluetooth and Audio Business Units at CSR (now Qualcomm).
Richard has now run his own consultancy business for 15 years, advising early-stage semiconductor, electronics, and renewable energy companies on strategy, business development, marketing and communications.
Rob Millar, Williams Advanced Engineering
Graham Lee, University of Warwick
BEng, PhD, CEng, MIET.
A highly motivated and adaptable Chartered Engineer and scientist with a strong research background and a proven record of managing concurrent multi-discipline projects. With a keen interest in running outreach events to promote STEM.
Specialties:
– Cooperative autonomy
– Automotive sensors
– Automotive network design
– Project management
– Electronics and microcontrollers
– Optical fibre sensors
– Femtosecond laser inscription and micromachining
Chris Day, Jaltek Systems
I like to describe myself as a highly driven and motivated individual, I’m passionate about everything I do, my wife likes to blame that on the mixed Anglo/Welsh/Greek heritage but for me it’s the inherent competitiveness that makes me strive to be the best, after all I’m even competitive at scrabble!!!
Being driven is great and achieves many things but drive without focus is simply a wasted journey, working within and running/managing a strong team is key. I’ve spent many years playing, what for me, is the ultimate team game, Rugby (which I now coach) and quite simply without a game plan, without structure, coordination and commitment the whole game falls apart.
I have spent the last 30 years running product development teams, working in many different market sectors, helping clients bring products to market, this activity has spanned the entire R&D process from concept, through NPI to full volume production. Most of these developments have been multi-disciplined and whether they have embraced hardware, firmware, software, mechanical and/or electronic factors, these have been with both internal and external partners.
Add to this the requirement to sell the entire R&D service to the client (either internal or external) then the key strength I have brought has been the ability to communicate and work successfully with the client, understand and harness their requirements, translate that into a strong and clear development plan and guide the R&D team through this to successful delivery.
I believe that I am a true team player and whether working within a start-up organisation or in the high profile world of the Space Industry and Formula One, I am comfortably at home.
Francesco Petruzziello, STMicroelectronics
Francesco is currently Senior Marketing Manager Automotive Processors, Region EMEA with ST Microelectronics.
After achieving a master degree in Electronics Engineering, Francesco joined the semiconductor industry more than 20 years ago, covering multiple functions in R&D, application engineering, marketing and business development at the major international companies. In his career he gained experience in consumer, industrial and automotive markets, as well as know-how in design methodologies, program and project management, people management and marketing tools.
Today his main focus is to manage his team in introducing the new processors of ST in the automotive industry, to make sure the products are successfully designed in the most innovative customers’ programs and to support the definition of the next generations of automotive processors.
Robert Moran, NXP
