Seminar agenda

Intelligent Systems

Seminar Area A

12:45 - 13:30

The Role of Telematics in Self-Driving Transport

CMO,
CANGO Technologies

14:30 - 15:15

Classification of Autonomous Trains

Head of Autonomy,
Thales

15:45 - 16:30

Passenger Centric Experience in Smart Mobility

Founder & CEO,
Disruptive Mobility Technologies (DMTech)

UI/UX Designer,
Sypron Solutions

Digital Media Engineer,
Sypron Solutions

Safety & Security

Seminar Area B

10:15 - 11:00

Conduct Independent Safety Assessment for Autonomous Driving Car

Managing Director,
Exida Safety Services

12:45 - 13:30

A Cybersecurity Protection Framework to Support Dubai's Self-Driving Transport Strategy

International Consultant
Omnex

14:30 - 15:15

3D Visualisation and Mixed Reality Models

Executive Director
Sunovatech Group

15:45 - 16:30

Identifying the Key Safety Benefits of Autonomous Taxis by Analysing the Human Factors That Increase the Likelihood of Traffic Collisions For The Taxi Industry

Al Ruwayya Depot Manager, Public Transport Busses Department and Regional Planning
Roads & Transport Authority (RTA)

Dean of Engineering & IT,
The British University in Dubai

International Practice

Seminar Area C

12:45 - 13:30

FUTURES - How to Plan for An Uncertain Future

Future Mobility Leader,
Mott MacDonald

14:30 - 15:15

Partnering with Cities: Bird's Approach to Providing Accessible, Equitable and Responsible Transportation

Senior Manager, Government Partnerships,
Bird

15:45 - 16:30

Intelligent Systems Lab Automated Electric Vehicle

Senior Development Engineer,
IAV Gmbh

Assistant Professor & Senior Researcher,
Intelligent Systems Lab

Future Insights

Seminar Area D

10:15 - 11:00

Policy Governance and Infrastructure Investment in The Era of Multimodal Self-Driving Transport

Research Associate,
Wharton Business School Alternative Investments Initiative

12:45 - 13:30

Purchasing Intentions of Electric Vehicles Across The GCC

General Manager,
YallaMotors

14:30 - 15:15

Testing and Validating Autonomous Vehicles using PTV Vissim Traffic Simulator with a Case Study on Dubai’s Road Network

Transport Modeller, Project Management & Services,
PTV Group

Manager Microscopic Simulation,
PTV Group

15:45 - 16:30

Live Demo – Showcasing the LIDAR applications and live data handling possibilities for autonomous cars based on a Velodyne Ultra Puck and DGWorld´s 3D SLAM Software

Marketing Manager EMEA,
Velodyne Lidar

Smart Infrastructure & Connectivity

Seminar Area E

10:15 - 11:00

Connected Services and User Experience in Premium Vehicles

Chief Engineer,
Skyships Automotive

12:45 - 13:30

Introducing the 1st Robo-taxi Service in California: Lessons for Dubai and the MENA

CEO,
AutoX

14:30 - 15:15

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles – Current State, Future Possibilities and Policy Challenges for Dubai

Director,
Atkins Acuity

15:45 - 16:30

Integrating Autonomous Vehicles with Public Transit

COO,
Bestmile

Intelligent Systems

Seminar Area A

10:15 - 11:00

Measuring Vehicle Intelligence in Human Transport: What Is Your Car's IQ?

ITS Roads & Vehicles Practice Lead,
Stantec Consulting

ITS Analyst,
Stantec Consulting

11:30 - 12:15

Sensor+AI is the way for the next generation techonology

Chairman,
Fatri

12:45 - 13:30

Enabling Technology for Self-Driving Transport: Opportunities and Challenges

Professor and Department Head, Mechanical Engineering Department.,
American University of Sharjah

14:30 - 15:15

The Presentation on Verification & Validation Approaches for Testing Highly Automated Driving (HAD) Covers A Solution-Oriented Approach to Define and Deploy A Product with SAE Level 3 Features and Above

Head of Validation, ADAS & Autonomous Driving,
Visteon Electronics Germany GmbH

15:45 - 16:30

Autonomous Driving Traffic Control

Vice President Business Development,
Carmenta Automotive

International Practice

Seminar Area C

10:15 - 11:00

Urban Air Mobility – From Concepts to Reality

COO
JDA Aviation Technology Solutions

Senior Certification Specialist,
JDA Aviation Solutions

11:30 - 12:15

AV City: When The Parking Garage Grows Up

Principal
PROTOinc

12:45 - 13:30

UK Autodrive - Lessons and Impact from An Urban Collaborative Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Trial

