What is the current status of automated driving systems and how are they integrating with the road environment? Are we where we thought we would be ten years ago?
Welcome to an initiative seminar hosted by Chalmers Transport Area of Advance, bringing together researchers, industry experts and policymakers to exchange knowledge, share perspectives and discuss the way forward.
Overview
Date:
Starts 23 October 2026, 08:30Ends 23 October 2026, 15:30Location:
Language:
EnglishLast sign up date:
8 October 2026
Program
08:30-09:00 Registration, mingle and coffee
09:00 Welcome
Balázs Kulcsár, Director, and Ala Arvidsson, Co-Director, Transport Area of Advance, Chalmers University of Technology.
Session 1: Predictive and connected vehicles
09:15 Introduction
09:20 Gabriel Campos, Head of Research, Zenseact.
09:35 Leo Laine, Innovation and research strategist, Volvo Group and adjunct Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology.
09:50 Christian Berger, Professor, Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg.
Q&A
10:25 Coffee
Session 2: Traffic – vehicles interacting with traffic
10:45 Introduction
10:50 Dr Håkan Sivencrona, Senior Technical Leader, Volvo car corporation.
Continuous Deployment and Safety Assurance of Automated Systems
11:05 Noel Alldritt, Solutions Architect and C-ITS team lead, Trafikverket
11:20 Jonas Sjöberg, Professor of Mechatronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
Q&A
12:00-13:20 Lunch and demonstrations
Session 3: Transport services
13:20 Introduction
13:25 Mats Rosenquist, Specialist Leader Public Projects, Volvo Group.
13:40 Vivetha Natterjee, Bolt, Head of Product & Deployment | Autonomous Driving.
13:55 Peter Svensson, Teknik och Infrastruktur, Sveriges Åkeriföretag (The Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies).
14:10 Dr. Pnina Gershon, Research Scientist, MIT AgeLab, Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), USA.
Q&A
13:15-15:00 Networking and mingle
Open
Open to all and free of charge, subject to registration.
Research area with focus on transport-related challenges for safe and sustainable development.
