
Mobility & AI Conference 2026 Day 1: Tuesday, 14 April 2026 08:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee 08:50 Opening Remarks Ingo Martin, Senior Director Automotive Events, Ultima Media Germany GmbH Prof. Dr. Gunnar Gräfe, Owner, Jucla Consult 09:00 Mobility Innovation Campus, Inductive Charging & safeAI Wolfgang Jansen, Senior Vice President, Head of Division Tests & Analyses, Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) 09:20 From L4 Vision to Reality – The Future of Risk, Trust and Insurance Dr. Christian Sahr, Managing Director, AZT Allianz Center for Technology 09:35 From L3 to Robotaxis: Approval Evidence, AI Assurance & Audit Readiness in Europe Thomas Quernheim, SVP Engineering & Homologation Automotive, TÜV Rheinland Group 09:50 Safety, Security and AI for Autonomous Shared Mobility: How MOIAs Scales Trust Dr. René S. Hosse, Head of Regulatory, Safety, and Security, Volkswagen Autonomous Mobility GmbH / MOIA 10:20 Autonomy at Scale: Safety, Regulation and Business Models Jeremy McClain, Global Vice President and Head of Systems & Software Business, Business Area Autonomous Mobility, AUMOVIO 10:50 Cyber Risk Assessment as the Backbone of Future Mobility in the Age of AI Arne-Peter Berg, Director Automotive Cybersecurity Communications & Business Development, CYMETRIS GmbH 11:00 Coffee Break & Networking 11:30 Panel Discussion: How can the Transition from AI Use to AD be Achieved in Europe? Panelists: Kai Konrad, Stellantis Dr. Thomas Körzdörfer, HUK-COBURG Thomas Quernheim, TÜV Rheinland Group Dr. Christian Sahr, AZT Allianz 12:00 Software-Defined Mobility: Turning Europe’s Type Approval Challenge into a Competitive Advantage Alexander Kraus, CEO, AVL Deutschland GmbH 12:30 The Next Generation Parking Experience: Launching Level 4 at Scale Joachim Mathes, CTO, Valeo BRAIN Division Heinrich Gotzig, Expertise Director & Valeo Master Expert Driving Assistance, Valeo 13:00 Joint Lunch Break & Networking 14:15 Autonomous Driving – The Key to Tomorrow's Mobility Thomas Drewes, Head of Autonomous Driving, Deutsche Bahn (DB Regio AG) 14:45 Autonomous Mobility – The Path to the Scalable City Dr. Stephane Dreher, Head of CCAM, ERTICO 15:15 Shaping the Future of Mobility: Remote Driving, AI, and Global Deployment Athanassios Lagospiris, Vice President of Engineering, Vay 15:45 AVP – From Concept to Product: Automated Valet Parking makes every Journey end Smoothly Dr. Ulrich Lages, Chief Sales Officer, iMotion Automotive Technology Suzhou Co. Ltd. 16:15 Coffee Break & Networking 16:45 Remote Operation as an Enabler for Autonomous Mobility: New Challenges for HMI Design Dr. Michael Oehl, Head of Research Group Human-Machine Interaction, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) 17:10 AXIOM: From Black Box to Verified Intelligence: Trustworthy LLMs for Mobility Intakhab Khan, Founder & Managing Director, Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI) GmbH 17:30 Harvesting AI Opportunities in Mobility: Startups between Leapfrogging and Incremental Change Dr. Matthias Kempf, Managing Partner, Leap435 Management GmbH 17:50 AI Act in the Automotive Sector: Sectoral Interplay, Legislative Updates, and Agentic AI Oliver Belitz, IT Lawyer with AI Focus, Legal Tech Counsel, Bird&Bird Dr. Nils Lölfing, Senior Counsel, Technology & Communications Sector Group, Bird&Bird 18:15 End of Conference Day 1 – Casual Get-Together with Fine Food & Drinks Day 2: Wednesday, 15 April 2026 08:25 Opening Remarks Andrea Hoffmann-Topp, Head of Content Strategy, Ultima Media Germany GmbH 08:30 New Regulatory Requirements for Automated Vehicles and Driver Assistance Systems Richard Damm, President of KBA - Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt & Chairman of the UNECE Working Group GRVA on automated, autonomous and connected vehicles, The Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) 09:00 Light the Fuse for Next-Gen Mobility: IPCEI AI and Cooperation in Open Ecosystems to Shape a Competitive Edge for German Industry Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall, Head of Division for Digitalization and Industry 4.0, BMWE (The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) 09:30 Autonomous Driving – A Game Changer for City Bus Dr. Michael Roth, Head of Bus and Product Strategy (Bus), MAN Truck & Bus SE 10:00 Building Trust in End to End AI Through Safety and Validation Tina Kirschner, Head of Regulatory Affairs, NVIDIA 10:30 Coffee Break & Networking 11:00 Building Confidence through Design in AI-driven Engineered Systems Avinash Nehemiah, Head of Product Management and Marketing – Design Automation, MathWorks 11:30 AI Driven Autonomy at Scale: Lessons from TÜV Certified Level 4 Systems Dr. Alexander Domahidi, Founder & CTO, Embotech 12:00 Autonomous Parking: Beyond Convenience – A Revolution in Mobility and Operations Tobias Kauderer, Business Manager Parking Software Solutions, Robert Bosch GmbH 12:30 Joint Lunch Break & Networking 13:30 The Beauty of Collaboration – How Open Source can help to Build a Sustainable Automotive Software Ecosystem Michael Plagge, Vice President Ecosystem Development, Eclipse Foundation 14:00 Explainable Compliance in Autonomous Driving: Turning Traffic Rules into an Operational Asset Dr. Felix Kortmann, CTO, IGNITE by Forvia Hella 14:30 Accelerating Autonomous Vehicle Development: The Power of Location Intelligence in the AD Stack Julian Gonsior, Senior Product Manager Automated Driving Solutions, HERE Technologies 15:00 Rethinking AI Validation: A Lifecycle Driven Approach for Explainable and Trustworthy AI by Design Lukas Klose, Head of AES AI Solution Center, Keysight Technologies Deutschland GmbH 15:30 Final Remarks & Farewell – End of Conference

