On Thursday 9 September at 14:00 CET, ERTICO will host a webinar to update participants on the latest preparations for the ITS World Congress. Jacob Bangsgaard, ERTICO CEO, Lisa Boch-Andersen, Director of Events & Communications at ERTICO and Harry Evers, Managing Director at ITS Hamburg 2021 GmbH, will present.

The webinar will also discuss one of the most popular Congress topics: Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) with the following keynote addresses: Dr Michael Barillère-Scholz, CEO of ioki – a DB Company and Ricardo Muñoz Núñez, Transportation Lead Public Sector, Google Cloud. Both will give highlights about their organisations’ impact in the area of CCAM. The webinar will focus on some of the technological advances, remaining challenges and policy initiatives that are driving Innovation and Deployment of CCAM across the world.

In the second part of the webinar, Dr Stephane Dreher, Senior Manager at ERTICO, will moderate a presentation session and panel discussion with three experts: Manabu Umeda, Steering Committee for SIP-adus /and The University of Tokyo, will present how SIP-adus is taking on the challenges for the realisation of Automated Driving Systems in Japan. Beth Kigel, Vice President- Director of Smart and Connected Solutions, HNTB Corporation, will talk about some trends in the US and how innovation, automation, data and equity are driving change in transport solutions, and finally, Ludger Rogge, Policy Officer at DG RTD, EC & Chair of CCAM Working Group 1, will give an overview of some of the European Commission initiatives to accelerate research and innovation, testing and deployment of CCAM in Europe.

Please find the webinar agenda here and do join us by registering here.