Speaker

Raphael Fonte Boa Trindade

Leader of Automotive Safety, Huawei

As the Leader of Automotive Safety at Huawei's Munich Research Center, Raphael spearheads innovation in autonomous driving technologies. With over a decade of experience leading complex software projects for multiple generations of premium vehicles, particularly in the safety of intelligent driving, Raphael drives advances in key technologies for Huawei’s intelligent vehicle solutions. Together with a talented team of senior systems and safety engineers, Raphael focuses on the toughest challenges in the safety of self-driving technologies, applying cutting-edge engineering to achieve safe autonomous driving.

The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job?
A relentless technical push for practical solutions and the open-minded spirit of pursuing out-of-the-box approaches which can positively transform the industry.

Sessions

B | Validation & Verification Stream

Monday, March 17

11:15 am - 01:15 pm

Live in Berlin

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This stream explores AI-driven testing, redundancy challenges, and data-centric validation techniques to accelerate deployment and compliance. Ensuring safe and reliable autonomous vehicles requires robust verification and validation strategies.

B | Simulation-Driven Testing Stream

Monday, March 17

02:30 pm - 04:30 pm

Live in Berlin

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This stream explores advanced testing and simulation techniques for radar perception in autonomous vehicles. Learn how lab-based OTA testing and data-driven model optimization enhance validation, improve robustness, and accelerate ADAS/AD development.

B | Standards & Safety Integration Stream

Tuesday, March 18

08:30 am - 10:30 am

Live in Berlin

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This stream explores the critical intersection of standards, safety, and data in autonomous vehicle development. Learn how ISO 21488/2022 can be applied effectively for SOTIF in AD systems, and how ASAM standards enable SDVs and AI integration. Discover best practices for ensuring GDPR compliance and accelerating development with AI-driven data augmentation. These sessions provide essential strategies for harmonizing safety, data privacy, and efficiency in the fast-evolving autonomous vehicle landscape.

3 | E2E AI Café

Tuesday, March 18

11:00 am - 03:00 pm

Live in Berlin

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  • What are limitations of end-to-end AI solutions for safety-relevant ADS functions?
  • What are the key difficulties when integrating end-to-end AI to the full ADS development cycle?
  • What is required to ensure the safety of end-to-end AI approaches?
  • What are key challenges to ensure regulatory compliance of end-to-end AI approaches?
  • Which role can VLM play in end-to-end AI approaches?
Workshop

Company

Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes. At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have more than 207,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.