ASAM International Conference
Date: November 04, 2026 - November 05, 2026
Location: House of Communication
Program
The program is still subject to change.
Day 1 (Nov 04, 2026)
| Time | Plenary | Lab | Heart 9 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | ARRIVAL & WELCOME COFFEE & EXHIBITION | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome Marius Dupuis, CEO, ASAM e.V. | ||
| 9:20 | KEYNOTE Driving Innovation for a sovereign Europe and a safer World – Initiative by VDI | --- | --- |
| 10:00 | KEYNOTE The social significance of automated driving and Japan’s efforts toward international harmonization for ADS Mr. Yuya KUROSAWA, Chief Official of Safety Office, Vehicle Regulation and International Affairs Division Logistics and Road Transport Bureau Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan | --- | --- |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:15 | Development and application of Geely SOVD Cloud Guardian System | --- | --- |
| 11:45 | When AI comes for test data, standardization amplifies Dr. Ralf Nörenberg, CEO, HighQSoft GmbH | --- | --- |
| 12:15 | Industrial pitches RealSimE: Real-World Simulated Environment for Safer Mobility ---- When standards meet physical and agentic AI Stephen Lernout, CEO, Deontic | --- | --- |
| 12:30 | LUNCH & EXHIBITION | ||
| Session: "AI adoption & strategies" (Session Chair: Jobst Richert, dSPACE) | Session: "Continuous testing & validation" (Session Chair: Tille Karoline Rupp, Porsche Engineering Services) | Session "Standards & regulation" (Session Chair: Bolin Zhou, CATARC) | |
| 14:00 | Cybersecurity meets continuous testing: Operationalizing the Cyber Resilience Act Jürgen Thiele, CTO, ACTIA IME GmbH | Utilize geodata to shape the service of ADS using ASAM OpenODD Dr. Andreas Richter, Engineering Program Manager Operational Design Domains, Volkswagen AG | Data loop for AI development in safety-critical applications according to ISO/PAS 8800 Andreas Bossert, Senior Expert Engineer, ITK Engineering GmbH |
| 14:30 | Testing of and with AI: Closing the generalization gap in autonomous vehicle validation Dr. Janine Golpashin, Director of Product Solutions, Foretellix Inc. | ODD boundary coverage: A test adequacy metric for AD test suite hardening Stephen Lernout, Co-Founder & CEO, Deontic | Real world crash-based scenario mapping for NCAP: Identifying coverage, gaps and future needs Thomas Unger, Head of Department, Verkehrsunfallforschung an der TU Dresden GmbH |
| 15:00 | AI-driven virtual AD/ADAS validation ecosystem with distributed co-simulation Prof. Dr. Reza Rezaei, Manager, IAV GmbH Dr. Tim Becker, IAV GmbH | Thomas Keutgens, Business Development / Senior Engineer Automated Driving, fka GmbH | Unlocking automated driving level 3 & 4 through explainable compliance Dr. Felix Kortmann CTO, HELLA IGNITE GmbH |
| 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION | 15:30 - 15:50: TechTalk Standardizing atmospheric and medium properties for sensor simulation Dr. Minhyuk Son, Norbyss Inc & Yash Shah, ASAM e.V. | |
| 16:00 | AI-assisted scenario generation workflow for ADAS/AD V&V Florian Büchner, Competence Lead Virtual Validation / Project Leader, EDAG Engineering GmbH | David Hermann, Porsche Engineering Services GmbH | An integrated framework for the safety verification and approval of autonomous driving functions André Bolles, Head of Department System Theory and Design, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) |
| 16:30 | Scaling scenario-based validation using APIs and agentic AI Naga Pemmaraju, Principal Product Manager, The MathWorks Inc. | tbd | Openness and standards in practice: Customer workflows in a diverse tool landscape Dr. Catharina Sowa, Product Owner, dSPACE SE& Co. KG |
| 17:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION Standardization in the age of AI – Challenges and opportunities Moderator: Dr. Ralf Nörenberg, Member of the ASAM Board of Directors | --- | --- |
| 17:30 | End of Day 1 | ||
Evening event:
Our conference dinner takes us to Paulaner am Nockherberg, a place known for Munich's cultural and political traditions.
Aside from its famous Paulaner beers, this place is legendary for the annual "Derblecken", where politicians are being "grilled".
(No worries – tonight we are just here to enjoy food, drinks, and great company!)
