June 23–25, 2026
Messe Stuttgart, Germany

Preliminary Conference Program

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Plenary opening session
  1. Personal mobility is the heartbeat of modern life, but the vehicle is undergoing its biggest shift since the assembly...
  2. Embodied AI (eAI), also called Physical AI, uses artificial intelligence based on machine learning to interact with the physical...
Safe Autonomous Deployment
  1. As autonomous vehicle technologies move closer to large-scale deployment, ensuring safety, reliability and public trust is critical. In this...
  2. This presentation examines how driver readiness requirements differ across vehicle automation levels. While automation improves safety, sustaining driver alertness...
  3. Autonomous driving in public transportation introduces new challenges for technology, operations and organizations. The KIRA project is one of...
  4. The U-Shift IV is a modular vehicle concept featuring a distinct separation between the U-shaped driveboard and the interchangeable...
  5. Recent advances in semi-autonomous driving (L2+) have enabled features such as automated parking, vehicle summon and highway autopilot through...
  6. With software defining the vehicle, automotive innovation is shifting from hardware to intelligence. Assisted driving is rapidly expanding from...
  7. Presentation of Vaive Logistics’ real-world experience in deploying autonomous delivery robots for sustainable last-mile logistics, showcasing ONA, an autonomous,...
  8. Uscale has conducted a large-scale study on the user perspective on ADAS. While manufacturers have extensive technical evaluations, there...
  9. Learn how Adastec’s SAE Level 4 automated driving software platform, flowride.ai, enables automated public transit services operating commercially across...
  10. Starting with the autonomy-level outlook, the presentation will compare regional adoption paths, highlighting EU L2+ growth (driven by regulation,...
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  12. The presentation will cover: road safety issues (DEKRA yearly road safety reports, global issues, vehicle type impacts); the ...
Software, AI & SDV Architecture
  1. The shift toward SDVs promises unprecedented flexibility, scalability and continuous feature evolution across the automotive lifecycle. However, for ADAS...
  2. Physical AI is becoming more and more prominent in highly automated driving systems (ADS). Many new ADS architectures are...
  3. As sensor bandwidths grow and autonomy demands real-time environmental understanding, the pressure on SoC design continues to intensify. The...
  4. In the realm of automotive software development, the integration of large-scale AI models into autonomous vehicles is becoming increasingly...
  5. Decoupling software from hardware is central to the development of software-defined vehicles and ultimately autonomous vehicles, yet many auto...
  6. DITM (Digital Infrastructure for Future Mobility) advances AD and ADAS by tightly integrating vehicle functions with digital infrastructure. This...
  7. Fitness-for-purpose (F4P) analytics is a novel methodology for assessing the reliability of AI-based perception in automated driving systems. It...
  8. Perception accuracy in physical AI systems for autonomous driving is increasingly limited by slow, hardware-bound iteration across the sensor-to-silicon...
  9. The automotive industry is undergoing one of its most significant shifts ever: cars are becoming increasingly software-driven, and this...
Simulation and Testing, Scenarios & Virtual Validation
  1. Physical testing efforts for automated driving systems are increasing due to higher automation levels and more rigorous approval requirements....
  2. This joint presentation by Volkswagen Group and Keysight Technologies outlines an approach for generative AI-based creation and validation of...
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  4. This research presents a machine learning pipeline for evaluating the realism of synthetic lidar point clouds generated by AWSIM,...
  5. Ensuring proven safety is the biggest limiting factor for automated driving. New distributed vehicular architectures, shifting from traditional ECUs...
  6. ADAS require reliable sensor alignment over the entire vehicle lifecycle. This paper presents a lifecycle-oriented approach combining in-line sensor...
  7. AD technology is shaping fast, with end-to-end AI stacks entering the market quickly. But how to prove it is...
  8. The presentation takes a deep dive into the current approaches taken by different vehicle manufacturers in their journey toward...
  9. The presentation provides an overview of the research pertaining to an advanced connected and automated vehicle (CAV) platform deployed...
  10. IRT-SystemX presents a method for automatically detecting abstract traffic scenarios in live simulations and instantiating them as concrete, testable...
Standards, Regulation & System-Level Interoperability
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  2. Expect an overview of AVSC and how each best practice has built upon others to outline a safety case,...
  3. This presentation provides an update on the next evolution of the ASAM OpenX standards for simulation-based ADAS and automated...
  4. The IMoGer project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, BMV). As part of...
  5. When an autonomous vehicle accelerates, yields, overtakes, or stops, it implicitly makes a claim: ‘this behavior is legal’. But...
  6. The SUNRISE project is a €13m EU-funded initiative (2022-2025) that established a harmonized framework for safety assurance of cooperative,...
  7. Safety assessment has become one of the major interests in most countries that are adopting future automotive technology to...
ADAS and Level 2 takes off with +++ performance. A review of regulation, design, digital and physical validation, tooling and methods to reach safety performance globally
  1. As advanced driver assistance systems rapidly evolve, the industry is entering a new phase beyond traditional Level 2 automation....
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  3. Situation awareness (SA) is key for cognitive mastery of complex dynamic situations, such as driving is. The main SA...
  4. o As Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving (AD) grow in complexity, automotive companies must move faster without...
  5. The digital homologation of certain ADAS functions (AEB) is now possible thanks to developments in regulatory texts. The extension...
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  7. In this presentation, we analyze different high-level perception architectures for L3 ADAS using lidar and HD radar data. First,...