Autonomous Vehicles: We’re Already There (Sort Of)

Based in San Jose, California, Robert Day is the director of autonomous vehicles at Arm, responsible for the definition of Arm based solutions for the next generation of autonomous vehicle applications. In this role, Robert is dedicated to understanding the requirements for future autonomous innovation, and helping put together solutions and platforms to meet those requirements. By immersing himself in the autonomous vehicle world, he has accumulated a wealth of knowledge around the technology, issues and potential solutions that will make self-driving vehicles a reality. His passion for the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles has made him a popular speaker at automotive conferences worldwide, and even hosted a panel of autonomous experts at Arm’s own TechCon conference where the reality of true autonomous vehicles was hotly debated.

Robert Schweiger is Director Automotive Solutions at Cadence Design Systems. In this worldwide role he is responsible for driving the development of Automotive Solutions across all Cadence product lines covering tools, IP and services. Robert is also representing Cadence at councils and industry forums including AK Automotive, Global Automotive Advisory Council and OPEN Alliance SIG. Robert joined Cadence in 2002 and is based in Munich/Germany. Before his automotive assignment in 2012 he was responsible for the Virtuoso Custom IC product line in Europe for almost 10 years. Prior to Cadence he held various engineering and management positions at Avant! Corporation, Analogy and Munich RE. Robert received his master degree in electrical engineering from the Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Bob has worked in the semiconductor industry for over 20 years. At Achronix, Bob is responsible for driving the global product marketing initiatives for Achronix’s FPGA, eFPGA IP and design software products. Prior to Achronix, Bob worked at Intel as Director of Marketing and Sales Business Systems and Altera where he was Sr. Strategic Marketing Manager responsible for automotive ADAS business development. Bob holds a MBA from Santa Clara University and a BSEE from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

JP Singh is Automotive Marketing Manager at Lattice Semiconductor where he manages global marketing and business development for the automotive segment. He has 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. As an application engineer in his prior role, he brings 15 years of system-level design experience to bear on solving complex problems using Lattice's award-winning, low power FPGAs. He received Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Marketing Strategy Diploma from Cornell University, and Design Thinking Diploma from MIT.

Crystal Tseng, Director of System Product Management of DFI, expertizes in moving Transportation Smartization with accurate market-centric product direction and revenue strategy. With a career that spans product strategy, marketing, and business development roles, Crystal has driven several successes with her unique insight in automation, especially in the railway and in-vehicle fields. Before DFI, Crystal was the Senior Product Manager & Business Development Manager, and has accumulated abundant experience in product strategy for in-vehicle and railway systems over 15 years.