Mercedes Benz Join the Speaker Line-Up at Connected and Autonomous Vehicles 2018

April 25, 2018

We are thrilled to announce that Mercedes-Benz are joining the already start studded line-up at Connected and Autonomous Vehicle 2018 (May 14-17, Santa Clara). This event gathers over 500 executives to drill down into the most pressing trends transfiguring the automotive space beyond recognition.

Kyle Columbus, Program Launch Manager at Mercedes Benz R&D will be interviewed live on stage by Sudha Jamthe, who developed the first business course at Stanford University focused on Autonomous Vehicles business. Together they will tackle how business innovation and digital transformation happens in global OEM company and looking at ‘Ask Mercedes’ as a case study.

You can find the overview of this session as well as the full conference agenda here.

Mercedes-Benz is the latest name to join a heavyweight speaker line-up which features General Motors, Lyft, Ford, NIO, Continental, Panasonic, Pagani and Scania to name a few. See a sample of the speaker line-up below.

Sample of Speakers taking Centre Stage at Connected and Autonomous Vehicle 2018:

Steve London, Head of Business Development, General Motors
Kyle Columbus Program Launch Manager @ Future Transportation, Mercedes Benz R&D
Dennis Liu, Associate Director – Global Strategy & Business Development, Ford Motor Company
Francesco Zappacosta, Managing Director, Pegani AutoMobili
Steve London, Head of Business Development, General Motors
Scott Burnell, Global Lead, Bus Dev & Partner Mgmt, Ford Developer Program
Amer Akhtar, COO, XPT Global
Paul Asel, Managing Partner, Nokia Growth Partners
Fredrik Callenryd, Head of Strategies & Product Planning for Connected Services, Scania
Tavis Szeto, Director Mobility & Technology, Panasonic
Anil Rachakonda, Direct of Start-Up Coop, Continental