Day 2 (Nov 05,2026)
| Time | Plenary | Lab | Heart 9 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | ARRIVAL & WELCOME COFFEE & EXHIBITION | ||
| 9:00 | ASAM ODS - The lord of the data Stefan Romainczyk, Senior Product Manager, Peak Solution GmbH | ||
| Session: "Quality & credibility in modeling and simulation" (Andras Kemeny, DSA) | Session "Diagnostics" (Bolin Zhou, CATARC) | Session: "Sensor simulation" (Sosuke Kimura, BIPROGY) | |
| 9:30 | Measuring the unmeasurable: Standardizing simulation quality for next-gen autonomous driving Abdul Basit Khan, General Manager, AAI Innovations | ASAM SOVD applied: Practical implementation, learnings, and outlook to V1.2.0 Tobias Weidmann, Project Lead SOVD Standardization ASAM and ISO, Vector Informatik GmbH | Use case analysis for high-fidelity sensor models Dr. Kosuke Yamazaki, Senior Standardization Strategy Expert, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation |
| 10:00 | Don’t believe everything that you see on-screen: How to quantify simulation quality William Latham, Project Engineer, HORIBA MIRA Ltd. | Tobias Jähnel, Senior Diagnostic Software Consultant and Architect, AVL DiTEST GmbH | Vinayak Killedar, Application Engineer, Ansys part of Synopsys |
| 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION + TECHTALK | 10:30 - 10:50: TechTalk ASAM ODS - Semantic foundations for measurement data at scale Stefan Romainczyk, Peak Solution GmbH | |
| 11:00 | Credibility assessment of a model based on the Robert Bosch Credibility of Simulation framework Dr. Maximilian Woerner, Engineer, Bosch Engineering GmbH | Production diagnostics inside the vehicle: ASAM SOVD in practice Dr. Boris Böhlen, Senior Consultant, DSA GmbH | Yoshinori Tsutake, Department Manager, TIER IV |
| 11:30 | Jonas Freyer, Doctoral Researcher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Hyunjin Park, Senior Engineer, MORAI | OTX as an enabler for standardized, end-to-end testing in the SDV era Dr. Jörg Supke, CEO, emotive GmbH & Co. KG | ASAM OpenX as the backbone for continuous validation of perception sensor models Dr. Philipp Rosenberger, CEO, Persival GmbH; Dr. Jakob Kaths, Senior Product Manager, Vector Informatik GmbH |
| Continued | Session: "Validation & compliance" (Gilles Gallée, Synopsys) | Continued | |
| 12:00 | AI-driven high-fidelity autonomous driving simulation and quantitative credibility evaluation Shiqiang Bao, CEO, 51Sim Zuqiu Mao, Senior R&D Manager, 51Sim | Practical guidelines for virtual ECU integration and SIL workflow alignment with OEM and suppliers Beom Seop Kim, Consultant, dSPACE SE & CO. KG | Matteo Ragni, Scientific Director, AnteMotion Srl Luca Gasbarro, Co-Founder and CEO, AnteMotion Srl |
| 12:30 | LUNCH & EXHIBITION + TECHTALK | 13:30 - 13:50: TechTalk Daeoh Kang, IVH | |
| Session: "Digital twins" (Tille Karoline Rupp, Porsche Engineering Services) | Continued | Session: "Data measurement & management" (Jobst Richert, dSPACE) | |
| 14:00 | Jens Ziehn, Fraunhofer IOSB | Simon Terres, Solution Manager SDV/AD Homologation, AVL Deutschland GmbH | Dr. Christian Mosch, Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V. (IDTA); |
| 14:30 | ASAM OSI towards urban digital twins: A framework for resimulation and reconstruction Prof. Dr. Stefan-Alexander Schneider, Professor for ADAS, Hochschule Kempten | ENVITED-X: Making ASAM OpenX simulation assets move Carlo van Driesten, Systems Architect for virtual test & Validation of autonomous driving, BMW Group | Dr. Frank Hantschel, Co-Lead R&D, RA Consulting GmbH |
| 15:00 | Enriching ASAM OpenDRIVE environments with OGC CityGML city models Benedikt Schwab, Researcher, Chair of Geoinformatics, Technical University of Munich Dr. Andreas Richter, Engineering Program Manager Operational Design Domains, Volkswagen AG | The open source simulation framework GEMSTAR as proof-of-concept and reference implementation for ASAM OpenX standards | No semantics, no intelligence: Why agentic AI remains blind without ASAM ODS Michael Baumann, Head of Digital Engineering Solutions, Karakun |
| 15:30 | Ecosystem Mobility 4.0 (EM4.0) Ralph Lauxmann, Lauxmann Consulting&Interimsmanagement | --- | --- |
| 16:00 | Farewell | ||
| 16:20 | End of conference | ||
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