Future Transport Systems Lead,
Arup

14:30 - 15:15

Chief Mobility Officer,
SHOTL

15:45 - 16:30

Autonomous Robot Guide Based on The Loomo Mini Personal Transporter

Dr. Michel Pasquier
Dept. Of Computer Science & Engineering
American University of Sharjah

Future Insights

Seminar Area D

10:15 - 11:00

Automated Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities for Road Operators & Road Authorities for the Work of PIARC Task Force

Vice President, Transportation
Stantec Consulting

11:30 - 12:15

Re-Imagining Dubai's Downtown Architecture in The Autonomous Vehicles Era

Assistant Professor,
Al-Ghurair University

12:45 - 13:30

The Future of Transportation, A Modular Collaborative Ecosystem

CTO, Inventor and Founder,
NEXT Future Transportation inc.

14:30 - 15:15

Future Insights of the Automotive Industry with Particular Emphasis on the Role of the Dealers/Importers and the Adaptation of the Consumers in the Middle East Region of the New Technology and Transport Ecosystem

Founder & Chairman,
AMENA

15:45 - 16:30

Urban Air Mobility – Taking Public Transportation into the 3rd Dimension

Managing Director,
FEV Consulting GmbH

Smart Infrastructure & Connectivity

Seminar Area E

10:15 - 11:00

Self-Driving Technology Is Ready Now, But How Do People and Communities Prepare?

Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Michigan State University

11:30 - 12:15

AWS Paving The Way For The Future of Autonomous Driving

Head of Automotive EMEA
Amazon Web Services

12:45 - 13:30

Micro-mobility: An Efficient Complement in a Transport Ecosystem and Accelerant for Viable AV Deployments

Co-Founder & CEO, MENAT,
Circ

14:30 - 15:15

Planning for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Smart Mobility Director,
Parsons

15:45 - 16:30

Preparing Dubai And the UAE's Road Infrastructure for Autonomous & Self-Driving Transport

Director of ITS and Transportation
Surface Mobility

Dr. Juan Pimentel

Principal Consultant, Omnex Inc.

Dr. Juan R. Pimentel is an expert international consultant in the areas of safety of automated vehicles, automotive cybersecurity, safety and cybersecurity of industrial control systems (ICS), and intelligent transportation systems. He is a sought after expert speaker at well known professional venues around the world on the topics of automated vehicle safety, automotive cybersecurity, ICS safety and cybersecurity, and international standards such as ISA/IEC 62443, ISO 26262, ISO/PAS 21448, and ISO/SAE 21434. Prior to his consulting endeavors he was a Professor of Computer Engineering at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan, USA. He is a recognized international expert in the area of industrial communications, real-time and dependable systems, and autonomous vehicle and industrial functional safety and cybersecurity. He has written 8 books on industrial networking, multimedia systems, safety-critical automotive systems, and the Safety of Automated Vehicles. He has performed extensive research, consulting and conducted professional training in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He has performed research at well known institutions around the world such as the Franuhofer Institute in Karlsruhe, Germany, INRIA in Nancy, France, University of Padova, Italy, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, and UTEC, Lima, Peru. In 2007 he received the “Distinguished Researcher Award” from Kettering University for contributions in the area of industrial communication systems and automotive systems. He has written over 90 peer reviewed papers at international conferences and Journals, primarily the IEEE and SAE.

With a Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, his accomplishments include the co-development of the application layer for the industrial network Profibus (with Siemens), and the development of FlexCAN, a CAN-based safety-critical architecture. In the last few years he has been involved with various projects dealing with self-driving vehicles including design, simulation, testing, functional safety, cybersecurity, and developing professional training materials.

Eng. Ahmed Hussein

Senior Development Engineer,
IAV Gmbh

Eng. Ahmed Hussein has received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt, in June 2012; followed by his in Mechatronics Engineering from the German University in Cairo (GUC), Berlin campus, Germany, working on optimization of multiple robot systems cooperation in May 2013. In September 2018, he received his PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain. During the doctoral degree period, he was working with the Intelligent Systems Lab (LSI) research group, where he was one of the team leaders of the Intelligent Campus Automobile (iCab) project, working on the development and implementation of localization, mapping, planning, control, communication and cooperative driving techniques for multiple self-driving vehicles. Currently he is a Senior Development Engineer in the Department of Perception and Camera Functions at IAV GmbH in Berlin, Germany.

