 William (Bill) Gouse
Director, Federal Program Development, SAE International, Washington, DC.
Bill’s experience is in the combination of passenger and freight surface transportation planning, energy, environmental, and safety research, product and process development, and legislative and regulatory policy for Federal, state, local and international entities. He has published articles and made presentations on the subjects of emerging and developing technologies, operations, regulations, and enforcement for vehicles and impacts to the environment, energy efficiency and safety enhancements. He has several patents for both products and processes (one project displayed in the Smithsonian Institution). He studied mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and has taken the executive master’s program in transport emissions at the University of Leeds (UK). He is the Co-Secretary of the United Nations ECE Working Group for Validation Methods of Automated Driving. Or, he started playing with cars and trucks when he was about a year old and has never stopped. Bill has been working on intelligent vehicles, driver assistance and automated driving systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles for over twenty years. While he was at Freightliner (the largest truck manufacturer in North America), he was the project manager for the world’s first roll stability control system – the precursor to electronic stability control which is present on virtually every late model vehicle in the USA. He has several patents for both products and processes (one project displayed in the Smithsonian Institution). He studied mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and has taken the executive master’s program in transport emissions at the University of Leeds (UK). He is the Co-Secretary of the United Nations ECE Working Group for Validation Methods of Automated Driving. |
 Philip Koopman
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Prof. Philip Koopman is an internationally recognized expert on Autonomous Vehicle (AV) safety who has worked in that area at Carnegie Mellon University for 25 years. He is also actively involved with AV safety policy, regulation, implementation, and standards. His pioneering research work includes software robustness testing and run time monitoring of autonomous systems to identify how they break and how to fix them. He has extensive experience in software safety and software quality across numerous transportation, industrial, and defense application domains including conventional automotive software and hardware systems. He served as the lead author of the UL 4600 standard for autonomous system safety. |
 Benjamin Scher
h&z
Benjamin, with a scholarship of the German Academic foundation, studied in Bremen, Madrid, and Oslo and specialized in Strategy & Technology Management. He has a PhD from the University of St. Gallen on Strategy Practices and the role of uncertainties, where he continues his research as a RISE Lab fellow (RISE = Research on Innovation, Strategy, Entrepreneurship). He worked in several innovation projects in Norway, especially on the competitiveness of the Norwegian Offshore industry. Since 2014 he works for h&z Management Consultants, and since 2017 leads the in-house knowledge hub ‘Center for Future Mobility’. Along the center’s four core topics (autonomous driving, connected vehicles, mobility solutions, and alternative fuels), he works on business intelligence, innovation and strategy projects with clients from various industries. For more than four years, he systematically monitors all activities around the development of autonomous vehicles with regular on-site visits. In parallel, he teaches students at Jacobs University Bremen on Strategy and Innovation. |
 Edward Straub
SAE ITC, Executive Director, Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium
Edward Straub coordinates industry, government, and cross-functional activities related to connected and automated vehicles at SAE. His office provides a holistic view of emerging automated vehicle technologies and their impact on the socio-technical landscape. He is also the executive director of the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium, a group of leading manufacturers and technology companies working to create public trust and confidence in automated vehicles. Dr. Straub contributes to numerous global standards activities related to many automated vehicle topics. |
 Mario Henrique Cruz Torres
CEO
Mario Henrique Cruz Torres has more than 15 years’ experience working in the technology sector. Mario moved from Brazil to Belgium to obtain his PhD in Computer Science, from KU Leuven - Belgium - a Top 50 university in the World. Before creating IVEX Intelligent Vehicle Technology, he worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher creating Software for Safe and Autonomous Drones. He is passionate about simplifying systems. Mario is co-founder and CEO of IVEX. |
 Jack Weast
Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation / Vice President, Automated Vehicle Standards, Mobileye
Jack Weast is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel and Vice President for Automated Vehicle Standards at Mobileye. In this role, Jack leads a global team working on AV safety technology and the related standards that will be needed to understand what it means for an AV to drive safely. In his over 20-year career at Intel, Jack has built a reputation as a change agent in new industries with significant technical contributions to a wide range of industry-first products and standards in industries that are embracing complex high performance heterogeneous computing for the first time. With an End to End Systems perspective, Jack combines a unique blend of embedded product experience with a knack for elegant System and Software design that will accelerate the adoption of Autonomous Driving. Jack is the co-author of “UPnP: Design By Example”, and is the holder of over 40 issued patents with dozens pending. Jack is an Adjunct Professor at Portland State University where he was recently inducted into the Portland State Maseeh College Academy of Distinguished Alumni in recognition of Jack’s achievements, leadership and service to the Engineering and Computer Science Profession, as well as to Society. Outside of work he is a classical pianist and never turns down an opportunity to take the karaoke stage. |
