ASAM International Conference 2026
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 | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome | ||
| 9:20 | KEYNOTE tba | ||
| 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 | KEYNOTE tba | ||
| 11:45 | When AI comes for test data, standardization amplifies Dr. Ralf Nörenberg, CEO, HighQSoft GmbH | ||
| 12:15 | Organizational | ||
| 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 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 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 | Bridging the ADS safety gap: Accelerating autonomous deployment via a searchable naturalistic edge-case database Thomas Keutgens, Business Development @ leveLXData / 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 | ||
| 16:00 | AI-assisted scenario generation workflow for ADAS/AD V&V Florian Büchner (Competence Lead Virtual Validation / Project Leader, EDAG Engineering GmbH | Closing the in-Cabin Gap: Standardizing Occupant Interactions for continuous testing across the SDV lifecycle David Hermann – Porsche Engineering Services GmbH | Searching scenarios using ISO 34503 ODD languages through OpenLABEL Tudor Dodoiu, Project Engineer, University of Warwick |
| 16:30 | Scaling scenario-based validation using APIs and agentic AI Naga Pemmaraju, Principal Product Manager, The MathWorks Inc. | Advancing virtual validation toolchains: closing gaps in OpenX for software-first testing Fabian Merlin Hoffmann, Volkswagen AG Antje Rohrbeck, Synopsys Inc. | Openness and standards in practice: Customer workflows in a diverse tool landscape Catharina Sowa, Product Owner, dSPACE SE& Co. KG |
| 17:00 | Panel discussion | ||
| 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 | ||
| 9:00 | ASAM ODS - The lord of the data Stefan Romainczyk, Senior Product Manager, Peak Solution GmbH | ||
| Quality and credibility in modeling and simulation (Andras Kemeny, DSA) | Diagnostics (Bolin Zhou, CATARC) | 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 Weidamann, 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. | Why HTTP alone will never enable true remote diagnostics: Rethinking ASAM SOVD connectivity with MQTT, SSH tunnels, and emerging alternatives Tobias Jähnel, Senior Diagnostic Software Consultant and Architect, AVL DiTEST GmbH | Enabling high-fidelity radar simulation through ASAM OSI based integration of ANSYS AVx Ray-tracing and AUMOVIO sensor models Vinayak Killedar, Application Engineer, Ansys part of Synopsys |
| 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION | ||
| 11:00 | Credibility assessment of a model based on the Robert Bosch Credibility of Simulation Framework Maximilian Woerner, Engineer, Bosch Engineering GmbH | Production diagnostics inside the vehicle: ASAM SOVD in practice Dr. Boris Böhlen, Senior Consultant, DSA GmbH | Synthetic camera data generation for autonomous driving detection models via simulators and World Foundation Models (WFMs) Yoshinori Tsutake, Department Manager, TIER IV |
| 11:30 | From process to practice: A credibility assessment framework and simulation handbook for automotive simulation Jonas Freyer, Doctoral Researcher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 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 Philipp Rosenberger, CEO, Persival GmbH |
| 12:00 | AI-driven high-fidelity autonomous driving simulation and quantitative credibility evaluation Zuqiu Mao, Senior R&D Manager, 51Sim | tba | Continuous perception validation: A standardized pipeline for high-fidelity sensor simulation in Software Defined Vehicles Matteo Ragni, Scientific Director, AnteMotion |
| 12:30 | LUNCH & EXHIBITION | ||
| Validation & compliance (Gilles Gallée, Synopsys) | Data measurement & management (Jobst Richert, dSPACE) | Digital twins (Tille Karoline Rupp, Porsche Engineering Services) | |
| 14:00 | Practical guidelines for virtual ECU integration and SIL workflow alignment with OEM and suppliers Beom Seop Kim, Consultant, dSPACE SE & CO. KG | ASAM ODS meets Asset Administration Shell: A perfect fit for smart lifecycle management in automotive R&D Dr. Christian Mosch, Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V. (IDTA) | STRADE: A meta-standard for combining ASAM OpenLABEL and ASAM OpenDRIVE for scenarios in automated driving, traffic safety and mobility data Jens Ziehn, Fraunhofer IOSB |
| 14:30 | Continuous compliance in software-defined vehicles: Formalizing automated driving evidence generation across the vehicle lifecycle Simon Terres, Solution Manager SDV/AD Homologation, AVL Deutschland GmbH | ASAM standards in research projects: Implementation of ASAM ODS and ASAM MDF in Replicar and Tyre Road Noise Frank Hantschel, Co-Lead R&D, RA Consulting GmbH | ASAM OSI towards urban digital twins: A framework for resimulation and reconstruction Prof. Dr. Stefan-Alexander Schneider, Professor for ADAS, Hochschule Kempten |
| 15:00 | ENVITED-X: Making ASAM OpenX simulation assets move Felix Hoops, Researcher, Automotive Solution Center for Simulation e.V. | No semantics, no intelligence: Why agentic AI remains blind without ASAM ODS Michael Baumann, Head of Digital Engineering Solutions, Karakun | Enriching ASAM OpenDRIVE environments with OGC CityGML city models Benedik Schwab, Researcher, Chair of Geoinformatics, Technical University of Munich |
| 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION | ||
System of systems integration testing with hybrid SIL/HIL and Game‑Engine visualization for tractor–implement solutions Deepu Mohanan, Sr. Lead Engineer, John Deere India Pvt. Ltd. | |||
| 16:30 | tba | ||
| 17:00 | End of conference |
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