Dr. Radusch currently serves as the Director of the Business Unit Smart Mobility at Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS and as Head of the Daimler Center for Automotive Information Technology Innovations at TU Berlin. His research focuses on secure car-2-x communication, KI-based algorithms for perception and localization as well as location-based applications for autonomous driving. He is responsible for various large-scale projects with industry partners as well as national and international research projects.

Dr. Wilsch is a scientific consultant in the field of mobility, energy and future technologies at VDI / VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH. He is in charge of supervising projects for digitization and automation of mobility for various federal ministries in Germany. Furthermore, he coordinates strategies for the implementation of connected and automated driving on a European level.

Mr. Fleischer serves as Deputy Head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Furthermore, he heads the Research Group “Mobility Futures” at ITAS and focuses on studying the possible design of automated driving innovations and the effects that can be expected after their implementation. His research group helps to identify development opportunities and highlights the need for action. ITAS is considered to be the leading institute for technology assessment worldwide. As such, the institute provides valuable knowledge and advice to politics, the industry, and society.

Mr. Klinge is a Research Associate at the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM). He engages in the economic evaluation of modern and flexible forms of public transport operation, as well as transferability analyses. Mr. Klinge supports the implementation of numerous projects focusing on highly automated and autonomous public transport systems. One of IKEM’s flagship projects has been “Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation (HEAT)” which is among the first autonomous shuttle services in operation in Germany.

Mr. Nolte is a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the Institute of Control Engineering at TU Braunschweig. His main research focus and areas of expertise are self- and riskawareness as well as motion planning for automated vehicles. The Institute of Control Engineering is a renowned German institution specializing in research on the control of mechatronic systems and vehicle electronics. It has conducted major research projects funded by German federal ministries and state agencies.