Computing has changed our lives forever. First we had the mainframe, then a computer in every home, then those homes connected to the internet, and more recently a mobile computing and the cloud. We are entering a fifth wave on computing, based on AI, 5G and IoT, using computing to solve new types of problem, connecting many more devices than ever before.

Noel will examine the trends that will drive innovation around this fifth wave of computing, the potential applications, and the ways it will change our lives.

In his keynote speech, Dr. Marcel Wille will explain challenges and experiences regarding system performance, handling of inconsistencies in an emerging AUTOSAR standard, limitations of service-oriented communication in interaction between embedded systems and Adaptive AUTOSAR as well as portability of applications.

Digitalization is changing the automotive industry dramatically. The “smart” vehicle becomes an integral part of the digital world. It consistently increases performance and functionality via updates after sales. This requires new approaches with respect to E/E architectures, software platforms and communication paradigms heavily influenced by technologies established in software industry and consumer electronics.

Volkswagen will introduce those approaches in its new electrical car platform MEB. It offers a centralized functional architecture along with the introduction of the Adaptive AUTOSAR software platform and service-oriented communication.

A couple of challenges were mastered including the initial situation with a completely new architectural approach, an AUTOSAR standard that was under development and never proven in use, and the unknown impact of service-oriented communication.

Coming from Japan and seeing how mass migration to urban settings has had such a negative impact on the quality of life, Maki and Guy Kaplinsky set off to solve the problem of congestion, commute and cost of urban living by taking things "off the ground" - and founding a flying autonomous car as a service. The Founders firmly believe that Urban Air Mobility (UAM) will change the way we live by enabling people live far from the city centers and commute longer distances in less time, with greater enjoyment. UAM opens up tremendous opportunities for the automotive industry developing new technologies - similar to the changes in the industry 100 years ago. Come hear Maki challenge the current beliefs of what is possible in mobility, why current solutions "almost" solve the problem but not quite, the exciting opportunities for the mobility and automotive market and why the only way is up.

Bosch bases its vehicle computers, which emerge from functional centralization, on a uniform, vehicle-optimized operating system.
For this purpose, Bosch created the domain-independent Vehicle Computer Campus.
With the centralization of vehicle functions within and across domain boundaries, new software platforms are arising and will be continuously developed across vehicle generations. Continuous development of software platforms results in the decoupling of software and hardware – technically, but also on a business-level.

New challenges arise from the complexity of the growing combination of software and hardware modules that can only be processed through a scalable and hardware-agnostic operating system. Bosch pursues a consistent strategy and adapted business units for these challenges to serve vehicle computer business - also as a pure software supplier.

The promise of the first true self-driving car hitting the streets is driving innovation throughout the automotive industry. But there are still large steps to take to turn today's prototype vehicles along with their mandatory safety drivers into actual autonomous vehicles. This talk will examine some of the big challenges around the safe high-performance compute required, and outline solutions and technologies that can enable true deployment. Additional speaking points will include the different types of computing required, reducing SWaP-C (size, weight, power and cost), and achieving functional safety.

The rapid growth of vehicle software, combined with the complex interaction of hardware, software, and physical components, creates an enormous challenge for automobile manufacturers and their suppliers. To address these challenges, in the last decade OEMs started to move software development from real hardware to fully simulated environments, where most development steps can be performed faster, safer, and better. Tests are then performed simultaneously at many work seats (faster), and in a highly available and relatively inexpensive environment (PC).

Virtualization enables a tremendous increase in test coverage (safer). Finally, errors are detected earlier, which reduces costs. Apart from sketching the technical foundation for virtual ECUs, the presentation surveys recent applications from the powertrain, chassis, and ADAS/AV domain, all based on the virtual ECU tool Silver.

The automotive industry moving towards what sometimes is called “the software defined car” – that is, it is the software that defines the product and the customer/driver experience, and it is the software that differentiates us from our competitors. Future customer expectations will be more akin to the experience they have with their smartphone – well-working software providing functionality that with regular over-the-air updates evolves and improves over time. This means that the software will be a car manufacturer’s main asset.

With the move towards the software defined car, we see many necessary changes in the underlying technologies that upholds the software. This talk will address two major changes: 1) the move towards a centralised computing architecture with corresponding modifications in the overall software structure, and 2) new/increased needs for different types of computing hardware based on the changing functional content and software implementations.

The functionality of software and the demand for computing capacity in vehicles is increasing at an enormous rate. The relation between function and its hardware would lead to an continuous increase of control units which is not sustainable from technical and economic points of view. As a result car manufacturers increasingly consolidate functions on fewer, but more powerful control units. There are several such projects currently in development, but the consequences to business and technology in the mid-term and long-term are much more fundamental than many in the automotive domain currently understand.
This presentation details some of these effects from a practical point of view and outlines how the market and standards will evolve over the next years.

Mr. Garzón conducts research and analysis on electronics markets with a special focus on body electronics, infotainment, and ADAS systems. Previously, he worked in the infotainment departments of Seat, Aston Martin, and BMW and as a test development engineer at NXP. Prior to that, he conducted research on artificial intelligence for Bosch, Sony, Telefónica, and Fraunhofer. Mr. Garzón holds a bachelor's degree in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain and a Master of Science in information technology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
He speaks English, German, and Spanish.

New vehicle architectures need to be defined from a top-down use case perspective and will require a cross-domain end-to-end solution-space. Tier-1 suppliers will become partners with OEMs and other parties to co-develop solutions and specifications with shared IP even years before the planned SOP. And the business model will also include a life-time partnership or interaction during the time of vehicle maintenance with updates over-the-air for new features, services or bug-fixes. In this environment it will be important to have partners that understand the challenges of the full ecosystem and provide solutions that do not lead to so-called vendor-lock-ins. This talk will address our experience in handling those challenges for the server-zone architectures and how future standardization will support the smooth interaction of all parties and may generate new business models and value chains.

Automotive electronics and the vehicle ecosystem are experiencing a significant amount of disruption in the face of macro trends such as autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification, and shared mobility. In fact, the need for computing power has never been higher. Individual distributed systems have become complicated and unsustainable. As a result, the industry is demanding connected, secure central computing platforms and more and more sensors and actuators. In a first step there will be basically equally designed computing platforms, in which the domain-specific design is no longer existing. Service-oriented architecture will enable dynamic load balancing, configuration, and seamless integration of cloud & edge computing. The logical step is using the game changing technology of Ethernet Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), which will give us the opportunity to convert on pure IP-based end-to-end real-time communication. This will give us the possibility to create a new E/E architecture with a zonal approach, which is fully scalable and capable to cover the upcoming future requirements for 2024 and beyond.