Gerald is the OSS Strategy Officer at Bosch and held past positions as the Corporate Officer for Open Source based software development and Group Lead Corporate Research for Communication Technology System Design for Digital Radio, Digital Wireless Microphones for professional audio systems. Gerald holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering and Electronics and Signal Processing from Leibniz University Hannover.

Pedro López Estepa is the Director of Automotive at Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the largest software framework company for autonomous systems. In this position, he manages RTI’s fast-growing global automotive business and strategy for RTI Connext Drive, the first automotive-grade safety-certified data-centric communications framework for next-generation electric and autonomous vehicles. More than half of the top 10 funded vehicle newcomers are using RTI software to radically change the approach to car engineering, and automotives running on RTI software are in production and on the road in North America, Europe and Asia.

Mr. López Estepa is a member of the Spanish Association of Autonomous Vehicle (AEVAC) where he contributes as an expert in Software-defined Vehicles and Autonomous Systems. He has more than 10 years of automotive market strategy and engineering experience, working extensively with global automotive and automation industries. Pedro joined RTI from u-blox, the Swiss semiconductor leader, where he led automotive market strategy at the short-range business unit.

Pedro holds a MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Granada and an International Master of Business Administration degree from the Politecnico di Milano. He participates at the Global Leadership Programme organized by San Telmo Business School, where the organization brings together world's leading entrepreneurs, politicians and senior managers in a forum for strategic reflection focused on the current global context.

Working with Geotab, the global leader in IoT and connected vehicles industry, Christoph is responsible for OEM relations and integrating Geotabs business model with that of the OEMs. He looks back to 25+ years in the Automotive industry where he built, ran, and grew various products and businesses for fleet telematics for trucks, vans, and cars.

Munakata had strived to utilize various OSS (like Linux kernel, Chromium, Wayland,..) in Renesas automotive target silicon over ten years. And he established a close collaborative connection to various OSS community stakeholders and Industry consortia leaders now.

Shareef leads a team that delivers advanced platform and simulation technologies to improve experience and increase the spectrum of capabilities in future vehicles. Having previously worked at Intel; Shareef has extensive experience working in the tech industry in both hardware and software domains delivering solutions in the domains of architecture, simulation and cloud.