His research interests are focused on intelligent transportation systems fields, mainly on sensors data fusion, autonomous systems control, optimization techniques, computational intelligence and cooperative vehicles systems. Recently, his research interests also include computer vision, deep learning and development of perception systems based on camera and lidar data for object detection, recognition and classification.

Ahmed is a member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) since 2015, and a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) since 2012. He is the Treasurer and Registration Co-Chair for the IEEE ITSC2019, the Publicity Chair for the IEEE ICVES2019, and the Workshops Co-Chair for the IEEE IV2020. Additionally, he was the Student Activities Chair for the IEEE ITSS Spanish Chapter for the period from 2017 to 2019, the General Co-Chair and Financial Chair of the IEEE ICVES2018, and was a member of the Organizing Committee of IEEE ICET 2012, IEEE RST2016, IEEE ICVES2017, IEEE ITSC2018, IEEE IROS2018, and IEEE IV2019, among other international events. He also chaired and co-chaired several workshops, in addition to serving as a reviewer and/or an associate editor in numerous international conferences. Furthermore, he has been invited to give speeches, lectures, and seminars at different institutes.

Abdulla Al-Kaff

Intelligent Systems Lab
Assistant Professor & Senior Researcher

Abdulla Al-Kaff is an Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (LSI), Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, with a solid theoretical and mathematical background in the fields of Artificial Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and localization algorithms for Intelligent Systems and Automotive ground and aerial vehicles.

He graduated from Aden University in Computer Science and Engineering in 2007 with a grade (Very good) and ranked as the third in his class, and obtained his master degree in Robotics and Automation with grade (Excellent) in 2012 from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Automation in 2017 with a grade (Excellent with Cum Laude), with a thesis titled "Vision-based navigation system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)", which proposed a robust navigation system; in order to allow the UAVs to perform complex tasks autonomously and in real-time. The proposed algorithms deal with solving the navigation problem for outdoor as well as indoor environments, mainly based on visual information that is captured by monocular cameras. In addition, this dissertation presents the advantages of using the visual sensors as the main source of data or complementing other sensors in providing useful information; in order to improve the accuracy and the robustness of the sensing purposes.

During his Ph.D., Abdulla got a European patent in designing a UAV with an advanced visual system for the inspection for the defects in buildings and infrastructures.

In addition, Abdulla was awarded as a best Ph.D. thesis in Spain in Intelligent Transportation systems. His current research interests focused on computer vision, deep learning, trajectories planning, control engineering, intelligent systems, autonomous vehicles, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), and he has a lot of the publications in these fields.

Seminar agenda

Intelligent Systems

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

Safety & Security

10:15 - 11:00

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

International Practice

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

Future Insights

10:15 - 11:00

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

Smart Infrastructure & Connectivity

10:15 - 11:00

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

Intelligent Systems

10:15 - 11:00

11:30 - 12:15

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

International Practice

10:15 - 11:00

11:30 - 12:15

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

Future Insights

10:15 - 11:00

11:30 - 12:15

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

Smart Infrastructure & Connectivity

10:15 - 11:00

11:30 - 12:15

12:45 - 13:30

14:30 - 15:15

15:45 - 16:30

Bianca Barbu

Dr. Amine Arezki

Eng. Samar AbdelFattah

Nadia Mohamed Abdelsalam

Omnya Amro Elfeki

Bentley Lin

Dr. Juan Pimentel

Sonal Ahuja

Eng. Mohamed Mahboob Hassan

Professor Bassam Abu-Hijleh

Edward Forrester

Haya Douidri

Eng. Ahmed Hussein

Abdulla Al-Kaff

Eugene Chao

Jorge Bialade

Hussein Falih

Dr. Jochen Lohmiller

Dieter Gabriel

Hrishikesh Mandyam

Dr. Jianxiong Xiao

Jonathan Spear

Gary Patterson

Daniel Baxter

Samaneh Khazraeian

Bill Nie

Dr. Mamoun F. Abdel-Hafez

Johan Holmqvist

Mike Rioux

Mike Borfitz

Hugh Hynes

Tim Armitage