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Opening Remarks

Mobility Innovation Campus, Inductive Charging & safeAI

From L4 Vision to Reality – The Future of Risk, Trust and Insurance

From L3 to Robotaxis: Approval Evidence, AI Assurance & Audit Readiness in Europe

Safety, Security and AI for Autonomous Shared Mobility: How MOIAs Scales Trust

Autonomy at Scale: Safety, Regulation and Business Models

Cyber Risk Assessment as the Backbone of Future Mobility in the Age of AI

Coffee Break & Networking

Panel Discussion: How can the Transition from AI Use to AD be Achieved in Europe?

Software-Defined Mobility: Turning Europe’s Type Approval Challenge into a Competitive Advantage

The Next Generation Parking Experience: Launching Level 4 at Scale

Joint Lunch Break & Networking

Autonomous Driving – The Key to Tomorrow's Mobility

Autonomous Mobility – The Path to the Scalable City

Shaping the Future of Mobility: Remote Driving, AI, and Global Deployment

AVP – From Concept to Product: Automated Valet Parking makes every Journey end Smoothly

Coffee Break & Networking

Remote Operation as an Enabler for Autonomous Mobility: New Challenges for HMI Design

AXIOM: From Black Box to Verified Intelligence: Trustworthy LLMs for Mobility

Harvesting AI Opportunities in Mobility: Startups between Leapfrogging and Incremental Change

AI Act in the Automotive Sector: Sectoral Interplay, Legislative Updates, and Agentic AI

End of Conference Day 1 – Casual Get-Together with Fine Food & Drinks

Opening Remarks

New Regulatory Requirements for Automated Vehicles and Driver Assistance Systems

Light the Fuse for Next-Gen Mobility: IPCEI AI and Cooperation in Open Ecosystems to Shape a Competitive Edge for German Industry

Autonomous Driving – A Game Changer for City Bus

Building Trust in End to End AI Through Safety and Validation

Coffee Break & Networking

Building Confidence through Design in AI-driven Engineered Systems

AI Driven Autonomy at Scale: Lessons from TÜV Certified Level 4 Systems

Autonomous Parking: Beyond Convenience – A Revolution in Mobility and Operations

Joint Lunch Break & Networking

The Beauty of Collaboration – How Open Source can help to Build a Sustainable Automotive Software Ecosystem

Explainable Compliance in Autonomous Driving: Turning Traffic Rules into an Operational Asset

Accelerating Autonomous Vehicle Development: The Power of Location Intelligence in the AD Stack

Rethinking AI Validation: A Lifecycle Driven Approach for Explainable and Trustworthy AI by Design

Final Remarks & Farewell – End of Conference