Zohaib
Mian
Chief Engineer, Space Products
Astra
Dr. Zohaib Mian is an experienced autonomous systems and aerospace engineering executive. He is the Chief Engineer and Head of Engineering of Space Products at Astra. Zohaib was the Vice President of Product Development and Engineering at Velodyne Lidar, where he led the team renowned worldwide for its portfolio of breakthrough lidar sensor technologies. Previously, Zohaib was the Head of Systems Engineering for Loon at Alphabet, and Senior Autonomous Systems Architect at Bosch USA. Zohaib is an innovative leader with a proven track record in the domains of autonomous vehicles, machine intelligence, and complex systems.
16 April 2024 10:15 - 10:45
Generative AI and automotive industry
How do recent advances in generative AI impact the automotive industry, especially autonomous vehicles? Join Zohaib, Chief Engineer at Astra, and formerly VP, Engineering & Product at Velodyne LiDAR, for his insight on this, plus the current challenges to achieving L4/L5 autonomy, and predicting what's next.
16 April 2024 12:15 - 12:45
Panel: Fostering a seamless research-to-production pipeline
All products start with a prototype. By definition, a prototype is a preliminary model of a product. Almost everyone in the audience will have experienced this. In this session, our panelists will share their experiences and takeaways and must-avoids from a number of projects where they've taken a prototype and transformed it into a product - that ultimately drives value.