Chalmers Initiative seminar "Autonomous transport: What's new and what's next?"
Welcome to the conference Autonomous transport: what’s new and what’s next? The conference brings together leading researchers, industry experts and policymakers to present recent developments, examine the challenges ahead and discuss the way forward. Register and join us for the conversation!
New developments in vehicle technology, infrastructure and transport services are bringing autonomous transport closer to widespread use, while important questions remain about safety, integration and regulation. Where are we today, and what needs to happen next?
Programme
08:30–09:00 Registration, mingle and coffee
Welcome
09:00 Balázs Kulcsár, Director, and Ala Arvidsson, Co-Director, Transport Area of Advance, Chalmers University of Technology
Predictive and connected vehicles
09:15 Introduction
09:20 Gabriel Campos, Head of Research, Zenseact
09:35 Leo Laine, Innovation and research strategist, Volvo Group and adjunct Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
09:50 Christian Berger, Professor, Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
Panel discussion
10:25 Coffee
Traffic – vehicles interacting with traffic
10:45 Introduction
10:50 Dr Håkan Sivencrona, Senior Technical Leader, Volvo Car Corporation
11:05 Noel Alldritt, Solutions Architect and C-ITS team lead, Trafikverket (The Swedish Transport Administration)
11:20 Jonas Sjöberg, Professor of Mechatronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
Panel discussion
12:00–13:20 Lunch
Transport services
13:20 Introduction
13:25 Mats Rosenquist, Specialist Leader Public Projects, Volvo Group
13:40 Vivetha Natterjee, Head of Product & Deployment | Autonomous Driving, Bolt
13:55 Peter Svensson, Teknik och Infrastruktur, Sveriges Åkeriföretag (The Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies)
14:10 Dr Pnina Gershon, Research Scientist, MIT AgeLab and Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), USA
Panel discussion
Closing remarks
14:50–15:30 Networking and mingle
Welcome – we hope to see you there!
Transport Area of Advance
About the conference
Hosted by Transport Area of Advance.
The conference is open to all and free of charge, subject to registration.
Please note that this is a physical event. Timings are preliminary.
This conference is open for all!
