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Peter Schiefer

  • Division President Automotive, Infineon Technologies AG,
  • Member and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at SIAPM, a joint venture of SAIC Motor Corporation Limited and Infineon Technologies AG,
  • from 2012 to 2016, headed operations of Infineon Technologies AG being responsible for production, supply chain and purchasing,
  • held several top management positions within the company, for example, Division President Power Management & Multimarket,
  • Peter Schiefer joined Infineon in 1990 (Semiconductor Group of Siemens AG until 1999).

Markus Janke

  • Senior Principal Product and System Security, Infineon Technologies AG,
  • since 1991 working on the conception, development and realization of smart card systems,
  • as author and consultant, published numerous publications and held several lectures in this field.

Dr. Peter Laackmann

  • Senior Principal Connected Secure Systems, Infineon Technologies AG,
  • working for the smart card industry, as well as for print and TV media as a consultant since 1991,
  • wrote numerous publications covering chip card technology and security.

Dr. Markus Tschersich

  • Manager Security & Privacy Standardization and Regulatory Affairs, Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG,
  • deputy chairman of the German mirror committee of the ISO / SAE 21434 Road Vehicles - Cybersecurity Engineering standardization as well as liaison officer to the UNECE WP.29 task force on cyber security and OTA issues,
  • previously worked at secunet Security Networks AG as consultant for automotive security and ISMS with several OEMs and Tier1s.

Karsten Schmidt

  • Software Architect and Developer, AUDI AG,
  • specialized on model-driven software development in the electronic chassis control domain and AUTOSAR software architecture,
  • worked from 1998 till 2003 on the first UMTS/GPRS-release as software engineer at Siemens AG, followed by a two years employment at IAV GmbH, with focus on ECU-development for powertrain systems.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Krauß

  • Head of Cyber-Physical Systems Security Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT,
  • Professor for network security at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt,
  • responsible for the business area automotive security at Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT,
  • research topics include automotive security and privacy, trustworthy platforms, lightweight and post quantum cryptography, and security testing.

Lazaros Kapsias

  • V2X Chip and Technology Architect, u-blox AG,
  • Co-founder and CTO of Antcor SA a pioneer of programmable 802.11 baseband for more than 10 years,
  • before device drivers engineer in Atmel contributing to the first generation of WiFi products.

Marc Weber

  • Senior Product Management Engineer, Vector Informatik GmbH,
  • responsible for the topics of firewalling and intrusion detection in the field of embedded software at Vector,
  • from 2013-2017 responsible for the product management of the embedded / AUTOSAR Ethernet stack,
  • parallel doctoral student at the Institute for Information Processing Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT since 2016 - Research field: Monitoring and safeguarding the vehicle E / E system.

 

Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk

  • Founder and CEO of XAIN AG and XAIN Foundation,
  • mathematician and cryptographer with studies in Heidelberg and PhD at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London,
  • worked as Cyber Security Engineer at Daimler AG and IBM,
  • research and development focus on distributed cryptographic systems for dynamic applications (in particular user-based or human-centered access control).

Dr. Alexander Zeh

  • Lead Automotive Cyber Security Architect, Infineon Technologies AG,
  • responsible for the roadmap definition of the automotive microcontroller’s cyber security feature evolution, the lead of cross functional security expert teams, the coordination and engagement in different research projects, as well as the engagement in the ISO-SAE 21434 “Road Vehicles -- Cybersecurity Engineering” standardization,
  • Ph.D. degree from the University of Ulm in electrical engineering and from the Computer Science Department (LIX), École Polytechnique ParisTech, Paris.

Dr. Frederic Stumpf

  • Head of Product Management Cybersecurity Solutions at ESCRYPT GmbH,
  • responsible for such products as embedded SW security solutions, key management solutions, malware protection services, and the Bosch Cyber Defense Center,
  • before headed the research department "Embedded Security and Trusted Operating Systems" at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Integrated Security in Munich,
  • holds a doctorate degree (2009) and diploma in computer science (2006) from Darmstadt University of Technology.

Pacific Coast Highway

  • Senior Researcher at the chair of Security in Information Technology at TU Munich. Lead of the security integration for multi-core SoC architectures used in critical applications (avionics and automotive) for the BMBF project ARAMiSII.
  • Research and development in protected integration of new cryptographic primitives into SoCs in the context of IoT.
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering (2011) at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and research experiences at INRIA, Telecom Bretagne and University of South Brittany (France).