Exploring innovation in automotive technology 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the automotive industry, driving advancements in autonomous driving, predictive maintenance, and personalized experiences overall. In her presentation, Dr. Corina Apachiţe presented about ‘How AI is Transforming the Automotive Industry’ and gave insights about how we at Continental became the thought leader in the AI industry by building up our expertise in the latest AI technologies and trends. Focusing on our vision of: The AI empowered company – with AI empowered employees for AI empowered mobility – Continental is able to master the transformation in businesses, products, processes and culture.

As vehicles become increasingly connected and autonomous, the importance of automotive cybersecurity cannot be overstated. In his presentation, Dr. Markus Tschersich explained Continental's approach how to manage the expanding universe of automotive cybersecurity requirements as the automotive industry is facing a global phenomenon of an increasing number of regulations on all markets. Automotive organizations must constantly work on a more mature organization to also be prepared for higher legal expectations in future. But, besides the organization, we must not forget about the products. Future technologies like post quantum cryptography must already be considered today, to ensure compliance of our products in the field also in the future and over their whole lifetime.