Bryn Balcombe
CSO, Roborace and Director, Autonomous Drivers Alliance (ADA)
Bryn Balcombe is the Chief Strategy Officer for Roborace, a motorsport competition for human and AI drivers, designed to accelerate the research and development of Vehicle Intelligence and human-machine interfaces required for transportation of the future. His previous experience comes from Formula One where he architected and patented vehicle to infrastructure communication systems and developed the F1 Group’s first global media network. He has also consulted on technology strategy for organisations including the BBC and McCann Worldgroup and has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering & Vehicle Design. |
Niels de Boer
Program Director, CETRAN
Niels de Boer is the program director for CETRAN, which is tasked by the Singapore Land Transport Authority to develop technical standards and regulations to enable trial testing and deployment of Autonomous Vehicles on public roads. CETRAN is also supporting the development of the TR68 Singapore Technical Reference for Autonomous Vehicles and potential revisions to this Technical Reference. |
Rahul Khatry
Data Scientist, Automotive Telematics and Autonomy, TRL
Rahul is a data scientist and has worked on several projects involving automation in vehicles, ADAS systems, machine learning etc. He has been technically leading the development of Virtual Validation work in Streetwise at TRL. This work focusses on developing a methodology for validating automated vehicles in a simulation environment by exposing them to different accident conditions and checking whether the Automated vehicle was able to avoid the conditions properly. He has worked on Convolutional Neural Networks for Image classification of Road Cracks and for using random forest and Fully Connected Nets to predict traffic light timings.He has done mathematical modelling of cost benefit analysis of policies. He has also developed the mathematical model for the General Safety Regulations which won the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award. He has studied Mechanical and Automotive Engineering and has worked on Projects like Control system design and Antilock Braking Systems during his studies. |
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John A. McDermid
FREng - Department of Computer Science, University of York Programme Director Assuring Autonomy & Chair of a BSI working group on safety of autonomous vehicles
John McDermid became Professor of Software Engineering at the University of York in 1987. His research covers a broad range of issues in systems, software and safety engineering. In January 2018 he became Director of the Lloyd's Register Foundation funded Assuring Autonomy International Programme, focusing on safety of robotics and autonomous systems.For several decades he has acted as an advisor to government and industry, including advising FiveAI, the UK MoD and Rolls-Royce. He became a Non-Executive Director of the HSE in October 2019. An active involvement in standards development has been evident throughout his career, including work on safety and software standards for civilian and defence applications; he currently chairs the BSI Connected Autonomous Vehicles Standards Advisory Board. He is author or editor of six books and has published over 400 papers. In 2002 he became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002, and was awarded an OBE in 2010. |
Stefano Polidori
Advisor, TSB, ITU
Stefano is Advisor at the International Telecommunication Union and responsible for the technical secretariat of ITU-T Study Group 9 "Broadband cable and TV”. He is also responsible for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) activities, including the Symposium on the Future Networked Car at the Geneva Motor Show. Stefano is the ITU representative to the European Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardization at the European Commission. After few years in the private sector, joined the ITU in 2004 covering various positions including Coordinator for ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference and Advisor for Study Group 11 "Signalling, protocols and test specifications". Stefano holds a Master in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome, Italy and a Master of Science in mobile communication from Aalborg University, Denmark. |
 Murray Rahn
Pre-sales Services Architect, Nokia
Murray is originally from central Canada, having completed university education in business related studies and worked in the communications industry for over 20 years. During those 20+ years, has experience working in telecommunications services providers and equipment vendors. His current role at Nokia is within Global Services as a pre-sales services architect. He resides and works in the UK. |
Neville A Stanton
Chair, Human Factors Engineering, & Director, Human Factors Engineering Team, Transportation Research Group
Professor Neville Stanton, PhD, DSc, is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Ergonomist and Chartered Engineer. He holds the Chair in Human Factors Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton in the UK. He has degrees in Occupational Psychology, Applied Psychology and Human Factors En.gineering and has worked at the Universities of Aston, Brunel, Cornell and MIT. His research interests include modelling, predicting, analysing and evaluating human performance in systems as well as designing the interfaces and interaction between humans and technology. Professor Stanton has worked on design of automobiles, aircraft, ships and control rooms over the past 30 years, on a variety of automation projects. He has published 45 books and over 350 journal papers on Ergonomics and Human Factors. In 1998 he was presented with the Institution of Electrical Engineers Divisional Premium Award for research into System Safety. The Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors in the UK awarded him The Otto Edholm Medal in 2001, The President's Medal in 2008 and 2018, The Sir Frederic Bartlett Medal in 2012 and The William Floyd Medal in 2019 for his contributions to basic and applied ergonomics research. The Royal Aeronautical Society awarded him and his colleagues the Hodgson Prize in 2006 for research on design-induced, flight-deck, error published in The Aeronautical Journal. The University of Southampton has awarded him a Doctor of Science in 2014 for his sustained contribution to the development and validation of Human Factors methods. |
Michael Talbot
Head of Strategy, Zenzic
Michael Talbot is Head of Strategy at
Zenzic the part government-funded not for profit that is accelerating the UK's connected and self-driving vehicle ecosystem, and facilitating and promoting British capabilities in testing and development. He is on secondment from the UK's Government's Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) of which he is a founding member in 2015. Before that he was Head of Horizon Scanning in the Cabinet Office/Government Office for Science where he established a cross-Government Emerging Technologies Community of Interest (including CAVs), reporting to the Cabinet Secretary's Advisory Group. Michael holds Master's degrees from the Universities of Toronto and Oxford. |
Christoph Lütge
Professor of Business Ethics and Director, Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Christoph Lütge is Full Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at Technical University of Munich (TUM). He has a background in business informatics and philosophy, having taken his PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1999 and his habilitation at the University of Munich (LMU) in 2005. He was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship in 2007. His most recent books are: “The Ethics of Competition” (Elgar, 2019) and “Ethik in KI und Robotik” (Hanser, 2020, with coauthors). Lütge has held visiting positions at Harvard, University of Pittsburgh, University of California (San Diego), Taipei, Kyoto and Venice. He is a member of the Scientific Board of the European AI Ethics initiative AI4People as well as of the German Ethics Commission on Automated and Connected Driving. He has also done consulting work for the Singapore Economic Development Board and the Canadian Transport Commission. |
