Rashmi is an award winning technologist and leader with over 20+ years of experience. Rashmi is currently Head of Advanced Engineering and User Experience, responsible for technology and go-to market strategy to drive breakthrough user experiences into new pursuits and product platforms. She is focused on combining cutting-edge technologies with advanced UX design and human-machine interactions.

She has over 20+ years of technology and leadership experience and was most recently at Apple Inc, focused on Technology and Strategy for iPhones.  Rashmi has held roles such as Director of Technology at Tandem Launch Technologies, Technology Lead at Qualcomm, and has worked on developing MEMS and nanotechnology-based sensors at GE Global Research Center in New York. Rashmi also worked with Nobel Laureate Dr. Alan MacDiarmid on developing carbon-nanotube-based sensors.

She is a very active member of the Society of Information Displays (SID) and has had many roles of increasing responsibilities at SID, being instrumental in shaping the display industry. While acting as the Chair for the Silicon Valley chapter the SID membership base grew by over 20%. Rashmi is the General Chair for Display Week Conference 2019.

Rashmi is an active advocate of STEM education. While at Qualcomm she co-founded QWISE: Qualcomm Women in Science and Engineering. She continues to promote her passion as a female engineer through HARMAN's partnership with Square One Education Network and 1000 Dreams Scholarship advocating STEM education.  She was recently awarded Diversity Journ's "Women Worth Watching in STEM" 2017 award. She was also recently inducted into the prestigious "Women in Technology Hall of Fame" by WITI in 2018. Given Rashmi's experience on both Automotive and Hi-Tech she is being the bridge between Detroit and Silicon Valley.

Euan Cameron is responsible for Developer Technology at Esri and views a well-designed API as valuable as any work of art. Euan has worked in the geospatial software industry for over 30 years and continues to have fun innovating with maps and technology. Euan is an outdoor enthusiast and can often be found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains climbing, skiing, or hiking.

Mykhaylo (Michael in German/English) Chayka was born and studying in Ukraine, holding M.Sc. degree in Computer Science.
From 2015 he has been living and working in Germany, have 12 years of experience in Software Development where 7 last years are in Automotive. He joined MBition/Daimler Family in July 2018.

The Daimler Group is one of the biggest producers of premium cars and the world's biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles with a global reach.

Fabrizio Monaco is the product manager responsible for the TomTom automotive HMI, the embedded navigation application developed since 2014 using the QT framework and currently running on multiple car brands. He has extensive experience in working both with development teams and UX designers, aligning design choices with the TomTom product's value proposition.

Fabrizio graduated in computer engineering and holds a master degree from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy).

About Michel Min

As Global Marketing Manager IPC, the intent is to empower engineers to make future-proof machines that are better, faster and safer – while at the same time giving them the freedom and flexibility to explore the opportunities provided by modern technologies.

I get energy from networking with inspirational people – and by using my own experience to inspire others. My experience in technology, business management and marketing & communications are key ingredients in what I do, and they impact on every decision that I make.

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Let’s teach machines to be self-aware

Activate your imagination. This talk of Michel Min is about Omron's aim to improve the relationship between machines and humans and how rallying with a ping pong robot contribute to this.  Michel will provide insides how Omron make the connection from ping pong rallies to concrete steps towards the future of manufacturing sites where the machines are self-aware, understand people’s intentions and cooperate.  Revitalizing the manufacturing industry: how very Omron.

Alex Hilliger from Daimler talked about Rapid UI/UX prototyping of a show car. Alex heads the Advanced Graphics and Rendering team at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development in the Silicon Valley.

Linda is the author and illustrator of Hello Ruby, a children’s picture book about the whimsical world of computers. In her popular talk she addressed among others the question on how we prepare our kids for a world where more and more of the problems around us look like computers.

Mr. Tanabe is CEO for Panasonic ITS and heads the Development center which has SW, HW and Mechanical section. His talk was about Future of Vehicle HMI Systems.

Dr. Steven Goldfarb is a physicist from the University of Melbourne working on the ATLAS Experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Watch his thought-provoking presentation called How Do You Measure What You Can’t See?